[quote author=8010when board=Case thread=10673 post=84908 time=1230065271]Looking at buying an 8010 but do not know if we want a auger or draper head. We farm steep ground and are concerned with the drapers ability to feed. If anyone has any experience let me know. The pic is harvest this summer we had lots of old red iron chasing a rented 9860 still going with an 8010 though!!
How steep does it get?????? Steeper than this??????
Buy the draper........it's the only way that you are going to get
'nuf wheat into that Bad Boy. The new 2588's that are coming on
line down here all have drapers. MCGG had a demo 2388 out a
couple of years back with a 30' draper; made it a real tiger.
Our ace 8010 operator tells me that he does have some minor
issues feeding with the 2060 ( on something real steep, long
belt to the downhill) ........he compensates with the reel. He
loves his flex draper. The big issue that we had with the 2060 had
to do with the reel hitting the grain dividers when the platform
flexed into the up position. Our dealer ( MCGG ) is very good, but it had them stumped. Mac Don was NO help ( hey, we are Mac Don,
we don't HAVE to care) We kept thinking it was an adjustment
problem that we somehow missed. Nope. Had to lock out the
upward flex to finish up the '06 run. Cured it in the shop before
the '07 run and no problem with that since.