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Its a travesty....actually.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Sep 2011
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I'm back, I've been on the phone with a Canadian friend, no charge, Google Voice, Thank you Denton.
Jim, do you call New Zeeland much? Google Voice might charge two cents a minute.
Back to farm stuff, a classmate has sheds full of scale models, and, big sheds full of full of restored Deere machines.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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That chopper is a beast, we don't see stuff like that here. My friends just upgraded to a new to them combine and will have to block traffic to move it.
I make a point to buy farm toys for my various nephews and great nephews and take them to the farm. They need to see where their food comes from.
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Joined: Jan 2002
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Joined: Jan 2002
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If you want to experience how fast ag is changing, try running a rotary swathed at 18 mph cutting hay. It takes GPS steering and fields as smooth as a billiards table to do that. It means you are cutting 33 acres per hour or 330 acres in a ten hour day. One man running a new rotary swather accomplishes what 5 Men in sickle machines did 20 years ago.
One of my neighbors just started using a rotary. With the amount of rocks we have around, I’m too chicken to even go there. But when he’s cutting, he’s really getting things done. What’s speeding things up is the new balers. If you can keep them running...
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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We run a Claas 980 and it is a beast...just got a claas triple mower mounted on a new Holland 410, thing will legitimately do 40 acres/hour
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Campfire Tracker
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Joined: Nov 2011
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Back in the day when New Holland first came out with their rotary combines I became acquainted with a custom operator who would buy 15 new combines every year, run them that season and trade them in, then buy new ones the next year. He did the same with cotton pickers. Back in the seventies I think.
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Campfire Ranger
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If you want to experience how fast ag is changing, try running a rotary swathed at 18 mph cutting hay. It takes GPS steering and fields as smooth as a billiards table to do that. It means you are cutting 33 acres per hour or 330 acres in a ten hour day. One man running a new rotary swather accomplishes what 5 Men in sickle machines did 20 years ago.
I'm still running an old NH 488 Haybine. I can't cut 33 acres a day........lol. Of course, I don't need to, and that's why your machinery should match the size of your operation.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/dGk8Rg1.jpg) New Holland self propelled chopper, $650,000. That dealer sells one every two years, New Holland makes 35 a year. Want to be a dairy farmer, or big cattle feeder? Local dealer had me testing one of those as a demonstrator... It was "OK" , but just that.. 900hp Fiat engine, and I could fill a wagon (60K# running gear) in a hair over 5 minutes with chopped corn.. But Tom didn't like the fact that once the rpms got below 1400 it just lost all torque, while the CLAAS 960 he's running now kept up pretty well down to 1200 or so..
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Joined: Aug 2004
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Thats a kind offer Barry. How far are you from Texarkana?
493 miles...  I'm in Goliad County.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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