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Hazelton, Kansas | Bryce,
I may get flamed for this, but here goes. You may not need a cart. Dunno what size your combine bin is, but I'll bet your combine range is well over a mile.
Keep this simple. One combine, two trucks (600bu), and TWO people.
If you are primarily cutting back and forth across quarter sections, and you have a road on one side, unload across the ditch. Spot the trucks on the road adjacent to where the combine is cutting. We can't always do this, but with a little judicious field layout and spotting of the trucks, we can cut most fields fairly fast. We have only one long, narrow, odd-shaped field with poor access that gives this approach trouble.
No, the combine is not unloading on the go, but deadheading is minimal. And is IS possible to unload the bin before it is full. :-)
I don't own a cart. Yes, a cart could speed up our harvest a little, but carts are the heaviest axles on most farms, and we no-till. I haven't seen a solution for cart compaction, outside of tracks (or controlled traffic). By the time you buy a tracked cart and tie up another tractor and driver, you can buy another combine. Then you have some real redundancy.
Regards.
MDS
Edited by crowbar 11/4/2014 06:42
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