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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 26, 2012 21:01:29 GMT -5
Just happened to catch this rig as it was making it's way across hiway 6 headed east in North Central Missouri. Thought I'd share it here since I've only seen one or two pics of others like it. It's not close to home by any means ... some speculation is it's from Bethany possibly which is about 75 miles west northwest of where this pic was taken. Attachments:
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 26, 2012 21:02:51 GMT -5
one more pic just before it got 'out of sight'. Attachments:
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Post by acfarmer on May 28, 2012 9:11:27 GMT -5
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 28, 2012 11:00:00 GMT -5
Photoshopped U just wish there was something arrnge under it. LOL I aren't smart nuf to make up something like this anyway.  |
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Post by SilverCrescent on May 28, 2012 11:55:37 GMT -5
Could you clean the windows before taking the pic next time? Geeeze....
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Post by 3020 on May 28, 2012 18:21:22 GMT -5
Looks like you would lose too much time refilling the thing. Isn't like you can just unhook and hook onto another.
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 28, 2012 20:14:54 GMT -5
Could you clean the windows before taking the pic next time? Geeeze.... Nope, not gonna do it 'til it rains.  |
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 28, 2012 20:18:52 GMT -5
Looks like you would lose too much time refilling the thing. Isn't like you can just unhook and hook onto another. I was wondering about that too. but it looks like it would hold close to a full transport load ... so deliveries may come staight to the field |
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Post by ses on May 31, 2012 20:14:02 GMT -5
There is an outfit from Garden City Kansas who runs several of these rigs. I think they pull WAKO tool bars. The picture is not photo shopped, that's what they look like. They do just bring semi loads to the fields. Think they have either scales on the rig or something like Exactrix that meters the gallons. I'd bet money these are from Garden City.
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on May 31, 2012 20:46:42 GMT -5
There is an outfit from Garden City Kansas who runs several of these rigs. I think they pull WAKO tool bars. The picture is not photo shopped, that's what they look like. They do just bring semi loads to the fields. Think they have either scales on the rig or something like Exactrix that meters the gallons. I'd bet money these are from Garden City. I posted these pics on another site and got pretty good info on who runs them and who they're working for based soley on where I seen this one. The guys they are applying for rent a lot of ground in this area and the fert dealer is from their home area in NW Missouri. The info I gathered was they were built by an company in Oklahoma and they've been scattered across the western corn growing region. This particular rig was one of several thought to have come from a closed dealer somewhere in KS to a multi-location dealer 'here'. There may be more of these applicators around the country than anyone would guess. |
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Post by SMASH on May 31, 2012 22:44:33 GMT -5
I wonder what ground he is covering. That rig does not look like it could side dress.  maybe just moving from point A to B. |
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Post by ses on Jun 2, 2012 8:09:18 GMT -5
The WAKO tool bars are made in Oklahoma. I doubt if they even try to sidedress, way too many big tires to do that I think. They were up here in NW Kansas one time fertilizing wheat ground. We looked into it but decided they were too expensive. Big assed rigs though.
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on Jun 2, 2012 21:32:41 GMT -5
I wonder what ground he is covering. That rig does not look like it could side dress. maybe just moving from point A to B. They were going the wrong direction to just be going from A to B. Getting farther and farther away from they're home base ... and it looks like that rig isn't too 'haul friendly'. This is Missery, corn has been planted way up into June in the past 'here'. Guessing they were still putting down smoke for one of the bigger renters in northwest and north central MO. Agree on the tires being too big to sideress. |
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Post by cowboycorn on Jun 14, 2012 11:33:20 GMT -5
If I ain't mistaken, that is a strip-til toolbar. Seen in it my neck of the woods earlier in the season. There are several other identical rigs with WAKO coulter/knife units on them. I have run right across the road from these rigs with my WAKO NTO high speed toolbar, and run circles around these guys. I cover more acres in a day with a 32' rig than these 45-50, maybe even 60' rigs. They often don't start until 10:00 or after, and quittin' time is long before dark. They are filled in the field by a transport, that big tank holds about 5000 gallons (give or take, half a transport load) and often sit and wait for hours for a refill. I run a 200 horse FWA, built my tool, and have way less input than these guys, cover more acres in a day, leave less tracks with the disc units than knives, and get more work each year that they can't get to. I'm gonna have to build another tool just to keep up with the increased acres, and I don't want to. Hell of a problem to have, ain't it.
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Post by JoshuaGA on Jun 14, 2012 20:57:21 GMT -5
I cant figure out why in the world you want a tank of anhydros what looks to be 3 foot from the back glass. Never mind seeing the toolbar if it plugs up, looks like it would be dangerous if you ever blew a line, don't look like you could get away fast enough.
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maybe just moving from point A to B.