Friday Crop Report on a Thursday Week 24

[furrowtickler]

One must remember X9’s are just pretend CR’s

And Fendt Ideals are just recycled X9’s painted black

all in fun of course

[biglentil]

Wouldn't go back to yellow after goin red. Had enough of the concave shear bolts and hanging on a 5ft wrench to unplug the rotor.

[helmsdale]

would like to see your x9 when it has 3000 threshing hours like our 3 cr9080 have and running trouble free

You can't hardly find a belt drive rotary caseih (heritage machine) in western canada anymore. But damn, Im pushing 7000hr's on a 1660, and 5000hr's on a 1688. Now I wont say they're trouble free, but if you do the basic's pre-harvest they're pretty darned reliable. Sample? typically 0.5-1.2% dockage with it being higher on shit years and lower on good years. Capacity wise though, those things absolutely dont even fit into western canadian ag anymore...

[helmsdale]

Had a shower the other day wheat tested 16.8 yesterday, so went golfing at mens night. Everyone there hoped it would rain to be able to get out of the combine and not have to look at this pitiful crop for a few hrs.

Most will be done in a few days, some have been wrapped up for a wk.

One farmer I know opened his clean grain and return elevators and let it on the ground. There was literally nothing there .. chickens would starve.

Last year i had to open my return... Couldn't physically blow the thistle and kochia out the back end. It just kept doing the cycle through the return until it finally would build up plug everything solid. Disaster territory. New chem plan this year seems to be leaving clean aftercut on 95%.

Drought years might be a prime candidate for reducing your fertilizer inputs, but reducing your chem inputs will shitter you!

[furrowtickler]

Wouldn't go back to yellow after goin red. Had enough of the concave shear bolts and hanging on a 5ft wrench to unplug the rotor.

Yes that’s where Case is nice

never broke any shear bolts
These ones have reversers now ,never had to use them though

[blackpowder]

I believe capacity wise twins don't overload uneven on shoe like a big single. Mads help. Damned if I'm leaving the seat to unplug again tho.
Don't be ashamed running heritage machines. For me it was operator wages and shop hour bills and parts availability on 3 that made the payment on 1 class 9.

[ajl]

Wheat done. Did not quite make the hoped for 40 on solenetzic ground. In 22 wheat on the same field did 62. Two protein test so far 13.8 and 15.5. Harvested with MF rotary. They had rotor reversers back in the early 90's. Neighbors did oats across road with X9. Unlike the first year they had them (22) no JD service truck spotted. With MF rotary: what is a service truck? Just grease and go. Brother runs 7500 acres per combine with NH 9.90 in WC sask.

[furrowtickler]

Wheat done. Did not quite make the hoped for 40 on solenetzic ground. In 22 wheat on the same field did 62. Two protein test so far 13.8 and 15.5. Harvested with MF rotary. They had rotor reversers back in the early 90's. Neighbors did oats across road with X9. Unlike the first year they had them (22) no JD service truck spotted. With MF rotary: what is a service truck? Just grease and go. Brother runs 7500 acres per combine with NH 9.90 in WC sask.

9790 Massey ?

[ajl]

9790 Massey ?

Yes a 9790.

[Herc]

Wheat done. Did not quite make the hoped for 40 on solenetzic ground. In 22 wheat on the same field did 62. Two protein test so far 13.8 and 15.5. Harvested with MF rotary. They had rotor reversers back in the early 90's. Neighbors did oats across road with X9. Unlike the first year they had them (22) no JD service truck spotted. With MF rotary: what is a service truck? Just grease and go. Brother runs 7500 acres per combine with NH 9.90 in WC sask.

Not in this part of WC SK. They’d be ipsco bound with 600 hrs most years……