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[Frenchie]

Why haven't you considered another conventional combine such as a CX or 9610. Much less wear,and more fuel efficient therefore cheaper to operate. The big conventional combines may surprise some of you rotor lovers in term of performance, quality of threshed grain and grain loss. Also the conventional combines are cheaper to buy.

 

[23884life]

How can a combine with 2 rotors have lower maintenance than a combine with 1. Reliability and resale is a big deal for someone like you. I'd definately go with the Deere. It's all you see in our neck of the woods.

 

[Ilnewholland]

Did you ever think that each rotor takes half the cropIJ So that would make each one last twice as long. New Holland combines are reliable and have great resale if you take good care of them. The only time a New Holland combine don't have good resale is if a John Deere dealer has one. I think they will lose money on one just to prove that there green paint is worth more. All you see is McDonalds restaurants everywhere also, but are they the best place to eatIJ Ilnh

 

[cornsheller]

The biggest thing to consider is the shoe. The self-leveling shoe in the CR will handle more MOG than the fixed shoe. The biggest thing about the Self-leveling shoe is that distribution of material is always perfect. We get extraordiarily good efficiency compared to a fixed shoe regardless of color. Do a kill-stall sometime on a CR and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Rockpicker]

You are way off on your average maintenance of the STS. I live out west and have asked custom cutters and my neighbors that run the STS about maintenance cost and it is no where near $14,000. Might be that high if you don't do any preventive maintenance or run a huge rock throught the combine. My custom cutter runs 3 9650s STS and one 9650 conventional. His cost of maintenance is about $4,000 every 2 years. He only complaint is that the maintenance costs on the STS is twice as much as the conventional. The CR can be just as "unreliable" as any other brand. The CRs sold around here last year had major problems and one of the owners took his combine back to the dealer and bought a 9860 STS for this year. The NH dealer didn't sell any CRs this year either. Everybody makes lemons.

 

[JD]

cornsheller, does the self-leveling job sense poor distibution and regulate for it on level groundIJ our land is flat as flat gets and can't see it as an advantage unless it senses weight on the seives and makes the correct adjustmentsIJ thanks, JD

 

[NHD]

The self leveling shoe is one of the best features of the CR's. Even on flat ground it is impossible to manually keep the material on the shoe evenly distributed.The CR shoe even banks when you turn sharply on the end rows, and when you raise the header it automatically adjusts to keep grain from being thrown out the back. The self leveling shoe is especially usefull when picking up a narrow windrow and it is feeding in one side or the other. The self leveling shoe will have the material evenly distributed across the shoe by the time it gets back to the pre-sieve. Also remember that the grain pan is a much more effecient method of pre- seperating the grain from the chaff as it moves the material back to the sieves. The augers that other brands use is actually mixing the grain and chaff instead of seperating it. The rethresher is another feature that helps increase capacity because you are not putting extra material thru the rotors.

 

[nhwnh]

I wish I could find a dealer that would take my TR99 back.

 

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