SITREP: Muddy in the Midwest

[Farmer_1994]

With less than ideal conditions across most of the Canadian prairies and Midwest USA a familiar sight is occurring. Buried wagons, choppers, and trucks. After a walk of our driest corn field we sorted out the wettest areas and went to work today.

Demo chopper did not stay clean for long..

Expecting another 60mm of rain before the weekend. After that weather should clear. Lord knows we need it.

To be continued..

 

[Badshot]

Those trucks must get stuck pretty often?
Don't think a truck would go far in a field here now.

 

[jondear]

I thought it would be all self-propelleds over there?

 

[Farmer_1994]

Those trucks must get stuck pretty often?
Don't think a truck would go far in a field here now.

Surprisingly enough we did not get stuck once yesterday. There are farmers in much worse situation than us though.

 

[Farmer_1994]

I thought it would be all self-propelleds over there?

I would say majority is self propelled for large farms and contractors. There are still a few of us that run pull types.

The one we are demoing is a dion scorpion 300. Claim they can put out up to 110 ton an hour with 300 PTO HP. I believe if we had average conditions we could achieve that. Spoke with a large dairy farm in the US that ran two of these machines in alfalfa and he was consistently running 60-70 ton an hour through them, which is 50% more than we were putting through with our old pull type harvester.