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Post by Southern on Apr 20, 2011 19:29:48 GMT -5
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Post by gmauch on Apr 20, 2011 20:16:01 GMT -5
Why are they cutting so high? Seems like they are leaving alot of crop in the field. We usually have our headers as low as possible without dragging.
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Post by Southern on Apr 20, 2011 21:24:23 GMT -5
Why are they cutting so high? Seems like they are leaving alot of crop in the field. We usually have our headers as low as possible without dragging. No clue why, I don't really know their full operation. I just go there from time to time to see them in action if I can. They are kinda out of the way from the way I go home. I don't know much about these guys. I know what you mean, the dairy farms here cut it almost to the ground. |
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Post by hoss on Apr 20, 2011 21:24:26 GMT -5
Why are they cutting so high? Seems like they are leaving alot of crop in the field. We usually have our headers as low as possible without dragging. some people have to cut high depending on nitrogen levels, if you feed high nitrogen forages your cows will end up with nitrate poisoning if your corn is short the nitrogen stays down near the base of the stalks, but the corn looks pretty tall so thats a good question...lol nice pics southern keep em coming thanks for sharing |
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Apr 20, 2011 22:05:49 GMT -5
Nice pictures, i have never seen a dump wagon behind a self propelled chopper of that size though, how often does he have to stop and dump?
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Post by case2590 on Apr 21, 2011 1:25:51 GMT -5
We used a dump wagon like that when we did corn for our dairy, it would go a ways in our fields, even if the corn was tall, and we always ran as low as we could go with our chopper. We only ran a sp chopper a couple of times, normally it was a pull behind that sat to the right of the tractor,
(by the way, who wants to build me a dump wagon like that one) in 1/64 of course
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Post by Southern on Apr 21, 2011 4:05:13 GMT -5
We used a dump wagon like that when we did corn for our dairy, it would go a ways in our fields, even if the corn was tall, and we always ran as low as we could go with our chopper. We only ran a sp chopper a couple of times, normally it was a pull behind that sat to the right of the tractor, (by the way, who wants to build me a dump wagon like that one) in 1/64 of course I'm in the same boat. I would love to have a silage dump wagon like that for my display. Event the Richardton type would be great. That is the only thing really stopping me from doing a 64th dairy farm based in my area. Since we don't do silage wagons. Only the dump types. All our dairy farms have bunkers. We don't mess with the silos. |
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Post by Southern on Apr 21, 2011 4:07:09 GMT -5
Nice pictures, i have never seen a dump wagon behind a self propelled chopper of that size though, how often does he have to stop and dump? He was going a good ways with it. When I got there he was going a full lap or more between dumps in that field. Not sure when he first started. That is a monster wagon compared to the older Richardton I usually see. Even those you can go a ways with a pull type chopper. |
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Post by case2590 on Apr 21, 2011 16:04:54 GMT -5
Ours was a Gehl if I remember right. We would always dump into a f-700 or something of that size dump truck. It worked for what we had.
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Post by rysiracusa on Apr 22, 2011 6:38:12 GMT -5
Thats quite the set up. There are guys out here who pull big Oxbo carts behind their choppers but I've yet to see a dump wagon like this one behind one, usually you just see that with pull types. I really like that dump wagon. Didnt know Badger made one
Nice pics
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Post by paulc on Apr 23, 2011 18:40:42 GMT -5
That's just a baby Claas. Think there is only one model smaller than that. There are 2 models smaller. This machine is 425hp. The 870 is one of the most popular chopper models in WI, MI, NY, and PA |
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Apr 23, 2011 21:54:28 GMT -5
That is quite the dump wagon, did the operator get a little too close to a truck when dumping?
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