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Kinda new, okay extremely new to the Red machines. I've been around Deere's all my farming life and am really thinking about trying to convince my dad that it might be time to switch. One big problem, my dad is one of those types that needs a first hand demo to be convinced but won't bring himself to run a Case. Now I wish that I could afford to get my hands on a 2388 or newer but with my budget I'm looking more into 1688 or 2188. We grow wheat, sunflowers, corn, and a little milo. Dad has a 9610 and a 9650sts. He has to park the STS in sunflowers due to fire hazards but, man I am addicted to the rotory style now that we've tried it. So the "natural" coice to me is to try a Case seeing as they aren't made of poly and I haven't seen too many posts concerning sunfloer fires on the Case combines; not saying they are immune just something I noticed. So what's the + and - of the 1688 and 2188? We harvest 1480ac of sunflowers, 1480ac, of corn/milo, and 2880ac of wheat. I plan to pay for the machine by helping custom cut the 'flowers and wheat.
Kinda new, okay extremely new to the Red machines. I've been around Deere's all my farming life and am really thinking about trying to convince my dad that it might be time to switch. One big problem, my dad is one of those types that needs a first hand demo to be convinced but won't bring himself to run a Case. Now I wish that I could afford to get my hands on a 2388 or newer but with my budget I'm looking more into 1688 or 2188. We grow wheat, sunflowers, corn, and a little milo. Dad has a 9610 and a 9650sts. He has to park the STS in sunflowers due to fire hazards but, man I am addicted to the rotory style now that we've tried it. So the "natural" coice to me is to try a Case seeing as they aren't made of poly and I haven't seen too many posts concerning sunfloer fires on the Case combines; not saying they are immune just something I noticed. So what's the + and - of the 1688 and 2188? We harvest 1480ac of sunflowers, 1480ac, of corn/milo, and 2880ac of wheat. I plan to pay for the machine by helping custom cut the 'flowers and wheat.