I read on here all the time but have mostly nothing to add so I dont say much, but today I am full of questions. My younger 19 year old brother has been working for a very small customer cutter for the past two seasons and will this one too. He drives the cart. They cut a little more than a 1000 acres of sorghrum and 100 acres of corn. The owner has been a family friend my whole life and I've watched his operation anually. He is one of those owners that is obsessed with preventive maintenance. Last year for example he rebuilt the transmissions on the combine and replaced the drive tires (old ones were 75-80%) just in case. The year before that he completely rebuilt the guts from front to back. All new from JD, bars, beater, concave, feeder chain, walker bearings, walker fingers etc...it had 2700 seperator hours. This year he replaced the radiator and the cab interior just because and order a new spare axle for the grain cart just in case. He only uses OEM JD parts and runs Amsoil synthetic in the engine. I said all that to say this. Its a 1991 or 2 9500 with 3900 engine hours and 3100 seperator hours. It has some wide axle extensions on it so that he runs in the row and not on the beds. He runs a 925 header and its pretty much all been sorgrhum. He said he doesnt run the filler bars because they hold dust and chaff and cause extra wear on the cylinder bearings by making it get out of balance?. Also, he has never washed it and its only been rained on three or four times in its life. He blows it out weekly and then again at the end of the season. He said water in those hundreds of cracks and crevices will rust out the panels real quick in South Texas. Its located in DEEP south texas (San Benito 78586).
What is a machine like this worth? My brother and I will more than likely buy it from him in the coming years and were wondering a good average value.
Can this machine run an 8row corn head without any mods? If so what models or mods necessary?
Overall is this a machine model that is worth investing in?
Any tips on increasing its life and maybe capacity?
Do I sound like a rambling loonatic?
Thanks for reading and I look forward to the replies.
If the pictures work one is of my brother driving me riding, then a back shot and side shot. We took it out of the barn for the first time and got it up to temp to check teh radiator. Harvest starts in 20 days for them sooner for most others in the area.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/112/img1132d.jpg
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3871/img1139g.jpg
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7512/img1137c.jpg
What is a machine like this worth? My brother and I will more than likely buy it from him in the coming years and were wondering a good average value.
Can this machine run an 8row corn head without any mods? If so what models or mods necessary?
Overall is this a machine model that is worth investing in?
Any tips on increasing its life and maybe capacity?
Do I sound like a rambling loonatic?
Thanks for reading and I look forward to the replies.
If the pictures work one is of my brother driving me riding, then a back shot and side shot. We took it out of the barn for the first time and got it up to temp to check teh radiator. Harvest starts in 20 days for them sooner for most others in the area.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/112/img1132d.jpg
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3871/img1139g.jpg
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7512/img1137c.jpg