It's just amazing that a combine has the power and capacity to handle the corn from 18 rows especially @ 30% moisture. Plus powering the chopping corn head and unloading on the go.
Mike, you justly deserve 100,000 subscribers, can hardly wait for it to happen, as always great photography, filming and the use of the drone and the information you give us, thanks Mike✌️
Always like to see what's goin on down home,born and raised in the thumb and spent many,many hours driving truck for different farmers hauling corn,beans and beets when I was younger. Great videos !
My experience in the grain elevator business remembers that that high moisture corn does not like to flow out of those gravity wagons, but they seem to not have any issues. Another great video Mike, that's my first 18 row corn head (I didn't know they made them that big). Wow.
I worked in a grain elevator for one season (1979) and one farmer brought in a wagon of 39% corn. It would NOT flow out the door. I had to get on the wagon and shovel it over the top. That was a several hour ordeal. The office did not even have a chart for the shrink on that high of moisture so they had to figure it out.
Another good one, Farmhand Mike. I learned to drive on Dad's Ford 9-n and 900 tractors. I am a 65-year-old man in Nebraska. Careers and the "economic imperative" took me away from farming/ranching in 1985 or so. Now, 41 years later, here I am, operating a Case/IH 340 Red, pulling a 1300 bushel grain-cart -- for my first tractor driving in 35 years. Also, agree with Francisco Sandiego -- Let's Go Brandon!
Another great video Mike you are right high moisture corn does smell really good when it's fermented into silage as well.i never get tired of watching your videos mike.keep up the good work Mike you are doing an excellent job.
All the corn farmers say the smell of drying corn is amazing. Which always makes me want to make old fashioned popcorn balls from scratch, esp this time of year. Closest thing I have to the smell of drying corn.
I have seen some comments on here about Michigan weight laws so I figured I’d explain. Michigan is a axle weight state that means how much you can haul is based off how many axles you have and how you arrange them. So you are allowed 18,000 pounds on your front axle (if you have a 385 tire) 16,000 on each one of your drivers and 13,000 on every one of your axles. Unless you have a 9 foot spread then you are allowed 18,000 on that axle. In the video the truck the grain cart was loading into is called a 2 28. The first trailer AKA the lead has a 9 foot spread on the first axle meaning 18,00 pounds then 2 axles in a row 13,000 each or 26,000 total. Meaning you can get 44,000 on the lead. The second trailer or the pup has 2 axles in a row (26,000 pounds) and 9 foot spread (18,000) and another to axles in a row (26,000) plus the 50,000 you can get on the truck. It all adds up to 164,000. The trailer dumping at the bunk is a 5 axle this means 5 axles in a row that can haul 13,000 each with no 9 foot spreads. So it can gross 65,000 plus the 50,000 you can get on the truck for a total of 115,000 gross weight.
My Uncle and cousins used a 3 row snapper corn head on a pull chopper for high moisture corn. Not sure what my cousin uses today. Great seeing you in Michigan again!
Great awesome video mike, I like the new intro but miss the old one too , I guess you have to get use to it , nice equipment doing high moisture, your almost there at 100000 subscribers
omg you were over at my cousin's, i was told they have 40 plus locations in 5 different states, also do field farm tilling ,cement plant and sell landscape pavers.
Surprised at how high of moisture that corn is by how brown it looks. Where I'm at (midsouth) it would be around 17% maybe a little less or more depending on variety. But I can see that corn piling tall on that grain cart like high moisture corn does. Bet that guy wishes he had one of those Claas combines or a X1100 with that big of a head
I’m guessing he didn’t spray fungicide on. I’m assuming u do because u are further south. That is why the corn is not very green because fungicide cause the plant to stay heathy longer
how fast is he running wit that 18 row corn 🌽 head it looks like he's running just under 4mph wit that class 8 S780 combine I wonder what his rpm range is
@@chrissyfrancis8952 i always thought "silage" was the entire product stalk, cob kernel and all. Anyhow that's a very high quality food product for the consumer. Germans always considered corn "animal food" and low brow so it's interesting to watch the USA "corn flake" varietal made on a truly industrial scale. Be interesting to know what the capacity of that dump truck/trailer for the Class 8 would be. Seems *WAY* over the top for doing farm work which normally just use hoppers or some type of side dumping contraption. Good practice for running a recycling center! Whole operation gives new meaning to the term "bulk shipping on land"(and of the land) i guess I would say. Make for a good wood pellet type Factory or manufacturing Trex decking etc.
Thanks for watching and I see this is your second comment about the music. Let me explain as I have my reasons I've talked about in other videos. When I am taking drone videos the drone does not record sound. I have to record engine/machine sound separately and lay it into the drone clips. This is not so hard to do on most clips but others times it is about impossible to match it up and or this cold take lots of extra time to match up and between working a full time job, helping farm at home and running a RU-vid channel I am a little short on time especially during harvest. Rather than leaving the drone clips silent some easy music or a sound clip works good for me. All my videos still have some engine and or machine sound in them and some people really like the music I use. It is impossible to make a video that will please everyone but I try.
@@farmhandmike Thanks for the response. I completely understand your reasons why it’s done that way. I very much appreciate your hard work and effort put into the videos. As you said you’ll never please everyone, and personally I think the music takes away from the video quality. I miss your old ones before you added it. One you did at Parkland farms in Ontario that was almost 40 minutes long with only sounds of the machines. Still one of the best harvest videos on RU-vid.
