Claas Lexion 8600 Harvesting Rice | 2019 California Rice Harvest!

[@bigtractorpower]

Looking good. Awesome to see a new 510 bu. Claas 8600TT. Looking forward to featuring your seeding and harvest on BTP.

[@SN-ui5os]

Edit :Nothing better than sunset at any harvest time any season no matter which place of world . Its the best time in my life when you following sunsets ,working hard behind the steering wheel ,well sunlight annoying your eyes But after sun gone you feel such relaxation in your body mix with incredible smells of crops I missed that feeling almost 10 years now Thanks for reminding me back

[@keithcress1335]

Mathew, one of my favorites! Asking all those questions and comparing the combines was a treat! Thank you.

[@keithcress1335]

So glad the rice isn't burned anymore. I was going to Sac State when they still burning the rice stalks. It was miserable. I remember cleaning my bathroom and the next day I had rice ash all over the top of the tank. The smell got really tiring as did the irritated eyes. Thanks for embracing the mulch method.

[@themoo908]

I never knew cali had the right climate anywhere for rice until like 2 years ago. That’s awesome, I grew up on a rice farm in Louisiana.

[@jimd9511]

I grew up on a rice farm in Texas.

[@4PeTe2]

It is interesting this year with the warm temperatures and north winds drying your fields and rice, your harvest went well, while the same temperatures and winds were causing problems in other part of the state - "it's an ill wind that blows no good". I enjoy your continuing reporting on rice farming and related topics.

[@hokevin5455]

"marry a right woman". That is a piece of fine advice

[@SLCFarms]

I got to visit a farm not to far from me that has a new 8700. Only one in North Carolina. They are really nice machines. Loved the video as usual. Grandpa was sure getting it done. Thanks for sharing Matt.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Oh sweet! Yeah the other one in California is a 8700. Haven’t seen that. Such smooth machines. Cutting giants. I love visiting neighbors who have cooler stuff than us. Or older stuff too. -M.

[@joelundberg5930]

I kept staring at that beauty every time I drove by Holt!😂 That thing is awesome!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Me too, Joe! I was super surprised to see it. Glad I knew the gentlemen who bought it. Gary told me he was going to charge me to film it, to help pay for it. Joking. Pretty awesome! Hope you had a good, smooth harvest. You have plans for the winter? -M.

[@joelundberg5930]

@@Ricefarmingtv I bet it is pretty pricey😂 and the huge technology difference between that CTS and the 8600! Harvest went smooth except for a plug or two in the combine. Saw you guys out running while I was out running parts or other things. Did it all go well for you guys? Already blew out the combine and washing all the equipment tomorrow! Not too many plans for the winter except to get ready for next year.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Good to hear Joe! Yeah everything went smooth. We’ve got everything clean. Working on wear-parts and repairs on the combines now. Like you, getting ready for next year...next harvest already!

[@txpacket]

This was wonderful Matt! It reminded me so much of harvest time with my Uncle and Grandpa. I couldn’t wait to be the first kid on the combine and I taught myself to hop on while that b,dated thing was moving too! 6 years old when I got it down pat... along with a couple of skinned knees, of course! Anyways! Thanks so much for sharing, it means so much to this ole farm girl!!!

[@drnmedia]

So great to see Don Rystrom. Went to school with his daughter Susan.

[@richardmcelligott2881]

Love the look of the Claas

[@DanDeVoto]

Interesting to see the 'in CAB " view of the three combines. The Son and Dad have all the technology and Grandpa has a steering wheel and runs on experience. The Times They Are a Chang'n.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Amazing to think that the John Deere CTS, in the late 80s was top of the line technology. That’s where Don felt comfortable-to this day. Pretty cool. -M.

[@paulgimenez1846]

Hey Matt fun to see another operation with the three different combines. Glad to hear you finished your harvesting hope everything went well

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Paul, thanks for the message! I’ll recap harvest in the next episode but yes, everything went well. Glad you enjoyed this episode. -M.

[@SinisterKnightz]

Back in 1970-71 I flagged crop dusters in some of those very same fields outside of Richvale. Long...long hours for just a little bit of money. Back then the Ag-Cats had the big radial engines. I recall picking the granular fertilizer out of my hair until I figured a hat might be appropriate. Those were the days.

