Bob Equipment - great company located fifteen minutes from us. The family behind the company are wonderful folks. This brought back some good memories, thank you!
Jason, thanks for the great video. I'm from far western NY but this is the first time I've seen kidney beans being grown and harvested. About 40years ago this area grew many acres of green and yellow string beans, but not so much now. Most of the acres have been taken over with corn and soybeans. We used to have a canning factory in South Dayton NY only 10 miles from here, and also some food factories in Dunkirk NY. Also about 10 miles away,Red wing, Kraft foods, Conagra, etc. All gone now. Great video's.
Thank you for posting. I grew in WNY near Rochester. There allot of green beans. I remember the Chisholm Ryder crews in 5 to 10 harvesters collection the green and yellow beans. Mount Morris and Bergen still have canning plants. My-T Acres in Batavia is the largest green bean producer in WNY today raising 2,200 acres a year. In the 1970’s and 1980’s and into the 1990’s kidney beans were a big crop in the Rochester area. The rotation was wheat, corn and kidney beans. Caledonia had an AgWay dry bean plant and it is still in full operation today as Caledonia Bean. In the early 1990’s soybeans started coming into the area. They were easier to raise and harvest and they quickly replaced kidney beans region. There are still dry bean growers in WNY. Black beans are very popular because you can direct cut them with a combine but if you look you will see some kidney bean growers out there.
What a treat this video is Jason. Have never seen this kind of crop harvested before. The American farmers and their equipment are awesome and a testament to American ingenuity. Thanks
Tracy CA used to be the center of dry bean production and saw many twin cylinder C B Hayes combines used to harvest them. They are scarce anymore but occasionally you will see one for sale or in a farm lot. Most beans are now harvested with CIH rotary combines. Good video - enjoyed learning about the Bob combine.
I love watching different crops being harvested. I still am amazed at how brussel sprouts are handled. AND I still think it is some kind of magic going on inside of a fresh pea harvester. Heck, when I tried to pick & shell them maually, there's always some squished. SO HOW DOES A MACHINE DO IT?!?!? Thanks Jason.
Being from WNY - I only see soybeens, wheat, and corn. Once and a while cabbage. Its great to see other produce coming from my area that I had no idea we grew. Its also refreshing to see these different harvests, not that I don't enjoy the Western KY staple crops, I hope we see more random crops. Thanks as always Jason :)
Before soybeans were introduced into WNY in the early 1990’s most every grain farm raised kidney beans in a wheat, corn, kidney bean rotation over three years. You saw BOB combines every where in the fall. Today turtle soup beans are a more common dry bean raised in WNY and are direct cut with a combine. There is a kidney bean processing plant in Caledonia that was owned by Ag Way for many years.
I’m glad this video finally came out! I’ve been waiting almost a year to see our combines in action. Shoutout to Josh Raut of Tractor Chasers for filming this video!
Thank you. Josh does a great job filming. I grew up in Western New York and appreciate his help in getting the area featured on RUclips. BTP has 4 years of farm machines filmed so I am often a year behind in releasing videos. Glad to get this one published.
I really like this kind of video on vegetable farms to see the different kinds of machinery to harvest the crop. The engineers that design this type of equipment certainly earns my respect.
I live in Ohio. I'm used to corn, soybeans, wheat & oats harvested. This is so cool and unique. Amazing how diverse agriculture is. Thanks for the info Jason 👍🏻.
Nice to see other crops being harvested besides the usual wheat, corn and soybeans. I'd like to see other different crop varieties and the different equipment required to harvest them too. I've been a subscriber for a while now and always enjoy your content.
@@bigtractorpower Interesting! I'm from Illinois and of course there is a wide variety of soils here...some a bit rocky but not like that, I farmed when I was a kid in Southern Illinois but that was a long long time ago. Great video, I always like your content, especially harvest videos.
Yeah, it’s a miracle that rocks somehow don’t get pulled into the machine along with the beans being harvested or that would be some very costly internal damage just waiting to happen, probably costing far more than the profit from canning and selling those kidney beans.
I grow up working for my uncle in central New York in the '70s. He raised red kidney beans. Near 100 acres of them. Loved it. He used the same harvesters made buy this same company. And yes in central New York we had a lot of stones. Grampa joked we grow a good crop of them!
Those pickers are doing a remarkable job. Very stony ground, they could do with a good “rock picker “as well as a bean picker. Regards from Down Under.
I grew up in WNY. Almost every grain farm I knew had BOB in the 80’s and 90’s. I got a chance to tour the factory in December 2002. The day I went they were making some red 56 and 666 models.
