is he the guy that farms 500,000 acres???

I've got to ask, if it takes to carts and two tractors, why not have two seperate rigs?     Or was it a let's do it to say we did it type of thing?

Linked controls with one driver or two drivers and the tractors do separate jobs?  I see a guidance dome on the first tractor but not the second.  I'd expect the first one to do the guidance and the second one to run the seeder if there are two drivers.  The only major benefit to one planter, two tractors, and two drivers I can see over two planters is that you just need one skilled person running the rig with just about anybody in the first tractor doing the turning at the end.  They must be some hard up for help if they run like that.  If something breaks, then you've got 212 feet of nothing happening.  Two or three smaller rigs would have 1/2 or 2/3 of the whole capacity still running if one broke.

They have several other planting units, this one is at home base as their farming operation is spread both north and west of where this pic was taken. Very good farmers and would be doing it for a good reason. There are quite a few 120ft rigs now working up here and when they first appeared 6-7 years ago people then said how big can they go?

I hear Banana planters(based in central QLD)reckon they can/will go to 300ft, not so hard with the design as modular construction allows it to happen. Up till now limiting factors have been air cart capacity to blow product far enough to enough outlets hence two carts and the hydraulic capacity needed to facilitate this hence two tractors. He already has had the t's for some time, just an effecient way to use them while getting the rig sorted out.

In our soils 500hp will handle 120ft, its a load but possible, even with the one tractor working hard it is cheaper than running two 60 ft units.

Mike.

Has the field size always been this large in your area?  Or were farmers able to put these large tracts togather as smaller farmers moved of the farm?

What is differant here is that the vast majority of farmland is farmed by the owner and where this operation is situated the average farm size would be 10,000 acres plus, where I am 15,000 acres plus. I am only a medium sized operator and we crop 12,000 acres and run stock on 45,000 acres.

I'm not a BTO for around here, the guys in the pics are but they own their ground and have added to it over the years.

Mike.

Over there, there are ordinances protecting the trees . . . . trees are very sacrist in that area/climate/zone. Seems odd, but I believe that's the reasoning, when asked about before on AgTalk.