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GLEANER K QUESTION

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Topic: GLEANER K QUESTION

Posted By: Chad B
Subject: GLEANER K QUESTION
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2011 at 8:06pm

Dose anyone know how many bushel per hour you could expect to harvest with a K model combine with a 2 row corn head and also how many bushel of wheat per hour with 13' grain head?

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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2011 at 8:39pm

In corn I'd expect four hoppers per hour if you have it set properly.

Posted By: daughter#1
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2011 at 10:16pm

according to an allis crop saving guide for the k it will do .8 acres per hour with a 2-38 corn head and .9 acres per hour width 3-30 corn head. With a 13' grain head it will do 1.6 acres per hour they also say that an f with a 4-30 corn head at 90% efficiency at 2.5 mph will do 3 acres per hour, 21.6 acres in 8 hours, and in 20 days will harvest 432 acres

Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2011 at 3:31am

i was running my "K" in dry corn with a 3-row head, dad had his IH 403 with a 4-row head, and i could stay ahead of him! i had to dump more often as the grain tank was quite a bit smaller!

Posted By: Chad B
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2011 at 9:16pm

ok that answered my question......thanks

Posted By: clint
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 8:16am

daughter- could you post the same for an m2? thanks if you can!

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Posted By: Eric[IL]
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 10:40am

Daughter#1, I have a similar Crop Saving Guide booklet from 1976 - maybe its the same? Its information is interesting by today's standards. I wonder how they would classify the harvest days per month available by todays weather?? 2009's harvest season?

I wanted to add that it lists acres per hour(aph) for Acres combined per hour @ 1mph. So, if the K is set properly and picking reasonably standing corn, it should be able to do 2.5 mph. At 2.5mph, the 0.8aph becomes 2.0 & 0.9aph becomes 2.25. Im thinking those figures are theoretical. In 1976, a K2 330 should have been able to harvest 22.5 acres of corn in 10 hours unloading on the go with very long passes. At 130 bu/a, thats 2925 bushels or 32.5 graintank loads @ 90bu/k2 graintank or 3.2 loads per hour like DrAllis stated. Today, a k2 330 harvesting 200 bu/a corn would equate 4500bushels or 50 graintank loads @ 90bu/K2 graintank. The K without graintank extensions carries 66 bushel. In 1976, the 130bu/a total of 2925 bushels/10 hours ~ 45 loads or 4.5 loads per hour. A K in 200 bu/a corn ~ 70 graintank loads.... The book specs unload time for a K2 @96bushel graintank is 84 seconds.

Clint- this Crop Saving Guide booklet was produced for the K2-F2 combine. But, it does show bigger corn head capacities Acres combined per hour @ 1mph as follows:

238 0.8

330 0.9

430 1.2

438 1.6

630 1.8

830 2.4