Volvo EC210C L clearing land pics and vid

[farmerknowsbest]

Hi there,

Visited another farmer to look at his skeleton bucket that we want to buy one the same. They have much sandier soil and are able to keep going clearing where we in our heavy clay-loam can't do anything. I really like that volvo machine, it is pretty slick!

Warren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgPebDLrVlc


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This is the skeleton bucket I want to have built. It is made by D/S and it is extremely well built.
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They have a couple dump trailers to haul stones/stumps away when clearing. Both are pulled by tractors. The one has 3 axles and a floating hitch, the second will be set up like this after the winter when a 3rd axle can be added and the hitch modified.
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[bobcat_ron]

Wicked Volvo, I really like that setup.
Farmers have such cool toys.

[coopers]

Do you like how much curl there is on that rake? It seems that might get a little annoying....Volvo looks cool!

[Junior M]

Do you like how much curl there is on that rake? It seems that might get a little annoying....Volvo looks cool!
thats what I was thinking, looks like Natev's "slab crab," bucket except with tines..

[P.Services]

there must be good money in farming. i know of a few farms around here and they just have more shinny iron then any one else. new trucks from f-350 all the way up to fleets of t-800's to haul the darn crop. how can you justify a new 200k cat dozer to level out a corn field?

[ksss]

there must be good money in farming. i know of a few farms around here and they just have more shinny iron then any one else. new trucks from f-350 all the way up to fleets of t-800's to haul the darn crop. how can you justify a new 200k cat dozer to level out a corn field?


I agree. I grew up on a large farm in North Dakota. We had an old Allis Dozer and I mean old and a pan scraper. That was it for heavy equipment. I cant see how these guys justify a 210 and dozer but I guess it works for them. It would seem to me that once you have cleared everything there is to clear, what do you need it for?

[coopers]

there must be good money in farming.

I know seriously! There's a few farmers I knew up north of me that do very well. Some of the farmers would have shiny toys and such and others looked as though they were barely making it. But the few that I saw that looked as if they were barely making it, were well off so I was told. That was apparent in other ways. Lots of work though to get to that status.

[farmerknowsbest]

I agree. I grew up on a large farm in North Dakota. We had an old Allis Dozer and I mean old and a pan scraper. That was it for heavy equipment. I cant see how these guys justify a 210 and dozer but I guess it works for them. It would seem to me that once you have cleared everything there is to clear, what do you need it for?

Does your equipment move EVERY day? 10 hours a day? That Volvo does. That is their second excavator. They put 8000hours on the first one and traded it on this one. If that isn't justifiable, I don't know what is. Their dozer hasn't been able to do as much work this year because of the mud but still is getting some work.

I really did laugh out loud when you said clear everything there is to clear. You are assuming that a farm won't expand. This is not the case. If you want to stay in business farming you need to keep growing and reinvesting. Having your own equipment allows you to buy farms that would not be efficient to farm with large equipment.

I promise it pencils out on paper, farmers can't afford to operate beyond their means.

Enjoy the photos and video

Warren

[P.Services]

warren i wasnt being mean or looking to start a fight. everyone always turns their nose up at farmers but im just saying you guys must clean up. to buy a 150k excavator and then pay to run it 10 hours a day all year is insane just to clear more land to grow corn. you guys must make some serious money off selling corn and milk.

whats a gallon of raw milk go for? a bushel of corn? how many bushels do you get off an acre?

[ksss]

It must pencil out. Farming is different everywhere. In ND if we bought more land it was in the form of prairie/CRP. Turn it over and pick the rock, we would demo tree lines to allow the use of large equipment. Like I said its different everywhere, I just have never seen farmers invest in 200 size excavators. Using an excavator 10 hours a day, everyday, on a farm seems like a lot of excavator work, must be much different farming in Ontario than in the Great Plains.

Farming is no different in the sense that like anything thing else, no one can run beyond their means for long.

[farmerknowsbest]

warren i wasnt being mean or looking to start a fight. everyone always turns their nose up at farmers but im just saying you guys must clean up. to buy a 150k excavator and then pay to run it 10 hours a day all year is insane just to clear more land to grow corn. you guys must make some serious money off selling corn and milk.

whats a gallon of raw milk go for? a bushel of corn? how many bushels do you get off an acre?

Well look at it this way, 150K is pretty cheap when compared to the 3-500K for a combine. HEHE.

I'm not a dairy farmer so I don't know about the price of milk. I've heard the world price is at an all time low.

Corn is a different thing though. As a result of the US farm bill the price of corn is directly linked to the price of oil. Last year there was a LOT of money to be made. Corn was at an all time high in price. In the last 6 months it has dropped 50% in price to about $3.85/bu for March delivery. This year farmers won't make a great deal of money.

Corn yields are highly variable depending on the area. In the corn belt 200bu/ac is the norm. In this area 150 is the norm. Due to the rain we had this year we are expecting a below average yield of 130bpa.

The farms that own an excavator are not the small ones. They are usually in the 2500ac plus size.

Probably the most important part in justifying the cost of the machine, is that in Canada land improvement is 100% tax deductible.

