Driving a Grain Cart Tractor in a 1,000 Acre Wheat
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Topic: Driving a Grain Cart Tractor in a 1,000 Acre Wheat
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Subject: Driving a Grain Cart Tractor in a 1,000 Acre Wheat
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 6:04am
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Posted By: bikley
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 6:28am
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very interesting |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 7:42am
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That was cool! Thanks for posting the link! Just like being there! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 10:41am
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Sure is faster than a thrashing machine. And easier. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:21am
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Been cart driver last 6 or 7 years for brother and nephew, 2 combines on beans and not a bad job, get to the corn and with 1 combine it keeps you on the move all the time. Not a bad job with newer equip that I don't have to pay for. ------------- 1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner) |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 2:54pm
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all I could think of was wow look at the money in equipment |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:11pm
| yep...big combines is good, then you hafta buy/rent all the big support equipment! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2020 at 1:24pm
 Yep the fastest way to become a millionaire is start with a lot more and farm. Real quick you will be down to just a million. Another place I check in on was talking this could be the year it will take a million to buy the biggest model combines coming out and a head for it.
 I can remember when a Gleaner hillside was creeping up on $100,000 and back there in the 1980's grain prices where on a new plateau. Then everything went hell in not time. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2020 at 11:10am
| The video is fun to watch - thanks for sharing. A good grain cart operator is a very pivotal role. Exceptional Communication skills & knowing machine capabilities & limitations are a must. If cart operator takes grain from a loaded combine while driving thru an adjacent irregular field topography(depression/ditch/contour), it could spell disastrous for the combine’s unloading auger becoming damaged by contacting the cart. They must have a thorough knowledge of how to legally / safely load a truck. His cart scales allow him an indication of total pounds. And most times, the carts total pounds records provide initial field yield data. |