[@heshworksbetter2777]

Use to see a lot of Claas equipment when I worked for Cummins. They have an assembly plant in Walesboro Indiana which I drove past every day. Starting to see quite a bit more of their equipment in fields around here, mostly grass/hay equipment, but that says a lot for them in an area where most farmers bleed either Red or Green!

[@aaronbryant1008]

"The constant assault on our water..." The feels.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Ditto, bro. -M.

[@robertreznik9330]

It seems like I have been harvesting forever. I started with a Massey 90 special in 1956. I would drive while "Pops" took the truck to the barn in a 1946 Dodge. In 2019 I harvested 2000 acres with a 9770 while my son drove the grain cart. Some days we loaded up to 20 semis. Harvest has come a long ways in 64 seasons. Our first grain cart in 1965 held 400 bus now it takes 2 minutes to load a semi.

[@lykinsmark123]

Driving down interstate 40 here in Arkansas, I look to the north and say, "Hey, there's a bankout!" That's a new sentence for me!

[@robertreznik9330]

That 8600 combine is a no messing around machine when it comes to loading the cart besides threshing. My John Deere doing corn takes much more time. I have mine unloading a lot. One acre to fill the hopper and then an additional 1/3 acre before I empty the tank.

[@robertreznik9330]

The first combine I drove harvested 100,000 lbs in a day. The one I have can do that in just over 40 minutes. I think combines are getting better, in the 62 years I have been driving...this fall I did over 1800 acres as the driver.

[@satnambawa0711]

Very good ...And nice family

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, Satnam! Have a great week. -Matthew

[@makingithappen9722]

Personally, I think the first big improvement on the combines is the cabin. I chewed a lot of dust in the 70's and 80's and I have never driven a combine with a cab.

[@leftlink_]

About the CAT Lexions. Its actually pretty interesting why they were sold as CAT. In 1999 Claas started a Joint Venture with CAT Challenger, and produced Lexions in the US, and sold and serviced them via the network of CAT Network. Thats why they are branded that way. In return, Claas sold and serviced Challengers in Europe via their network. In 2002, the Challenger brand was sold to AGCO, and Claas took over the Joint-Venture and the manufacturing plant in the US. Then i would assume they slowly transformed the old network of dealerships and such into a claas network, and then sold Claas Products that way. I personally agree with the decision to market them in green/white, looks so much nicer.

[@casey5711]

Great info and photography , thanks.

[@IH100]

Great video Matthew! Loved seeing the new Claas run, love the look of those machines!

[@ricklarouche4105]

How about cooking some more rice recipes.. your favorite, your dad’s favorite, your mom’s favorite, your wife’s favorite, your daughter’s?! Great videos..

[@robertpayne2717]

We always usally disked our rice stubble our harvest was usally mid August early Sept. driest part of the year tried to get the disk going right behind the combines. Hope for a rain and disk again. On small paddies I'd use a breaking plow if it was going into cotton or soybeans the following year. Trying to use the still green stubble as a green manure crop.

[@jankotze1959]

Awesome video, you have a great relation with your neighbors,

[@m4ttyofficialchannel]

Hi from italy! We are used to see the red white and green claas machines even the older challengers. There is a contractor near where i live who has two lexions 760 so i see them work all summer for the peas, wheat, barley, corn and soybean harvest because a average italian farm is 24 acres; is too small for buing a combine or even a big tractor. so contractors are very popular here.

[@jgardner2508]

Harvest over! More videos from Brazil!

[@hoatluong9193]

I love Rice

[@brasilwafenss4128]

Claas lexion a melhor colheitadeira 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@rickbrandt9559]

Very interesting to Midwest farm boy that only knows corn and beans..MN 55407 . Thanks Matt.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Rick! Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for the message. Hope you have a great week. -M.

[@scottyflintstone]

Celebrating the American Farmer! Red, White and Blue forever! Over amber waves of grain

[@sd2ca]

Tell Gary Stone "hello" from Neil, his former CHP "BIT Inspector. It is a blazing 5.7 degrees here in South Dakota this morning. No rice harvesting going on here, but just finished a 8-1/2 hour shift plowing snow.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Neil, I just texted Gary your message. Very cool! -Matthew

[@robertpayne2717]

Amazing considering the size and power of these combines I had an IHC 715 and a MF 550

[@netdog713]

Looks like you had a really good growing season! Good job Matt! :)

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Fairly smooth! I’ll recap in the next episode. -M.

