[wayler]

Where do dealers come up with engine hours and seperator hours on combines like 7720's and 8820's when they dont have a meter for seperator hours? Am I missing something?

 

[adk247]

there is a meter but you have to crawl down on top of the walkers and right next to the beater there is a wheel with a hamster or it could be a rat on it that sees the grain going by so it starts running on the wheel making the meter run

 

[deereman]

good one

 

[travis]

I think you should just take 25% off of the engine hours and you should be close

 

[harvestmoon]

Thats funny

 

[arcus]

I would rather say 75%

 

[travis]

if you take 75% off of the engine hours you have way more road time then most combines i've seen

 

[arcus]

Oh I havnt see.... you wrote 25% OFF of the engine hours...

then we mean the same. Although a efficiency of 75% isnt that much... could be even more.

 

[michaelshawn]

When I ran 4 - 8820's and a 7720, I powered the hours meters from the header engage switch.

 

[Don Boles]

Which is where Deere gets it's separator hours today, so it's actually header hours.
I think they're the only one that does it that way.
And it is the fairest from a actual use stand point.

Don