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Hillside, come over to SW iowa. Saw a nice 9500SH with something like 1500 hrs or so sell for around 60K and another with a little more than 2000 hrs for about 40. I just don't know why anybody would want one. Everything on it costs way more than the old 20 series it replaced, it is so huge it is hard to turn around in a 30 foot headland, not to mention a bunch of moving parts that are completely unnecessary. Hillco wants 20 grand just for the changeover kit for a Case IH and they already bring more than a comparable Deere on a farm sale and you still have to buy the kit. I still push my old (and now quite worthless, moneywise) 6620 SH. Runs just about like the day I drove it home in 86. Good luck, there are a ton of used combines that are in need of a home.

Hillco is now making a bolt on hillside kit for 9600-9650 Deere combines now that uses dual tires. Don't know if they have one for the 9750 yet or not. They also make levelers for Gleaner, Massey and Caterpillar in addition to the CIH 80 and 60 series machines. I think the cost is somewhere between $20K and $30K. They are at www.hillcoweb.com

This is a site that will get you some info.

Thanks for the info. I run a 6620SH also, and have been looking for a nice Titan II. Here in NE Iowa our dealers want $40000 for 6620SH TitanII's with over 4000 hrs on them, there shot. I agree the 9500SH is big and a little unhandy to turn, but I havent seen combines getting any smaller lately. If you or anyone knows about a 9500SH with even 3000 hrs on it for around $40000, I'd be very intereted in hearing about it. We've replaced most of the bearings, and main augers in our 6620 when we got it in 1993, its been a good machine since, but I'd like to get into the GPS mapping some day, and I think a Maximizer might be a litte better to spend the money on to get set up.

Thanks for all the info and links. If anyone has a 9500SH in the $40000 range, let me know. Thanks

You sound like a guy who just wants to get along w_o spending his whole wad in the Deere store. Believe me, I have studied this situation since the "maximizers" (read, max profit for deere) came out. Our 6620's are worth very little now to sell. A titan 2 is only an 84 titan with a speeded up sieve which will tear itself and the mounts up. Most guys slowed them back down. Anyhow, the 9000's have many more (and some useless, like the precleaner) moving parts which all are much more expensive to maintain than their counterparts in the earlier 20 series. This is planned by deere not to help you earn more money, but to earn deere more income. Just take your machine to deere and let them inspect it, and repair everything they find wrong. I do it every year and have less trouble than almost all new machines my neighbors lease. Save your money, the combine biz will change soon and you don't want to get caught with a stone like a 9500. Good luck..GS

Thanks for the advice