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day form Queensland Australia.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

G’day Murphy! Glad to have you here, brother. You farm over there? -Matthew

[@Murphyslawfarm]

@@Ricefarmingtv I farm free rage egg's.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Very nice!

[@scruffy6151]

@@Murphyslawfarm you are as bad as i am you are everywhere lol.

[@Murphyslawfarm]

@@scruffy6151 lol mate same to you mate lol

[@HILLBILLYSFIREWOOD]

Hey hey, have a good week Matt. Take care buddy..

[@HILLBILLYSFIREWOOD]

Time to waterfowl hunt. 👍👍

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, brother! Time to definitely enjoy the migratory birds. Have a good week yourself. -M.

[@wranther]

Fine looking new combine Matthew. Seems the harvest is going well area wide there? How are the yields shaping up? Be nice to see you doing a 50th Anniversary video with the older gentleman too. That could become a bucket list video. Oh yeah, snowing here, again, currently 16 degrees and dropping. -Bob...

[@mooorecowbell4222]

Everything I know about the "RICE FARMING BIDNISS " I learned from MATT !

[@Ricefarmingtv]

You’re the man, Stage 5! Have a great week. -Matthew

[@genechronister7085]

Great vid!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, Gene! -Matthew

[@haulindirt8393]

Does anyone run autosteer on combines out there? We love it in AR rice country! Great channel and love seeing the differences in AR and CA rice farming.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Mr. Dirt, thanks for the message. I’ll address it in the next episode. Thank you! -M.

[@MrTrashmasterfx]

If my memory serves me right Claas and Cat have/had a 50/50 Joint Venture since the mid 90 (or early 2000) that may be why claas combines where colored orange/black and not the green/white, and the first combines build by Claas where also colored Blue ^^

[@davidouellet6126]

Hey, I enjoy the channel! I think it would be awesome if you could make a video about marketing strategies and how you manage your price risk. What has been your experience with hedging or what the best approach is to dealing with price volatility, etc. Maybe a good suggestion for shop talk! Keep up the good work!

[@patmancrowley8509]

Let's play in the mud! Oh, that's only before the next planting season, darn!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Patman, we’ll be in the mud soon enough my friend! -M.

[@DasNik25]

The Claas green is called Seed green or Saaten Grün in German.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Nice! Thank you very much, Nik! That’s a cool name for the green. I like the colors. -Matthew

[@SN-ui5os]

Nik Mii So the cat color ‘s mean harvest time ?

[@wry569]

Great video! Wonderful to see 3 generations driving the combines. Why no grain carts? With tractors back at headquarters, it seems like a grain cart pulled by a tractor, instead of a self propelled bank out wagon would be more economical as well as a grain cart holding more rice.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Its a good question, Marc. We have such a clay like soil that if we were cutting in muddy conditions they heavy grain carts full of rice would sink and get stuck. -M.

[@wry569]

Please give info on bank out wagons. Looks like a new one in the video. Is it an SBM? That is all I could see on side of the machine. Sure would be fun to look at specs and pictures but can not find any info on new, used or dealers online. Who manufactures them. Thanks in advance for any info. Looking forward to next video.

[@dixiecupdrinker1]

@@wry569 I found it. Sutter Buttes Manufacturing

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Yep, that’s it Marc! Drew found it. Sutter Buttes Manufacturing. They’re a local business. -M.

[@CoalChrome]

Having combined and grain wagons with the same engine must make maintenance easier

[@youngricomhh]

I’m stomping with a bank out this season pretty neat

[@ghostdevill]

Can you put metaltracks on the Claas Lexion for more gripp if you need it?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

I haven’t seen it. The rubber tracks do just fine out here-although we totally dry out our fields before harvest. The convenience of being able to take the rubber tracks down the road is awesome. Do you harvest in muddy conditions? -Matthew -

[@colonialroofingofnorthcaro441]

Nice machines and see the appeal, but that makes me wonder what does that mean for the American market on combines, I like the old guy best cause hes been around to see how these changes as nice as they are we get weeded out little at a time and we suffer on ohers somewhere else gain. Just me that what I've seen in my short 50 years, lots of changes and lots of lose for the people on the ground maybe not for those in the skyscraper looking down , just us on the ground, I'm an American and lobe my country and I'm all for supporting my country and it's industries, which support the worker, the family then to the field that support there family to the table where we all eat, God bless our farmers and America. Great vids

[@lizj5740]

Read leftlink's comment below, which indicates that Cat and Lexion had a mutually beneficial set up.

