Combines what is best

It depends on what you have now.And if you have the same number trucks to combines.Tandems don't keep up with todays combines.But you can make one trip,and you can get around better in tight place's.If you have 28 foot trailers you can make one trip but still can't haul as much as a 42 foot "legally"..I run 42 foot trailers just because thats what I had when I started..If I were to start over I might look into the 28 foot trailers..

We run two tandems and grain cart with the fuel prices today I don't know if doubling back would be such a good idea the 28' trailers with the header inside is a good way to go because you can have your combine, header,truck and grain trailer all in one unit when you move.As for being legal when you are hauling grain you want to be legal especially in South Dakota I think they have more DOT personal per capita then any othe state.

can you bridge that same amount legally by using a 28 foot trailer, I am in the same boat I need 1 new truck and dont know what route to go either, a person can get a semi pretty cheap right now, and also with a semi you would be more versatile, you can haul all winter with a semi vs. the straight truck, who knows I guess 6 of one half a dozen of the other

I had to laugh at your comment on South Dakota DOT. I live in the heart of South Dakota, right in the middle of wheat country, and they are the one thing we fear most! The DOT in SD is absolutely nothing to mess with. They can ruin a whole summers worth of harvesting. Most of the reason they are so tough is because, around the state capital, Pierre, the roads were tore up awful bad several years in a row. Wheat harvest in 110 degree heat, overloaded trucks and asphalt roads don't mix well. And when your governor has to drive over those very roads quite often, somebody is gonna pay the price. One asphalt road west of Pierre had 7 inch ruts cut into it during wheat harvest one summer. It really sucks being able to only dump two combine hoppers into a truck before it is borderline to being overweight, but driving with a light load is way better than getting caught. The fines are stiff enough that I would double back for 100 bushels 20 miles if had to, if it ment being overloaded when I was finishing a field. Just not worth it at all. It's also a pain to get combines inspected coming into this state. I don't know why this state seems to have it in for harvesters, but evidently the higher ups are upset about something....

To kinetic.....Just wondering about the bit in your reply about border inspections being tough, out here in Australia, when we cross from Queensland to New South Wales, the N.S.W. Dept. of Ag,inspect all the Southbound harvesting equipment very thoroughly, we cant have any crop residue on any of the equipment, they are trying to stop the spread of Parthenium to the Southern states. I might add that they charge us $5.oo per machine inspection. BOSS 351.....

You can't bridge a 28 ft compared to a 42ft.I'm not sure exactly how many bushel you can haul legally with a 28 ft,I would guess about 750 bushels.A 42 can haul about 950 bushel legally,depending on empty truck wieght,and what crop.

The last time I was through the checkpoint, which are scattered everywhere along the southern border, has been a few years ago. Majority of the reason is to stop spread of noxious weeds, mainly Canadian Thistle, which I doubt you have! I believe there is no charge, and it is all done by the state of South Dakota at the states expense. Not all states do this, they just seem to be really particular around here.

I have a 24' tandem trailer that I can bridge 66,000 n. Truck and trailer weighs 27,000 so I bridge 650 bu. wheat in Kansas. Other States may have different laws.

I have been there. Got pulled over one day and was overweight. My worst mistake was signing that paper the trooper gave me. From that point on, I was responsibile for everything even though I wasnt the owner of the truck or loaded the truck, hell I was just a friggin employee hired to drive the truck from the field to Ft. Pierre. luckily, my boss picked up the fine, otherwise I'd have been in a mess that I had nothing to do with except been hired to drive. Every custom cutters I know from around here (ND) really hates being in SD when the wheat starts picking off. They are always constantly watching the loads and in some cases caused them downtime because of the time it takes to check the load when the truck really needs to be moving. Anyway, I will always hold it against SD whenever I am in SD, but I know its nothing much of us can do about it.

where at in ND are you fromIJ I worked for a custom harvester out of langdon when I was a teenager.