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<p class="MsoNormal">I run the grain cart these days for brothers in law in central Iowa, Dallas county. I’ve been told to never go out of the field with a load, even the tempting trip across good concrete pavement to park at one of the home places overnight.
If you’re caught on public roads with a loaded cart it’s bad news. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Usually kind of a moot point because when we change fields it’s almost always to a different ownership structure so everything needs to be empty to account for the crop. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our equipment is older and smaller but it’s all pretty well matched: combine with 8 row corn head, 12 row bean head, cart, 2 semi’s. The cart holds a little less than 1000 bu so just short of a semi load unless you have the rest of the
field figured out for quantity and it makes sense to send a couple of light loads into town. Instrumentation in the combine about acres covered is wonderful for knowing what’s left in a field. About a third of the crop is stored in what bins we have, the
rest goes to town.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Going to a 12 row corn head wouldn’t help, most of the time the limiting factor is the volume through this combine. So more rows but slower ground speed comes out about the same.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will be the last year, brothers are retiring. I’ll miss the annual project and working with the good people.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">B²<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pine Island, MN<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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