These combines are simular to the combines used to pick peanuts. Would love to see U show peanuts being harvested. We wind row our crops simular to the beans. Thanks for this video.
Thank you for showcasing some rarely seen machinery! Where I live here in Southwest Idaho, they use a similar-looking combine called a Pickett for harvesting pinto beans. They are manufactured in Brazil.
Thank you for watching. I grew up in Western New York and kidney beans were a main crop for many years. Soybeans began being raised in WNY in the early 90’s and replaced kidney beans on many farms. Dry beans continue to be a good crop for WNY although direct cutting with combines with draper heads have started to replace the pull type kidney bean combines.
I’m from central Michigan and I grow light red kidneys. That puller on the front of that puma isn’t a rod puller it’s a knife puller. I run the same setup but pull a harriston rodder windrower behind the tractor. I also run a 56 bob combine with a 215 magnum on the front
i guess they don't have much call for rock dust in that soil. it was used heavily in the 70s for very good reasons. hope these farmers posted a good year. thanks for sharing
This isn't something you see every day! I like seeing this kind of stuff in addition to all your other videos! Keep up the good work! I must say, I'm a bit jealous of your job! :)
I e hot highlighting different farming. I grew up in WNY watching kidney bean harvest every fall. I was excited to show the BOB combines. When I was a kid wheat, corn, and kind er beans were the annual crop rotation on all farms in the region.
We grow black beans not far from these guys, however we direct cut those. Many people still pull and combine kidneys and cranberries but more are direct cutting blacks. Great video as always!
Hi Tom. Direct cutting sure makes the harvesting process easier. Thank you for sharing. Hopefully Josh and I can get your dry bean harvest here on the channel some time.
It is a different crop. Before soybeans started being planted in WNY in the 1990’a most grain farms raised kidney beans in rotation of wheat, corn and kidney beans over three years.
I grew up in Western New York. The BOB combines which came in a 4, 5 and 6 size were the main way kidney beans were harvested for many years. In the 80’s several farms used 7720 Deere combines with 653A all crop heads to cut head lands to speed up the windrowing in the center of the field. Also in muddy wet years the 653A head was a good way to get the beans out. I see in sales brochures a variety of combines being used to harvest pinto beans. I sure would like to see an N7 action.
I grew up in Western New York and almost every grain farm I knew had BOB combines. I got a chance to tour the factory in December 2002. It was a neat place.
Grew up on a farm between Rochester & Syracuse. We grew light red kidneys. Had a Bob 44(?) we pulled with either a Ford 7700 mfwd or a Ford 9600, depending upon other farm needs. Absolute beast for edible beans.
Very cool. I am a Ford fan. I grew up just west of Rochester on I90. I had a dairy farm neighbor that was all Ford. They had a 9000 cab, 7000 ROPS, 5000 open station and a 5000 industrial with loader and a Ford 640 combine. Another Neighor in grain that was all Oliver ran a Bob 44 on a 1755.
Used to raise white navy beans and pinto beans here in MI. Used to pull them and windrow them just like here but we used a bean pickup on our regular combines heads
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
It’s great that you showed this, we’ve been doing EB’s for about 20 years. It’s not that I’m any kind of marketing genius or planner, but their is a high premium on these niche crops, and the thing that drove me into them is it’s one hell of a way to squeeze revenue out of an acre, much cheaper than more land and million dollar combines. I’ve always direct sold everything. That’s a job in its own right. Over time, as I find myself out looking for more land and high dollar equipment, I’m a cash buyer, no debt load in my ROI estimations. Food is medicine. It’s funny how what we pay for medical vs food has inverted over the past 50 years as ag has become a corn, soybean and wheat industry. We’re importing 70-80 of organic products, and most of them are prob fake organic. US sourced brings a lot more money. It goes without saying. The organic label means nothing if your not packing the product full of nutrient density with regenerative farming practices. I highly encourage everyone to dip their toes into the green side. I didn’t have a fraction of the help and info that is available now.
Thanks Jason, In my youth (1970's) in the thumb of MI there were many verities of dry beans grown. I don't think they are much any more. Nice video, Boe
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
Hallo janson, thanks sooo mch for this video, next year i am going into kidney beans large scale farming in africa, and this video has really helped me to know and understand the kinds of tractors i need, thanks a lot, be blessed
Very interesting. I did not know kidney beans were raised in Africa. The PUMA tractors do nice job. What brand of combine is sold in your region. Today Columbo and Pickett Twin Master pull type combines are used for kidney beans.
