Moin moin,
today I want to tell you more quickly from the last three weeks. When I was in my last post so in rapid direction of Fort Morgan, Colorado, was traveling and had traveled several miles in the weeks, the two weeks were a little quieter in Fort Morgan again - but only slightly. The problem: For another project we had absolutely pressed corn stover, and maize straw, it was really too early. As the other project but had a deadline, we had to somehow make it possible. Among the other shows I am therefore always taken with a very watchful eye to still find a surface on which the corn was threshed.
addition to the threshers there were of course other machinery at harvest time to see:
But here first images of the grain maize crop on a "Dryland" location - ie a site with no irrigation.
The harvested corn was close to the way straight to a nearby "feedlot "(German: cattle fattening) down, and then unloaded at the silo site.
In contrast to the Dryland site Here's a picture of the corn crop on an irrigated site. Although the shredder the wrong color - what you see directly in the chop -
but I want to document with the photo so even more clearly both the green and the significantly higher growth.
As you can see - the chop is just amazing! I was impressed already hard - Or is it shocking? That hit the mark will not be beat - OK, but you half flask found in the silage .... Perhaps it is intentional.
The appointment of the harvested fields has begun again.
here was just "pit stop" is announced. With the small dock screw the seed was introduced directly into the drill. A simple system that looks a bit after a home - but it works very well.
And then we have yet another found! Here comes the king (or at least his little brother) at the choppers. Again and again cool to see how thick the beam fills a shredding truck to the next - spiced up by a strong bearish sound. Not such a thing as rattling the day before - no, here working professionals!
Also on the holding on Silohaufen then bear strong technique. The roller tractor with his mighty shield and the many additional weights already made a huge impression. And with ease, he has almost an entire truckload of the hill pushed up ....
The sugar factory in Fort Morgan is in full swing. A truck after another is hit with new turnips. Incidentally this hot quite interesting looking trailer "Bullet" - for all those interested. We then unloaded down - on two movable flaps. This system (also called "Bottom Dump" refers called over here very common application.
Unfortunately, so far I could not get Rodeaktivitäten front of the lens, as the whole Rodeo Pera Transportation will always stopped at the weekend. In the still rather high temperatures can the beets do not store particularly well, and therefore is only cleared the way required by the plant roots. However, I was able to find that instead of self-propelled equipment such as € tiger or Terra Dos still drawn harvesters are used, and also the split method (a machine kröpft the beets, and then comes the other machine and dig them out) is always still state of affairs.
So as you see at the moment there is much to see. But I come back yet again to press. Again, I have seen many different things.
First of all I have of course re-grass hay and alfalfa pressed. Since the slow but nothing new is there is for once not have any pictures. Much more interesting to me was namely maize and sorghum straw (Sorgumhirse).
But first, the corn stalks - after bringing the shredder, it could go even quasi already. Unfortunately, there is again no mercy, and photographs made during the operation, so I'll just a few pictures of the bales, up from a client machine with balls in the chamber and the Shredder Road can show. There is only so much said - corn straw press is not my favorite pastime. Very much dirt and sand to make the whole process virtually Materialmordend Press. I have pressed with 99%, and had only 45 bar in the chamber. As you can already see how badly the ball slipped through the chamber. The knot cleaning should blow you better leave once every half bales, and the nodes have to also keep an eye on. It often happens that whole corn stalks pushed directly through the slots in the nodes. The result: From time to time by the yarn not in the nodes, as are corn stalks in your way. By and large, the BiG Pack works very well, and comparison tests of a Customers have the press each year in the future, about 800,000 tons of corn stover has shown that the Krone Big Pack 1290 HDP is currently the business press to do so.
These bales have the way to the 1540 lbs (700 kg) weighed - and 8 ft. (2 , 4 meters) in length. My hardest maize straw bales had 1750 lb (790 kg). Unfortunately, he was so densely packed that I hardly with my teeth into it came from the scale, and had even greater effort to get rid of the ball will be.
well as maize straw, I had to press but also sorghum.
This material was completely new territory for me - but it worked wonderfully. Incidentally, it was the second cut, with the 3-4 ft - is (0.9 1.2 m) no longer been very generous. But see for yourself:
well especially the "baby" of customers had to carry the load. The bales, which flopped about every 50 seconds from the press (at 8 mph and about 26 slices per bale) had good 800-880 kg. The customer, who usually only pressed bales, was impressed by the speed of the presses and stacking the bales of good heavy.
