the fields are green!

man the volunteer soybeans are really growing out in our fields!

yep...and the old lady....oooops....I mean the loving wife and me went back behind in the fields this last winter, there was no pretty on the ground, but scanning the fields, looked like they needed a haircut. whole stems of beans standing all across the fields! sooooooo.....I made a foot square frame, took it out and tossed it in several places of the fields. then counted the beans inside it. took the formula from the university web site to figger out the loss. averaged a little over 11 bu per acre. one field being 56 acres, and elevator prices right now is $9.63/bu. that just about chaps my.....

No combine is better than the operator...

Of course they can!  I have a green combine, albeit an old one, and while I'm far from perfect at it, if I could salvage 11 bushels per acre that I was routinely leaving behind, I'd be setting regional production records!  My ground ain't that good.....

Edited by Tbone95 - 03 May 2018 at 9:33am

I used to have 2 different green combines, before I went with Gleaners. and I never had that kinda loss either. I did notice that the newer the green ones got that I rented, the worse the crop saving became. the worst was a 6620 that I rented one fall, I adjusted it, the dealer sent out several employees to adjust it, all of us failed. the dealer was nice enough (hard to believe) to take that one away and bring me another 6620 to use...it wasn't any better. prolly reason they were traded in? the Gleaners were just like a dream come true, very little loss, very clean samples, and easy to adjust/work on.

with the fall of any Gleaner sales places anywhere with in 150 miles of me one way, then the fall of close jd dealer that was close, it left only 2 IH dealers in my area. both the green combines I first had turned black in color, I then went with Gleaner, and was pleasantly surprised at the superior craftsmanship and reliability of those machines! and no matter what brand, they do break down and at harvest time, times is very important to beat bad weather. I helped a neighbor finish his harvest one year running his machine while he hauled as I was done and bad weather was coming in fast. he had an IH rotary combine and we went all that day and we went all that night and was able to get it all done and in the bins. I was impressed with a rotary combine after that. when my last Gleaner was just about all wore out, I noticed a really nice looking IH on a dealers lot, and inquired, I really knew nothing about them and the dealer brought it into the heated shop so they could show me about that combine and how it works. then he showed me an invoice that the previous owner had just paid for work and replacement of parts on that combine. the price was basically what the invoice was, and that was a pretty cheap combine, plus the dealer put a one time full harvest warranty on it. I was then jumping from a gasser to a diesel, and from 4 row to 6 row and 13 ft to 20 ft for under $3500. I had just put a new engine on my Gleaner, but thought this IH would carry me through the end of my farming days. my Gleaner "G" would handle a bigger head if I could have found a 6-30 CH in any kind of decent shape within 150 miles, looked for years and all I could find were completely wore out or damaged ones. I bought the IH, and then had 2 combines. I used the IH on the next harvest because of the warranty given to me on it. kept the "G" as a back up machine. also had a "K" I could use if needed. (that was the combine I bought for the old lady....oooops...I mean the the loving wife for her birthday one year) and she learned to run it and loved it! the "G" developed problems and I sure was glad I had that IH to fall back on. I never had one ounce of trouble of any kind with the IH for 3 harvests. thru the years changing sizes of heads and then a blown motor on the IH just before harvest was done forced me to try to find another one, and did, and kept the first one for parts machine. then I got lazy and kep one with a bean head on it and found another on big iron to puts a CH on. LOL yeah...I been thru lots of combines thru my years, but they were always someone else's before finding a new home here. I think I have all of about or less than $25,000 invested in all of them since I started farming back in 1977 to 2015. I do remember renting an N5 one year to do oats as I didn't have the right sieves for my "G" or "K" to do them. and that machine was by far the best over all of them I've owned or rented thru the years. I wish I could have afforded that one at the time. I would still place it over any of my combines I've owned or ran thru my life!

every combine needs to be adjusted per crop conditions, sometimes 2 or more times a day. that's a given! you can't just set it one day and expect it to do good the rest of the harvest. I've also had some cutterbar and CH losses too, but not as bad as this is out there! I also noticed they brought us some creaping Charlie weed too! PffffT!

Shameless, ye need to force them "stockholders" to go and dig that crap out by hand.... cuzz they caused it to happen by their choices they made.  

Dale, You know I'm giving you a hard time, dontcha?

What is Creeping Charlie?

yeah....what Tom said and worse! the roots can go down 15 ft and you just as well about give up trying to kill it. if we could get something off it for sale, we'd be billionaires! I never had it here on the farm, but it's here now! the big green farmers took on another farm last year, I spose that's where it came from! I always cleaned my combines off if/when I moved to another part of the farm, one part of the farm was lousy with sunflowers and even tho I did about everything that could be done to control them, a few would slip thru, and I wouldn't notice until i hit them. I had them down to just a few a year, but it took about all my years of farming to do it!

I don't know Dale, if it's as bad as described, I don't think I want it at that other place either, it's only about 3 miles away.

Not really, something about the message you had me spray on his lawn with Roundup...

well I see they came and disked the whole field up to hide all the green today...and prolly to make their no til planter work better? lol

Down here I know there was at least one field of milo not too far from my grandpa that was sown just as you say by the green machines. The guys that farm it admitted the combines were just throwing it out the back, but they acted like there was nothing you could do about it. I tried to talk them into letting me take the L3 over there and do the job right the first time, but it didn't happen.

I remember for years that an owner of a local grain elevator that also farmed kept asking me if I screened my grain before bringing it to town? I told him no, just using the Gleaner. he said he couldn't get his grain that clean (he was all green), and his grain elevator manager piped up and said the owners grain was always dirty. and the local feed mill always paid a premium for clean grain, I sold a lot of mine there too!