With the new combines holding 500 bushels of corn themselves, a cart of smaller than 1100 bushels is less efficient. Plus, being able to fill a truck with one cart load make the most of your time as well.
As to the size of the tractor, pulling a load of 75K pounds does not require that much tractor, but safely stopping that load sure does! More tractor, the better. My neighbor only uses articulated tractors on carts after folding the drawbar under a really big straight tractor with a partial load in the cart and a panic stop in traffic.
I ran a friend's cart last fall, an 850bu unit on an 8530 John Deere. The tractor weighs 27,000+/- pounds and is 330hp. The soybeans alone weigh nearly double the tractor at that point. I always felt safe on the very rural roads. Their combine is smaller, so the cart can hold multiple bin dumps and the bin can be emptied before their very hilly terrain causes spillage. Even with only one semi hauling away, efficiency is far better than a fleet of 300bu gravity wagons we used in the past.
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