Combines hyperized

Dear Redbutt: Congratulations. As I travel to shows and fairs and read the rags I see millions of $ of options to increase the performance of red'uns, green'uns, yellow 'uns and silver 'uns. Glad you don't need them. All combines work pretty well right off the assy. line. They are built for Joe Average in mid state USA. There are those out there who don't settle for average. Thus hyper- harvesting natually followed. The same thing in tractors - thus tractor pulls developed. Race cars the same. All these fellows have pushed the envelope of performance and challenged engineers to go a cut above the competition. One of the worlds greatest 'field loss i fers' once said " let those who have no visions of what might be - have fond memories of mediocre success"

hmmm guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep up. last time i checked an old worn out 1660 running 5.5mph in 55 to 70 bu beans was preety good not to be hyperized but im just a regular joe with a screw driver and a cummins

I really don't think anyone here cares anything about your red combine. This site is for gleaners so why don't you go get some yellow paint and paint that 1660 so it will match the new case_nh combines when they come out

Mo farm, I figured there new combine would be orange, that is what red and yellow make then they would be back to there old company of CASE color of combines. They can say what they want about buyouts and mergers but our combines have always been gray and say GlEANER on the side. Illinois Gleaner

Are you the same guy whose combine has been in the shop and you have nothing else to doIJ It is too bad your rig is so complicated you can't fix it yourself. Tom in MN

Redbut, In our area, Red machines have to have a pickup load of parts to go from one crop to the other whereas Gleaners require about 5 minutes of adjustments. Red owners are always asking how you change the concaves in Gleaners to go to different crops because they don't know any different. There have been people rent a Red one to run with their Gleaner because it was dirt cheap rent but ended up costing big money because of excessive grain losses. They ended up buying a second Gleaner instead of a pathetic red machine. The Hyper mods don't cost much, don't take very long to do and are aimed at tweaking machine capacity beyond factory setups. You can keep dreaming about your capacity but you might find more sympathetic and gullible people over on the red site. Kelly

There is no way that the little 1660 could do 5.5 in 50 bu beans

gray i was always told they were silver that is untill they ran out of galvanized metal. you know maybe you were right they is no way i could have been running 5.5 mph thats to slow for me anyway

oh well who cares any way if you guys are as die hard as i am it would take a major catastophy to change you any way sorry if i hurt any ones feelings

shop where is that place atIJ