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Yeah, I commented before that I had ran one in oats, I wont forget her performance anytime soon. She is a very impresssive piece of iron. I was hoping our crops would be great this year so I could maybe rent one to run with our silver one in beans but most of our corn is fried so we will have plenty of time to alot to beans I guess this fall. I have always thought the Gleaner was a simple machine, but I have to say I think the Sassy Massey has got it beat in simplicity and I really think she will be very comparable in capacity from what I had seen

You know, I believe MF rotor combines are the most underated combines on the market. Hydraulic drive on the main rotor miles ahead of the gear drives on other makes. If you ever jam up, just reverse to loosen things up. The gear type, you will be cleaning up for days. GO MF! Engineered to keep things simple, but sure puts out!

I ran a 9790 and it would not save grain on the hills. You could not go slow enough to keep it from dumping it out of the corner of the shoe.

looked at one on the local dealers lot. they kept it reasonably simple and it looks like it would not be too hard to work on.Now you want a nightmare take a look at that new Case to work on that thing you would need to be a journeyman plumber!! Shadow

So you say that 2388 was left in the dust, is it that make the massy have more capcity then the case, or more inportant what slow the case downIJ The case has a larger rotor di. 30" and the shoe is biger.

Yes there could have been something wrong with the IH or the the opperator. I thought they would be very close.We were running 1 to 1.5 mph faster.I think the 2388's are good machines ,but thats what happend this time.

The rotor might be smaller in diameter by 2.5 inches but it is quite a bit longer which means more separation and with the added bonus of a constant speed rotor.As far as the shoe being a bit bigger it has more work to do because of the use of all those augers.The Massey uses a grain pan and helps with the seperation before the grain even gets to the sieve.

The back of the rotor sticks out the back maybe a foot or so, that part dosen't count for seperating, I think there is 8" more concave or more and a little more cage arua. But what I would like to know is how much dirfrenct the flitting on the front of the rotor make compared to the elephent ear and the feeder beater feeding the rotorIJ THe shaker pan is back wards, it shack forward then turns 180 dig. to go back to the shoe, although that is better then mixing augers. I would like to know if thay were running with the revers bar inIJ I have other quistion about the new rotor also but a nuther time. best wish SWTVID