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clint 
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 Topic: possible combine switch
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 2:09pm |
i might change colors- green or red- green is 5 miles and red 50
thinking 1460 or 1660 or 66207720 9400
small acreage- thoughts?
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Larry(OH)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 2:31pm |
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Niehgbor had a 1460 up till last year and it was a nice running machine with no real problems.. His was the earlier one with all hyd controls. The later have electric over hydraulic. Ran a 15 ft header/ 4 row wide. I guess if you change to a spec rotor it really makes it a great machine
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Brad(WI)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 7:02pm |
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I would consider the red one. Green tractors are good, combines are not. We run a Gleaner R62, like it alot, great capacity. Very clean samples and minimal loss. Red machines may not have as clean of a sample, but they are very durable. All my neighbors run red (2388, 2 1460's, other red one is even older). 3-4000 hours don't seem to affect them like the Gleaners. A green combine will help you with spring fieldwork, as the field will already be seeded :>).
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farmer_rob
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 8:39pm |
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we have 1640 with a cummins in it. spec rotor was put in it when i bought it used. we have 600acres and this machine works fine for us. 17'5 flex head for beans but we should have 22'. we have a 4 row on it for corn because our fields r very long so we cant get from one end to the other. we normally split the 5950'in two dump at one end.we didnt want to spend the big money for one of those big topper extensions so i made mine
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if farming was easy everybody would be doing it
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Jordan(OH)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 9:21pm |
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Lots of old red ones still going around here, still bring good price with300-3500+ hrs. Not many of the old JDs around. What Gleaner does a 1660 compare to?
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Andrew(southernIL)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 10:07pm |
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Not much there for me to think about it would be a red one. We have a 1440 that is great in corn but slow in beans with a standard rotor. Our neighbor has a 1460 with a specialty rotor that will eat anything (even a two inch thick tree limb but its not recommended.) Had another neighbor that had a 1440 with 7000 hrs but the engine was getting weak so he decided it wasn't worth fixing with that many hrs. Also those rotors don't crack corn like the deeres without rotors.
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Andrew(southernIL)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2009 at 10:20pm |
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Also after working on the red ones and green ones the red ones are much easier and there a lot of parts that are the same on different sizes and series of the red ones so it makes it much easier to get parts.(we needed a hub on the pulley for the variable speed on the cleaning fan and got one at the salvage yard for our 1440 off a 1680 it was the exact same part number)
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 18 Nov 2009 at 10:34am |
Clint, go with a red one. We ran a 1460 for a number of years without too many mechanical problems. Keep the belts tight. For that time period, red combines were better than the green ones. We now run a JD 9760 that is probably the best combine I've ever been around.
Sorry to hear you're moving away from the Gleaners but I understand.
Brian
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