@@bigtractorpower Yes we grow lots of kidney beans in africa, thogh in small scale,i will check my dealer if he has columbo, or pickett, if not i order them from overseas
Thanks for the diversity BTP, enjoy this stuff. I remember some of the 1960s JD combines labeled as ‘EB’ which I understood as edible bean. Not sure what was different about them.
Jason, I have a correction for you. The puller was actually a knife puller, not a rod. The windower was accurate. I ran a Bob in the 90s, what a weapon. Love your videos! Keep it up
It is interesting how crops change from region to region. I grew up in WNY and it was mainly a rotation of wheat, corn and kidney beans. That was the norm. I enjoy getting to cover veggie, peanut and cotton crops and all the different harvesters. I hope to see a Sugar Cane harvest some day.
They were a big crop in WNY at one time. Before soybeans were introduced to the region in the 1990’s. At one time most grain farms in WNY raised wheat, corn and kidney beans on a three year rotation.
Now this is something I've never seen before! Thank you so much for this video. Do you know what other kidney bean harvesters are currently on the market, now that BOB Equipment is not manufactured anymore?
We're a small farm in Western Pennsylvania we do not do anything unique like kidney beans we are mostly strictly agronomic corn small grain and hay to feed our 70 Head beef hard. But we do run international in case international stuff and with one McCormick thrown in there. Just love to see the red paint running
I am looking to start commercial farming in Uganda and beans are a staple there therefore this harvester would be of great help. I will contact the company regarding size options. Thanks great information I had the chance to see the peanut planter puller and harvester as well. Great work
there were a few speciality harvester manufacturers in this area, Castle Harvesters built cabbage harvesters and Porterway Harvesters built machines for harvesting tomatoes
WNY has a great history in speciality crops. I have Porterway sales brochures from the 1940’s on their pea lifter line that cut and picked up pea vines and loaded them on trucks and wagons to be hauled to the pea viner.
I almost fell off my recliner when I saw all the stones in the field!!😳😳😳 They don’t roll there fields after seeding? Does that combine handle stones OK?
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
I grew up in WNY. Soybeans did not start being raised in the region until the 1990’s. Most grain farms in the 70’s and 80’s had wheat, corn and kidney beans. The rotation when from wheat to corn to kidney beans and back to wheat. Soybeans replaced many kidney bean acres but several farms still raise dry beans.
Hi. I grew up near Caledonia several farms I grew up by ran 44s. A close neighboring farm ran a 44 for years on an Oliver 1755. The farm in this video is R.L. Jeffres most well know for their POD Squad pea combine crew that travels around WNY in June and July harvesting peas and Lima beans in August and September.
The stones are an issue. Every few rounds they stop to clear stones off the pick up. The field has a rock picker run over it every year. Their are piles of stones 10ft tall lining the field. The glacier the formed Lake Ontario left allot of stones across NY. Every winter they push up from the soil. No matter how many years you rock pick there will always be more the next season.
@@bigtractorpower I’m in Wisconsin and we have the same issue in some areas . In some places they are so big and numerous that I don’t know how anyone could have farmed .
I do not know what a Bob sold for new. The last one was built in 2003 and Draper heads on combines has eliminated many dry bean combines like these. You can buy one today for as little as $2,000.
With BOB equipment being out of business since 2003 I can’t help but wonder how difficult it is getting parts to keep these machines in good operating condition. Or if a specialty company like OXBO has taken over the role of manufacturing these specialized machines.
Interesting, I did not know until now that the beans that were used in chili were kidney beans, so I’ve basically been unknowingly eating kidney beans without realizing it. 😂😂😂
Hey Greg, I was in one of the pumas in this video harvesting beans and I would just like to say that these machines most certainly do not sift out rocks, haha! We usually have to manually remove the rocks from the heads of the combines every couple of bin fulls, otherwise the rocks will create a sort of wall in front of the thrashing cylinder and make it hard to feed the beans into the combine.
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
They can cover 24 acres an hour. The unload time is 1:06 second start to finish into the truck. The fields are not big enough in length to need a dump cart for kidney beans. In the begging of the video you can see one of the farms dump carts used to keep their OXBO pea combines on the move. They also have a custom double box dump cart that a Quadtrac 580 pulls. You can see the double cart at the 8:43 min mark in this video ruclips.net/video/sX0wHQBk8vc/видео.html
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
Oh man.... That's a LOT of stones in this field. Why not remove 'em, to load of the wear and tear on all the equipment that needs to go through that soil. It would remove a lot of un-nessesary tear on all the equipment.
