Sorry to hear about your bad experience with the chopper. I know the Deer Trail and Taylor dealerships in McPherson and Hoxie, respectively are more interested in forage harvesters than most. Still, your local dealer should back you, and if he can't, at least link you to a dealer who will get the job done. This reminds me of a similar ordeal some 16 years ago, where a farmer had bought a brand new 7720. It was just a total piece of you-know-what! His dealer actually tried to work with him, but the upper corporate levels did not co-operate. It took months before he was finally compensated for the combine, during which time I think the dealer provided an alternate. Talking about burning something, the Deere TM and all related staff should have personally visited that farmer and taken the deffective 7720 out to a safe spot in the middle of a plowed field and burned it to the ground without any further if's, and's or butt's. If that sounds too drastic or voilent, just read any good ag history book and the account of J.I. Case himself doing just that to one of his threshers sold as a defect to a customer. Without a question, the farmer got an immediate replacement. If Deere is so high and mighty in the combine business, why can't they REAllY back their products, rather than hide behind mounds of red tape, pointing a finger at each otherIJ