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- Joined
- Dec 22, 2004
- Messages
- 20
- Location
- East central Arkansas
- Tractor
- Buhler-Versatile 2360, 2 CIH MX270's, CIH 7140, 2 IH 5488's, CIH 385, JD 8400T, JD 4450, & JD 4710 sprayer. Also JD 9760 combine and CIH 2188.
Fredex someone is telling you a tale. If a combine won't unload faster than it cuts something is terribly wrong. Even if the crop was that good, the elevator that brings the grain up to the storage tank will not outpace the unloader. Faster unloading is something all manufacturers are working towards. Look at the difference in the diameter of the unloading augers on the 2 combines I posted. The Deere will supposedly unload 3.3 bu/second while the older CIH is a little over half that.
Egon I've got lots of farming pictures from the past several years. Just got a new digi camera for Christmas that'll fit in my shirt pocket so I plan on getting lots more. I'll try to post some rice planting pics shortly that will show how we plant, survey levees to hold the water, and pull the levees.
I traded machines because my older one was 9 years old and was starting to give more trouble than we'd like. In my operation I'm pressed for time at harvest and can't afford to be broke down very often. I changed colors because the new higher capacity Case IH combines don't have a very good reputation in rice country while the big Deere's are doing quite well.
Jimg yes we'll have 2000 acres flooded to a depth of 3-6" using a combination of wells for groundwater and relifts for surface water. In addition to that nearly all of our other crops are irrigated as well but they don't get a permanent flood. In some cases we use center pivot sprinklers but mostly its furrow irrigation. We build raised beds with furrows inbetween that run down hill. Put water in the top of the furrow and it runs to the bottom. The water will soak into the beds.
Planting the rice. We plant approximately 100# of seed/acre with a 30' Great Plains drill.
Surveying the levees. We use a laser surveying system to mark the levees every 2 tenths foot of elevation. This allows us to hold a shallow flood on the fields. For lack of a better explanation the levees are like mini-terraces to those of you from the midwest. We used to use a small tractor for the surveying. I built the bracket to hold the receiver on the front and bought the electrically operated plow for the rear.
Pulling the levees. This tractor is actually pulling 2 levee plows that I've got hooked in tandem. He follows the mark made by the truck above. A second similar set of plows with a seeder mounted will follow this one so there will be rice growing on the levees as well. We'll tear these down after the crop is harvested.
Making the irrigation furrows. This is a special tool called a bedder-roller for pulling the irrigation furrows and leaving a smooth seedbed in the process. This one is 39' wide. I had trouble with the markers breaking so I've updated the tractor (John Deere 8400T on 24" rubber tracks) to GPS autosteer now.
Egon I've got lots of farming pictures from the past several years. Just got a new digi camera for Christmas that'll fit in my shirt pocket so I plan on getting lots more. I'll try to post some rice planting pics shortly that will show how we plant, survey levees to hold the water, and pull the levees.
I traded machines because my older one was 9 years old and was starting to give more trouble than we'd like. In my operation I'm pressed for time at harvest and can't afford to be broke down very often. I changed colors because the new higher capacity Case IH combines don't have a very good reputation in rice country while the big Deere's are doing quite well.
Jimg yes we'll have 2000 acres flooded to a depth of 3-6" using a combination of wells for groundwater and relifts for surface water. In addition to that nearly all of our other crops are irrigated as well but they don't get a permanent flood. In some cases we use center pivot sprinklers but mostly its furrow irrigation. We build raised beds with furrows inbetween that run down hill. Put water in the top of the furrow and it runs to the bottom. The water will soak into the beds.
Planting the rice. We plant approximately 100# of seed/acre with a 30' Great Plains drill.
Surveying the levees. We use a laser surveying system to mark the levees every 2 tenths foot of elevation. This allows us to hold a shallow flood on the fields. For lack of a better explanation the levees are like mini-terraces to those of you from the midwest. We used to use a small tractor for the surveying. I built the bracket to hold the receiver on the front and bought the electrically operated plow for the rear.
Pulling the levees. This tractor is actually pulling 2 levee plows that I've got hooked in tandem. He follows the mark made by the truck above. A second similar set of plows with a seeder mounted will follow this one so there will be rice growing on the levees as well. We'll tear these down after the crop is harvested.
Making the irrigation furrows. This is a special tool called a bedder-roller for pulling the irrigation furrows and leaving a smooth seedbed in the process. This one is 39' wide. I had trouble with the markers breaking so I've updated the tractor (John Deere 8400T on 24" rubber tracks) to GPS autosteer now.
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