Combines R72 in spring wheat

That is so very cool. Reminds me of last fall when I was picking some corn at 12MPH just to see what I could do. It only had an 822 head in 120bu corn but I still couldn't load the 260hp R62 at that. What I'd really like to see is a video of a couple mostly hyperized R75s out in Idaho cutting 30' of 120bu wheat at around 4.5MPH. The wheat must really pour in. Have a great day

Nice pictures, Ed. I know what you mean about the video appearing to be speeded up. When my wife films us it always seems faster than when your there or in the machine. Nice smooth and flat fields are a pleasure in those conditions. Can the sickle really do a good job of cutting the straw off at 8 mphIJ Seems with my 500 series 6.5 was about tops for me. Yours looks like an 800 seriesIJ

Can they do thatIJ

I checked with the combine operator (my son) yesterday and he said the GPS was reporting 7.7 MPH. Gleaner speedometer has always read low so that was the reason for my guess about 8 MPH - sorry about that! We put new knives on the sickle before starting and the straw is on the light side and very dry. Makes for easy and clean cutting. Stubble shows up pretty good in a couple of the pictures so you should be able to see the results for yourself. Head is an 800 Ed in MT

This is going to sound like one of those very tall and totally unbelievable tales from down under! In 1984 we were doing some custom cutting of wheat in our then new N7. The wheat crop we pulled into was very thin but seemed well headed. Nothing was coming out the back so we just kept on pushing the speed up. The wheat just poured in and a terrific sample. We reached capacity at 14MPH. The crop finished up yielding 42BPA across the weigh bridge. We could only drive for about 2 hours before we got a severe case of the wobblies from the bat reel whirring around in front of us and had to change drivers. The farmer complained about the speed, had a good look and just said; " Its too d--n fast but keep going, I can't find any thing". The local JD boys who had been "cock of the walk" were thoroughly browned off! Tall tale; No! Quite true. Unfortunately we have never found another crop where we could do that again. And yes Dan,in very dry conditions you can really boom along if your knife is well set up and the conditions are right. We have much drier harvesting conditions down here and the speeds, at least in cereals, that you guys seem to operate at are usually on the low side for us. Cheers.

Sorry, I meant "magnum man". Should have included a 30ft header and a running capacity about 2200 BPHour in this above crop. The N7 engine had also been wound up by one of the best Allis tech men in Australia for a field day demo and he did not reduce it all the way back so she really motored. The down side was that our N7 was bloody hopeless in green and tough going. If we had known any of Dans and tbrans hyperising techniques for the N series we could have got a lot more out of the old girl. What a gift the internet has been! Cheers

Well, for Pete's sake!!! What am I thinkingIJ Head is a 700. What on earth would a wheat farmer do with a flex headIJIJ

Yes and more. Machines have tilted feed floors, properly built helical across feeder, steepened 2nd and 3rd helical, every other wire raised up flush in low narrow wire separator grates. One 75 running with Bison and other with sweeps. Also a 72 running with similiar mods. Droping straw for bailing the other day in some 90bu wheat and enjoying something close to 1_10 of 1% loss out rotor. Fuel use down by something near 30% from stock machines run last year. If these reports were not so common I maybe wouldn't believe him. By the way the one 75 is a recent brand new custumer to Gleaner and he made the conversion before even having a glue what a hyperized machine could do. Go Gleaner go.

awesome pics ed!! we run a 98-r52! neat to see the beasts at work,how do you guys drive so straight in those big fieldsIJ here in central wi. we must drink to much beer and eat to many brats.PS.dad always said there were more seeds in a crooked row. jl

Hello, I bought an EZ-Guide _ EZ - Steer combination for use with my sprayer. Being portable, I made mounts for my tractor and also the combine and it gets moved from implement to implement. Harvest is over! I hope to post pics on my website soon, of the mounting brackets I made for the different outfits.