[@michics100]

My understanding of Cat & Claus is that in early 2000's when Cat got into farming they needed a combine and partnered with Claus. Then in the 2014's time frame they decided to get out of the farming line of equipment. Thus the Claus name started to appear.

[@joecambodia1326]

Are there alternatives for the straw? Heaping it and let it decompose or sending it to a biomass plant?

[@AlohaMilton]

2 cups in the rice maker, watch some RFTV while I wait for dinner. Eating it without any topping or sides, just love the freshly cooked rice taste, cant wait to try the fresh milled. Thinking maybe I should stock up on white and brown, how long does the fresh milled taste last? Can I possibly mill rice myself? Is there a low cost machine to do it, or maybe a manual old school machine since its just enough for a few people? hey.... maybe you can branch out into researching rice milling and do some shows on that? I am going to rewatch the Brazil stuff, that wood rice milling machine...

[@robertbriones8342]

What kind of header do the combine use ? Like a wheat straw header ? And what happens to the left over that comes out of the back of the combine does it get baled or ??

[@zalanhabel9118]

That strip test was like 0.15 cents Lmao.

[@danhladun693]

Why burn the straw to get rid of it? I would think bailing the straw and selling it to dairy farms as bedding would be a better option. Great videos. Thanks for showing the process

[@gabrielalger9792]

What's the main difference in running a bank out wagon versus traditional grain cart/tractor combo? I would assume in wet conditions it's better right?

[@jorgehernandez1294]

Im glad they actually gave it the claas color instead of the CAT colors. Lol

[@cody_janssen831]

Jorge hernandez yeah like the cat colors look meaner but you can’t really build a brand with green and white then just go change it

[@jeramy2398]

The color and engine has to do with cat selling ag line to Agco. Do you see much head loss when crop gets dryer

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Jeramy, we’ll open the concave and slow the cylinder a bit more to avoid shattering. We’ll slow the fan to avoid blowing crop out the back. Good question. -Matthew

[@NorthViewModelShop]

Question. Do you worry about fire in the crop when it’s that dried down ?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Not really. Concern would occur in high north winds blowing the dry straw all around, potentially into the machine (on engine, exhaust or belts). That would start a fire and burn up your combine and your crop. Usually the old boys tell the fire department to “let it burn, I’ve got insurance on that old piece of junk!” Hehehe! -M.

[@koryleague8833]

Two questions. Why do the combines say holt on them? And second who manufactures those self propelled grain carts?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Kory, combines say holt because that’s the name of the regional dealership. A local company called Sutter Buttes Manufacturing makes the self-propelled grain carts. -Matthew

[@koryleague8833]

@@Ricefarmingtv thanks you for your reply

[@naveensai5134]

Hey matt. You can explore rice farming in Southern part of INDIA. It is some what different here. And I am from India.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Naveen, that would be great. I would love to visit the rice farming region of southern India. One day... -Matthew

[@dustinrieck312]

Can you bale your straw for bedding or covering dirt work on construction projects?

[@benmott9927]

Question: With that big of a machine, couldn't they run a bigger head? Like a 40 or 45ft head? We do corn and soybeans, so that's why I ask.

[@neb4x4]

Probably don't have enough grain carts...? IDK. But if they did run that big of head they could probably loose one combine and still cut the same amount of crop.

[@robertpayne2717]

We can still burn in Arksnsas but we get a better burn in the fall after frost

[@SteveHolsten]

Thanks for the new video, but it seems like rice harvest flew by so fast!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Steve, you’re right. It’s in part by me not doing many videos. I have a harvest recap and then what we do with the straw to round it out. I wish I could do more videos, more often. I loose too much time editing. -M.

[@SteveHolsten]

@@Ricefarmingtv I understand. Farmers don't have a lot of extra time. Looking forward to what you do have.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thanks man!

[@gurbajjosan8080]

Hey matt.pls make a video .about managing paddy straw.its very important .

[@mikercflyer7383]

Hey Matt. Doesn't Caterpillar make a machine as good as the German one.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

A “machine”, I’m sure. But they don’t make harvest combines. Everyone called those early Claas machines Cats. But the only thing Cat about it was the motor. -M.

