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nella(Pa) 
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 Topic: DISKING 1,000 ACRES PER DAY
Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 8:01am |
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 8:26am |
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yeesh, hate to think what it cost in fuel !
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 8:36am |
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Thanks, as a 71 year old who was raised on a farm in the 50 and 60's in south east Indiana I am impressed!
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john(MI)
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 9:00am |
That is how they evenly disperse the seeding from those green combines! 
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 9:05am |
 jaybmiller wrote:
yeesh, hate to think what it cost in fuel !
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Gonna say ~$35-$40 per hour per tractor.......all in all in acres covered per dollar spent on fuel, much more efficient than tilling your garden with your D-whatever gasser I'd say! 
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 9:15am |
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600 engine HP at full load will consume about 32 to 33 GPH, so at $3.00 per gallon, that is $100 per hour.
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 9:17am |
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Well, I didn't watch the video, but looking at the video still I didn't think some of those tractors looked like 600 HP machines... I could be wrong on the HP assumption, but my point probably gets even more valid.
Edited by Tbone95 - 28 Oct 2019 at 9:17am
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DrAllis
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 9:34am |
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The Challenger was 600 HP and three of the Deere's were 620 HP.
Edited by DrAllis - 28 Oct 2019 at 9:34am
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nella(Pa)
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:32am |
MikeinLcoMo wrote:
Thanks, as a 71 year old who was raised on a farm in the 50 and 60's in south east Indiana I am impressed! |
Back in the late 1940ies and 50ies with an Oliver HG cletrac and WD(I still have) getting 10 acres a day ready was a great day on a 100 acre farm! Oh, I am a bit past 71, dammit! 
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:55am |
DrAllis wrote:
The Challenger was 600 HP and three of the Deere's were 620 HP.
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Yay.
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 12:46pm |
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watched my father lose all the topsoil off my farm with a disc; dragging one around my farm might get you shot!
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Ray54
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 12:54pm |
 Saw this in Farm Collector comparing AC B & C, and Fordson to the biggest new JD what ever with  620 hp but 470 g fuel tank. How many of you still have a bulk fuel tank,an if so is it bigger than 550 g.
I guess the guy in the video just pulls semi fuel tanker up on the edge of the field and takes it home empty every other day. Or everyday if he goes all night.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 12:56pm |
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and moving at a pretty good clip also !!
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 2:11pm |
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If you have a narrow window between corn harvest and winter wheat planting, I don't see much of an alternative to throwing everything you've got at it...but how many thousand-acre days can you possible have in western KY?
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 3:12pm |
The video said that their operation was 11,000 acres. So after the 12th day what do you do?
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 3:47pm |
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 3:52pm |
tomne.. I have to ask WHERE did the topspil go ? Jay
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 4:08pm |
1,000 acres per day for eight outfits that big? That's only 125 acres for each outfit. With big discs like they've got and that much horsepower, they ought to be able to do at least 25 acres per hour. So, they only work five hours a day??
Somehow, the math don't add up. IMHO.
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 4:18pm |
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Maybe I heard the video wrong?
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 4:20pm |
Am I missing something? In 1973, I was issued a 2wd 120 hp tractor to which we attached a 20 foot Krause disk. It did not have 30 inch blades, but otherwise, did pretty much the same thing. Chopped up corn stalks and disked bean stubble for winter wheat.
That was an upgrade from a 70 hp tractor pulling a 10' disk. In both cases, that was 6 to 7 hp per foot. Something seems amiss here.......
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 4:41pm |
jaybmiller wrote:
tomne.. I have to ask WHERE did the topspil go ? Jay
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' don't know about his topsoil, but I live up in the hills of Schoharie County, NY and every time we get heavy rains and floods, a little bit of our topsoil winds up on the rich farms in the Schoharie valley which is some of the most fertile farmland in New York State. It has been referred to as "the breadbasket of the revolution".
