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Ive about had it with Photobucket for many reasons so I am going to try out a new website for a while, I would appreciate any feedback you have. Seedwheat cleaning. Took about 3 1/2 hrs to clean 1200 bushels not including setup and cleanup time. Made some trips to the local dealers before harvest started. New 9120 with 16 row corn head is in town for a while it seems. Dealer brought it in just to demo! No pictures of the 9120 yet but I did get one of the head. Sounds like dad thinks we are going to upgrade combines pretty soon, a 6088 with 95 sep. hours is sitting on the lot just waiting for us :/ Also with the bumper crops and chance of a larger combine, we are in need of more transportation. Sounds like either another semi and hopper bottom or.... gravity wagons. That would be the first I have seen them around here but hey, if it helps.... We finally finished fertilizing and spraying for the year, we still need to go over all of the summerfallow once before drilling but at least we are caught up. Dad says that the AGCO dealer is trying to talk him into upgrading into a B series, I doubt it will happen until we get more acres. I almost didnt get any action pictures of fertilizing but on the last field, I caught up with him while I was spraying summerfallow next to it. All sorts of things going on around the county. Midwest Energy (our electrical provider) has almost finished installing all new power poles in this county and most of the surrounding counties. They are a few miles from our house and should show up this winter or the coming spring. The local CPS is putting up a new building this winter/spring for more storage space. In the spring, they currently have to take what little shop space they have and use it to store seed. I also grabbed a picture of one of their 4 sprayer trucks. They borrowed our 7130 for a week to work on a fertilizer injector. Thats all for now, more to come as harvest really starts along with wheat drilling. Austin

I would hate to try carving a seat or steering column out of wood in 1/64 scale. Built a new interior for a CIH 8120 combine (more details that ertl left out ), made it from styrene and it wasnt to hard, still have to order a steeringwheel for it though. What model are you needing an interior for? Good chance I can help ya.

not to far at all make a yearly trip through Alma on our way to Husker Harvest days.

I am in Hoxie, about 60 miles east of colorado border and 60 miles south of nebraska border. Anyone with a CIH combine has an idea where I am because our CIH dealer is one of the largest for combine parts.

I will try to remember the 6 picture per post thing, just might take longer to post since I just copy and paste my posts from other sites. I will try to answer some of these questions as best as I can. I am not sure how many tons we have hauled off, this is not our land but the partner whom we share harvest equipment with. Yields have ranged from 65-95 bushels per US acre (1.768-2.585 tons per US acre). I seem to think that US acres are different than your acres? \ If so someone let me know the conversion between the two and I can calculate that. Wide open spaces are nice but this hilly land makes for better pictures, just give me a week and I will have some pictures of some real wide open space

