Combining Wheat and Baling Straw

9550 is not a rotor combine. They want the straw because they are a Black Angus feedlot operation and need the straw for bedding.

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2016 wheat harvest with the John Deere 9550, the farmer and the farmer's wife work together:
downed wheat this is why the farmer's are under such pressure to get the wheat out of the field after it has ripened and is dry enough to combine.

In another video, she talks about how they test each field to determine the moisture, then start with the first field to reach 13%. When they are done with that field, another field should be down to 13%. And so on.

Bailing hay and combining wheat and going to drop the grain off, 2016:
The daughter narrates while combining. Later you hear her baby chime in. The baby is normally in a car seat, but I see she is inspecting the operation. To my surprise, it is the dad with the kids. That explains why there is no narration. He doesn't talk on The Farmer Life. The next highlight is when it gets to the end of a row and goes over to the wagons to unload. It sounds like the wife was in the cab also. The cab's of these big combines have an "instructor's chair" to the left of the driver's chair. A gravity wagon is unloaded. Evidently, they have three (or four?) kids, I've only seen two in the other videos.

Early mornings and late nights, baling straw and bringing in the bales:
They use a skid loader to stack the bales on a wagon pulled by a pickup truck. Skip to here for the unload. We learn they will then plant soybeans in the wheat field. The skid loader is near capacity with two bales, it rocks forward onto its front wheels quite a bit. They work long hours (10pm) during harvest season. During the hay bailing, you can hear the tractor "growl" every couple seconds when the plunger is pushing the hay into the bale being formed. Her comment about red not being their favorite color means they generally prefer John Deere. It looks like daddy takes the boy in the cab while the wife takes the girls. From the shadow, you can see the wife is in the pickup just to take the video.

Finishing up the 2016 wheet harvest, wait who's driving the combine?:
Evidently The Farmer trusts his wife to drive the combine but not the wagons. When he was combining, the wagons were parked and he would drive over to them to unload. I wonder who is flying the drone. You can see the daughter in the "instructor's chair." The first time I have seen a view of the fan and walkers working. They now use hydraulic lines rather than a bunch of shafts/chains/gears to drive the remote equipment. But not completely. This shaft is either driving the cycle bar, auger, and/or header. The bin filling up. Note how long wheat continues to go into the bin after the header is no longer cutting wheat. It gives you a feel for the "travel time" of wheat through the combine. Cleaning the equipment at the end of the season.

Video of New Holland CSX 7080 Buseman. It has a narrow head, probably because it is a walker considering the pile of straw coming out of the back. In one shot you can see the chaff coming off the separator under the straw coming off the walker. Shows "auto steer."

Screenshot from video
The reason you have about 10 days to get the wheat in after it is ripe because the straw is a dead stem. It can get blown down by wind and rain.

Another screenshot

Biggest combine in the world: Claas 780, flex header, good straw distribution. But later, Claas is leaving straw windrows, but it is a 580. Is that a walker model? They use three bailers to bale. Big square bales that use mechanized wagons to pick them up. I don't know what they are havesting near the end. Is the 795 even bigger? There is an incredible amount of straw in the bin! Not using full width because of the down wheat?

After the custom combiners come the custom balers.


Tribine, this is a new combine design. "worlds largest threshing and cleaning system" Two engines, no DEF.