Post by HuskerGLEANER on Aug 5, 2011 23:51:29 GMT -5
Well i guess ill just pick up where I left off. I would like to mention though, for you John Deere lovers there is something in this for you.
Thought this was a good view of our lineup.
I usually hauled a load every morning before we started combining from the night before. Thought I would get a few pictures of that process.
And this is the pile our elevator put most of our wheat on. The few loads we had with good protein went into some overhead bins and I think that was only 3 loads...
I kinda liked this view. You can see out across the Niobrara River and into the Sandhills...
My friend couldn't come run the grain cart that day.
A storm trying to brew up.
My combine.
And now for the John Deere lovers I present Danielski Farms..
6 John Deere 9770's, 1 9870, 3 Brent Avalanche Grain carts each on a brand new John Deere 8***R.
They were cutting for a major landowner 1 mile from my house. Dad and I went over and ended up talking to Tom Danielski for about 3 hours or the time it took them to knock out 2 pivots of irrigated wheat. He is a really cool guy and it was a very interesting conversation. The crew manager (Tom's nephew) told us an interesting tid bit that they haul their combines down to Oklahoma and from there they road them to here working their way up.. Said the longest gap was 150 miles which took about 7 hours. I think they also haul them back down to Texas in the beginning of July for milo harvest on The King Ranch. They have a total of 12 combines, the other five were at their headquarters in Valentine NE.
They also had 8 or 9 semi's running constantly to keep these machines going.
Well now that I got that out of the way i have another crew to introduce. Earlier this harvest I remember someone had pictures of Stegman Harvesting working somewhere down in Kansas with their 3 Gleaners, 1 of which is a S77. Anyways Stegman has come here to Hay Springs for as long as I can remember, but he usually only brings one combine here and cuts with Ackerman Harvesting. I had my fingers crossed all year he would bring his S77 here, and it turns out it worked! Dad found out where they were cutting and I went up there as soon as I could. I ended up riding with Reg Stegman in his S77 and he offered me a job for next year. Needless to say I jumped at the chance and I will be running one of Stegman's Gleaners next year he promised me, just not the S77... I was too excited to get many pictures but I did get a couple after they got done with the field.
Ackerman's 7120. Reg told me the Super 7 was running a touch faster than the 7120 using 12% less fuel and it seemed like it unloaded twice as fast. I was very impressed with the Super 7 which he was running a 36 foot dynaflex draper on.
Thats about all the excitement for this year. Hope everyone liked the pictures. Comments and questions welcome. Also, I will be coming out with my annual harvest video soon.
Thought this was a good view of our lineup.
I usually hauled a load every morning before we started combining from the night before. Thought I would get a few pictures of that process.
And this is the pile our elevator put most of our wheat on. The few loads we had with good protein went into some overhead bins and I think that was only 3 loads...
I kinda liked this view. You can see out across the Niobrara River and into the Sandhills...
My friend couldn't come run the grain cart that day.
A storm trying to brew up.
My combine.
And now for the John Deere lovers I present Danielski Farms..
6 John Deere 9770's, 1 9870, 3 Brent Avalanche Grain carts each on a brand new John Deere 8***R.
They were cutting for a major landowner 1 mile from my house. Dad and I went over and ended up talking to Tom Danielski for about 3 hours or the time it took them to knock out 2 pivots of irrigated wheat. He is a really cool guy and it was a very interesting conversation. The crew manager (Tom's nephew) told us an interesting tid bit that they haul their combines down to Oklahoma and from there they road them to here working their way up.. Said the longest gap was 150 miles which took about 7 hours. I think they also haul them back down to Texas in the beginning of July for milo harvest on The King Ranch. They have a total of 12 combines, the other five were at their headquarters in Valentine NE.
They also had 8 or 9 semi's running constantly to keep these machines going.
Well now that I got that out of the way i have another crew to introduce. Earlier this harvest I remember someone had pictures of Stegman Harvesting working somewhere down in Kansas with their 3 Gleaners, 1 of which is a S77. Anyways Stegman has come here to Hay Springs for as long as I can remember, but he usually only brings one combine here and cuts with Ackerman Harvesting. I had my fingers crossed all year he would bring his S77 here, and it turns out it worked! Dad found out where they were cutting and I went up there as soon as I could. I ended up riding with Reg Stegman in his S77 and he offered me a job for next year. Needless to say I jumped at the chance and I will be running one of Stegman's Gleaners next year he promised me, just not the S77... I was too excited to get many pictures but I did get a couple after they got done with the field.
Ackerman's 7120. Reg told me the Super 7 was running a touch faster than the 7120 using 12% less fuel and it seemed like it unloaded twice as fast. I was very impressed with the Super 7 which he was running a 36 foot dynaflex draper on.
Thats about all the excitement for this year. Hope everyone liked the pictures. Comments and questions welcome. Also, I will be coming out with my annual harvest video soon.
