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Athens, Ga | +1. If dealership it's experienced in spfh it not much help anyways. Our claas dealer is over 3 hrs away, there has been several times where we broke down and called their top machanic and he had use goin again in 5-10 min.
We chop about the same corn silage wise, and went from nh230 pull type to claas 860. Furtherest field is still less than a 1.5 mile. With the pull type 3 people could keep it going. 1 chopping, 1 hauling, 1 packing. Tractor on chopper was to small but it was all we had and would take 5-6 weeks to chop 300-350 ac. Went to the claas 860 and we needed 3 truck drivers, and could use a 4th at times. Also pack tractor got a lot busier so I made a 8ft blade into a 12ft blade. Our chop time now is 7-10 days depending on how many truck drivers we have.
Cost of upkeep will be more than $1,000. $3,000-5,000 would be a good number with older chopper and older heads. I think my dad would pay $10,000 a year to never go back to a pull type.
Edited by exit 12/7/2013 07:51
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