I believe I have it right that you can put as many pics in one post as you want as long as they are linked from another site correct? And you are limited to 6 per post when uploaded here? So many pictures but so little time to explain, first pictures are from about a month ago when we hauled out corn and milo to make room for the seedwheat. Next pictures are of some custom cutters in the area, and the last pictures are of the first 1/3 of our harvest. Bins at the home place, have a few more bins that we use scattered around a few miles away Bin full of corn (no it wasnt being emptyed while I was inside) I had the job of sweeping the dust and corn off the walls since seedwheat will be stored in it One tillage picture I actually managed to get the first go around this year, got 2 more fields of ours that need done so I might get some pictures yet (cross fingers) No clue who even owns this tractor, looks to be in fairly good shape compared to the few others I have seen around here Found three custom crews that were worth takings pictures of so far this season. First the New Holland crew, then the Case IH, and last the John Deere crew Allen Rollan harvesting: Their grain cart setup: Ford TW-35 with Brent Grain Train 600. Last year they had a belarus 4wd on it, definately the ford was a major upgrade Schiltz Harvesting 3/5 of the crew, met them on the road while going to look at the versatile. Pulled the 4-wheeler into the ditch to let them pass. Ochs harvesting, not sure how many more combines they have, at least 1 maybe more? One combine is over the hill cutting a spot for the rest to jump in and hook up the heads (road is about 2-4 feet lower than the field at all but one point along that field) Some custom cutter's trucks goin down the highway into town Farmer cutting across the road from where we were today: 9650STS , 9500 walker, 83** series tractor with kinze 1050 cart, 2 grain trucks, one with pup same guys different field Random guy cutting up the road from us one day, Running a 98*0 JD with shelbourne stripper head Finally onto our mishmosh crew: CIH 2188, very late 97 model 1010 header with new finger reel DT200 tractor Demco 800 grain cart Kenworth T-800 with 42' grain trailer IH loadstar with grainbed IH single axle with grain bed Kind of going to work backwards as thats how PB uploaded the pictures A few hours ago after an hour long drive down the highway, in the rain, on a very narrow highway, to get home. Racing the rain clouds My ride for most of harvest A little side hill action ( more angle than appears in the picture, doesnt help im on the same hill taking pictures) Staging area/overnight parking Inside of the cart Down in one of the draws fixing the coolant level sensor after a chunk of metal went through the engine a few days previous. The Adventure: Path that has to be taken to get from one hilltop, to the next one, to where the trucks are being loaded. we will start from where the trucks are parked and venture to the hilltop: Park here: Travel 1/3 of a mile and jump about 7 terraces to get to here Down this "path" and take a right to get to the hill with wheat, or a left to get to the hill where the staging area is Across this "field" (should be a pasture or waterway or something besides a field (not our land) )and up the hill All to get to where he is Then after the carts full, back down this hill at 1 MPH with FWA on, brakes locked, and fingers crossed, then back up the next hill and up into the field, then to unload on the truck. Pictures shows the 3 way intersection. This is from ontop the second hill. Straight takes you through the summerfallow to the staging area, while a left takes you to unload So ends the journey, made that trip 3 or 4 times which was plenty. Random picture from before we left home BEWARE DEMCO OWNERS!!!! What happens when the company doesnt think their design out in terms of water + cold wheater = expansion Finally, here comes the truck Pulling up to where we dump Better picture of where we dump at Different field, different day Definately in my top 3 pictures so far this year OH NO!!! clouds Thats all for now, hopefully some more pictures one we get back onto our ground north of town where its easier going. Sounds like im going to be initiated to wheat harvest in the combine, possibly grain truck also. Let me know what you think, Austin

Tracks will ride better over rough ground especially if it has been hilled or furrowed or something similar because the idlers will help support some weight in the middle reducing the see-saw motion. Tracks will put more power to the ground, some people feel that they will apply enough extra power that they can buy a size smaller track tractor than a wheel tractor to do the same job. Deere-est, you say that working wet ground can be impossible with tracks, why do you say this? I know it can be with John Deeres friction drive systen (not sure why system quadtracs have?) but with Challengers positive drive inside lug system there is no slippage. Look at the underside of the top part of the track http://www.challenger-ag.com/agco/Challenger/ChallengerNA/TrackedTractors/MT700CCHAL08_1612Full03.jpg Tracked tractors with 3-pt booms have become popular sprayer for stubble, and early season crop spraying because when its wet, it wont sink like a self propelled sprayer or a wheeled tractor. You can use them for some road work but to much and your just wearing out an expensive set of tracks for no reason. Most farms with tracked tractors still have at least one wheeled tractor (at least over here) Not sure if I actually answered any questions but i tried

I am looking for some information on a few different farm vehichles, if you can help me out with any of them I would appreciate it. Pictures are great but some overall dimensions are even better. 1. Case IH CF series walker combines 2. Terragator NMS 3244 Well those are the two that I can remember right now, I may update the list at a later date. Let me know if you can be of any help Austin