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 7:38pm |
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Just my opininon,, they never should've interviewed the guy running the Cat,, geesh,, and his disc isn't going deeper than 2 inches in the video,,
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 8:46pm |
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It would only take 14 WD45s to make that 600Hp, @ 4 gph would be 56 GPH and 14 sore buts at the end if day. MACK
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 6:58am |
HoughMade wrote:
If you have a narrow window between corn harvest and winter wheat planting, I don't see much of an alternative to throwing everything you've got at it...but how many thousand-acre days can you possible have in western KY? |
Not sure but in my part of Western KY our biggest farmer puts out about 15,000 acres and would have to spend more time on the road than in the field to do a 1,000 per day. They raise crops from Philpot, Ky to just west of Rough River and wear more tires out due to road driving getting from one farm to the other than actually tillage.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 9:01am |
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I watch some of the video and ran some numbers.
I came up with 25-30 ac/hr/tractor.
Let call it 25 ac/hr and in a 10 hr day, in the same or very close fields, you should have the disk in the ground 8 hr. So, 200 ac/tractor x 8 = 1600 ac.
The driver of the cat did say that in one field (app 1000ac) it took them 5 hr to disk it.
As Trinity45 stated, " it is the time moving from field to field, that hurts."
Also, I look at OH 2016 farm/labor cost chart.
These are avg cost.
Disk $14.00/ac x 25ac/hr = $350
Tractor hp x $0.29/hr x 600hp = $174
To the tractor cost, you need to add equipment (disk) and labor.
The disk cost, includes the tractor and labor.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 9:06am |
Trinity45 wrote:
HoughMade wrote:
If you have a narrow window between corn harvest and winter wheat planting, I don't see much of an alternative to throwing everything you've got at it...but how many thousand-acre days can you possible have in western KY? |
Not sure but in my part of Western KY our biggest farmer puts out about 15,000 acres and would have to spend more time on the road than in the field to do a 1,000 per day. They raise crops from Philpot, Ky to just west of Rough River and wear more tires out due to road driving getting from one farm to the other than actually tillage. |
I watched another video about this farm where they were planting the winter wheat with 60 foot drills and they said they were doing 1,200 acres a day. They also said the farm was 11,000 acres.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 1:12pm |
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My older Brother used to drive a semi for a giant BTO. Farming over 70 thousand acres in Illinois from the Mississippi river to the Indiana border . They claim to farm even more ground in South America .
Southeast of Decatur they have 2 fields that are 640 acres each . One on each side of a county road . When they are ready to harvest these fields they bring every piece of equipment they have and knock them out quick . Makes for a nice drone video. Brother claims they can harvest beans off both fields in a day if they have their act together.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 1:41pm |
farmboy520 wrote:
The video said that their operation was 11,000 acres. So after the 12th day what do you do? |
Plant winter wheat.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 1:55pm |
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A 26' wishek disk weighs about 28,000 lbs. I've pulled one with a 450 quad track they pull hard. Only time we use one is to break up hard packed with heavy cover. Usually after corn harvest when it's been wet and the ground turns to concrete after it dries. During harvest were filling a semi every 15 minutes. When we were pushing to get wheat off before it rained the last 210 acres took an hour. The last 10 semi loads stayed in the trailers and we backed them into the shed and waited to unload the next day.
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 2:07pm |
Geez you guys never ................stretched the truth a little bit when guy that knows nothing and has a camera is asking.
Yes my math may differ from what was said in video. But I have disced a few 1000's of acres,yes that is primary tillage with the rocks I have to farm. Generally 9 inch spaced 24 inch blades are the norm,in my part of the world. But had 12 inch spaced disc that would take 32 inch blades and you pulled 1/2 as much of the wider spaced disc.
I do wonder how you get all the big iron payed for just running it the hours that should add up with story. But not mine to have to worry about,so as long as he pays his bills. The neighbors that had their toes stepped on are the ones with a complaint.
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