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
I've always thought it would be so cool to be part of a farming family. Well not in today's world. But I'd also like to go back in time & cut Monsanto off at the knees & neck before it ever has a real chance at going. Because they've become the biggest enemy of farmers & consumers. Well they ditched that evil name of course. But anywho, buy local at your farmers markets. Because that's the only real support they get now. Always give thanks for your farmers. If not for them & bees... You'd starve.
No one’s never made sense to me, Jason you always mention the engine horsepower of a particular tractor but you always always leave out but PTO to work. Why do you do that? Why don’t you just mention both of those things seriously ma’am
When pto hp gave way to engine horse power I used to mention both 10 years ago. Engine horse power has become the standard. In a full spec video on a tractor which is the focus of the video I give engine, max and pto hp. In this video the focus was the Bob Combine and there was a 220 and two 240 Pumas. It just adds extra talk to give out specs on multiple tractors that don’t match in specs. In most cases pto hp is about 35-40 hp less than the engine hp.
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Bob Equipment - great company located fifteen minutes from us. The family behind the company are wonderful folks. This brought back some good memories, thank you!
WOW! That's some rocky soil! I can imagine what a disk sounds like going through those fields.
Jason, thanks for the great video. I'm from far western NY but this is the first time I've seen kidney beans being grown and harvested. About 40years ago this area grew many acres of green and yellow string beans, but not so much now. Most of the acres have been taken over with corn and soybeans. We used to have a canning factory in South Dayton NY only 10 miles from here, and also some food factories in Dunkirk NY. Also about 10 miles away,Red wing, Kraft foods, Conagra, etc. All gone now. Great video's.
Thank you for posting. I grew in WNY near Rochester. There allot of green beans. I remember the Chisholm Ryder crews in 5 to 10 harvesters collection the green and yellow beans. Mount Morris and Bergen still have canning plants. My-T Acres in Batavia is the largest green bean producer in WNY today raising 2,200 acres a year.
In the 1970’s and 1980’s and into the 1990’s kidney beans were a big crop in the Rochester area. The rotation was wheat, corn and kidney beans. Caledonia had an AgWay dry bean plant and it is still in full operation today as Caledonia Bean.
In the early 1990’s soybeans started coming into the area. They were easier to raise and harvest and they quickly replaced kidney beans region. There are still dry bean growers in WNY. Black beans are very popular because you can direct cut them with a combine but if you look you will see some kidney bean growers out there.
What a treat this video is Jason. Have never seen this kind of crop harvested before. The American farmers and their equipment are awesome and a testament to American ingenuity. Thanks
Tracy CA used to be the center of dry bean production and saw many twin cylinder C B Hayes combines used to harvest them. They are scarce anymore but occasionally you will see one for sale or in a farm lot. Most beans are now harvested with CIH rotary combines. Good video - enjoyed learning about the Bob combine.
This harvesting is unique. Thank you for showing this process!
I really like seeing specialized harvesting equipment. Really unique and interesting equipment/techniques!
I love watching different crops being harvested. I still am amazed at how brussel sprouts are handled. AND I still think it is some kind of magic going on inside of a fresh pea harvester. Heck, when I tried to pick & shell them maually, there's always some squished. SO HOW DOES A MACHINE DO IT?!?!? Thanks Jason.
Being from WNY - I only see soybeens, wheat, and corn. Once and a while cabbage. Its great to see other produce coming from my area that I had no idea we grew. Its also refreshing to see these different harvests, not that I don't enjoy the Western KY staple crops, I hope we see more random crops. Thanks as always Jason :)
Before soybeans were introduced into WNY in the early 1990’s most every grain farm raised kidney beans in a wheat, corn, kidney bean rotation over three years. You saw BOB combines every where in the fall. Today turtle soup beans are a more common dry bean raised in WNY and are direct cut with a combine. There is a kidney bean processing plant in Caledonia that was owned by Ag Way for many years.
@@bigtractorpower is that RL Jeffres?
I’m glad this video finally came out! I’ve been waiting almost a year to see our combines in action. Shoutout to Josh Raut of Tractor Chasers for filming this video!
Thanks William! It was an awesome day of filming! 😁
Where abouts are you guys located? Im in macedon but grew up in phelps and swear ive seen these guys working
Thank you. Josh does a great job filming. I grew up in Western New York and appreciate his help in getting the area featured on RUclips. BTP has 4 years of farm machines filmed so I am often a year behind in releasing videos. Glad to get this one published.
