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?

Cool.....please describe the depreciation benefits........before you look like a frigg'ing midwestern moron.

Y'all bought one, Richard?

That can put a little more corn in the pile than the old 3 Row Pull type my uncle used on his dairy. Likely a few more horsepower too.

He had a custom crew come in one year with a big Claus. 12 rows. You had to run to keep up. They’d fill a semi in a matter of a couple minutes.

New farm machinery has gotten too pricey for me. I bought one new tractor, a 5600 Ford back around 1978. Back then, they were halfway affordable, not so any more.

Me, buy one? Jake is having bad time with his hay cutter. We were at the dealership asking questions.
It's rare to see that big a machine running in the field, let alone new on a lot. I asked the salesman about it.

I'm sure that price is without heads.

I honestly don't think you could pay for that as a custom harvester unless you were in an area with a lot of dairy farms. I priced a new tractor the other day. Think I'll keep looking for that 4440 that has a lot of life left.

My neighbors have a nice 4630 for sale.

So, you are indeed a nothing burger.

I'm sure it is.

Case dealer here sold one. I guess the red version.

They were delivering it to the farmer, along with a custom made 20 row header spaced exactly like the farmer wanted.

Some city slicker was texting and hit the header with his crappy car as it was being towed on a trailer down the highway.

Messed that header up pretty bad... I was looking at it, and the Case dealer manager was beside me. I thought he was gonna cry. Not enough time to get a new header before harvest.

I am keeping my new New Holland pretty busy.

Just got done pulling huisache trees on a ranch for a client. Pulled all of them. Thousands.





Probably have 50 burn piles of trees on that ranch now.

Have another ranch waiting to be done.

Lined up for shredding too.



I'm not going to hire help... I'm not going to hire help... I'm not going to hire help... I'm not going to hire help...

That grass looks nice, and green Barry.

You better hire some help Barry. I might do some shredding to be.able to fish that catfish pond! 😉

That was last week. Wife took those pics...

It sure needs to rain again. 100 degree days and a stiff wind is like putting a blow dryer on the country. Grass is starting to dry up and turn brown again now.

I bought a 1066 new in 1972, a new combine in 1977. Since then all used. Jake has the machinery now, I just tag along, and beg a toy now, and then.

I could sure use help from time to time!

Man those fish are huge!

Was feeding the cows earlier, and drove by the pond, and they musta thought I was gonna feed them too!

I'll have to take some pics when I feed them next time.


Come on down. I'll help ya catch a few!

Bring stout tackle and braided line...

I think that is to big to have the 540 pto. Pretty sure the 46 and up is 1000 only.... Besides, i'm putting all my pennies in my scrooge mcduckian vault right now. Getting close enough to being debt free again, better motivation that replacing the old IH.

Says the douchebag that goes thread to thread talking schit for no other reason than to satisfy some pathetic need for constant self aggrandizing behavior.
You're a miserable prick. Pity your wife and kids, bet they take the abuse daily.

Wabi posts a picture of a seldom seen piece of equipment that would be of interest to some folks. That really gets you stirred up?

Spot on.

I got to agree with jackmountain here. Don't understand some who post here anymore. But I guess I should be more appreciable of the time that the Trolls and anti-Christians take to respond to every thread anymore, keep up the good work.

You are both right.

At least your wife gets a break from the mental abuse while you log in and play hit and run through multiple threads.
Wonder when she'll finally act on those fantasies of suffocating you while you sleep?

Prob deserved that one....

This is the problem here.

You can't have a decent thread without someone coming in and throwing chit on the walls.

And most times, the threads it happens in have nothing to do with who's flinging the poo.

Wabigoon is a stand up guy. I know several guys here think that, and enjoy his posts. I sure don't see HIM starting hateful threads or flinging poo in other people's threads.

We need more like him, and less poo flingers.

Sorry, you are correct.

I just want to clear my trails and fields.