Well I joined almost a year ago now but never had the time to get involved until recently. First off my name is Austin Stewart and unlike most of you, I am from the United States. Hoxie, Kansas if you want to be exact. Grew up and am still growing up on a farm, been collecting for a year but had farm toys since I was a little kid. I will try to keep you guys updated as to the North American farming which is so much different than the European and other countries styles of farming. It seems from my first post that some of you guys are truly interested so I will do my best. I mainly collect 1/64 so kind of an oddball on thie site but oh well Trying to work on a display to show off some of the things I have bought and built but it is slow going because I constantly change my mind about it. I started building models about a year ago and feel that I have drastically improved my skills. So I may try to figure out where to post some of the more recent ones on this website. I also hope to be able to get some information on some tractors, combines, and other implements that are made in the US but are more popular in other countries. I have had a hard time even finding pictures of the stuff in the US but no problem on this website. One such thing is the Ag-Chem Terragator 3244 so If anyone has one or can get access to one to measure a few things for me, I would be most appreciative. ( http://www.agchem.com/default.cfm/PID=1.30.2.3 ) Austin

I believe by headers you refer to what we call a combine, if I remember correctly. A few pictures of our machine from last years wheat harvest We have a CIH 2188, its about 8 or 9 years old now and it has seen plenty of use so it might be leaving the farm in a few years for a newer model. We used to run a CIH 7130 magnum 2wd on an 850 bushel grain cart but the cart was to heavy for it and we traded off an older tractor for the AGCO in the other pictures so that is now the grain cart tractor. Not the same AGCO, this was 2 years ago when we rented one The neighbor runs the 305 on the planter because thats his only tractor other than an IH 1086 that runs a grain auger. He has that tractor to pull a ripper because when they install the drip irrigation, they bury it 16 inches below the surface. I assume you mean claflin kansas, this should show you the distance http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=hoxie+kansas&daddr=claflin+kansas&hl=en&gl=us&mra=ls&sll=38.522442,-98.537617&sspn=0.231535,0.615234&ie=UTF8&z=9 I will be sure to post more pictures as we go along in the year Thanks, Austin

These pictures are all from the United States... Hoxie, Kansas if you want more specifics. I am not sure if you guys are interested in seeing how things are over here or not so we will give this a try and see what happens. Rather than repost everything, I think I will let you guys follow the links to the posts on other websites. http://toyfarminllc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=real&action=display&thread=897 http://toyfarminllc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=real&action=display&thread=1096 Cant link to these two so here they are Dad planting dryland corn a couple weeks ago, field was partially strip tilled on ends to remove some compaction. Case IH 7130 with 1200, 8 Row planter Doing some wheat stubble Fertilizer/seed pickup (GMC Sierra 2500) My pickup (Dodge Dakota) Now for the neighbor out planting, he is running a MX305 on an 8 row Kinze planter. Everyone running RTK guidance in this area has been having some major problems, lets just say that their combine operator is going to be frustrated. Here are the two videos that I made of them planting. Let me know what you think. 7130 and 1200 planter 305 and Kinze and the last one The same neighbor that has been out planting with the MX305 and kinze has been having a lot of problems this spring. He failed to plan ahead with the hybrids of corn he is planting so he now has a few hundred acres of volunteer corn that he cant kill by spraying. I was enlisted to go work on a 40 acre patch that had been converted from flood to drip irrigation this spring (reason behind the ridges) I hooked up the AGCO and the fallowmaster in an attempt to solve part of his problem I had to work around these risers that control the different sections of drip tape Field is looking very bad at this point After working on the neighbors ground it was time to go do some of ours. All the ground that we had ripped last fall and chiseled earlier this spring was still very rough and needed going over to get rid of the weeds anyways. Kind of an awkward transport system with an extra 7 foot on one side of the tractor Spring, Part #3 - spraying should be coming soon. There will also be some more pictures of working summerfallow in a couple weeks Let me know if you guys are interested in seeing any more pictures from out this way.