I really like this kind of video on vegetable farms to see the different kinds of machinery to harvest the crop. The engineers that design this type of equipment certainly earns my respect.
I live in Ohio. I'm used to corn, soybeans, wheat & oats harvested. This is so cool and unique. Amazing how diverse agriculture is. Thanks for the info Jason 👍🏻.
Same
Nice to see other crops being harvested besides the usual wheat, corn and soybeans. I'd like to see other different crop varieties and the different equipment required to harvest them too. I've been a subscriber for a while now and always enjoy your content.
wow that is some rocky ground!
That is classic WNY. Lots of stones.
@@bigtractorpower Interesting! I'm from Illinois and of course there is a wide variety of soils here...some a bit rocky but not like that, I farmed when I was a kid in Southern Illinois but that was a long long time ago. Great video, I always like your content, especially harvest videos.
Those stones make my rocky ground look like a paradise.
Yeah, it’s a miracle that rocks somehow don’t get pulled into the machine along with the beans being harvested or that would be some very costly internal damage just waiting to happen, probably costing far more than the profit from canning and selling those kidney beans.
I grow up working for my uncle in central New York in the '70s. He raised red kidney beans. Near 100 acres of them. Loved it. He used the same harvesters made buy this same company. And yes in central New York we had a lot of stones. Grampa joked we grow a good crop of them!
Those pickers are doing a remarkable job. Very stony ground, they could do with a good “rock picker “as well as a bean picker. Regards from Down Under.
"Oh you have combines?! What are they? Case Axial Flows? Deere?"
No, I have a Bob
lol, cool vid great to see
BOB equipment combines,,, the absolute best for dry beans! Made about 15 minutes from where I live! They were quite a machine when they debuted.
I grew up in WNY. Almost every grain farm I knew had BOB in the 80’s and 90’s. I got a chance to tour the factory in December 2002. The day I went they were making some red 56 and 666 models.
I love to see different harvesting like this. thanks.
Thank you for watching. There are so many interesting harvesters out there.
This is a great video. I enjoy seeing how other crops are grown. That for thanking me along.
Wow …a first for me too see this ,thanx for the upload
I love kidney beans, but they don't love me. LOL! It is always interesting to see specialized equipment, like the combines in this video.🙂
These combines are simular to the combines used to pick peanuts. Would love to see U show peanuts being harvested. We wind row our crops simular to the beans. Thanks for this video.
Thank you for showcasing some rarely seen machinery! Where I live here in Southwest Idaho, they use a similar-looking combine called a Pickett for harvesting pinto beans. They are manufactured in Brazil.
You always get to see new stuff here on big tractor power thanks Jason I appreciate it that was interesting learning about them
Thank you for watching. I grew up in Western New York and kidney beans were a main crop for many years. Soybeans began being raised in WNY in the early 90’s and replaced kidney beans on many farms. Dry beans continue to be a good crop for WNY although direct cutting with combines with draper heads have started to replace the pull type kidney bean combines.
What I noticed right away is how rocky that field is… wow!! It almost looks like Irish potatoes covering the bare ground. 😂
That was my first thought. It's almost like they're rock farming.
I’m from central Michigan and I grow light red kidneys. That puller on the front of that puma isn’t a rod puller it’s a knife puller. I run the same setup but pull a harriston rodder windrower behind the tractor. I also run a 56 bob combine with a 215 magnum on the front
Thank you. I had not seen that type off pulled before. Most farms run Heath or Pickett. Nice set up with the 215 and 56.
I’m from Indiana, have never seen how kidney beans are harvested. Thanks for sharing this with us.
i guess they don't have much call for rock dust in that soil. it was used heavily in the 70s for very good reasons. hope these farmers posted a good year. thanks for sharing
This isn't something you see every day! I like seeing this kind of stuff in addition to all your other videos! Keep up the good work! I must say, I'm a bit jealous of your job! :)
thanks for this great video of equipment we dont see everyday
I e hot highlighting different farming. I grew up in WNY watching kidney bean harvest every fall. I was excited to show the BOB combines. When I was a kid wheat, corn, and kind er beans were the annual crop rotation on all farms in the region.
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Thank you for watching.
We grow black beans not far from these guys, however we direct cut those. Many people still pull and combine kidneys and cranberries but more are direct cutting blacks. Great video as always!
Hi Tom. Direct cutting sure makes the harvesting process easier. Thank you for sharing. Hopefully Josh and I can get your dry bean harvest here on the channel some time.
