Chopping Corn

[HuskerGLEANER]

This morning we had our custom chopper/neighbor come down and chop our little dab for us. He runs a New Holland 9060 with a 9 row head. We only chopped a 20 acre patch of dryland, which is more than enough silage to get us through the winter and spring. I went down and got a couple pictures of the chopper in action.






The trucks only had to go right across the driveway to where we were piling it. Our hired hand was packing with the 4440 and degelman dozer.



Driving back to the field where I was doing summerfallow I couldn't help but notice how soon harvest will be here, here is a picture of a neighbors edible beans, these are all but ready to windrow.


Comments and questions welcome.

[Southern]

He don't own a dairy. Just a custom operator? Around here not many hire another just to cut. There is a couple combines that do custom work. I saw that at times.

[treymo]

Can't believe that's dryland.... Looks Good Mark. Our guy ran 2 Claas'. They are fun to watch.
Trey

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

A neighbour runs an FR9060. I've seen them go down the road with the corn head on, but I've never got the chance to take pics of them running it.

[HuskerGLEANER]

Southern - He doesn't own a dairy, there isn't a dairy around here for hundreds of miles. He just custom chops for people around here, between him and another one of my neighbors they chop pretty much everyones corn here, I cant think of anyone that still does it their selves, we did until about 7 years ago but this is just so much quicker that its easy to justify with the time we save.

Trey - I cant believe its dryland either, this year is producing the best dryland corn anyone has seen around here. We have 200 acres of dryland that we are going to combine and right now im thinking it will make around 115 as long as the frost holds off another week or two. That is pretty awesome for this area because in 30+ years of farming the best dryland corn dad has ever raised made 90. Last year it made 75 and we were happy about that.

[70ds]

Nice pics. There are several custom silage choppers around this area. About as many as there are combine crews.

[brownswiss2013]

that thing got duals?

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

Yeah, there an option for the FR series choppers.

[HuskerGLEANER]

Yea Manitoban is right it does have duals and I have to say I am very impressed with how well the duals look on it, not to mention it probably saves him alot of operating ease going over pivot tracks with all the pivots he chops. I'm not real sure why people haven't put duals on choppers before?