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<p class="MsoNormal">If you go to his youtube page there are a couple more harvest videos, including last year’s harvest of the crop twisted up by the derecho in central Iowa. If you wonder why I’m following the combine but not catching, that field has ¾ mile
rows and the combine hopper has just enough capacity for 1 way. So I need to catch shortly after he starts back and again at the other end to make sure he’s empty before he turns and the auger is on the wrong side to catch.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The crop was so twisted the combine operator couldn’t see to keep on the rows. We combined the whole crop 7 rows at a time so he could watch the empty row over what had been harvested to stay on course.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, that’s me pulling the grain cart. We have radio communication between combine, cart, 2 semis so that helps a lot. Combine operator tells me what speed he’s running today, it varies from field to field, corn variety, weather… and
my tractor has both wheel speed and gps. Slippage increases as the cart gets loaded and as field conditions change, so I go by gps most of the time.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another amazing thing (to my vintage mind…) is the digitally governed engine. No slop in worn linkage, no waiting for the governor weights to detect change in speed. I set that sucker about 1900 rpm and it stays right on no matter what.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s a clutch but the last couple of years I didn’t use it at all. It’s a planetary transmission, actually I think 3 transmissions in series. In and out of gear and shifting is all on a toggle switch.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Top speed on the road is about 26 mph. Those big tires aren’t as round as you think, and there’s a resonance at about 20 mph that I need to stay below or above or it hops all over the place.
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<p class="MsoNormal">My previous life took me up to a Deere 70 with 227 mounted picker. I’m sure that’ll resonate with more than a few list friends.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> AT <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Spencer Yost<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 11, 2021 1:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at@lists.antique-tractor.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Combing soybeans in Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All have been great videos, thanks for sending them in. And Bill: Your grandson does a nice job with the drone. Good choices with angles and height and I enjoyed the video. If that’s you driving the tractor pulling the cart I’d say
you have forgotten nothing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Oct 11, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Bill Brueck <<a href="mailto:bill@apluscomputer.com">bill@apluscomputer.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I still have trouble comprehending the magnitude of farming and the rate of harvest. I left the farm for college in 1967 and was gone for about 45 years when I started helping Linda’s brothers with the harvest. My job was to run the grain
cart. Wasn’t sure how I would handle the big equipment but instincts were still intact and I knew where the load was behind me, knew how far to swing out to pull up to the semi or to catch the combine.
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<p class="MsoNormal">One thing I never got used to was estimating how much of a field was left. I would look over at the remaining rows of corn and think about doing them with a mounted 2 row picker. A couple passes with the 8 row head travelling at 5 mph
and it was gone. And 8 rows is modest equipment these days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I miss the harvest this year but one thing I don’t miss is moving between the 2 farm sites, about 13 miles apart and some of that on heavily traveled paving as we had a river to cross. Folks would pass when they shouldn’t, and making a
left hand turn was especially harrowing as once in a while someone would pass just as you were turning…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a video of us in action, compliments of my grandson. I would have chosen different music, LOL.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx_d8NTd0k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx_d8NTd0k</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> AT <<a href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com">at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:kgwaugh0943@gmail.com">kgwaugh0943@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 11, 2021 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <<a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Combing soybeans in Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I simply cannot get my head around the magnitude of farming today. I spent a great deal of time on relatives’ general farms in NE Indiana until I graduated HS in 61, and
then I was gone! The only wagons we had for hauling grain when I was still around were the old (still had wood spoke car wheels on them) flat wagons (same ones we used for hay baling, without the sideboards) with about 1 foot sideboards---IIRC, we could haul
100 – 110 bushels of grain. As I and the cousins left, I think my grandfather and uncle (who farmed together) did buy a gravity feed wagon, that was modern back then!</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:bill@apluscomputer.com">Bill Brueck</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 11, 2021 10:24 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [AT] Combing soybeans in Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing, good videos.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The guy knows how to load a grain cart. Made me cringe, we can’t run ‘em that full, too many slopes and rough ground, we’d spill over the edge getting it back to the semi or the grain bin. Or maybe he drives a semi under the cart so never
has to move it loaded…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is my first year for a while not engaged in harvest. Family members have retired, land rented out now.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> AT <<a href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com">at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Thomson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 11, 2021 8:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Antique <<a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AT] Combing soybeans in Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
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short videos to share. According to my neighbor, this is a good year for soybeans even with the dry conditions.
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