- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Haybob ?I wouldn't be sure those 200k tractors are used solely for grain carting....
Haybob ?I wouldn't be sure those 200k tractors are used solely for grain carting....
Correct, they used on the haybob as well.I wouldn't be sure those 200k tractors are used solely for grain carting....
At 500 yards just think of the savings if you cut out the haulage middleman and drove the combine to the store to empty
Cheaper to park them up and hire in a smaller tractor, by time you take wear and tear and depreciation in on a large tractor it works out cheaper to hire a 180-200hp tractor in for a few weeksI wouldn't be sure those 200k tractors are used solely for grain carting....
I just hire one for grain haulage and autumn planting, scary bill but no running costs and take a long time for it to add up to 200k£200k for carting grain, then there is the trailer, the driver and not insignificant running costs. Is it just me or does anybody else consider it to be commercial insanity.
With a small ring fenced farm we are only hauling it about 500 yards by tractor at most, not like the lads hauling it half way across the county from combine to store. But we are inefficient of course. We don’t have the necessary scale.
Is it not APH https://aphltd.co.uk/combines
This is what I cannot understand. We used to swath OSR and then pick up with a small header combine. It worked so well we extended swathing to wheat and barley keeping the small header just increasing the capacity of the combine. Others went down the bigger the header the better the combine route but we could never justify the capital cost of the big headers.A 13.5m header for a Claas combine will cost about £ 120,000. The cost of the bit that it fits on will make you cry. However you can get a new Indian built New Holland with 15 foot cut and 130 hp engine for £60,000
To be fair, we have had some thick crops of hay this year!Haybob ?
Bums on seatsBeen running 58ft today only for a couple of hours soon knocked of 25 acres . yet only worth 30k the lot all right 3 old 1680 axial flows will clear 120 acres a day esily .
Its gettin it sneaked past the workers at the border is the problem alough am sure if u knew who to ask it could be sorted for a reasonable donationA 13.5m header for a Claas combine will cost about £ 120,000. The cost of the bit that it fits on will make you cry. However you can get a new Indian built New Holland with 15 foot cut and 130 hp engine for £60,000
It is getting to the stage that bums on seats is going to be cheaper than buying a 500 k combine and having one bum on a seat a year . Getting staff is not that hard and if you are prepared to put a bit of time in there are plenty of youngsters who want to get experience to help start there careers but would not get a chance to learn as no one in their right mind would let them lose on a 500 k machine first off . As we work them in the same field usually us older boys help them out and keep an eye on them . That gives me a idea combine training courses they can pay and play . Win win Might be able to afford a holiday in Bournemouth .Bums on seats
Amazing how much money some people will spend just to avoid another operator on a tenner an hour.It is getting to the stage that bums on seats is going to be cheaper than buying a 500 k combine and having one bum on a seat a year . Getting staff is not that hard and if you are prepared to put a bit of time in there are plenty of youngsters who want to get experience to help start there careers but would not get a chance to learn as no one in their right mind would let them lose on a 500 k machine first off . As we work them in the same field usually us older boys help them out and keep an eye on them . That gives me a idea combine training courses they can pay and play . Win win Might be able to afford a holiday in Bournemouth .
They swath a lot in USA, saw barley done that way on a u tube vid, why don,t more swath in this country? would it be the wet summers were prone too.This is what I cannot understand. We used to swath OSR and then pick up with a small header combine. It worked so well we extended swathing to wheat and barley keeping the small header just increasing the capacity of the combine. Others went down the bigger the header the better the combine route but we could never justify the capital cost of the big headers.
Our neighbour at home who does our combining runs a newish New Holland and a TX 36 this year his TX36 has broken down so he’s bought another TX 36 off eBay and when his other TX is fixed he’s going to run them all together problem is staff he’s the youth in his early’50’s everyone else is approaching retirement age.It is getting to the stage that bums on seats is going to be cheaper than buying a 500 k combine and having one bum on a seat a year . Getting staff is not that hard and if you are prepared to put a bit of time in there are plenty of youngsters who want to get experience to help start there careers but would not get a chance to learn as no one in their right mind would let them lose on a 500 k machine first off . As we work them in the same field usually us older boys help them out and keep an eye on them . That gives me a idea combine training courses they can pay and play . Win win Might be able to afford a holiday in Bournemouth .