Combines Combine requirements for contracts IJ

[860rook]

Why dont you check with Coors' buyers and contracting departmentIJ I would think sanitation of the machines and rotary over conventional would be key in contracting for harvesting.

 

[TwinRotor]

I haven't see a TR or a CR machine or any other brand for that matter wear completely out after 500-1000hrs like the green ones do. Buying a $250,000 then in two years putting in $20,000-25,000 back into it doesnt make the brand look very good or make the customers happy. Plus john deere is playing catch up in the rotor market with there sts, straight through seeder.

 

[Bundy]

Man, you are seriously one bitter and twisted individual when it comes to John Deere! Didn't Santa bring you that 6600 toy header when you were a kid or somethingIJ "Generally" those people that buy JD are happy with thier machines, and the service they get from there dealers so deal with it. likewise those that buy New Holland, Case, Gleaner, Cat, Class, Massey, Cockshut.... whatever, are happy with there machines and back up service and if they aren't they're a fool for staying with them! It's very old and boring but I'll say it again. It's generally not the machine, but the operator and the enviroment they are working in, that determines wear and tear on the machine and the quality of the sample. Get itIJ

 

[Rockpicker]

Where did you get all of your infoIJ I think you are making it all up. I have a custom cutter that runs 3 2001 9650 STS and he only spends $4,000 on each combine every 2 years replacing worn parts. He does all of the work himself.

 

[rocky]

To the fellow who is repeating hearsay and not the facts in regards to the high maintenance cost of a STS combine or any combine for that matter (unless of coarse you do own a green machine and do have correct numbers to back up your claims). I believe maybe you need to compare actual (not diner_coffee shop ns') maintenance costs to tonnage. Chances are a machine that appears to be out of line in repair costs for the hours propably has a large capacity of crop handling on a per hour basis. It is material going thru the machine that wears it out, not the hour meter. I see first hand all the time, why it cost more today then years ago to recondition a combine for resale. Yes costs are driving upwards (parts, shop rates, insurance , trucking, fuel etc.) these repairs, but you can not compare the capacity of a 100 seies combine to a 9000 series either.

 

[jlm]

I raise malt barley for coors and budweiser. Neither one dictates what kind of combine we use to harvest with. Although we do have a set of quality standards to meet.

 

[turbo]

So when you buy a 500 horsepower tractor do you say its okay to have it worn out in half the time of a 250 hp tractor. I would think not. If its built for capacity it should have just as long of life as any other combine.

 

[rocky]

No that is not what I said. Wear is relative (same sh_t different pile) to the amount crop and material you move thru a machine. Really it has nothing to do with the hours you accumulate on the hour meter. let me see if I can make this simple for you. If you were to harvest 2500 acres _ yr. for 5 yrs. and your total repair_maintence bill over the 5 years is $20000.00. Broken down, yes that is $4000.00 _ yr. or $1.60 _ acre. Now if your neighbour only combines 1500 acres _ yr. it takes him over 8 years to put the same amount of MATERIAl thru the machine and probably spends about the same amount of money in those 8+ years, that works out to $1.60 _ acre (you may have done it in the same amount of hours _year as your neighbour because you have a larger capacity machine).