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Well the field had two offsets in it and some terraces to cut out first before they could pick a straight line back and forth

@@farmhandmike Thank you!

TTshark, thank you for your kind and knowledgeable information, especially that you were so closely connected to the actual operations. Those combine operators had probably never seen that field before either. As I said earlier, "they were opening the field". While I have great respect for years of experience, experience does not make up for REAL knowledge of present day practices and methods. People should ask questions and LEARN and not be judgemental and critize. You don't know, what you don't know. Finally, and again, "there is one in every crowd". That guy is actually funny and should enjoy his Cheez Wiz (Kraft made (jar or spray can)) ($4.48 at Walmart). I think he could put a nipple on the spray can to help with his Waaaahhhhhhhh in the rocking chair. Thank you.

Yes Sir, Big Bow Kansas. I remember being out there filming.

Yes, they don't seem to be a very good crew at all. Combine operators jumbled close together on headlands stopping for each other, unloading stopped, missing strips, undercutting by 3-5 feet across field. Good help is hard to find - I think they need to advertise for help using Spanish ads.........

Hah i know what you mean. I havent seen near as much as our field coordinator did, but boy oh boy did this season’s pea harvest crew have some absolute grade A ocean going apocalyptic dingleberries. From falling asleep and driving into a pivot, falling asleep and driving into the next field to somehow pushing a grate into the windshield shattering it. And it took a long time for them to finally get into a rhythm of harvest. I havent harvested much longer than them, but i got into a rhythm on the very first day. By the end of season i could probably open a field and know where to go/what to do in my sleep. Not that i tried though 😅

Bone dry down there this versus last years excess moisture

Thanks, That was a new sound effect I have not used until now from iMovie.

Load it all on trailers to haul off to next area.

The custom harvesters have some pretty neat setups as far as truck and trailers go to haul the equipment from stop to stop. I did a video in summer of 2016 of a custom crew loaded up and heading out to their next stop. I'll see if I can get the link and reply with it so you can see.

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At 22:45 in this video they unload on the go.

As long as you service it and replace broken parts they'll last as long as you need. Typically on an operation like this though you'll replace after 3-5 years so it maintains some resale value and you don't put so many hours on it that major items start to fail. Farmers buy them and put little hours on them in comparison, so they gets years out of them after.

Custom harvesting companies beat the living shit out of their machines. Some have a better tract record of maintaining them than others. I know i beat the piss out of my machine, and usually i’d spot trouble before it happened, so i was able to back off or notify the mechanics who usually did nothing about it until 36 hours and a lot of money needed to go into removing the disintegrated part and replacing it with a new one, when they could just replace it then and there to prevent that…

Most have service trucks with many parts and usually deere will send service techs to the fields as well. And most of the time they have printed maps of the field and the farmer shows them where things like that are at

You fix it

They break down all the time from neglect on operated part or hitting objects in the field or just regular wear. They fix it on the spot in most cases have their own repair truck and usually one guy in the crew that is a handyman to take care of it. In many cases the operater fixes themselves but not always

@@joescheller6680 Who pays the cost? I don't understand how a "stranger" can run equipment through fields covered with crops without knowing where certain obstacles may be located.

@@michaelblankenship7811 Thank you

Four, 3 S780's and 1 S680.

Yes I was into this video for sure.

Ha ha I grew up running open station combine no cab. You lived in the dust all day no masks.

@@joescheller6680 I worked plenty of ground when I was young on open station tractors