What combine would you recommend

[Cowcorn]

Last contractor here cut 25 acre across 4 fields I'm pretty sure the header came off more than once.
They are in grazing rotation now though!

As i also own a MF 29 i wonder could you give details on what problems you are experiencing ?? The 29 broke my heart the first couple of years with sieve problems but a reinforcement job and regular rubber changes have sorted it out . Somtimes youre better to stick to the devil you know especially if you have spent money on her .

 

[Farma Parma]

That could well be, and really general they are not bad,
Its more the fact that its in the back of your mind, that it was stood in the barn for 11 months in the road, then spend 2 days going over it ready to go, then after a couple of days cutting, right in the middle of the afternoon about 3pm, when the sun is at its hottest, and a belt comes off in a bad to get to place down in the bottom of the workings, now after you spent the last couple of hours sat in a cool air con cab drinking red bull or the likes, you now find you have to get out and investigate the situation, on opening the guards and getting covered in barley awns down the back of your neck its not a good start, anyway get the spanners out and set to work, however 15 minutes into the job, the red bull is leaking out of your skin like an uncontrollable bust pipe, and yes the bloody trailer donkey comes racing across the field like the devil and pulls up along side to a sharp halt, creating dust everywhere, and yes you guessed it, your now wet damp skin with sweat is like a magnet for the dust, and it sticks to you like sh!t to a blanket, and the trailer donkey just laughs, but carry on and get it all lined back up, trying not to listen to the boy going on about the lass riding the horse on the road, you ask me to pass you the hammer, and as passing it to you knocks the support stay out for the guard, it slams shut and relives its self of the remained of barley awns and dust down on you, with the oil on your hands you go and wipe your brow, as this makes thing worse, however 10 minutes later your now up and away, sitting in a cool cab, covered in sh!t, and itchy as feck for the rest of the day, eyes are sore with rubbing them, yet carry on to get the harvest in, meanwhile the trailer donkey is still clean, wearing his Ray Bans, and posting pictures of you covered in muck under the combine 20 minutes earlier
The next day you check everything over, and all looks good , even the in field repair yesterday, clean on and ready to go about 11am, jobs a good un,
All is fine, barley is a good crop, trailers are getting back in time and by about 2 pm your singing along with the radio and enjoy every minute of it, all yesterday's problems are forgotten, infact your in suck a good mood, that if the trailer donkey asked to borrow a tenner to stop at the shop you would probably give him it, all is so good, that thoughts of the wife even cross your mind, till about 3pm, ( ya can set your watch by it) the engine starts to miss and die down, stopping to let it catch up then away again for a few yards and it dies again and stops, bloody fuel problems, so you open the door to get out, and it feels like someone is aiming a flame thrower ar you, ah but least its on the top, so no barley awns down your neck, after getting to the engine compartment the bloody heat magnifies 10 fold, and can see some gunge in lift pump sediment glass, now at this point your about to do an impression of a cat on a hot tin roof, as everything is hot, but least the trailer donkey is preoccupied on the phone the his latest conquest from the village, off with the glass and clean it out, thats the easy part as 1 handed, now for putting it back on, 1 hand to hold it in place and other hand to tighten the knurled nut, ah but no way of supporting you body, so during this process various heat burn may take place, and the likelihood of finding new words comes to mind, anyway job done, now back to the cab stinking of diesel for the rest of the day, yet finish around 10pm with no more problems, well that it to about midnight when you lye awake wondering what tomorrow for an hour,
Day 3, cutting away merrily till about, yet again 3pm when this time there is no trailers coming back, turns out trailer tipping pipe bust in store, and having to mop it all up, no trailer till 4pm so lost an hour, and you should of been finished for 7pm as that was the last of the winter barley, its now going to be 8pm, and you promised the wife you'll go with her for a pub meal, and now she is not happy,
Day 4 a near neighbour want some cut as contractor cannot get and rain forecast to tomorrow, so you obliged and say you will be there a midday, however you get to the field and no one is there, after a fight of getting in and hitching the header on, and struggling to push the header trailer out of the way, you think you may as well start, after a full tank you stop and call him to see where he is at, "oh just on my way back from the auction, I'll have a quick bit of dinner and be with you" 1,45pm when he turns up, you only sat an hour doing feck all, and when all is going he cannot keep you going as the 4" auger with the bottom 6" of flights missing cannot empty the trailers fast enough, so was 8pm when finished all for 6 acre, know you know why the contractor could not get to cut it, and gone 9pm when back home on a Saturday night, and spend an hour putting knife sections on and straightening fingers after neighbour don't pick stones, but once dew has lifted (it did not rain) your off to bale your own straw, baled up and back in the house by 5pm to spend time with the wife,

Yet out for a meal down the pub with the wife to make up for the missed night before, you tell another neighbour you would not be without your own combine, its been no bother and can cut when you like, and so it goes on for another year, as the best bit is putting it in the shed after all is cut,

That is possibly the most true story as ever told to most of our farming lives yearly...
Simply brilliant you need to get a book with these tales in pronto 10/10 made my day Thankyou

Just to add am sure our 1983 MF 665 did everything you described to a T here !!!

 

[FG.]

