BIG M 450 Krone - Mowing Sorghum Sudan Grass

[@SirOpinesALot]

Love this. I could watch all day.

[@mikep7810]

That Big M is so impressive watching it work. Great video Mike!

[@robertsmith4040]

Boy what an impressive machine. It makes look so effortlessly

[@truckdriver8637]

That machine is awesome, makes a big job look easy. I passed through Darke county tonight near Greenville, I waved in all directions since I wasn't sure where you were. Keep up the great videos.

[@oisinkierancoyle5518]

It’s a real grass destructing monster of a machine

[@hawki5120]

I'm almost positive there is a conditioner on that which makes how fast he's mowing even more impressive through stuff that thick.

[@farmhandmike]

Yes he is conditioning it also. This Big M was impressive.

[@charlesdoepping5616]

You definitely put out the absolute best video's I love watching them

[@andynieuwenhuis7833]

I Think, BTP( big tractor power) is a slight bit better. They pass on information about the machine including the cost. Yes, Mike does a very Good Video.

[@CarlosGonzalez-kt5be]

THANKS FOR VIDEO..SALUDOS FROM NEW YORK.

[@somethinburnin]

An excellent crop! We use to fill a 14x45 Harder on our small farm in the late 80's, early 90s with this. Open it October 30th, carried us to May when we would let the cows back out. Drop it with a Zetor 7211 hooked to a Badger BN1009 Haybine, chopped it with a Deutz D68-06 on an Allis Chalmers 782, into 16' Badger Boxes, blew it up with a short table AC blower that had a WD45 Power unit on it.

[@dustinlowry9075]

Wow that mower is getting with it. Great video Mr Mike Less.

[@davidwoods1188]

This machine makes me understand why farming is quite the rare occupation these days.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very impressive. Great find.

[@CarlosGonzalez-kt5be]

Yooouuu... GET back to WES COUNTOKY !! ..YUO R...?

[@eddiebalentine7938]

Wow, great video, great machine, and beautiful country.

[@WildBillHabiki]

there is something very satisfying about that big mower

[@leesteele9290]

Just as I was trying to figure out why he was mowing the short way of the field he turned and started going with the long rows ,go figure ,that is one heck of a mower, better have a lot of acres lined up to make that affordable! Seems like the middle mower is narrower than the outside ones ,would make it interesting to rake if you tried to follow the rows! Thanks for the video!

[@jamesbarbour8400]

I'm guessing the Krone has GPS fitted to help with bout matching, otherwise it would be very difficult to maintain a parallel path to the previous run, since the 'wing' mowers are situated so far back and out of line of sight of the driver ? Great drone footage from all angles and no annoying, distracting music. That Krone driver certainly isn't hanging about.

[@RezaurRatul]

Beautiful Landscape 🥰

[@prestonwinner1938]

My uncle works for Claas but i do have to say this is on impressive machine

[@bluefleet1655]

man, that gps activation sound, reminds me of the gps from fs17

[@AngelusFromHell]

Damn, that thing is fast.

[@gaetanbellavia8702]

Fauchage de précision à ras du sol top et ingenieux top krone

[@benjamindejonge3624]

I like that grass mower

[@antonyfarming]

Great video great machine 👍👍

[@lucpinsonneault5478]

mower looks super big then you get a view of the whole field and its soo small 🙂

[@gaetanbellavia8702]

Fauchage en trois fois et en trois parties top et ingenieux top krone

[@scottbourdon5423]

That operator is not friggin around lol nice video

[@piperdoug428]

The Big M is in my opinion the better option than the Claas machine with the 5 decks as it just seems there's more to break/wear out. the Krone will have less maintenance but it sure looks lanky when the decks are down.

[@SoloTwo42]

The Claas Cougar has been out of production for quite a while now.

[@donnellykieranj]

​@@SoloTwo42 that is correct. Big M probably just as fast at mowing as it's more compact and powerful per metre mowed, therefore faster.

[@loneforest6541]

satisfying watching mowing...

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

That beast would mow my lawn within seconds while I'd need the whole afternoon... 😉👍🏻

[@emadeldinhessain3272]

Great. Well done.

[@wanderingtexan854]

Very impressive machine

[@chadshafer8095]

Great Video . That Krone is Alsome. How many Acres can they mow in a day?

[@Bartjebart2]

50 acres per hour. How many acres per day depends on the operating window regarding weather, etc.

[@rafbressana9988]

Nice vid mike 👍

[@JEDI-MAQUINAS]

Cultura de sorgo top

[@calebalt1557]

My grandpa used to COMBINE that-THATS wear and tear on a machine

[@just4sh0_]

what do you mean

[@calebalt1557]

It turns brown like wheat, and u can combine it, but it was really hard on the combine

[@just4sh0_]

@@calebalt1557 oh okay

[@markratigliano7511]

That beautiful machine likes to drink fuel ,, do you suppose the consumption of that machine got to be 20 gallon of fuel an hour?????

[@boominion9329]

This is what I want fs 20 to look like

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Does the farm own this machine or is it a custom cutter?

