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NC Kansas | I hear you on that, we currently have 2 9610's and 2 930 headers in wheat and a 925F with an air reel and a 924F (old school, I know but its the least wore out header on the place due to low acres early in its life) On Wednesday though we were hogging both those machines through tough beans, moisture was 12.5 and below on 4 semi loads and we could barely avg 10 acres/hr both machines combined. I know eventually the combine will be the limiting factor but the headers right now are our limiting factor.
I'm thinking a flex-draper might get us to 10 ac/hr with just one machine. We can cut wheat and beans and milo with the one header. Used 974's and used FD70's run from $30k to $50k plus adaption kits. To me the numbers start to add up a little better.
Our decision is based on labor, right now we have more combine power than we need for the acres...we could easily go back to one machine with one FD plus a corn head and eliminate some machinery expense too.
we had a pretty hard frost here this morning so maybe in a couple days I'll be off my FD kick, but every year this seems to be a problem. | |
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Everyone fighting green beans?