What an interesting video! Nice to see how kidney beans get harvested, this farm runs impressive pull type combines😁👍
I had never seen dry beans harvested very interesting
It is a different crop. Before soybeans started being planted in WNY in the 1990’a most grain farms raised kidney beans in rotation of wheat, corn and kidney beans over three years.
Fantastic! Thought rotary took over. Planning on Pintos in Kansas next year. Just need an old N7 or maybe a walker type. Love that unique machinery
I grew up in Western New York. The BOB combines which came in a 4, 5 and 6 size were the main way kidney beans were harvested for many years. In the 80’s several farms used 7720 Deere combines with 653A all crop heads to cut head lands to speed up the windrowing in the center of the field. Also in muddy wet years the 653A head was a good way to get the beans out. I see in sales brochures a variety of combines being used to harvest pinto beans. I sure would like to see an N7 action.
My oldest brother worked at Bob Equipment building those bean combines from the early 70s till it went out of business.
I grew up in Western New York and almost every grain farm I knew had BOB combines. I got a chance to tour the factory in December 2002. It was a neat place.
Very intriguing feeding mechanism on that machine.
Enjoyed this video of a unique crop.
Yes the arms rake and pull the crop material in the combine rather than using a cross auger that might crack and spit the beans.
Thanks for sharing. This need to see different farm crops around the states.
It is always interesting to see the different crops and unique machinery involved in raising and harvesting it. Thank you for watching it.
Grew up on a farm between Rochester & Syracuse. We grew light red kidneys. Had a Bob 44(?) we pulled with either a Ford 7700 mfwd or a Ford 9600, depending upon other farm needs. Absolute beast for edible beans.
Very cool. I am a Ford fan. I grew up just west of Rochester on I90. I had a dairy farm neighbor that was all Ford. They had a 9000 cab, 7000 ROPS, 5000 open station and a 5000 industrial with loader and a Ford 640 combine. Another Neighor in grain that was all Oliver ran a Bob 44 on a 1755.
Used to raise white navy beans and pinto beans here in MI. Used to pull them and windrow them just like here but we used a bean pickup on our regular combines heads
Does this method still rely on pulling the beans?
I've never seen beans of this type being harvested nor that they made different style bean harvesters. You learn everyday.
WOW there's a few rocks in that field
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
It’s great that you showed this, we’ve been doing EB’s for about 20 years. It’s not that I’m any kind of marketing genius or planner, but their is a high premium on these niche crops, and the thing that drove me into them is it’s one hell of a way to squeeze revenue out of an acre, much cheaper than more land and million dollar combines. I’ve always direct sold everything. That’s a job in its own right. Over time, as I find myself out looking for more land and high dollar equipment, I’m a cash buyer, no debt load in my ROI estimations.
Food is medicine. It’s funny how what we pay for medical vs food has inverted over the past 50 years as ag has become a corn, soybean and wheat industry. We’re importing 70-80 of organic products, and most of them are prob fake organic. US sourced brings a lot more money.
It goes without saying. The organic label means nothing if your not packing the product full of nutrient density with regenerative farming practices. I highly encourage everyone to dip their toes into the green side. I didn’t have a fraction of the help and info that is available now.
Thank you for sharing. Edible beans are a good crop.
Thanks Jason,
In my youth (1970's) in the thumb of MI there were many verities of dry beans grown. I don't think they are much any more.
Nice video, Boe
on the cooking shows, they often advise to empty the beans onto a sheet tray to check for stones. Now I see why!
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
Hallo janson, thanks sooo mch for this video, next year i am going into kidney beans large scale farming in africa, and this video has really helped me to know and understand the kinds of tractors i need, thanks a lot, be blessed
Very interesting. I did not know kidney beans were raised in Africa. The PUMA tractors do nice job. What brand of combine is sold in your region. Today Columbo and Pickett Twin Master pull type combines are used for kidney beans.
@@bigtractorpower Yes we grow lots of kidney beans in africa, thogh in small scale,i will check my dealer if he has columbo, or pickett, if not i order them from overseas
Great vídeo Jason.
Thanks for the diversity BTP, enjoy this stuff. I remember some of the 1960s JD combines labeled as ‘EB’ which I understood as edible bean. Not sure what was different about them.
Jason, I have a correction for you. The puller was actually a knife puller, not a rod. The windower was accurate. I ran a Bob in the 90s, what a weapon. Love your videos! Keep it up
Thank you. I grew up watching Heath, John Deere and Pickett pullers. I had not seen this brand before. Thank you for the info.
