Soybean harvest

[mnjosh]

This was the earliest completion harvest for soybeans that I can remember. This fall started out wet in September but the last two weeks we have had unseasonably warm weather. We mostly wrapped up on Saturday with about 10 acres still standing due to the failure of chemical providing control on some pigweed. We will have to wait until a killing frost before combine those. The combine actually held together pretty darn good. Our only major breakdowns was a drive tire wearing out (which shut us down the longest) and a hydraulic pump crapping out. For some reason during soybean harvest the combine acts up the most. Soybeans averaged from the upper 30's to upper 40's. Anyhow during my down time trucking I grabbed some pictures and video.












On Thursday when I wasn't trucking I was disking some wheat stubble that had windrows on it that didn't get baled on one of our rented farms. Went good until a bearing went out and didn't get back going until Saturday. My rig was the Ford 9700 and heavy duty 14 ft Ford disk.



Thanks for looking.

[steiger9330]

Looks good. I like the gleaner. Were you the person that said they put a hose on the header to prevent rocks and help beans feed in? I was trying to figure out what that was behing the sickle.

[mnjosh]

Yep, we have a piece of suction hose behind the sickle. This seems to be a common modification on Gleaner headers.

[hoss]

nice disking rig..really like the older ford tractors

[jacoblarson]

I drove past your combine harvesting last weekend Saturday. At least I think it was, I think your the only Gleaner North of Elbow Lake in that series.

[mnjosh]

On Saturday we were combining about 3/4 mile west of Highway 59 just off of Otter Tail county road 110. It would probably be really hard to see though from the highway because of the trees and hills.

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

Wow, you should go to an auction and sell that thing as an antique!

[HuskerGLEANER]

Nice pictures josh! Love seeing that L2 in action.

Oct 15, 2010 18:03:11 GMT -5 ManitobanFarmerKid said:

Wow, you should go to an auction and sell that thing as an antique!

That combine isn't exactly that old, it would be in comparison to a John Deere 7720, or IH 1460 so it is still a highly used machine. Just sold ours exactly like that 3 years ago. Those L2's are the best combine ever made IMO, i also grew up on one.