Ran a 1986 Dom 108 from 2002-2018 doing 130 for my self and 200 other.
Had an independent claas man look over it yearly and between us, it didn't cost much.
Rarely had to dry anything and could get everything baled dry.
I should of kept it as in 2019 I put 1/2 my arable into stewardship and only had 100 ac for a neighbour to do, but no.
A friend was selling his 24' Dom Mega 218 for very attractive money.
I knew it was stupid, but I couldn't help myself.
Sold the 108 for strong money and with £8000 to change, I have some bloody weapon to do 165acres and why not.
Big kit gets the job done in what appears to be getting more and more catchy seasons.
Dont buy something with stupidly complicated electronics.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I have a nice tx32 on 3100 hrs 15ft header that I'm tempted to sell if I can get a replacement.

 

[Farma Parma]

I have a nice tx32 on 3100 hrs 15ft header that I'm tempted to sell if I can get a replacement.

a mk2 8070 be good combines them.

 

[Farma Parma]

I have a nice tx32 on 3100 hrs 15ft header that I'm tempted to sell if I can get a replacement.

am i right in thinking the TX32 & 34 was 5 walker where as the 36 was a 6 ??

 

[davidroberts30]

Yeah I know exactly what you mean,I always try and get in the cab clean,then something stupid happens and you are oily/covered in barley aisles or both for the rest of the day.

5 gallon drum of cleanish water on the step and a towel in the cab

 

[Rowland]

1680 or if the budget could be stretched a touch a 2166-2188

Had plenty of Axial flow combines over the years nowt wrong with them.
Firby has a few in

Combines - J R Firby Ltd

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www.jrfirby.co.uk

 

[Lincsman]

am i right in thinking the TX32 & 34 was 5 walker where as the 36 was a 6 ??

Correct.

 

[Hjwise]

So, have you bought a combine yet? If not, then in the FW today is a New Holland TF78. I know nothing about older NH’s but if I were you I would ring up and buy it immediately - no looking, no haggling. This is based on the single picture, the price, the front tyres and most of all... it says ‘reduced’ on the advert....

 

[Old apprentice]

2166 axel flow as regards straw put the chopper on slowest speed take out every other set of doUbley knives and the doudle knives that are left take one out . The straw baled this last time ok and very short straw with lack of rain when required hope that is use full.

 

[Fuzzy]

So, have you bought a combine yet? If not, then in the FW today is a New Holland TF78. I know nothing about older NH’s but if I were you I would ring up and buy it immediately - no looking, no haggling. This is based on the single picture, the price, the front tyres and most of all... it says ‘reduced’ on the advert....

Is that the one with fibre optic cables ? That vermin like to chew ?

 

[Hjwise]

Is that the one with fibre optic cables ? That vermin like to chew ?

I can’t see any vermin chewed fiber optic cables on the picture. I’m sure it will be fine.

 

[glasshouse]

Ran a 1986 Dom 108 from 2002-2018 doing 130 for my self and 200 other.
Had an independent claas man look over it yearly and between us, it didn't cost much.
Rarely had to dry anything and could get everything baled dry.
I should of kept it as in 2019 I put 1/2 my arable into stewardship and only had 100 ac for a neighbour to do, but no.
A friend was selling his 24' Dom Mega 218 for very attractive money.
I knew it was stupid, but I couldn't help myself.
Sold the 108 for strong money and with £8000 to change, I have some bloody weapon to do 165acres and why not.
Big kit gets the job done in what appears to be getting more and more catchy seasons.
Dont buy something with stupidly complicated electronics.

Is that the c750 header?

 

[Acke]

Go yellow, better built than Claas!
I have Claas now, was NH.

 

[Lincsman]

So, have you bought a combine yet? If not, then in the FW today is a New Holland TF78. I know nothing about older NH’s but if I were you I would ring up and buy it immediately - no looking, no haggling. This is based on the single picture, the price, the front tyres and most of all... it says ‘reduced’ on the advert....

I like NH combines, but wouldn't recommend a 78 to anyone, there are a few vital electronics on it that have been obsolete for a while.

 

[Flatlander]

Buying a big combine is great for getting the job done quick but it may well have seen a major number of acres thru it. Persona away from one with lots of electronics and fancy gizmos. Try find a combine from a retiring mid size farm that has other tidy kit. Might help that it’s been owner driven and not the proving ground of a video game playing pot head.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Buy a really tidy JD 1075 for 10k and save the rest of the money. I did twice that acreage with a 1065, bloody brilliant combine. 1177 would eat it also.

We put 900 acres through a 1075 for 2 seasons , long harvest tho

 

[Mr Charisma]

Having not read through all the replays I expect the usual Massey haters have had there say , but I had a yellow machine which was very problematic for two seasons and swopped it for a 40 RS ,,,,,, no problem at all , very cheap combining for 5 years .
Now I'm not saying the OP should buy a red one but if the right 32 model upwards came along then it might do him well .
I would never recommend a Axial flow if you really need every length of straw , it's just the way it is , if I was chopping most of my straw then I would run one

There that's pee'd enough folk off for starters

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Contractor every time for less than 200 acres .
I'm not sure about all this talk about high moisture etc . Ours comes when we say it will go not when he says it will have to go ! It's all about communication and not ringing them up and saying " wheat will go today bring a combine please "
Meanwhile while he is combining and filling trailers I'm getting on with the baling .