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[Gunnells, Brad R]

I was kind of busting your chops a bit Dean, I apologize. My father-in-law lives in the Okoboji area so we travel up that way fairly frequently (we live near the Iowa City area). I've noticed that beautiful topsoil you mention but I too wondered if drainage was an issue. I'm sure as you travel towards your home town closer to the river it can bet a bit more rolling.

I was hoping maybe another list member might mention how many bushels the average semi transports. Back in the early 80's I worked for a local farmer hauling corn in a '76 IH 1600 Loadstar. I believe it had what was referred to as a 400 bushel box on it. Some fond memories of that time in my life.

Brad
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Brad,



It isn’t what we call flat. If I remember right we called it “gently rolling”.  East of my home county which is Sioux County there is a county (IIRC Obrien county) where a significant part of it is flat as a pancake. Deep dark rich top soil.  But one problem…. No drainage.  Huge untillable wet spots. When it is reasonably dry that soil will produce 300 bushel an acre corn.  Too much wet weather.  Might as well take a vacation. There is a track version of this wagon also on the drawing boards.  I have no idea what kind of soil is needed to keep this thing on top of the ground rather than in it.  Wet weather forget it. Maybe a track type tractor could pull this in wet soil if the wagon was also a track type.   I would be curious what the “lbs per square in” is with this in either a wheel type vs a track type.   Compaction has to be an issue to worry about. My first reaction to this when I saw it was:  The only reason this wagon exists is to say “mine is bigger than yours” I haven’t farmed for 60 years plus now but I would think that even the guys with 10,000 acres would say “too big”.   What would a 18 wheeler with a grain bed on it carry?



Dean VP

Snohomish, WA 98290



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Good thing it's flat up there. I would take a heck of a machine to pull it loaded!



Brad

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In my home area in NW Iowa there is Manufacturer by the name of Demco.  Here is one of their latest protypes. See attached.   2200 bushel capacity.    Is your farm big enough for this? Cheaper by the dozen.


Dean VP
Snohomish, WA 98290

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