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Originally Posted by cubs-n-bxrs
Cool pics Ryan. I miss doing harvest time on the farm. Did not have any fancy equipment like that either.
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Yeah it's amazing the changes even from 12+ years ago when I drove my first big BIG boy toy. Cycling through gears double clutching hauling 2 wagons carrying maybe 500-600bu towards the end when we had the bigger wagons in an old TW-35 to now driving that T8 330 pictured above. Now I've got temp control down to the degree, auto-steer (if I feel like using it), push button gear changing, the grain cart holding 650+bu, two trucks each hauling 600-700bu. Heck, the combine now will hold up to 350bu with the whop top on it! The first grain cart we had (and still have and use) held something like 450-500bu. We used to run two older TR-85 (or TR-86, can't remember) combines supported by over 14 wagons
12 hour days were considered a short day! Now it's one combine that can easily outpick the old two combined, one (sometimes two) grain carts, one truck constantly hauling dry corn out, and one hauling wet in. Amazing what a dozen years will do. I can't imagine what we'll have in another 12 years!