| DK joe - 10/13/2025 21:46
Last combine we had i kept track of everything, fuel, hours, acres , bushels, repairs, depreciation, etc.
We bought a c-ih 7088 with 2000 engine hours for $125k, ran it 6 years, it cost us right at $35 an acre to run it.
Neigbor trades every 4 yrs for a new one, told me his last one was $38 an acre not counting fuel, his time, or intrest on his $
As for a grain cart, if you dont see value in it, you don’t know how to use it. I thought we did until I rode with a lot of different growers when I was a seed rep and my mind was blown how efficient some guys were.
One of the best I saw was 2 old two wheel drive tractors with Brent 670 carts catching corn from a 9510, they had radios and the combine simply only stopped to pee. My point is guy had 20k in each unit, you don’t have to spend 300k on tractor and cart to make happen, you just need a guy in the seat
yup, and try and find somebody worth a tinkers damn to occupy that seat for under 30 bucks/hr. In your analogy, take that times 2. “But, but, but, the cart is free, look how much more the combine gets done”. That 9510 is gonna do max 8 acres/hr, and that’s a stretch, but let’s call it that. You’re at 7 1/2 bucks/acre just in labor to run the two carts in your well oiled, best-ever-seen operation.
Edited by Boone & Crockett 10/14/2025 01:04
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What is a fair price for combining
