Unofficial Combine cruise, wheat harvest 2011

[ericcks]

Had a short 170 mile round trip trek through wheat country today. Cutting has only broke loose in the last couple days so there is plenty of wheat to cut. Luckily built in enough time to dive off the highway once and while. I will go out for an "official" combine cruise soon...I hope.

This pic is from a Sunday trek north of me. A cutter left one combine and misc equip on the west side of Utica KS.


Yes that is a Gleaner S77 and a R?6 with another crew near Utica.

Farmer combines east of Dodge City KS 3 JD 96?0


Stegman Harvesting east of Spearville KS. S77, R62, R?6


Cutter in the yard at the elevator in Bellefont KS


Cutter on the west side of Bellefont. 5 empty combine trailers and similar looking trucks scattered out over 15 miles. Another combine showed up on my return trip


You can't see it well but it is an L2

Gleaner ?? on the north side of the highway

JD waiting

Just west of Garfield KS

Two cutters parked at the elevator in Larned KS. 7120 and 6088. Lots of tandems, unusual.






Cutter setting on a farm west of Great Bend KS



Cutter looking for work, setting in Great Bend KS. Hardly ever see older NH on the trail.



Cutter parked beside HWY 281 in Great Bend KS 2- 8120s


Same location as previous. Stopped for parts on the their way to Brewster KS. 3 -9770



**Return trip**
east and south of Offerle KS. Cutter with one 8120

Stegman Harvesting finishing up

[HuskerGLEANER]

Those are some great pictures, I love seeing the crews down there before they start rolling through here. I am very familiar with Stegman harvesting, they come to my town every year, they have for more years then I have been alive and many times they are cutting for our neighbor right on the other side of the fence from us. A friend of mine that used to work for them said they had got an S77 this year, can't wait to see it in action here.

[deeredevil]

I saw the CIH crew with the 6088 and 7120 rolling down Hwy 82 east of Sherman TX 2 weeks ago. Know for a fact it was them. They sure did pass by alot of unharvested wheat in Texas.

[jasonbengough]

Great pictures! Nice to see a New Gleaner S77 out on the harvest run cutting wheat. They are an impressive machine from what I have heard, sadly most guys have given up on Gleaner in the area. I have yet to see a S67 or S77 in my area yet but maybe this fall.

I hear Mel Glossin, of Glossin Harvesting is running 9 Gleaner S77's this year.

[treymo]

Lookin Good. It's amazing how many of the places in pictures I'm familiar with.
Trey

[mnjosh]

Nice tour of pictures. It's hard to imagine wheat ready to harvest when our own wheat is only ankle high.

[Southern]

Nice to see this variety of combines ready to roll. Or out already cutting. Nice to see some of the new Gleaners already out. Shame I won't see them, we hadn't had a dealer in over a decade. And our Gleaner owners are phasing out to Deere. I don't see any CIH in action around my house. We hadn't had a dealer since the late 80s. CIH don't hardly exist around here.

[70ds]

Nice pics. I saw a 9750 cutting on Saturday north of Trousdale. I am still kicking myself for not grabbing my camera. There was action going on all the way down there and I left my camera home. GRRRRR Oh well. I am anxious to get some harvesting going on up here.

[mstjhamfarms]

Awesome pictures, thank you for sharing with us!

[ericcks]

Jun 15, 2011 22:29:21 GMT -5 70ds said:

Nice pics. I saw a 9750 cutting on Saturday north of Trousdale. I am still kicking myself for not grabbing my camera. There was action going on all the way down there and I left my camera home. GRRRRR Oh well. I am anxious to get some harvesting going on up here.

Got away from work an hour early so I picked up my cruise crew and headed out. Visited briefly with a guy and there were 22 combines within a couple a mile or so of each other today. I saw a good piece of them. Mostly 96?0s farmer owned (multiple farmers) couple Gleaner L2s, 2188s. Pretty cool afternoon. Rained out for the most part this evening.

[70ds]

Cool. I think we are going to miss out on the rain this evening. I don't want the severe stuff though. We could use a little rain.

[gmauch]

cool pics. give it a week or so and you can venture over into southeast colorado and get some more pics.

[treymo]

Went into town for parts and saw a couple of those crews. We had to shutdown early the other night because of the rain. It's a good reason to quit.
Trey