Combines What is the Best Grain Cart Ever MadeIJ

[procut]

In my opinion, Kinze. Over the years we have ran 8 kinze carts, they are indestructable. We have never had to do any structual welding on them or ever had to replace a gear box( our oldest cart has probably augered about 5 million bushels). only thing we do with them is re-flight them every other year and during the winter keep them dry (long term water in them will take out the bottom auger bearing). Two years ago we got our first cart with an electronic scale, we don't know how we lived without it. we were able to keep track of field yeilds, run legal weights and check AFS calabration daily. last year we moved up from the 800 bu to 1000 bu row crop cart. Great cart,But way more expensive,alot more to grease (from 3 daily zerks to 51)and much more difficult to transport from town to town.We have Found the only expense to owning to 840 kinze is flighting and tires.

 

[riceman]

I agree. Kinzes that we had on harvest went trhrough pure hell. It was way more harder than what they would get treated on any farm.

 

[cartguy]

I have worked on the custom harvest run for several years and have operated 6 different brands of carts and the Kinze is the best. My only complaint about them would be lack of a ladder to get in and out of them when grabbing a sample or greasing the steady bearings on the unload auger.

 

[earnestene2388]

KINZE hands down. our farm is reluctant about

 

[NHD]

I see everyone callingKnize the best grain cart and everyone talking about new auger flighting- like every other year.I custom harvest too and I vote hands down for J and M. They are very well built only one moving part-the auger, no chains, and no excess auger wear. Above all a lot less cracking of grain especially wet corn. 16 inch auger too. Priced several thousand $ less also. Our latest one holds well over 900 bu. just right for a semi load. We dn't use the scale anymore we prefer the combine yield monitor. Knize's are hard on augers.

 

[Bigred]

We currently are using Brent_Unverferth 674 grain carts (2). They have been excellent carts for us, but we are looking at getting one large cart now. After reading about some of the comments, the KINZE has caught my eye.

 

[stxman]

Anybody ever use a Killbros Grain CartIJIJ And if you did what did you think of itIJ

 

[harvester]

We've been running a Brent 874 for four or five years and I like it because it's a simple design that's built to take abuse. We run it against five combines in 100+ bushel wheat, which means that often times the cart driver is exceeding "normal field speeds" to keep up. I have seen that cart come off the ground more than once after hitting potlholes and whatnot in the fields, but it has never had any damage to it, nor has it ever broken down and we do 15,000-20,000 acres a year of harvesting per year. My only beef with it is that it's a little slow when you get down to the the end of unloading a load of wet corn, which is what the kinze guys will tell you they like better. I don't dislike kinze, I like the fact that since they've chosen to build a force feed system, they're backing it up with stuff that's built to withstand the rigors that come with that type of design. But we got the Brent bought right and it's been a very good and reiable cart. I wish that there was a combine made that worked as simply and trouble free as that cart, but who doesn'tIJ

 

[cartguy]

Yes I have used the Kilbros cart. It is very similar in design to Kinze with a few exceptions which I believe reduces the price of the kilbros cart. The augers on the Kilbros aren't timed like a Kinze and there is no tank on the Kilbros for oiling the chains. Other than that they are quite similar to a Kinze and are overall a good cart.

 

[todd08]

I agree that Kinze are great carts, only one better is the avalance by brent. Flat dumps the grain with their 20" unloading auger. We have had Kinze 600, 640, 840: orthman 1096, now brent 884. I like the brent best easy to fill, fast to unload. I hear Kinze is talking of 20" unload augers now.