Corn Harvest 2014

[walker450]

Corn harvest is under way here in central Oklahoma. I am very good friends with a local farm family and have helped them with harvest the last few days. They just got in a new Deere S680 combine and we got it setup Saturday. It is quite a machine with a 473HP 13.5L twin turbo diesel and 40' 16 row corn header.

Corn is above average this year and we expect to average somewhere around 175 bushels per acre. I'm not exactly sure but I'm guessing they have around 1600 acres of corn this year.

First field. We spent as much time adjusting and checking behind the machine as we did actually harvesting! This is the first S series any of us have been around.


S680, 8335R w/J&M 1050 bushel grain cart (on walking duals)




The buildings in the background is where I went to school. Look up "Dale, OK" and you will see it is a tiny town surrounded by farm fields.


Unloading on the go (combine had just emptied when I snapped the pic so not much is coming out):


Setting up the auger on the 444:

 

[jlgurr]

Neat, very neat! Thank you for sharing. I have a good friend who works at JD in Waterloo.

 

[bigtiller]

Love the pics!!!

What is the difference between duals and walking duals?

 

[roadhunter]

Sounds like fun. now if the Corn price would go up.

 

[walker450]

Walking duals (better known as walking tandems) are staggered front to back and pivot in the middle to help distribute weight and allow for more wheel movement when crossing rough terrain.

Normal duals are mounted together on the same axle.

Here is an image of a similar setup I found on google images:

 

[flusher]

Nice rigs. Glad you'll be making good money this year. With the drought here in CA going into the 4th year, it's white knuckle time around here (mostly involving super high cost of water for irrigation).

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That's good news Walker; the farm over near Harrah where we buy sweet corn didn't have a crop this year. They said the cool dry weather was too much, and the crop just didn't make there.

 

[AGRIMAN]

Sweet... Your friend has some really nice equipment. Our corn harvest is just getting started, but it's still high moisture and will need to be dried down. Most of the corn around here is irrigated now and will normally go 220 to 250. Dry land corn here is a test of faith and could be from 175 to nothing.

 

[PMA]

I help a farmer friend of mine, we finished today. He had around 1000 acres of corn, not as food as last year.

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