Good day from Angola, very interesting harvesting video, good variation from the normal corn/soybean/wheat machinery
All those rocks look like a combine nightmare!
Awesome video Jason, something completely different. I love it
Thank you for watching.
Wow, very interesting to see what others raise and harvest. Great video as always. Cheers :)
It is interesting how crops change from region to region. I grew up in WNY and it was mainly a rotation of wheat, corn and kidney beans. That was the norm. I enjoy getting to cover veggie, peanut and cotton crops and all the different harvesters. I hope to see a Sugar Cane harvest some day.
Definitely a different type of crop video and very interesting.
They were a big crop in WNY at one time. Before soybeans were introduced to the region in the 1990’s. At one time most grain farms in WNY raised wheat, corn and kidney beans on a three year rotation.
Well I’ve never seen that before. Neat
Bel video. Bravo. Bei mezzi.
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Cool video Jason. those look a lot like peanut pickers from Field Rows videos.
Now this is something I've never seen before! Thank you so much for this video. Do you know what other kidney bean harvesters are currently on the market, now that BOB Equipment is not manufactured anymore?
We're a small farm in Western Pennsylvania we do not do anything unique like kidney beans we are mostly strictly agronomic corn small grain and hay to feed our 70 Head beef hard. But we do run international in case international stuff and with one McCormick thrown in there. Just love to see the red paint running
I am looking to start commercial farming in Uganda and beans are a staple there therefore this harvester would be of great help. I will contact the company regarding size options. Thanks great information
I had the chance to see the peanut planter puller and harvester as well. Great work
Man a Pequa rock picker would go a long way there…..
Excellent video, I know Midwest row crops, great to see something different. I think you covered peas before if not , hint…hint…
there were a few speciality harvester manufacturers in this area, Castle Harvesters built cabbage harvesters and Porterway Harvesters built machines for harvesting tomatoes
WNY has a great history in speciality crops. I have Porterway sales brochures from the 1940’s on their pea lifter line that cut and picked up pea vines and loaded them on trucks and wagons to be hauled to the pea viner.
Great informational experience.
Thank you for watching. Kidney beans are a different crop from the typical tie crop mix.
there is always a first time for everything
never seen this harvest before
Thank you for watching. The BOB combines are interesting harvesters.
I almost fell off my recliner when I saw all the stones in the field!!😳😳😳 They don’t roll there fields after seeding? Does that combine handle stones OK?
Very informative Jason.I thought those bean harvesters were made by KMC manufacturing in Georgia.They look similar
That farm must be in Missouri oh it’s New York I see all the Rocks like here in Missouri!
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
Are those rocks?
I’d also love to see other crops harvested beyond the regular wheat,corn and soybeans grown in my area
I grew up in WNY. Soybeans did not start being raised in the region until the 1990’s. Most grain farms in the 70’s and 80’s had wheat, corn and kidney beans. The rotation when from wheat to corn to kidney beans and back to wheat. Soybeans replaced many kidney bean acres but several farms still raise dry beans.
Hey those look like peanut harvesters. They are harvesting peanuts in Georgia and Florida now.
There are similarities. Amadas sold some combines in WNY about 20 years ago. Many farms are switching to direct cutting dry beans with combines.
Looks like a 2 row KMC peanut thrasher or combine.
The farm I work for runs 2 bean pullers 1 Bob combine and 2 Pickett combines.
Very cool.
Are those sund pickups are they still being made
They went out of production in 2003.
nice video. who are the farmers? i grow light red kidney beans in penn yan ny. i use a slightly older and smaller Bob Equipment model 44 combine
Hi. I grew up near Caledonia several farms I grew up by ran 44s. A close neighboring farm ran a 44 for years on an Oliver 1755. The farm in this video is R.L. Jeffres most well know for their POD Squad pea combine crew that travels around WNY in June and July harvesting peas and Lima beans in August and September.
Looks like a lot of small stones on top of the soil , do they ever run them thru the harvesters ?
The stones are an issue. Every few rounds they stop to clear stones off the pick up. The field has a rock picker run over it every year. Their are piles of stones 10ft tall lining the field. The glacier the formed Lake Ontario left allot of stones across NY. Every winter they push up from the soil. No matter how many years you rock pick there will always be more the next season.
@@bigtractorpower I’m in Wisconsin and we have the same issue in some areas . In some places they are so big and numerous that I don’t know how anyone could have farmed .
Good machine thank.donyou know the cost for the bean harvester 80acre per hour new and a used one
I do not know what a Bob sold for new. The last one was built in 2003 and Draper heads on combines has eliminated many dry bean combines like these. You can buy one today for as little as $2,000.