On 11 October, then went to the final miles towards Garden City, Kansas. Once again, 320 miles in 8 hours, but what are already 8 hours?
Along the way I was able to machine the smaller type look ....
.... and the more I in the "Great Plains" immersed, the more lined the large "Grain Elevator" (silos) the road. While just the sins of Good Old Germany localities may like to make reference to the church tower, one sees in this region usually begin a massive silo.
hide behind this silo is still a post office, a Mc. Donald's and a few houses. Most, however, have boarded up the windows, depending on location, and look as if the last 50 years there was no one at home. Then there is usually still ne gas station, and that's it. Always lies between the villages for miles just "nothing".
And even though Kansas is a welcome - it does not really enjoyed myself here. Somehow, everything seems a bit bleak. But no matter.
The goal is before our eyes!
Garden City is the goal of my long trip - and I have achieved it. The week it was still a few performances - one took me out again briefly to Oklahoma - and in addition to maize straw, we have pressed alfalfa. So late in the hay is pressed but then again quite demanding. In the morning everything is sopping wet, as the dew that time of year but very rich precipitates, and at noon, when the sun really comes to the fore again, everything is bone dry in no time.
But what can I say - we've got that mastered yet, and on 15 October 2010 I had after 6.5 months on the road - hopefully successfully finished my demonstration tour - or "On the Road".
But here are some facts about the tour:
I put my JCB 8250 and the press a total of 10,140 miles in 563.3 hours back. This corresponds to 16 319 kilometers.
The longest stage was 430 miles, and took a mere 12.5 hours driving time.
On the tour, I visited 10 states - California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma.
I have presented together with 18 brands.
We have made exactly 90 field demonstrations. However, we had several appointments at well over a customer field. An exact number, as have many customers, we presented the press, I do not yet. But I think that we are just about at 160 - may be 180 different customers.
The press has worked 150 hours. So I have a ratio of 1: 3.75. You mean, 2.75 hours to one hour presses came on the road.
the ball as the press I would also like to call you, There are only here in the U.S. a little competition. To win something, you have to guess as accurately as possible the count at the end of the tour. Therefore, it is not yet! But is not that important. Perhaps this much: I had to drive nearly 0.8 miles to a bale to get together.
The highest pass, I crossed was over 3000 meters high. (On the stage of Grand Junction - Fort Morgan)
The heaviest bales had 1200 kg - ok, 18% was a bit too damp alfalfa hay.
Normally I was the 4x4 ft (120 x 120 Kanalmaß) beat presses in terms of speed and weight. The 3x4 ft (90 x 120 Kanalmaß) presses do not really provide a challenge
Pressed I have alfalfa, grass, barley straw, wheat straw, oat straw, sorghum and maize straw.
The highest speed I had in Colorado in scoring grass hay. 17 mp / h (27 km / h) were possible in the field. The winding path less pick up easy flow has made it a very convincing job, and there is virtually no material left lying in the field.
I write about units sold anything at this point - only this much: It was very successful, sales are already double digits only in California, and there are many other interested parties.
So, how's next?
The chapter "BiG Pack Road Show 2010" at this point is only completed once. With a smile and a tear in my eye I see the beautiful but also very stressful time afterwards. Working for such a project is immense, and living in hotels and on the street is not exactly relaxing. Most of the weekends go, complete with preparation, follow-up or demonstrations on it, and the days were often less than 12 hours. (My longest labor input, incidentally 25 hours -.. From am 3:00 am 4:00 clock until the next clock was forced in here at night, preferably containing
Currently I am back in Fort Morgan, where we start the week with three days the BiG Pack 12130 want to press in the maize straw then I have about 1200 miles back to Reno, Nevada, before me, and on October 28, I get on the plane -.. back home
After a short holiday I would then expected from the second week of November, again in Spelle in sales promotion be found.
I would like to thank once again with you for your interest in my blog, excuse me but also for when it was listening to something in between a long time nothing new to me.
For those who have not been enough - there will be a documentary about the tour in the form of a DVD. To this end I had a film crew of nine times in interesting places, and we shot beside the press box, many more great stories around the theme "Agriculture in the U.S.." On the one hand, of course, the dimensions are impressive over here, on the other hand, there is also much New to discover. More on the DVD there will be soon available on the Crown website ( http://www.krone.de/ ) and in a last post in this blog.
So until then I wish you all the best - and maybe see you then yes times in Spelle eg at a plant tour or at a future fairs.
Greetings Niklas
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