bm
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There's no reason you shouldn't be able to get the 6600 as cheap as the 4400. In fact, the 6600 might even be cheaper. You can probably get one for around $1500.
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Combines 4400 6600
The_Red
Guest
The 4400 will hold approximately 87 bushels with no extensions. With one set of extensions, reasonable capacity is around 100 bushels. The 6600 is in the approximate range of 150 with one set of extensions.
95man
Guest
The 6600 has a 44" wide cyl, the 4400 has a 38" cyl. Both have 4 - 130" long walkers - the 6600 has 5 grain conveying augers while the 4400 has 4 - If you have a late 6600 w_hydro - it has the non turbo 404 rated at 120hp. I have heard that a 4400 will not have shoe loss on the downhill side while the 6600's will have some - I don't know if that's true or not. like "The Red" said - find a 6600 - with the added capacity over the 44 you'll be happy. 95man
erndog
Guest
go with a late model 6600 preferably a 78 model. the 404 is a much better engine than the 329 diesel. whatever you do dont get a gasser. you wont have enough money to run her. hydrostatic is the way to go. at one time i had an early model 6600 it was bumping the 105s in the butt coming off assemble line. she was a good one when it was working. took a while for deere to work the bugs out those early models. in fact one old deere combine worker kind of laughed and said those were the crappiest machines deere everbuilt. but they could sell them faster than they could make them. mho
VAfarmboy
Guest
Nope, those 4425_35, combines are the biggest PIECES OF SH*T that Deere ever stuck the American farmer with. My brother-in-law traded his early model 4400 in on one of those things and it never would do right, and there was always something breaking on it from day one. He actually called the dealer to see about getting his old 4400 back but it had already been sold When it was just out of warranty, one of the straw walkers broke in two and tore everything all up, and cost thousands to repair. After several years he had enough and traded it for a 1640 Case IH. I think he basically had to give the 4435 away because nobody wanted it.
VAfarmboy
Guest
How many acres of corn are you growingIJ I currently run a 4400 with a 5 row narrow head that I built out of the 444 head that came with my machine, and parts off some other heads. I picked 160+bu corn with it last year, and it was all she wanted, but the machine got through it ok. Next year I hope to have a 6620. The 4400 is a good machine, but when dad bought it we were working about 250 acres total, now I am working more than twice as much, and I have just outgrown it. The dealer tried to sell dad a 6600, when he got the 4400, and he says if he had any idea we would still be running it 22 years later, he would have gone ahead and gotten the bigger machine.
crop_crusher
Guest
Well about 120 acres, but a part time farmer tho. Need to get in there when Im off work. Sorta leaning towards the 6600