New record for the most number of combines in one field.

[turnkey4099]

Very interesting. I would like to have read more on the story; i.e., how many trucks did they have running, how did they coordinate the unloading, how big was the field and how long did it take to finish, acres cut per hour, etc.

I had the dubious pleasure of joining a harvest crew back in the early 60's; at that time we had two open-cockpit, 14 foot Gleaners. I recall how insignificant it felt to pull the two tiny combines into a Kansas wheatfield that was one square mile in size, and bounded on all sides by similar fields.

My last harvest was truck driver on a commercial crew stillusing pull machines on fields that size. At least hey had moved up to 16' headers. I can't imagine sitting up there in the cockpit trying to keep tracke of a 30' plus header!

Harry K

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Did I miss it or is there no arial photo?

 

[Lgim]

Harvest for Kids is the website for the event. This was a charity event where the proceeds went to Children's Camps International.

From what I understand pics and video were taken at the event but the official release will not happen until the numbers are confirmed by Guinness Records in a couple of weeks.

The unofficial numbers I have heard are 320 acres of oats, 249 combines and 7 minutes.

A couple of side notes that people probably wont see:

Some of the grain was swathed and some was left standing. They used 6 swathers to prep for the event, but you want all the swaths laying the same way, so they had to cut across the field, and then run back to the starting side to start the next swath.

After the 7 minutes they are left with 249 combines with maybe a 100 bushels of oats in each, each of those have to dump into a cart or truck who will haul the grain to market, that took 2 hours.

Once you start to think of the planning involved you realize how big of a deal getting that many combines in a field at the same time really is, - But it is really cool to see.

Gary