Farming Video | Kevin Matthews Pushes 7,000 Bushels an Hour with This Combine

25 Oct 254m 2s

Kevin Matthews is out in the field putting the Claas combine to the test—and it’s chewing through 7,000 bushels an hour without breaking a sweat. With his son behind the wheel, Kevin walks behind the machine to check for losses and finds nearly zero kernels on the ground. This Claas unit is so efficient it replaced two other combines on his operation.

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00:00 Out here today, we're checking behind the cloth combine. I've been running it here today 00:00:05 and my son, he's in it right now running. It's kinda hard to get out of it. Picking some pretty d on good corn. 00:00:10 It's uh, about 2 2 70 to 300 plus river bottom corn right here. One thing I like to look for is just, I like to get out 00:00:19 and walk behind it and just see if we're getting it all in there. This area right down through here was at 7,000 bushels an 00:00:25 hour on the machine and we was not getting any loss out the back. And, um, pretty nice ears. 00:00:31 Just gonna look around right here. We got our demco cart pulling it away and that's takes a, takes a big cart 00:00:39 to keep something that hungry. But this, this is just, I don't know, it is hard to imagine right here. 00:00:45 You just, you've gotta hunt to find a kernel, you know, six, 7,000 bushels an hour. Good job on the cobs if you're not seeing them busted up 00:00:58 real bad at all. That's just from the chopper cutting 'em, it sized it up. That was a whole cob come through right 00:01:04 before it got to the chopper. We're running the CMOs on the clouds, the automation. It's amazing, especially when my son running it. 00:01:12 He don't have the experience that I've got. Many folks has got that same situation right now and it actually makes the adjustments on the go 00:01:21 keeps everything right. It does a pretty good job. Sometimes I want it to act a little faster, but I'm really picky 00:01:28 and really panicky on how I want my combine to do. But um, it keeps it in the machine. And when it comes to picking corn, 00:01:35 I've just never seen anything that can touch this machine Right here we are running tracks on it. 00:01:40 510 bushel grain bin 8,700. The lubrication system is second to none. Maintenance fuel economy. It's top of the line. 00:01:51 It is actually just a blessing to have about to go around and pull the ears. Got two off one stalk right there. 00:01:58 I'm looking in the corn cornrow, it's standing. Trying to see if I see any corn in there. It come outta the combine from the previous pass, 00:02:06 which there is none. Um, that's a good thing. Just shows you what this cloth can do. Still right out here, no corn on the ground whatsoever. 00:02:18 Once in a while you'll see a colonel or two from that second ear. And I think that's where it's coming 00:02:24 through my head a little bit but um, 'cause it's, it has not always a perfect pollination on that second ear. 00:02:32 But check this thing out as it comes down through here, we're picking 24 rows, 44 foot wide head at 8,700. 00:02:41 She sit there, roll out 6,000, 7,000 bushel air and, and it all goes in the grain tank. We will have to get out of the way here 00:03:01 because it's going to be throwing here cobs at me. You getting or done ain't it? We replaced two other combines with 00:03:21 that one machine right there. Never thought it was possible to do. Check this out man. This is pretty right here. 00:03:40 Check him. Cobs out. Gentle on the grain. Gentle on the cob. Gentle on my pocketbook when we go to put fuel in that bay. 77 00:03:51.745 --> 00:03:55.445

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