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You are worrying to much slam her forward and get it done. Do you really have enough combine power and time and good weather to slow down a couple mph. Whatever speed the combine will go and put grain in the tank. Thats the speed we go. I will check for losses but as long as it doesnt look ridiculous, we go. I know we are puking more out back than we would by slowing down. But we dont have the option of going super slow.

I would be using a combine that you could do that with then and get the lowest losses possible. I'm not sure what machine that would be but after running JD's on this farm for 3 generations it wouldn't be a deere.

We are lucky enough here to have good weather most harvests and don't have to shove like that. I really don't like going to the effort of growing the crop just to have the machine throw it or leak it out on the ground. Then again in the specialty seed crops that I grow you can throw a combine payment on the ground without much loss at all so I guess I'm more sensitive to loss than most.

 

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If the just got rid of those stupid augers it would be so much easier to change concaves, but hey it's only two concaves.

x2

 

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Except they leave those augers there because it positively pushes the grain on steep slopes....something a wide open pan can not do....those augers are kept for a good reason, because a pan-only sucks in many conditions.

As opposed to the Anti cleaning auger/MOG stirrers that suck in all conditions?

 

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I think I've listed this before but I always love being in threads with JD's propaganda minister.......I mean I mean........FJ

Anyway STS repairs and hours, bubble auger was gone at 600 hours, threshing elements at about the same time.

Feed acc elements and discharge beater elements at 800 hours.

Front rotor bearing at 800 hours, chopper blades should have been replaced at 600, replaced at 800.

Mounts that hold the return auger broke at 700 hours, feeder house chain was replaced at 500 hours.

ALL shoe seals replaced at 700 hours and it still leaks smaller seeds like a 5 gallon bucket with 1/2" holes drilled in the bottom.

Go through at least 2 feed acc belts a year and one chopper belt a year and I'm on my second rotor belt, first one came a part at 600 hours.

STS had 800 hours on it last fall, spent $15,000 on it at that point some of which included repairs listed above some not. I'm not complaining just pointing out that I've never been able to run a JD machine anywhere near 1500 sep hours with little to no repairs. The closest ones would probably be the old 9610 maximizer but not the new rotors.

 

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This was a 70 series????

60 series.

CSFI, I am not on my 4th STS, previous 3 have all had nearly 1500 sep hours and I have not replaced ANY of the parts you have listed. Ever....with the exception of a bubble up auger eventually (a little polly plastic on the flighting triples it's life probably). A rotor bearing? Sieve seals? thrashing elements at 800 hours? That really, really, really early for any of those things...and a rotor belt doesn't just "come apart" under normal circumstances....there are a lot of STSs that go the entire life of the machine on the original belt. Where are you located and what do you harvest?

You want me to post the bills? FJ this farm has been running JD combines for 3 generations.......since the JD 95's all the way to present day. I think we know what they are and aren't. I under stand that the you obviously like green paint, I get it I was once that way also and for good reason. JD makes good equipment, my farm is currently all green paint to the tune of 14 tractors, 3 JD combines and 1 JD sprayer. BUT JD doesn't make the best of everything and the major reason for me staying JD has been DEALER SUPPORT. That is starting to change in my area and now along with my deere stuff I have a Miller Nitro sprayer that you couldn't take from me with an army. And soon to be a 760 Lexion owner, which now has good dealer support in my area.

Now for the repairs on my 60 series STS, my conditions are heavy crops, wheat, beans, a. seed and corn on and off. All irrigated but conditions are usually dry and hot......95-100+ degrees. The rotor belt frayed on one side and started coming apart so it got replaced at a cost of over 1100 dollars and I did the work.

The thrashing elements had worn through the hard surfacing and had to be replaced, not all of them but enough that for balance they all had to go.

The sieve seals were in an attempt to stop the **** thing from leaking small seeds out all over the ground. It did not help and I believe that it is a design flaw that deere doesn't care about. I got zero help from deere on this, if it will hold wheat they don't care.......piss poor customer service for as much green paint as we own and have bought in the past IMO. So they are loosing a customer one piece of equipment at a time because I no longer will only look at deere. If there is a better machine out there and I can get it serviced locally I will go that way. If the deere is better I will stay deere but I will not buy it just because it's green anymore.

Perhaps instead of propaganda you might look at my posts as the flip side to a coin that you seemingly don't want to think exists. I can show you many harvesters who have experiences similar to mine on wear that have never replaced what you have.

I'm sure you can, on the flip side of that I can show you harvesters that have replaced more than me. Are you willing to accept that? Its going to cost money to run any color period, I want the machine that will keep the crop in the machine and be productive. I don't care if its green, yellow, blue, or purple with poke a dots. Deere does not make the best combine for all crops and that's a fact, will it work in corn, soybeans, and wheat.......you bet but so does everyone else machine. Do they make a good machine..... sure they do, and if your dealer support is there and they work good in your conditions great! Buy it! But they don't harvest with clouds under their wheels and unicorns flying around the cab, that's all.

 

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Your post makes a ton of sense. But i doubt fj will get it!

Good luck with the 760. You will love it once you get used to it. Awesome machines

Thanks, I'm really looking forward to the switch. From what I've seen already at demo's and other peoples farms the 760 is a complete and total beast of a combine. Can't wait till next years harvest!

I am drawing the line at poke a dots.

LOL! How about tiger stripes then?

 

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Wow, that post was a big surprise........ Not

 

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If you saw the messages in my box from posters on here with the name calling and foul language you would probably leave, too. It's hard to believe so many actually take the time to personally insult and belittle me in private messages, saying what they didn't post on the forum for fear the moderator might not take too kindly to it. It's gotten out of hand, and I'm not about to log in to the combine forum for hate mail. Seriously, it's just gotten stupid, and I have no use for that. Some of you are just rotten to the core. You know who you are.

Seriously who does that? People are sending hate mail via PM's?

FJ you can obviously do whatever you would like to do but in all honesty I don't see anything here on this thread that would invoke the kind of response you had. Now the PM's we are not privy too so whatever losers are doing that should just get the delete button applied to their messages. Maybe copied and pasted to a Mod PM for consideration, I sure would hate to see you leave in any case.

Good luck whatever you decide FJ.

 

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Some of you have sent me some kind PMs, thank you. I just need a break from a few people on here and to avoid "controversial" threads. I'm sure you'll see me around from time to time, but I'll be avoiding some comments for a while.

Glad to hear you'll be sticking around FJ More than once I've typed up a response to a thread only to hit the delete button and move on. Then other times I do something stupid and hit the submit reply button

I would have expected that.
I didn't but you have my support on the hate PM's fj.
If it happens again fj forward it to me.
The rules have changed, mods can ban anyone but another mod, used to be a thirty day limit, that's gone.
I found that one by trying to ban myself.
Consider yourselves warned.

Good! If you've got something to say man up and post it on the board, but sending nasty PM's is just uncalled for IMO.