John Deere 3300 Combine Shelling Corn - October 2020 Part 2

[@kswaynes7569]

The 3300 is purring right along, nice job Pete! Nice to have harvest done, now a little Fall tillage on some acres and turn the cattle out on some stalks.

[@crslyrn]

From the looks of the corn in the ol' 3300's hopper, looks like you've got it setup about right. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🍻 Hope the wildlife left you something for a decent yield. 👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks for the ride along.

[@farmerpete]

Thanks! The little 3300 does a pretty good job.

[@cesmith4566]

Ah the days of a 2 row head! I use to run a E3 gleaner and its seemed you got a lot of work done two rows at a time! Thanks Pete

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

I really like that little two row combine!

[@farmerpete]

Thanks! It is kind of a cute little bugger.

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Two rows with a combine, much better than one row by hand! Little drier would be nice, but... Thanks for the ride Pete!!!

[@farmerpete]

Yeah, pay for drying it or let the deer keep eating it. Pretty much a wash.

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

@@farmerpete sort of... Take more now and a few cents to dry, or get half later...

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

when dad was a kid they picked by hand, then he got a gleaner A2 and thought wow we can fill wagons in 3 hours. now with the lexion we can do the 45 acre field in 3 hours on the seperator. i like the 3300! doing a fantastic job. them old combines really did put a great sample in the tank!

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 seems like the older combines did a better job cleaning...overall. I think part of it was because they only could take two rows, or 4... But that was at a slower ground speed.. it was easier to keep the right amount of material in the machine... The new machines are so much higher capacity, that it takes a 35', 40' platform, or an 8 row, 12 row, 16 row corn head to keep them full in a good crop... Lighter crops, you can't keep them full enough... The bigger seperation area is harder to keep an even flow across the whole thing too.. and in lighter crop, there isn't enough material for it to work properly... Just what I see...

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

We demoed a new corn head and it was embarrassing. I like new stuff someday I would like to have a lot of new stuff. But I guarantee an old John Deere 43 series corn head would have had less field loss than this thing. I didn't even really realize it till I was in my combine and my Capello head was simply bringing in ears and hardly any kernels making it to the ground. That new head brought in so much trash it looked like soybean residue just as big stick material coming out the chopper. I don't think the salesman it's going to be selling that head

[@amankubuy]

good job brother, thank you for sharing your farm activities, greetings from a new friend of Indonesian farmers ...

[@larryruemmele4375]

Still use a 4400, clean as the bigbones do.

[@gleanerk]

Congratulations on finishing harvest and thanks for the video 👍🏻

[@farmerpete]

Thanks for watching!

[@lifebehindacow5999]

Feels so good to get that last field in the bin. I know what you mean about the deer I've got one field of alfalfa that's the only green for along way in the fall deer and elk everywhere.

[@frankthinnes2558]

Good job pete

[@farmerpete]

Thanks!

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

How many bushels of beans or corn do you think your Hopper on the 3300 holds? Thanks for the views of your combine shelling corn.😎🌽🇺🇸

[@farmerpete]

I'd guess about 35. I usually don't let it get too full. On my hills around here I like to keep my center of gravity as low as possible.

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Looks great!

[@aidenmagnuson2609]

Since it’s a 2 row head, it’s quite hard to have a “row of shame”

[@farmerpete]

That's a plus!

[@jeffreyticen689]

Glad you got it finished. Is there much of a market in Wisconsin for raising popcorn? Lots of folks around my area have switched because of the price has been up. Your JD doesn't break a sweat with that two row head. Lol.

[@farmerpete]

I honestly don't know about the popcorn market in my area. Yes, from what I understand this combine will handle two row wide or three row narrow.

[@Masseydriver]

Looked like some nice sized ears going in the head.

[@leoashrae4199]

How have your yields been running? Here in the center of Pennsylvania, where we're running a 5.85" rain fall deficit, we've been seeing between 54 to 97 bushels per acre of "beer can" corn. Everyone here is going to be so happy to see the butt-end of 2020...

[@farmerpete]

Sounds like you guys had a pretty crappy year! My yields can vary quite a bit. Some of my better ground here at home will make 125 bu, which, for organic corn, I'm satisfied with. My neighbor's place never does as well, the soil there isn't as good.

[@sergebozhyk6488]

Awesome video pete I'm new here but I'm might be getting my first ever combine and im looking at a 3300 like yours do you mind answering some of my questions

[@farmerpete]

Sure.

[@sergebozhyk6488]

@@farmerpete what is the row spacing on your corn head 30 or 38 and do you think it will handle a 4 row 30 inch head

[@farmerpete]

This is a two row wide - 38”. These will handle a two row wide or three row narrow- 30”. The 3300 won’t handle a four row head.

[@timpingel9607]

Always nice to be done no matter how many acres a person has. What kind of fall tillage do you plan on doing?

[@farmerpete]

In the fall I just let my cows eat and poop in the fields.

[@christopher3963]

Is there much of a market for wild-caught, certified organic, free-range venison?

[@donvoll2580]

Good day Boy when those cobs go thur it must remove rust from cyl. Yrs. ago they showed putting plates between rasp bars , do they still do that. We never had grain corn, silage &a few yrs cob corn. Thanks

[@farmerpete]

I don't know, mine doesn't have plates. When I was milking cows I picked ear corn.

[@SchnelleKat]

The 3300 was quite a small one, what'd you think back in its day it was rated at for acreage? At most 175-200 acres?

[@farmerpete]

I’m not sure. I’ve seen some literature from the 70s where JD refers to the 3300 as an “entry level “ combine.

[@SchnelleKat]

@@farmerpete Interesting I haven't come across any yet... As I do collect Brochures on the side as a hobby.

[@GeigerFarm]

👍🏻🙂

[@southwestwifarm3516]

Where in Wisconsin are you located Pete?

[@farmerpete]

I'm about 50 miles southeast of La Crosse.

[@southwestwifarm3516]

@@farmerpete nice, I’m right outside of Dodgeville

[@jimbockius1849]

nice machine i have same machine i am having problems jamming up how can i contact you