[@davidepool5884]

Now that’s a mower!

[@YouT-DJ]

be a long day raking all that!

[@adamalfredsson373]

I guess you could have used the sorghum sudan grass as a cover crop and planted green into it

[@LaHaSi4208]

High Speed Mower... 😉👍

[@ИлиясДолобаев-ц1й]

Super

[@jgvgjv2980]

After cutting, will the Sudan grass sprout again if left alone? thanks Mike

[@Jaxon-iu6vb]

jgv Gjv it will

[@tedcantell9088]

y can't they chop that lie corn? maybe it go threw, but wow that is some nice looking feed, it must be hi in protein? great show great work Mike!!!

[@farmhandmike]

It is very high moisture if you direct cut it. It has to dry for two or so days before they chop it.

[@Boodlemania]

High in protein, not so much for energy (TDN).

[@markrskinner]

Wes Pandy (OLF) next year?

[@ducewags]

@Mark Skinner let's get Wes to grow this stuff for the mushroom barns. I have no clue if the barns could use it, but it would make for a great Krone packing season.

[@toolreviewsandrestorations]

Is that grass used to feed cows?

[@farmhandmike]

Yes. Dairy Cows.

[@nightwolf291]

Was this a mixture of sorghum and Sudan grass ??

[@nathamonchaiwadee2890]

WOW

[@ScottSteinbeck]

i thought i seen you at the versatile booth at farm science review lol

[@coreymartin5185]

32.644ft, close. What kind of conditioner is on this mower?

[@farmhandmike]

Roll’s

[@brendanwhite9799]

Did you know there are more BigMs sold in here in Ireland than anny other countery in the world with 20% of totle

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Awesome

[@robertmarceaux3117]

Im guessing that was a deer at about 15:40??

[@tywallace2379]

Is Sorghum sudan grass better quality than alfalfa?

[@oheebatch_algorytmu]

Grows in dry conditions.

[@pichit219]

Dear Mike... I want your video open CC_English caption, i follow you. my English is not first langauge. so if you open CC, it will help to understand. regards.

[@Deucely]

This thing does what, 6m wide at 14km/h, or around 8 hectares an hour, or 128 hectares per farmer's work day(16), or 896 hectares per week(7). So for your harvest week, you'd need about 9 kilometer squared of fields just to use that machine efficiently for a week, just ... wow?

[@4schitzangiggles]

Um, that thing is cutting 14-16 hectares per hour. The cut width is 9.95m and typical cutting speed is @ 25kph so it is extremely efficient. Weather windows to get crops in at peak ripeness can be frustratingly small and any increase in capacity can mean the difference between profitability or losing $$$. I have a 14' swather that gets used a grand total of 6 days all summer but without it the wife's 12 horses wouldn't have any feed in the winter. Also have a baler that gets used maybe 3 days a summer. That swather does what used to take 18-21 days, baling hay went from 12-15 days down to three because of its increased capacity over our older baler. New Disc mowers are $275,000-$425,000USD and the balers are @ $40-60K A ton of grass horse hay is @ $250-$325 and having it rained on or spoil means having to buy a lot of expensive hay. We grow more than we need to pay for the equipment and horses which are used to teach riding lessons, 4H and FFA for the kids. Farmers buy at retail and sell at wholesale but we somehow make it work

[@Deucely]

@@4schitzangiggles Thank you for this detailed answers, much love!

[@jerryruiz394]

Where can I find seeds

[@charlesdoepping5616]

Could you imagine the speed he could mow alfalfa

[@Someone78109]

If the ground is not to bad 27 to 29 kmh i think that's 16 to 19 mph.

[@autumnvanliere]

1100000 farms?

[@МуратКаримов-с2ю]

Monster 😨

[@piperdoug428]

Oh yeah, if i throw yer name around at Van 'L's in Reston Manitoba when i go to demo the anniversary DT550 will it get me a deal or thrown out? lol.

[@farmhandmike]

Better get you a good deal. I was there once last summer.

[@wilsonandrade6246]

✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@nathamonchaiwadee2890]

I SEE PROGRAM MY NAME IS LUS 4 BANPONGSANOUK PHAYEO JOUNE THAILAND

[@jasonleckrone2577]

I would say heartland dairy

[@calebalt1557]

27 ft-3ft in 1meter-9x3=27

[@duggandh]

3.28 ft in a meter x 9 = 29.5 ft.

[@calebalt1557]

Dani, you are right, sorry for the incorrect answer and false fact

[@calebalt1557]

*Dano

[@farmhandmike]

@@duggandh Okay so the brochure says 9.5 meters but a swear the operator told me this machine was even bigger than that.

[@milesleffingwell2921]

3 13ft heads with a foot of overlap between them

[@cjm0731]

Hey

[@brendanwhite9799]

Did you know there are more BigMs sold in here in Ireland than anny other countery in the world with 20% of totle

[@karlkallaste]

Source?

[@brendanwhite9799]

@@karlkallaste farm hand the importer of the big M to Ireland

[@donnellykieranj]

​@@brendanwhite9799 yip I've heard that B4. Very popular here in Ireland.