Posted by W_B on December 10, 2014 at 04:33:57 from (155.188.183.17):
In Reply to: Cost to Combine? posted by tree-farmer on December 09, 2014 at 21:15:45:
Just some personal experience from back in the day, I think the guys here have given good advice already.... we started a small farm operation, I think mostly so the 6 of us kids would have something to keep us out of trouble. Dad worked in the city and partnered with a guy he worked with that lived near us. We started out with a pull type Woods Bros. picker behind an AC WD and an old gravity wagon that we wire wheeled and painted. Only had something less than 50 acres to start with total, corn acres was probably about 30 of that. For beans and oats we fixed up two AC pull type combines. We worked up to a small IH 3X series combine and about 300 acres by the time Dad retired and us kids were graduating from school.
So, I'd advise getting your own equipment to handle what you have, 5 acres isn't much, we used to raise that much in sweet corn that was all hand picked through the season. With a picker you could knock that out in no time and then shell it separately if you had to. Best wishes!
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