10 December 2013

One on one with Fendt 9350R and Fendt 6300C AL combines

With this post, we continue speaking about harvesting corn. At this time, David Garralón (Algeinsa company) sent some pictures about his brother Javier's Fendt combines. Nowasays, they are harvesting corn in Jadraque (Guadalajara).

The combines are a Fendt 9350R and a Fendt 6300C AL. It is really difficult to find this combines in Spain, yet and specially in our area, at least, we haven't seen any one working on the fields. Therefore, these pictures are very interesting because they allow us to see them working in Castile-La Mancha... The 9350R is impressive. We can't say any assessment about them because they are unknown for us. Our impressions are that AGCO group owns a combine with high technology (based on the traditional Laverda), although they will have to perform an important job to compete with the largest brands like Claas, John Deere or New Holland.

We don't have much more information about that, so we invite David and Javier to upload some comments or information adding more details. Thank you very much for your pictures... they are extraordinary!!


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Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines
Fendt 9350R & Fendt 6300C AL combines

03 December 2013

Tajuña river meadow: a place for harvesting and ploughing corn

Last April, our friend and follower Miguel Ángel (alias "Espejo") sent us a few pictures about his sowing corn tasks in the meadow of the Tajuña river (Madrid). After seven months, he sents other pictures about the same fields, although, at this time about harvesting jobs (we spoke about that in the last year too). He told us the production has been great (13,080 kg/ha... it is his record), but the price is low (about 165€/t) this year. You can see a video from his YouTube channel as well.

Once he has finished his harvesting tasks, he begin ploughing corn stubbles with the aim of sowing barley (he is going to sow corn again in some fields). So that, he is working with a Ovlac VARI labor reversible plough of 3 bodies. His New Holland TS125A works very fine at 6km/h. The working width is 2.2m and the working depth is about 42cm so the stubble is turned over completaly. The soil is wet enough, so after some days he is going to fertilize and harrow with chissel plough to begin to sow barley.