[@allenlrnr]

When you are ready to interview mechanics let me know!! CTS mechanics lol!!

[@JalenRose02]

Would love to see some John Deere combine harvesting rice in California.

[@CoalChrome]

I have a reason that the CAT name disappeared, it's because the partnership with CAT fell apart when the Tier 4 emissions came because CAT couldn't make a motor that would be able to match it, so Class brought in the Man engines and took off the CAT name.

[@GiovyJhon]

driver claas 8600 italian??

[@golfbravowhiskey8669]

Thank goodness we don’t have those regulations in Texas, we still burn our fields. The cost of one of those machines is extremely high, but the cost of not having one to produce that kind of production is higher. Like our jd cp690’s they are amazing. You can turn out the product with them.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

I never experienced the all burn years. But legend has it that wind carried the smoke into the capitol building in Sacramento and set off the smoke alarms. -Matthew

[@golfbravowhiskey8669]

Rice Farming TV Heck that was worth it then !! 💨💨💨

[@lizj5740]

@@golfbravowhiskey8669 Thanks for the laugh!

[@bhelmarkcabalbag4120]

Cost $ 500,000 what a harvester i need 1 but i dont have enough money 😂 😂

[@BassmanTvfishing]

Whats the cost of one of those brand new 2019 combines?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Oh man! 600k+ maybe. I’d have to ask the sales rep. Too shy to ask Gary. -M.

[@BassmanTvfishing]

@@Ricefarmingtv yeah I get it thats a lots of money

[@miriambertram2448]

How many years (or hours) of life for a combine?

[@Mansingh-vx4tl]

Sir what is the brown rice yield one acre?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

About 10,000 lbs. an acre on average. -Matthew

[@Mansingh-vx4tl]

Same as white rice yield.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Well yes because it comes from the same crop.

[@naveensai5134]

@@Ricefarmingtv how much is the average expenditure and how much is the returns from your rice farm

[@tomlowe8563]

Claas also own the agricultural side of Renault

[@markoulischris1520]

CLAAS is the best combine for rice.. Then comes John Deere. But CAT motors seem to be better than Mercedes motors besides is 50hp more

[@coole1982]

hey Matt, another great video. I've been following your activities for a while. I'd love to discuss straw management with you. sounds like it comes at a huge cost in time, labor, fuel and wear and tear on the machines. there really is a much better way to do this. i'll send you an email and we can set up a time to chat.

[@arsethr.g3787]

Calexico?

[@NorthViewModelShop]

First to view and first to comment. Woohoo

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, Jan! -M.

[@sukumarkar98]

How to managing paddy straw. Make a video very important

[@Ricefarmingtv]

I totally will, Sukumar! Coming soon. -Matthew

[@sukumarkar98]

@@Ricefarmingtv i watch *INDIA* this time is biggest problem. How to quality manage paddy straw. Small suggestion Make video poultry and dairy sector.

[@farmerstephen]

1942 to today I make it more than 47 years I make it 77 years?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

That’s right Stephen, he’s been farming for 77 years but has been driving a combine for 47 years. In part because back in ‘42 they didn’t have a combine. Don has seen an amazing amount of technological advancement in rice during his lifetime. -M.

[@marianhoban9086]

Dumnezeu!SÀ!VÀ! BINE'CUVÀNTEZE!

[@rdekort9273]

Claas should be grean and white,it's the right color

[@chadjustice8560]

Starting for 2019-2020 in North America they will be.

[@tsint]

The tranformation is not complete, the reel on the header should be red/orange and not black!

[@rawgreenagency1011]

I am all so rice farmer

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Awesome! Where at? -Matthew

[@naveensai5134]

@@Ricefarmingtv he is also from tamilnadu, India

[@cameronburgess2479]

What does a Texas rice farmer do after harvest: answer get drunk af and hang out with the crew

[@marianhoban9086]

SUA'

[@claas2044]

Шо за хрінь косять??? Хто знає!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Privet darago druk. -Matvey

[@paulrobberts1527]

Why are your fingernails pink??😲

[@Ricefarmingtv]

It’s my three-year-old daughter’s idea. Pink is her favorite color. 😏 -Matthew

[@paulrobberts1527]

@@Ricefarmingtv haha ok! Watcing from namibie, africa