That should work.
Donations anybody? 😉

Ahhh.....dang it.

We were doing a pretty good job ignoring him JM.


It is getting tougher to do however.

What did Conrad say, is it safe to read?

Sorry, Jim.

Thats not funny!

Sorry Big James.

Quite the machine Richard.
Glad you didn't have to go in hock to secure its use...
Someone needs to buy and start producing farmer/owner scale designs vs. Corporation Farming scale designs..

Somebody quote Conrad, I have him on ignore. Bet little Mikey's wife wish she had that option.....

To try to get back to large expensive farm machines. That dealership is a stand alone place. The have twenty people on the payroll. It started in 1964, and Tim Radke told me his father cashed in CD, after CD keeping the doors open in the mid eighties.

The shop area must run 150 North, and South at least, maybe 60 feet wide.

Feeding America, and some of the world takes a heap of work , and a lot of teamwork by a lot! of people.

Whoever does it should make them galvanized like the old gleaners.
I'm fully engorged just thinking about it.

Sorry gents.

The dealer over west of me was the high national seller one year for Gleaner combines.

I believe they were selling L2's.

Or maybe L's.

Good machines.

La Marche did the uninterrupted power supply.

I installed it.

Wooohhh....Veerrry impressive little Mike.

Where?

I use a 4mw UPS where I work......

Mikey uses a 12" rubber dong and a string of 60mm anal beads where he works.

Scale Models? That's another topic. Mike Pennimen, Lytton Farm Equipment, Lytton Iowa, told me the 'Toy" companies like Ertl charge the machine manufacture $50,000 to make the dies.

This area was just full of Kelly Ryan/Blair feed wagons in the sixties, and seventies, but you will not see a single scale model.

Where is the super-computer located?

Sorry wabigoon.

Wonder if those toys are as popular today as they were?

Fewer farm kids......fewer toys sold?

Did town kids buy farm toys?

Thats a kind offer Barry. How far are you from Texarkana?

Your dumbass still thinks that UPS is a delivery service.

Sorry fester.

I ag bag for a custom guy with a big new holland. I think its an 850?
It really does the job.

Alot of the custom harvesting business is a payment game. They put on as many hours as they can, and flip the machine while its still worth something. Then hope the farmer pays them.

I think he was talking about smaller models of equipment. Like the old pull behind combine, where you didnt have the extra maintenance of another powertrain, or pull behind 3 row chopper, things like that. Combines the size of the old JD4420, yeah it took a little longer, but new equipment cost so much it's frequently better for financials to hire a custom operator. And anybody that has farmed knows how big of a pain in the ass it is to get a custom operator when you need them because everyone else is needing them at the same time. Thats how i took it anyways.

Jim, of course this falls into the walked to school uphill both ways in a blizzard every day story.
I think I had just a few toys growing up. Grandson Gilbert has bushels.

I don't know about town kids?

How many millions of dollars is going up and down that field??

Gotta think that the old designs and supporting files are owned by someone..unless they are public domain these days..

Maybe a good research project for a high school or college kid not inclined to the video feed school thing...
Vocational schools probably have the equipment needed to assemble some of the designs if they can source the parts..
Seems like a worthwhile gofundme.com kind of thing..
Vs some of the other stuff out there...

How many slaves do those equal , ya reckon?

My brother collects farm toys and lives in town. He's 65. Does that count ?

kwg

12 rows of corn going through a Claas 980

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...61C47A3DC9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...62338A2CEB5FBF4A06A&&FORM=VDRVRV

The truck driver has to be on his game. Those choppers weren’t slowing down for nothing

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.

Potato growers are becoming bigger and bigger.

Do not meet one of these diggers in a two lane Rd,

https://www.facebook.com/123431324379748/videos/1911117525611110/

12 row potato planters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-GUvr60Lgk

Its a travesty....actually.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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..

493 miles...

I'm in Goliad County.