Kidney beans are good eating 😋 but they sure are expensive 💰
Could double as rock quarry
With BOB equipment being out of business since 2003 I can’t help but wonder how difficult it is getting parts to keep these machines in good operating condition. Or if a specialty company like OXBO has taken over the role of manufacturing these specialized machines.
LoL - I'm eating chilli with dark red kidney beans as I watch this.....
Very cool. Great meal. Thank you for watching.
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Never knew kidney beans were harvested like peanuts
You should come to Eastern North Carolina and watch them pick peanuts.
I live in eastern North Carolina and would love to come visit peanut harvest. I live near Wilson, in Middlesex.
Interesting, I did not know until now that the beans that were used in chili were kidney beans, so I’ve basically been unknowingly eating kidney beans without realizing it. 😂😂😂
That is incredibly rocky soil. I guess those machines are designed to sift out the rocks.
Hey Greg, I was in one of the pumas in this video harvesting beans and I would just like to say that these machines most certainly do not sift out rocks, haha! We usually have to manually remove the rocks from the heads of the combines every couple of bin fulls, otherwise the rocks will create a sort of wall in front of the thrashing cylinder and make it hard to feed the beans into the combine.
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
I'm courious how much they harvest per hour with 3 combines and no dump carts.....
They can cover 24 acres an hour. The unload time is 1:06 second start to finish into the truck. The fields are not big enough in length to need a dump cart for kidney beans. In the begging of the video you can see one of the farms dump carts used to keep their OXBO pea combines on the move. They also have a custom double box dump cart that a Quadtrac 580 pulls. You can see the double cart at the 8:43 min mark in this video ruclips.net/video/sX0wHQBk8vc/видео.html
@@bigtractorpower did they say how many acres they harvest of Red Kidney Bean.
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Weird looking machine, nothing like it in the UK. Very rocky/stoney field, would have been nice to see how the seed is planted in such stoney soil.
At first glance I thought they were harvesting kidney beans in a potato field,then I realized those were rocks.
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
@@bigtractorpower Wow! Another obstacle farmers there have to face every year.
Oh man....
That's a LOT of stones in this field.
Why not remove 'em, to load of the wear and tear on all the equipment that needs to go through that soil.
It would remove a lot of un-nessesary tear on all the equipment.
The pick rocks by the ton every spring. There are 10ft tall rock piles lining this field. Rocks are part of farming in Western New York. The glacier that formed Lake Ontario deposited rocks across the region. Some areas are gravel and some have a few large stones. As the ground freezes and thaws over the winter more stones push the surface. It’s on going event. All the stones will never be removed. They pick as many as possible every year.
What state is this?
Western new york
@@Josiahdrews1466 awsome got the same 2 harvesters also in western ny
Western New York region. I mention the filming location at the start of every video.
Kidney beans, Lima beans, just leave them in the ground. I came for the tractors not the beans.
Obviously the kidney beans are dry, so why don't they use a normal combine harvester?
The video title suggested to me that they are used to harvest the beans along with their fresh green pods.
Apparently the John Deer X9 combine is programmed to harvest anything including all fresh fruits and vegetables!
Source to follow..
I cannot find the specific video, but I watched it here: ruclips.net/channel/UCRDywryGtWBmac-O4AReYpA
Conventional combines are not gentle enough, they crack to many beans
@@davehalverson8450 Conventional tooth fairies break too many teeth too.
The combine is a odd looking critter
I've always thought it would be so cool to be part of a farming family. Well not in today's world. But I'd also like to go back in time & cut Monsanto off at the knees & neck before it ever has a real chance at going. Because they've become the biggest enemy of farmers & consumers. Well they ditched that evil name of course. But anywho, buy local at your farmers markets. Because that's the only real support they get now. Always give thanks for your farmers. If not for them & bees... You'd starve.
No one’s never made sense to me, Jason you always mention the engine horsepower of a particular tractor but you always always leave out but PTO to work. Why do you do that? Why don’t you just mention both of those things seriously ma’am
When pto hp gave way to engine horse power I used to mention both 10 years ago. Engine horse power has become the standard. In a full spec video on a tractor which is the focus of the video I give engine, max and pto hp. In this video the focus was the Bob Combine and there was a 220 and two 240 Pumas. It just adds extra talk to give out specs on multiple tractors that don’t match in specs. In most cases pto hp is about 35-40 hp less than the engine hp.
Beans means farts
5 & 20 hell yeah!! Ik where these guys are at
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