Mf Combines
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You are right, don’t need the stress or the repair bills and time lost
Bernardbean
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Harvest 2019, our 2003,7278 went to help out a 2016, nh 9.80, we did 1200 acres with ours, he did a bit more, we had less breakdowns and used 30% less diesel per acre, our 3 massey's aren't bad at all.......
Think I got a Friday afternoon model
SilliamWhale
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Think I got a Friday afternoon model
Get a fendt instead
another Friday model! Sold ours this time. To be fair it went well this time.Think I got a Friday afternoon model
what I would say about Mf combines is other brands don’t have so many Achilles heals , shame really as back when the 30-40 series came out it was the machine , it sold on buckets so why o why they never kept updating along the way god only knows , bit like the tractors.
I don’t suppose anyone’s had any issues with the drum speed continually slowing down whilst in work? It’s a 36 combine, set it to 950rpm drum speed and within a few minutes it’s back down to 850, if left it just keeps winding down so have to keep clicking the drum speed switch in the cab to get it to come back up to desired speed. Not hard but a tad annoying and easily forgotten, did a tank full before realising I’d forgotten and ended up with a tank full of less than desirable sample
Did you manage to solve this @barr11 ?
Having the same problem this year on our MF34 - no leak visible so I presume its the solenoid valve on the cylinder variator? Rang up the dealers today and the part is over £400! Anyone got any suggestions - take the valve apart and see if I can sort the issue? Somewhere I can get a cheaper alternative? Or could it be something else causing the problem? Cheers.
pgilliat
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A tap will allow you to isolate the variator if it is the solenoid leaking. Have done this on my 40
as mentioned above, we fitted a tap as a temporary measure, still fitted now
. Cured the problem though!Thanks, in the end got a used solenoid from manners, seems to have done the trickas mentioned above, we fitted a tap as a temporary measure, still fitted now
goldeneagle
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Normally do all the right hand side belts all at the same time as takes about 3-4 hours to whole lot, best have a look at the 4 cylinder belts while your in there as they can have chunks out them and you won't notice unless its stopped at a certain position.
Tell me, what settings do you use on the combine MF7278 when threshing wheat and sunflower?
When threshing wheat, it was difficult to achieve a reduction in losses behind the straw walkers. At the same time, with a yield of 8.5t/acre, the combine had a speed of 2.5-3 mph.
When threshing wheat, it was difficult to achieve a reduction in losses behind the straw walkers. At the same time, with a yield of 8.5t/acre, the combine had a speed of 2.5-3 mph.
Some yield at that speed!!
Exfarmer
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We don’t know how big a bed he has on it
Still a record breaking yield
To be fair that’s about right really , had mf combines for a while , best sample , best straw etc but forward speed was an issue , if they had some kind of agitater over the walkers it would have helped a lot.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Ah, I missed that
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Any walker machine will struggle to get very high outputs unless the crop is very fit and the straw very dry and preferably cut as high as possible.
When I ran an 865 we thought 15-16 TPH in Barley was fair going and 20 in Wheat. But we used to cut for one customer who had huge crops due to his soil and style of farming where I have seen us pushing up to 40TPH as he would never let us near the crop until it was absolutely 100% fit and dry. Used to work well for us as he had a couple of hundred acres and we always cut it 2 weeks after we had finished everything else.
The 865 had beaters up the elevator and most of the separation happened before the drum in a fit crop
When I ran an 865 we thought 15-16 TPH in Barley was fair going and 20 in Wheat. But we used to cut for one customer who had huge crops due to his soil and style of farming where I have seen us pushing up to 40TPH as he would never let us near the crop until it was absolutely 100% fit and dry. Used to work well for us as he had a couple of hundred acres and we always cut it 2 weeks after we had finished everything else.
The 865 had beaters up the elevator and most of the separation happened before the drum in a fit crop