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BryceH

Posted 5/29/2014 21:53 (#3892801)
Subject: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Nunn CO

Hello All,
I was just curious who runs this large of a tractor and what you pull with it? I only run a 375 HP and pull 50' implements. So by the same logic you would be pulling 80' implements? Maybe my ground just pulls easy though. It is flat and light ish. Always curious what other farms are doing with fun toys.
Thanks,

Noisemaker

Posted 5/29/2014 22:02 (#3892827 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

2 18 yard pans

Galen

Posted 5/29/2014 22:14 (#3892852 - in reply to #3892827)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

NE, KS

2 18 yd pans and a 16 row Deere strip till bar with dry fert cart, I really need abot 650 hp in the hills I farm

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rupert

Posted 5/29/2014 22:40 (#3892897 - in reply to #3892852)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

I can tell. I dont know how you manage those mountains in your picture. Ha ha

Galen

Posted 5/30/2014 07:46 (#3893204 - in reply to #3892897)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

NE, KS

You have seen the hills we farm in! although we have a little different setup then when you saw it. That pic was taken in some bottom ground

young buck1

Posted 5/29/2014 22:20 (#3892859 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Sibley county Minesota

500 hp pulling 54 digger is a good load for me.

9670guy

Posted 5/29/2014 22:22 (#3892866 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

NW IL

18' case 870, 50' case 200 tm, 30' Sunflower/Wishek disk. Hills and any kind of speed take power.

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Kingalbe

Posted 5/29/2014 22:24 (#3892871 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

East Central Iowa

We run a 550 quadtrac, and pull a 18' dominator and a 45' soil finisher. Nice not running out of power for once.

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Steiger Man

Posted 5/29/2014 22:25 (#3892874 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Sunburst Montana

With our JD 9560R we pull a 60ft JD 1830 drill with a 430 cart. Don't need all that hp but its nice to run 1800 rpms up and down our hills. And it does take a little hp to pull a fully loaded cart. Also, one of my cousins bought a 53ft JD 1820 drill with a 430 cart. His tractor was a CIH 9280. Pulled it fine but the first hill he got to he was down to 1st gear by the time he got to the top. A few days later a STX 450 showed up. No more hp problems.

Koldkanuck

Posted 5/29/2014 22:34 (#3892886 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Kamsack Saskatchewan, Canada

http://youtu.be/HWAEuySzmEs

Glenn W.

Posted 5/29/2014 22:39 (#3892894 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Southeast Washington

In the hills of the Pacific Northwest most need the big power to overcome the hills. Now it appears most new tractors in the grain farming are 450 plus horsepower with 375 now seeming small. The biggest air drill that I know of in the area is 50 feet wide. When the ground levels out some away from the mountain I know of 60 foot air drills. Many are pulling a 36 to 45 foot fertilizing machine and 30 to 40 foot with a few 50 foot drills. We pull a 46 foot air drill and 750 bushel grain carts because that is about as big as can be pulled and not putting a lot of money into fixing oops when running across the hills.

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hog987

Posted 5/31/2014 01:26 (#3894415 - in reply to #3892894)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Central Alberta

I like how the camera was angles to make the hill look steeper. But at least you have a pic of a real hill lol.

SJ@Farmacres

Posted 5/31/2014 09:07 (#3894764 - in reply to #3894415)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

South Africa

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oversized

Posted 5/29/2014 22:52 (#3892912 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Yes. ...36 row30.....2100 gal fert.....1200 liquid insecticide And fert....300 bushels of seed....big hills

oversized

Posted 5/29/2014 22:53 (#3892916 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Yes....36 row30.....2100 gal fert.....1200 liquid insecticide And fert....300 bushels of seed....big hills....also sunflower 45' Disk..60' field fisher....cat scrapers. ...rippers ......smallest is 335hp....cat 75 and pulls drag harrow

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billiet330

Posted 5/29/2014 23:10 (#3892939 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

They make an excellent tractor to pull a side delivery rake and mount a post hole digger to

Perth

Posted 5/29/2014 23:29 (#3892966 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

N.C. ND

Here's ours, 56ft. Chisel plow,60ft. Air drill..

