Combines All this talk about bushels an hr

[ARricefarmer]

Im around the newport area, south end of jackson county. This harvest season had been beautiful. Started cutting rice the first week of september and it was so dry we didnt use a buggy, just drove trucks out in the field, wherever we wanted. cut that entire month and started in on 3000 acres of beans last of sept first of oct, got 600 acres cut and the rains fell. The early beans are really losing quality and starting to pop out. We have only 300 acres left as of tonight. we got back in the field today but this last rain thurs really made it a mess. We had a pretty good week sat-wed, cut over 1000 acres(these are 3 seperate farms) all were in blocks of at least 320 and pretty close to each other. I think if everything goes alright we can finish early tues. If you had asked me oct 1 I would have told you we would be done by oct 10. Riceman, do you know Jimmy SharpIJ I know that he farms around Crawfordsville. He's a fraternity brother of mine. Really nice guy.

 

[ARricefarmer]

I'd personally like to see how those tracks would do on that dirt around Crawfordsville. I bet its coming up in clumps right now.

 

[riceman]

He's my neighbor. Now he's the mayor. His son Jamie is farming with him now. Mx285 and a 2388. A lexion was traded in for the 2388.

 

[ARricefarmer]

yeah, last I heard he had a lexion. His son is who I was talking about.

 

[NHD]

Riceman, can you further explain about your Crawfordsville commentIJ Is this something I should know more aboutIJ

 

[riceman]

Sorry. I thought you were talking about Jimmy. Yes he traded the 485 Cat in for a 2388.

 

[riceman]

We have really sandy dirt. Where theres cotton. land that we farm is really heavy. It sticks to everything when it starts to dry up. As long as the water is on it, you'll be fine. Its not all like this. But there's a lot of gumbo here.

 

[land_surfer]

Why on earth would they make a trade like thatIJ That is a significant drop in combine capapcity and ultimately performance, going from the class eight 485 to a class six 2388! The primary reason I see folks trade their lexions off is becuase they remain in the same state of mind that a combine is a combine and the settings for one are relatively similar to any other, which is absolutely not true. I can atest to that, having been a previous STS owner, I give thanks everytime I get into my 485R and have such a vast range of settings available at my finger tips to adjust to every single condition known to man. Having that range of adjustability is nothing but advantage. Those that I know of who havew traded their lexions (very very few) have done so without ever experimenting with the range of settings and adjustments (they never figured out what their combine was capapble of). Wouldn't you think that after spending that kind of money for a piece of machinery that you would run it through its courses and find out what it can do rather than simply remembering back to what you did on your CaseIH or JD machine and just live with thos past type settings. I take a lot of comfort in knowing the resulting productivity from the 485R's ability to adjust for operations in all conditions.

 

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