How are S8's running so far?
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I'm from MS., it took me almost three weeks to cut 400 acers, rain rain and more rain. Should have cut it in three days. After running a hypered R76, the S78 was a little dissapointing. The wheat was averaging around 70 bu. and broke off bad so had to take a lot of straw. Had a little rotor loss and was running 2.5 mph. My dealer sent me the 4 forward bars to try, man did that thing come alive! Now I could run 4 mph. cutting 4 inches off the ground with very little loss. After 400 acres, we had no issues with the machine and loved the way it performs. It is so smooth and quite. For as fuel, at 100% engine load it would use around 18 gph. We ran it at 70% most of the time and would use around 12 gph. Really good for the conditions that we had. They have had some minor issues I heard , but are being taken care of.
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Who convinced anyone at the factory to run reverse bars? They only increase the amount of power it takes to turn that cylinder and nothing more.
I can't understand why they persist on reverse bars either. If you are happy with rotor loss what are reverse bars good for? I have forward bars coming on my 78 as well as an impeller. I have a small chopper as back up if the impeller is no good but I think it will be fine in our conditions.
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I am in one of those combines in the picture.. Stegman harvesting from spearville Kansas. We are running 3 S78's
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How are you liking them s78
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New video on youtube of a s78 by bigtractorpower
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must have been running a massy header. it looked off set
All 9250's are that way.
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Don't most straight cut heads appear to be off centre on a Gleaner because the feeder house is off to the right side of the machine? Its been a while but I think our 5200 was, and I think the MacDons feed to the centre of the head so that would make the header look off set, but really its centred on the feeder house.
They are centered on the feeder house of the combine. The 9250 agco drapers sit to the right since the throat hooks in the center of the header. Some other auger headers would sit centered on the combine
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Yes.
There is a change up that adds a support/brace to the fuel lines on the lines to cylinders 3 and 5. I think its 3 and 5, It could be 2 and 6. I don't recall from last fall. Apparently, the vibration on these two lines without the brace can cause them to crack either at the injector, or on the fuel rail. Makes for one heck of a mess when one breaks, and one heck of a fire hazard. I would highly recommend that you call your dealer, and make sure these lines were changed. Its a very easy way to loose your combine to fire if you don't catch it right away.
Saw a custom harvest crew with some S77s and some S78s running around locally. No idea who they are, small cursive writing on the new white dodge dually pickup. they also have a freightliner service truck, and run MacDons.
IIRC 2, if not 3 S8 series machines.
IIRC 2, if not 3 S8 series machines.
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