Milo Harvest pics.

[70ds]

I went down to the farm my Dad and brother work at and helped with milo harvest this weekend. A bunch of them had a wedding to go to so they needed some help. I was planning to drive truck but ended up in the grain cart. Which was fine by me because it is a lot cleaner and less itchy. The first day we had a 9610 with a 30 foot head and a 9760 with a 35 foot on it. The boss is good friends with a custom cutter and he always comes and cuts too. He had the 8010 with 36 foot Macdon. On sunday he also brought an 2388 with a 36 foot draper on it. We had 137 feet of header eating milo on Sunday with 7 semis. We were really fixing to eat some acres then it started to rain. Now on with the pics.




This was my rig. The 8770 with the UFT conveyor cart. The cart would barely hold a dump off of each of the Deere's since they both have whopper toppers.














We call this truck brown thunder since the muffler fell off Friday night. It has a N-14 and very little exhaust. ;D














Questions and comments welcome.

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

Wow, wish we had that many combines on our land! wouldn't take to long!! How much yield do you get off of milo, I have no experience with the crop.?

[70ds]

Milo around here runs from 80 to 120 bpa on a good year. This was continuous milo we were on so it was running around 100 I am guessing. It had some really good spots in it and some thin spots. There could be some that gets up to 140 or 150 around this year.

[sean]

Love the pics, always liked the look of the "red" milo, we dont plant it around here so dont get to see it. I also love thesound of N14s straight piped.

Sean

[hoss]

nice to see a older model combines....although not all that old.....thats all that you see is older models in this county except a new 7088

[steiger9330]

Great sorghum pictures. I have always loved sorghum. We grew it one year in the seventies and quit after it burnt down our drier. Is it hard to auger? I thought I heard my dad say once that it was hard to auger.

[jwaldrip]

interesting to see a different crop harvested.

[70ds]

Thanks guys.

Oct 12, 2010 21:13:24 GMT -5 steiger9330 said:

Great sorghum pictures. I have always loved sorghum. We grew it one year in the seventies and quit after it burnt down our drier. Is it hard to auger? I thought I heard my dad say once that it was hard to auger.

No I don't think it augers any harder than anything else. I have augered a lot of it and never really noticed a difference.

[mstjhamfarms]

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing!