Custom Cutting ‘23 With The Green Team

[Cab-over Pete]

Sam gets paid a salary I think. Work or not, I think he’s paid.

It’s not about the money though, it’s just what he wanted to do. It’s a real pity it’s not a good year to be there.

Going well at the moment, but the crops are poor so America isn’t showing her best side this season.

 

[oakleaf]

$3.13/ac combining costs? Better not let my customers see that.

No it’s not 3.13 it’s 3x13 as in 13 dollars an acre plus 13 cents a bushel over 20 bushels an acre and 13 cents per bushel per mile for haulage to elevator.

When I did it (mid 80’s) it was 3 eights.
Rookie crew members got 800 dollars a month. Second seasoners got 1000 and third seasoners got 1250.
I don’t know if the increments continued after that cos I didn’t do a fourth.

 

[adam_farming]

Sam gets paid a salary I think. Work or not, I think he’s paid.

It’s not about the money though, it’s just what he wanted to do. It’s a real pity it’s not a good year to be there.

Going well at the moment, but the crops are poor so America isn’t showing her best side this season.

He's still got 4 months to go, in a few different states, so plenty of time for a good year still to be had! Fall harvest is way more fun anyway, wheat is just the warm up! The rain that is holding up the wheat job now will be watering the corn for later on

 

[Heathland]

I've been watching this guy its mind blowing the acres they are covering.
Like many have said one regret not having a go.
Thanks for the updates @Cab-over Pete

 

[Magnus Oyke]

$3.13/ac combining costs? Better not let my customers see that.

$13/ac, $0.13c/bu haulage, $0.13 bu overage. It's more now

 

[newholland]

If you ever see a combine traveling along road with the rotor running, you know that team gets paid a bonus per rotor hour.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

If you ever see a combine traveling along road with the rotor running, you know that team gets paid a bonus per rotor hour.

I’ve never known payment for custom cutters to have anything to do with machine hours. Maybe in some certain small areas?

Some areas do have differences. As soon as you get into Montana the pricing changes. I think it went flat rate for wheat. Malting barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas etc being different again. They are very particular about who cuts the malting barely as a poorly set machine can do a lot of damage.

 

[d williams]

If you ever see a combine traveling along road with the rotor running, you know that team gets paid a bonus per rotor hour.

We can’t select road mode with the drum going???

 

[kiwi pom]

Sam gets paid a salary I think. Work or not, I think he’s paid.

It’s not about the money though, it’s just what he wanted to do. It’s a real pity it’s not a good year to be there.

Going well at the moment, but the crops are poor so America isn’t showing her best side this season.

I'm not sure the crops are ever that great on the type of run those custom guys do are they, especially compared to the UK?

I heard the combine guys got a salary too, not sure it's that great from what I was told, but of course all about the experience.

 

[Lowland1]

I didn't do custom wheat harvesting in the States but I did custom green bean harvesting Virginia to Florida then Florida to New York state. I saw lots of the States no one gets to see and I got to live and work with the cast of Deliverance.

 

[David.]

Hopefully not too much squealing was required....

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I'm not sure the crops are ever that great on the type of run those custom guys do are they, especially compared to the UK?

I heard the combine guys got a salary too, not sure it's that great from what I was told, but of course all about the experience.

Certainly nothing like a UK crop anywhere, although he has cut a few areas which were considered to be good for the farms he was on.

The crops seem very variable.

 

[Lowland1]

Hopefully not too much squealing was required....

Luckily no but imagine arriving from deepest darkest Lincolnshire into hillbilly central. Obviously if i was from Norfolk it would have been like home.

 

[adam_farming]

I'm not sure the crops are ever that great on the type of run those custom guys do are they, especially compared to the UK?

I heard the combine guys got a salary too, not sure it's that great from what I was told, but of course all about the experience.

Crop yields in 2018 ranged from 1t/ha wheat in Texas, to 7t/ha durum in North Dakota. Both places were pleased with these yields for the year.

We were on hourly, which varied state to state, and I came home with a second holdall full of Wrangler, Carhartt and Ariat, having already wired half a house deposit home, so again it varies!!

 

[Ramrod]

I didn't do custom wheat harvesting in the States but I did custom green bean harvesting Virginia to Florida then Florida to New York state. I saw lots of the States no one gets to see and I got to live and work with the cast of Deliverance.

Do you play the Banjo?

 

[Lowland1]

Do you play the Banjo?

Not well.

 

[Lowland1]

If you ever see a combine traveling along road with the rotor running, you know that team gets paid a bonus per rotor hour.

I’m not sure how contract harvesting was charged in Australia but the fact that a burly Australian farmer jumped in the cab with me and threatened me with bodily harm if i continued doing the very stylish loop turns i was doing makes me think it might have been by the hour.

 

[Richard Smyth]

I’m not sure how contract harvesting was charged in Australia but the fact that a burly Australian farmer jumped in the cab with me and threatened me with bodily harm if i continued doing the very stylish loop turns i was doing makes me think it might have been by the hour.

Both ways here. By the hour or ha.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Luckily no but imagine arriving from deepest darkest Lincolnshire into hillbilly central. Obviously if i was from Norfolk it would have been like home.

Depends if its the posh part like @spin cycle area or more like me and @robbie part of Norfolk

 

[spin cycle]

Depends if its the posh part like @spin cycle area or more like me and @robbie part of Norfolk

cor blast yer can't beat a banjo