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BryceH

Posted 5/29/2014 23:41 (#3892977 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Nunn CO

So it's for hills I'm seeing.
And scrapers. Thanks

The_Owl

Posted 5/30/2014 00:15 (#3893003 - in reply to #3892977)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Watford City, ND

In western NoDak, dealerships sell way more 4wd's than MFWD because in wheat country, 50 and 60' air seeders with 350 - 550 bu (sometimes bigger) air carts are the norm. Takes weight and it's nice to have the ponies.

In eastern ND, in the RRV for example, 4wd's are used more so for tillage, and planters are pulled by large MFWDs. Although, planters are getting to the point where it's nice to have a larger tractor in front.

We run a 535 quad with a 45' FCoil drill, along with an older 9270 pulling a TBT 51' FCoil. We just upgraded tractors for this year, and a newer, larger drill will be coming someday.

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Now_What

Posted 5/30/2014 03:47 (#3893035 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Only 18' wide and brings 500 hp to its knees

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HUSKERBUCK

Posted 5/30/2014 06:51 (#3893128 - in reply to #3893035)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Southeast Nebraska

GOOD LORD!! What is that and where are you from?

Goat Boy

Posted 5/30/2014 07:18 (#3893162 - in reply to #3893128)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Now what. I've looked at that Wilcox stuff while in CA and it is amazingly well put together.

Who so the other tool made by?

Now_What

Posted 5/30/2014 12:23 (#3893467 - in reply to #3893162)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Optimizer, made in Modesto CA by Billington MFG

http://tillagemanagement.com/optimizer.php
http://billington-mfg.com/tillage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIe382NZSXY

The biggest problem with the optimizer when it first came out was it was designed to work in the Sand on the east side of the valley. When it came over to the westside of the valley where there is heavy clay coupled with soil that is high in lime there wasn't enough horsepower at the time available on the market to pull it at the speeds required for the finishing tools to work properly.

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Ben D, N CA

Posted 5/30/2014 13:17 (#3893532 - in reply to #3893467)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot

I love it when you see an Optimizer or Eliminator advertised as 'minimum tillage' or 'conservation till'... which in all reality for here it is... but that is a somewhat regional thing.

Guys here have been looking at getting something like that, for years no one had any tractors big enough since they only wanted row crop (MFWD) tractors. But a few guys have been buying some of those 'bend in the middle' tractors that were always too big before, and looking at something like that to do one pass tillage ahead of the rototillers in the spring. A 9-11 shank ripper can also eat up all the horsepower a 500 hp machine has if you want to pull it very fast.

The other thing you see high hp being used for here is pulling scrapers. I ran a set of pans behind an 85 E at 400 hp I think? and you could have used 100 more pretty easy.

Franz

Posted 5/30/2014 06:47 (#3893124 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Ohio

Neighbor that I help some runs a 9510r. Pulls a 45' TM II 30' Krause accelerator and a 7 shank landoll weatherproofer 2 with it. He had a 9300 before the 9510r. Needed more power on the accelerator was the main reason. I was running in 15th gear at 1600 rpm running over corn stalks with it.

andyfarmer

Posted 5/30/2014 09:00 (#3893298 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

SE ND

450 tuned to 525. Pull 43' 1895 disk drill, 60' field cultivator. the JD seeder can bring it to it's knees in hills when full with NH3

Proudfamilyfarm

Posted 5/30/2014 12:45 (#3893494 - in reply to #3893298)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Manitoba

We need 500hp, 60 foot drill 430 bu cart and 3200 gal of liquid fert.

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assault

Posted 5/30/2014 13:03 (#3893517 - in reply to #3893494)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Iowa

Mt865b, 60.5ft fc, 22ft 512 ripper, plenty of power for either. Want the 80ft wilrich fc but with a 160k list price probably will have to wait

Chad H

Posted 5/30/2014 16:23 (#3893695 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

NE SD

32’ disk chisel will put the lights out on 500hp if you run it deep enough in tight soil. Comfortable on a 45' soil finisher. 375 HP wouldn't touch either of them.

Land Rover

Posted 5/30/2014 16:44 (#3893716 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

nc Ia.

Sometimes 500 hp isn't enough.

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PettyTN4920

Posted 5/30/2014 20:57 (#3894063 - in reply to #3892801)
Subject: RE: Who uses a 500 or 600 HP tractor

Southwest TN

Here's my cousins. Plays with a 46ft dmi. It will pull with a 40ft turbo till in road gear if you could sit in it.

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