Warren

[P.Services]

ok so lets say 2,000 ac of farm fields making 400,000 bushels of corn, lets say you got $7 last year when it was high that = $2,800,000 or somethin around that. dang

[bobcat_ron]

Farming in Ontario is a completely different picture, hell even in Alberta it's different.
All I know is if our farmers started buying dozers and excavators, I'd be whoring myself out on the streets PDQ.

Average monthly milk cheques here for a 110 head of milking cows was $40,000, and that price was 5 years ago.

[farmerknowsbest]

ok so lets say 2,000 ac of farm fields making 400,000 bushels of corn, lets say you got $7 last year when it was high that = $2,800,000 or somethin around that. dang

That would be gross revenue, obviously there are significant costs involved. If everything goes right you should make about 50$/ac on corn. Unfortunately things don't go exactly right all the time. HEHE.

Warren

[stuvecorp]

warren i wasnt being mean or looking to start a fight. everyone always turns their nose up at farmers but im just saying you guys must clean up. to buy a 150k excavator and then pay to run it 10 hours a day all year is insane just to clear more land to grow corn. you guys must make some serious money off selling corn and milk.

whats a gallon of raw milk go for? a bushel of corn? how many bushels do you get off an acre?

That's what I've been wondering. To get the land and then have that much in big iron and put someone in it, seems crazy.

[bobcat_ron]

That would be gross revenue, obviously there are significant costs involved. If everything goes right you should make about 50$/ac on corn. Unfortunately things don't go exactly right all the time. HEHE.

Warren

No kiddin', grain costs here are outrageous, land prices and taxes are nuts and these silly farmers LOVE Fendt tractors at $250,000 per tractor.

[farmerknowsbest]

No kiddin', grain costs here are outrageous, land prices and taxes are nuts and these silly farmers LOVE Fendt tractors at $250,000 per tractor.

That's why we bought 3 New Hollands last time, got more hp for 50% of the price of Fendt's.

Warren

[Dieselnut]

I really like that bucket that you are going to get. Is a local guy making it or a company?

[farmerknowsbest]

I really like that bucket that you are going to get. Is a local guy making it or a company?

Well, it is a local company. HEHE.

http://www.dsmanufacturing.ca/

They are about the best of the best found anywhere in the world so it is rather fortunate that they happen to be located 10 miles down the road from us.

Warren

[P.Services]

warren, little girls taking on myspace and face book use "hehe" to try and sound cute/funny/sexy. if you want to sound like your laughing use "haha" so you dont sound like such a feminine little fa g and so i can sleep at night. bobcat rons picture makes this site bad enough as is.

[mrusk]

warren, little girls taking on myspace and face book use "hehe" to try and sound cute/funny/sexy. if you want to sound like your laughing use "haha" so you dont sound like such a feminine little fa g and so i can sleep at night. bobcat rons picture makes this site bad enough as is.

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[farmerknowsbest]

warren, little girls taking on myspace and face book use "hehe" to try and sound cute/funny/sexy. if you want to sound like your laughing use "haha" so you dont sound like such a feminine little fa g and so i can sleep at night. bobcat rons picture makes this site bad enough as is.

Ugh huh. See I would point out your spelling and grammar mistakes, but I don't want my thread pulled for a pointless fight.

HE HE!

[P.Services]

man i cant spell my own name half the time and i have no idea how to use their, there, or their in the right way same thing with were or where??? i just switch it up and use a different one now and then.

im not being a jerk just giving you some honest feed back. really grown men dont use hehe. i dont like to even txt other guys it just feels gay to me.

[P.Services]

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thank you for the support rusker i new i would like you some day

[Junior M]

thank you for the support rusker i new i would like you some day
do you like anyone here? :laugh:

[P.Services]

i like the people in my friends list. i like sfl cuz that guy can pull some hot a$$ to. your all right. rusk can be a a$$ but some day im going to have hardscape questions for him so i cant say what i really think about his work :) your on my friends right? your allright. i have a "crude" sence of humor you just have to understand it.

[farmerknowsbest]

I'm not trying to start a fight either...BUT...real men aren't bigots either. I'm sure you'll assume I'm a homosexual simply because of that last statement, but it really doesn't matter, even though I'm not. The sexual orientation of any one of the thousands of members of this forum shouldn't weigh any burden on the direction the topic takes. Why even bring it up? Don't bother bringing it up again in one of my threads.

I hope you enjoyed the video and photos I posted as that is what the thread was intended for. I'm a moderator of another forum and I actually like it when a thread goes off on a bit of a tangent, but the tangent has to have some sort of relevance to the forum man. Sexual orientation doesn't have any place on a heavy equipment forum.

Warren

[stuvecorp]

man i cant spell my own name half the time and i have no idea how to use their, there, or their in the right way same thing with were or where??? i just switch it up and use a different one now and then.

im not being a jerk just giving you some honest feed back. really grown men dont use hehe. i dont like to even txt other guys it just feels gay to me.

:dizzy::rolleyes:

Any way, back the programing. How many acres do you clear in a year?

[P.Services]

yes i did, i have spent a few hours on your website reading actually. i wasnt being a jerk its just the truth.

[bobcat_ron]

warren, little girls taking on myspace and face book use "hehe" to try and sound cute/funny/sexy. If you want to sound like your laughing use "haha" so you dont sound like such a feminine little fa g and so i can sleep at night. Bobcat rons picture makes this site bad enough as is.

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