Combines better than sts

[tbran]

honestly, yes.

 

[Mike]

In corn the 62 is very comparable, however I could never get my old 62 to hang with the 9650 we demoed in beans. The 72 we wound up buying is the answer for that.

 

[6100]

honestly dont know but would like to see one red on green and on silver set up new (no mods no hyperizing) in the same field but with actual farmers running them. But noby will do this.

 

[Geoff]

We are mainly doing wheat and barley, and have found the 62 to be fairly good(not sure about the 40 to 55 tonnes an hour some guys quote.) more like 25 to 30 tonnes_hr averaged over a day in a 2 ton_ha crop. It is the little breakdowns that worry us, pulleys, belts and spreader bearings etc.

 

[Mike]

The straw spreader belt_bearings are the only trouble we ever had. New ones have hydraulic drive, old ones can be retro-fitted.

 

[Flatland]

How could our R62 NOT be more reliable than that mess, the STSIJ On top of that, it has to be easier to service. Has anyone noticed the 6 hours it takes to remove the cylinderIJ 20 minutes, max, on a rotary. And those distribution augers. I'd love to crawl up the posterior of that green beast and change bearings there about mid-barley. Starters give up, on any motor. It would take a contortionist midget a good hour to even reach the starter on the STmeSS. Ditto for all those 500 pound drives and gearboxes. Okay, I'll confess. I'm just not a green sheep.

 

[silver_aussie]

Interesting question that. last year or 2 the silvers down here in oz have been turned green with envy, but this year the same silver machines that were out in the field when the sts made the big debut seem to be keeping pace with the newest releases. lots of engine trouble with the first ones - blown turbos mainly. Me thinks theres some smelly venison somewhere.