The Combine Harvester

[BuckSkin]

The Combine Harvester
West Half Acre Road - Russell Springs - Russell County - Kentucky
Thursday_24-October-2024

Case/International 1680 Combine Harvester

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37.014170 -85.057120 304.1904 m 998'

[pontiac1940]

Nov 11, 2024 0:22:29 GMT BuckSkin said:

The Combine Harvester

Wheat? Barley? 
Not a criticism at all >> the fields are so small. I understand that larger fields are not possible because of the general lay of the hills, woods and creeks.

[BuckSkin]

Nov 11, 2024 17:02:29 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Wheat? Barley? 
Not a criticism at all >> the fields are so small. I understand that larger fields are not possible because of the general lay of the hills, woods and creeks.

Soybeans; a big portion of Kentucky cropland is Soybeans.

That's a huge field for us Kentuckians; quite a few of them there is barely enough room to get the equipment in and many of them are dangerously steep.

Most fields around here are so small that the beans are loaded in smaller trucks, and quite often in Gravity-bed Wagons, and then hauled to wherever the big truck is at and dumped into an auger that then loads it into the big truck.

Having such small fields to work with adds a lot of extra handling, time, and expense compared to those big fields where the truck pulls away from the combine and heads straight to the elevator.

[pontiac1940]

Nov 11, 2024 17:28:36 GMT BuckSkin said:

Soybeans

Thank you. I should have known. Barley made no sense as it's such a short-season crop. 
Yes, work efficiency would be compromised because of the extra moves.
Us flatlanders from the Great Plains are no used to seeing small fields. Most irrigate fields around here are 160 acres although pivot irrigation systems only cover about 130 to 150 acres. (Potatoes, sugar beets, corn, wheat, alfalfa, etc) Dryland fields are much larger with many being full sections (640) acres.