Combines PARKED 8010

don't like to hear about the weight problem. All these new big combines are heavier than heck the 590r I demoed was 48000 empty with out a head. all these new machine need to on tracks hope it drys up TS

I don't doubt they are a heavy chunk of iron. Why not invest in a set of Flotation tires for the front and wide rears as well to stay atop of the mudIJ I don't know to many combines that with a partial binload of grain trudging through deep gumbo to clay loam mud and the seperator engaged that won't lose power and either do a crummy job of harvesting or play heck pulling themselves through that mucky playground with a standard set of tires in the area of a 30.5-32 or so. You guys are just not in good graces with mother nature this harvest it seems. Bad for you but a good deal on the other hand. Your finding all the problems right away with that big oaf of a combine. like I said eariler, we won't see that 8010 for sale in NW kansas till spring of 06. That should give you an idea of what kind of time frame case is anticipating to clean all the bugs out. Good luck with the rest of your harvest, count your lucky stars you had one. We suffered a serious drought again this summer. I cleaned off all our fields and had the combine put away in one week. That included two days off for rain and drydown waiting time. A maximizer running 7 mph in milo is not because it is that good or high capacity of a combine. You can about imgine what kind of a birdseed harvest we had now.

Deerebines, where you at in NW Kansas, I am in NE Kansas and the crops here were very good after 3 years of contingent drought. We again got very little rain but temps never got to hot like the last 3 years. I am around the Seneca area and south of town got more rain, as you head into NEB the rain was very small amounts. I know what your talking about with lack of moisture, we have creeks and rivers drying up completely and the old timers have said they have never never seen this happen before. I continue my quest of having the wise farmers tell me how we have seen almost every strange thing that have in the time we have been doing this farming thing. Droughts, floods, freezes, insects, I just always get paranoid about whats next to endure. It was definately proved in this area though that we can raise crops with very little moisture as long as it stays cool enough. I know we complain about monsanto, but any area that had weed control problems was a write off. The roundup system is working here

I really do feel for you and Tony. No one wants to see these kind of problems. Have you been able to talk to and CR owners to see if they are having any of the smae problemsIJ That would help to build your case either way. If they are having some of the same problems, maybe you can use that to leverage them into helping a little more. If they are not having any of the same problems, then maybe you can focus on those components and start to yell about about the difference in quality. Just a thought. It sounds to me like most of the problems are coming from the 20% of non common parts, (just had to sneak that one in Tony . Any way, let us know how they are about getting a new machine and replacing the problem parts.

That was the problem down here in the rice fields. They should separate the hydrostat ground propulsion system and the hydrostat rotor drive system. The one 8010 that I know of around here had an updated computer program installed by CNH to allow the engine to run at full power all the time instead of just when unloading on the go. last I heard he cut about the same bushels of rice per hours with his 2388 as his 8010.

We didn't get the rain in the time frame we needed in some places to incorporate the chemical. That was part of the problem with grass and foxtail coming through. The other part was extreme heat. We had week long 120 degree heat during the afternoons this summer that would wilt a full stock tank. We have zero subsoil and up till about a month ago we had zero topsoil moisture. It was plain dust. The old timers I visited with told me that we were worse off even this year then we were in the 30's during the dustbowl. Our benefit was the years of conservation practices with crp and windbreaks and no-till that eliminated the dust storms unlike 70 years ago. I'm 60 miles straight north of Hays if that helps you out. There were farmers around here that did have pretty good yields but they were north of east of town. Just west of town where we live there was no rainfall but farther west they got occassional showers that helped take them on through into harvest. This was a sorry year of farming. I really hope it turns around. Getting kind of hard to make payments and live off of crop insurance.

The main problems with the 8010 are with the parts that are common to the NH CR combine. The 8010 would be a much better machine if the CaseIH guys weren't forced to use the inferior NH parts.