Corn Harvest '09

[HuskerGLEANER]

Well we finally got started combining this past week!! Us and a couple people are the only ones doing corn yet, everyone else is still doing beets and finishing beans, or their corn is too wet still. We are almost done with our 100 acres but might pick up some custom work. Had to stop combining yesterday because we got into 20% moisture otherwise we would be done by now. I dont think it will dry down for awhile either because at the moment there is an inch of snow on the ground with more on the way and a high of low 40's for the next week... Our yields have been very disappointing due to hail, two varieties of the pivot only were making about 90 due to dropping ears, and falling corn stalks, and what ears there were to combine were very small from the hail stress. The other half of the pivot is planted to a variety that was fairly prone to the hail and is making 130-140 but it is the corn that is 20%. Still a huge setback compared to having that field average 215 like it did the past two years. Well anyways here are some pictures.

Im very pleased with the capacity of the R62 which is no surprise as well as it did in wheat. The old N series head we are running on it cant keep up with the combine to hardly keep it full so im only doing 4 mph, i think if i had a better head i could do 5 mph easily.








We were just starting so there wasn't a truck loaded and dad was at the field so i made him run the combine for a round so i could get some pictures of it.



We didn't bother bringing the grain cart because the 4850 is busy getting used by the hired hand hauling hay stacks into the yard and the corn isn't that good anyways but on the good variety we cant quite make a round, it takes a little time but dad cant keep up with me trucking either so its not too bad of a problem.




These are my favorite pictures.


Hope you enjoyed them, there may be more.

[70ds]

Nice pics. Most of the corn around here is still around 20% too. The fields are still muddy here too. What kind of stacks are you guys hauling? Got any pics of that action?

[mnjosh]

Nice pictures. How come you never used the R-52 for corn harvest and used the L-2 instead? I've always been curious of that on your farm because I thought rotors were better corn machines than conventionals. Sounds like your enjoying your R-62.

[HuskerGLEANER]

Clayton, they are just stacks of bales, we can haul 14 at a time on our hay sled, ill try to get some pics of it today.

Mnjosh, basically because the L-2 was simpler for dad to use since he had ran it for 25+ years and we never had any problems getting done in time so we didn't really need to ever use the 52 for anything but wheat. On top of that the R52 was my grandpa's and the reason we get to use it for wheat is our shares on farming his ground includes getting to use his machinery, which is now my grandmas. Its kind of complicated lol but if we wanted to use it we probably could have, it was just easier for us to use the L2 on our 100 acres of corn.

Also here is a video of the R62 i got also, i thought some of you guys might like to hear the growl of the cummins, i know i sure do.

[70ds]

That bad boy sounds sweet.

[HuskerGLEANER]

Nov 13, 2009 19:39:59 GMT -5 70ds said:

What kind of stacks are you guys hauling? Got any pics of that action?

Here clayton i almost forgot, i couldn't get any pictures in action because the mud from this last snow shut us down from hauling but here is a pic of the hay sled, its a Lorenz.

[boomer5]

Nice combine

[HuskerGLEANER]

Thanks boomer, if i remember right u told me you had an R62 also, have any pics?

[70ds]

Thanks for the pic. That is one heck of a stack mover.

[boomer5]

Nov 15, 2009 19:45:36 GMT -5 HuskerGLEANER said:

Thanks boomer, if i remember right u told me you had an R62 also, have any pics?

Yes we have a R-62 to here are some pics