|
Rivers, MB | I am curious as to how you cut 300 ac/day with 1 9770 and no cart? how many bu/ac of wheat is yielding and is there much straw. And how many hours/day do you cut. Impressive.
In my opinion, a cart adds alot of efficiency in 50bu/ac wheat/peas etc. If you are combining at 3.5 mph with a 30' header in 50 bu/ac wheat and never stop (using a cart), you will be harvesting 12.7 ac/hr. So in 10 hours, you would harvest 127 ac of wheat (6350 bu of wheat). If you were to drive over to a truck each time you were full or full enough that you couldn't make another round, you would take roughly 5 minutes of dumping/travelling time per hopper. If you would average 200 bu/hopper (rarely works out that you are completely full at the truck), it would mean 32 hoppers to harvest the same 6350 bu of wheat. 32 hoppers x 5 min/hopper = 160 extra minutes to harvest the same amount of bu. 10 hours w/ a cart, 12.7 hours w/o a cart. 27% more time required to harvest same amount of bushels. yes, there are extra costs but much cheaper than buying a bigger combine. If you are running 2 combines, the advantage gets even better. The smaller your hopper is on your combine and the slower your auger on your combine, the more advantage there is. The dumping time is key.
However, sometimes finding an extra person to run the cart is a big problem. AND your trucking/auger/bin infrastructure has to be able to handle the extra bu/hour. | |
|
looking for grain cart ideas
