Roadtrip through the Rockies...

Hi followers, 

the chopper is ready to go and tomorow I will run my first demo around Caldwell in Idaho. Idaho is after California and Wisconsin the third biggest dairy region in the US, so that most of the chopping around here is done for cows. Chopping quality will be more demanded than in Texas. But now something about my 1400 miles roadtrip:

After leaving Fort Morgan on thursday morning, I hit the road through Denver and the Rockies. Unfortunately the weather was very bad, so that I couldn't see anything of the mountains. When I arrived in Utah, it was clearing up and I could take some nice pictures. Here are some impressions about the trip. Check out the good milages of my new vehicle, sponsored by MAN.

 

On Sunday my collegue Steve Barger showed me the region and my customers for this week in about 5500 ft height. He has a little airplane and took me for a flight. It was really interesting to see all those big dairies and the pivot irrigations, which they are also using in this region. When you look close, you should see those. Thanks a lot for the trip, Steve! It was really cool!

 

 

Pilot Steve and Co-Pilot BiG MAN looking forward to a succesful week of demonstrations in Idaho. I will keep you up to date what's going on!

All the best from Idaho, 


Benedikt

 

Greetings from Colorado

Hi followers, 

how you probably know, I am on my way to Idaho. Tonight I am staying in Fort Morgan, where I want to visit our Krone Dealer to plan the tour stop of the BiG MAN-Tour here in Colorado in detail. But first something about my last days in Texas: The last week I ran some demonstrations in the Northern Panhandle of Texas around Cactus and Stratford. Like everywhere, the customers were really impressed about the performance of the BiG X compared to the competitive machines. Now you think that’s easy because of more horsepower!? That’s right! But thanks to our Power Management System on the BiG X 1100, I have the possibility to change between different power modes. In EcoPower I am running with 850 hp like all the first class models of the competitives. In the same power range, I was still going up to 3 miles an hour faster. That’s because of our VariStream. Thanks to the spring loaded crop flow, the crop feeds much better through the machine and allows higher speeds in uneven swaths. Here are some impressions about the demos of last week. 

Besides some dairies, I was mostly chopping for the famous texan feed lots. The biggest I have heard about has nearly 130.000 head of cattle. You have to imagine about an area of a full section full with beef cattle. The pictures give you a little impression about that.

Because of the drought during the season, irrigation is a must in this region. Most famous are the pivot irrigations, which have a diameter of half a mile or a full mile. Last week I have seen a water drill rig in action. In some places they are drilling up to 600 feet deep to reach the water. Big pumps, driven by diesel engines, can pump up to 1500 gallons per minute for those pivot irrigations. I think that’s very impressive. 

For the next two days I will be on the road though the Rocky Mountains up to Idaho. I will start my demonstrations in the area around Caldwell. If you want to know, where I will run, please contact our Krone Dealer in Idaho, Burks Tractor. 

I will give you some impressions about my road trip in a few days. 

All the best from The BiG MAN,

Benedikt

Moving on to the North...

Hi followers, 

like I promised, I don’t want to wait you too long for some news about the “Meet the BiG MAN-Tour”. First of all I want to show you our new tour truck, which arrived beginning of this week. It really looks nice. Beside the chopper, I can now show the MAN-engine and the heavy duty wear parts of Busatis, which we are using in our choppers. The customers really likes it and the interest is huge. Thanks very much to MAN and Busatis, who are partnering with us for this demonstration tour. 

The last ten days I have spend in the Southern Panhandle of Texas and across the border to New Mexiko and demoed the BiG X 1100 to several customers in this area. They all really liked the machine and were impressed about the performance of the chopper. In this area it is very dry for several month now and the crops are not very heavy this year. So you have to go very fast to fill up the machine. Problem at high speed is the feeding of the PickUp. But not for the BiG MAN. Thanks to our camless PickUp Easy Flow 3801 and the infinite header speed adjustment of the chopper, I was able to go up to 14 miles an hour on the field without plugging up the header. Here are some impressions about the demos of last week..

You are probably wondering where I left my flags on the chopper. Beside the drought and high temperatures of around 85 ° F, we have a lot of wind up to 70 miles an hour. That’s too much for my flags. Because of the wind we have a lot of sand blowing. Here you can see a sand storm driving on the highway. 

Today we hauled the chopper to the Northern Panhandle. The next days I will run demos in the area around Cactus and Stratford. Next week, I will move over to Idaho. More about that in a few days…

Greetings from Texas, 

The BiG MAN