| JD Farm 3 - 7/24/2016 08:37 Curious why were some built with out choppers and some have them?
When the AF combines first came out it was thought that the rotor did enough grinding of the straw that you wouldn't need a chopper.
Once guys started trying to cut down on tillage passes, mainly not disking every acre of bean stubble, it became necessary/desirable to have a chopper.
If you don't need a chopper, there wasn't a reason to spend the money on the option as it probably wasn't cheap and they suck up a lot of horsepower.
Around here, a combine without a chopper is worth considerably less than a similar machine with a chopper.
Honestly, if there were two similarly equipped and good conditioned 3000 hr 1660's parked next to each other on a sale here with the only difference being chopper vs no chopper, I'd expect the one with the chopper to sell in the $10k range and the one without a chopper struggle to get a bid at $5k.
Edited by Kooiker 7/24/2016 22:51
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