ok so here is the deal on capacity, rather than establish how many tonnes per hour a machine may do in given conditions which is highly subjective tell us by the history of the machines you have owned, how many acres or tonnes you expect to combine and what you replaced it with and if you increased tonnage for similar hours or have our expectations of our equipment changed.
my example: when i worked in western canada we were taking off 2400 acres with one 1680 but i did note that some operaters were saying they had a 1680 for 1000 acres. I don't know what my boss replaced it with
when i came home to western australia we had a new holland 8060 to take off 1500 acres or 1300 tonnes which took 250hours.
we replaced this one with a 2166 case and increased our acerage to 2700 taking off 2500 tonnes in about 150 hours.
this machine was replaced with a jd cts11 which did the job in 20 less hours but took all the stubble with it.
we replaced this machine with a 9750sts which gets combined 4500 acres and nearly that in tonnes in 200 hours or less.
obviously all these figures are subject to efficiency but i hope by comparing operations there may be a reflection of what we should expect the capability of a machine is by percentage so we could take that figure and apply it to our operation.
i am personally hoping in a couple of years to take over my dads operation which will take me from cropping 3300 acres to over 8-9000 acres. i want to compare 9750 to 9860/70 but all machines are considered. very interested in the success of changing 2 class 6/7 machines into 1 class 8 or nine and is it realistic.
my example: when i worked in western canada we were taking off 2400 acres with one 1680 but i did note that some operaters were saying they had a 1680 for 1000 acres. I don't know what my boss replaced it with
when i came home to western australia we had a new holland 8060 to take off 1500 acres or 1300 tonnes which took 250hours.
we replaced this one with a 2166 case and increased our acerage to 2700 taking off 2500 tonnes in about 150 hours.
this machine was replaced with a jd cts11 which did the job in 20 less hours but took all the stubble with it.
we replaced this machine with a 9750sts which gets combined 4500 acres and nearly that in tonnes in 200 hours or less.
obviously all these figures are subject to efficiency but i hope by comparing operations there may be a reflection of what we should expect the capability of a machine is by percentage so we could take that figure and apply it to our operation.
i am personally hoping in a couple of years to take over my dads operation which will take me from cropping 3300 acres to over 8-9000 acres. i want to compare 9750 to 9860/70 but all machines are considered. very interested in the success of changing 2 class 6/7 machines into 1 class 8 or nine and is it realistic.