Are you sure you'd be getting over 3,500 bushels per hour with an 8 row @ 5mph? I calculate that to be true with a 12 row at that speed, but when I computed an 8 row I came up just short of 2500 bushels/hour. Here's the formula I was using...and I could be all wrong. Math has never been my strength.
Width of corn head is 20 feet (8 row @ 30 inches per row) x 5 mph x 5,280 feet per mile. I come up with a total of 528,000 square feet harvested, divided by 43,560 sq. ft. per acre is 12.13 acres per hour. 12.13 acres yielding an average of 200 bushel per acre corn is 2,426 bushels per hour. Does this sound right? Like I said earlier, I am pathetic with math.
Width of corn head is 20 feet (8 row @ 30 inches per row) x 5 mph x 5,280 feet per mile. I come up with a total of 528,000 square feet harvested, divided by 43,560 sq. ft. per acre is 12.13 acres per hour. 12.13 acres yielding an average of 200 bushel per acre corn is 2,426 bushels per hour. Does this sound right? Like I said earlier, I am pathetic with math.