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Coon Rapids,Iowa | Am looking at combines. I was wondering about the differences between a IHC 1666 & a 2166. I like the newer cab on the 2166, but does the 1666 have a lot more capacity, or are they pretty well equal.
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Your moms house | The 2166 will have more capacity. |
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NW Washington | I don't think the 2166 will have a "lot" more capacity, but will be a better machine than the 1666 with more power, capacity and some improvements.
Check Hoober's Axial Flow history. http://www.hoober.com/ag/axial_flow_history.asp |
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| 1666 and 2166 are basically the same machine. Both 215hp and both have 180 bushel grain tank I believe. The 2166 is just a little newer and in my opinion more operator friendly. |
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West Central Iowa | same machine, different cab.........might look for an 88 instead, about the same $. I bought a 2166 5years ago, nice machine,sometimes wish I just got a 2188 |
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North Central Iowa | Basically nicer cab. Chaff spreader is slightly different. Core machine is the same. |
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western iowa,by Denison | the absolute best thing you can do is buy a 2388-you can run a 6 row head or 8row-any width bean head-buy parts same price as 2366 and they are cheap-probably the heads you have now will fit right on-you get a bigger tank,heavier drive train,and if you don't run duals there really cheap-bought a 1998 for $50,000-I would skip the 2188 because of wiring issues-seemed to be solved on the 2388's/ I sold my 1688 and 1480 and really happy with the upgrade-my brother has 10 of them in Denison for sale-though I have been lookin at a 2003 sitting on a John Deere lot that I can buy for $72,000 with 1700 hours-on sidehills the extra width of the 2388 will really help-sieves are wider-about 10 inchs and the rotor a touch bigger,and will also burn less fuel as the motor does not work as hard-
Hard to beat a 6 row on 2388's -the extra tank capacity if your by yourself really helps |
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NC IA | In addition to the obvious cab, some other major improvements are PFC hydraulics and wet brakes that actually work. Zero capacity difference, exact same machine otherwise, unless one or the other has been tricked out with rotor/impeller/rock trap improvements. |
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| I don't want to change the subject but I am also looking into buying a 1666 or 2166, and was wondering what is the smallest grain head I could use and still be able to feed it enough. I currently am barely getting by with a gleaner f2 so I know anything would be a huge improvement but I would really like to stay under 18 foot header so I don't have remove the header from field to field and road travel. I would be using a 6 row corn head. |
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North Central Iowa | you can use a 4 row wide head on a 1666 or 2166 but you have to really push it. I would say a 6 row narrow is a nice fit for a 1666 or 2166. We run a 2166 with 6 row narrow and also have a 1688 that we will run a 6 row but plan to switch to an 8 row. |
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| Depending on your fields and conditions you could probably run a 17.5 foot 1020 and bump your ground speed up just a little and that machine would do well. |
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| When we had our 2366 we kept the 1063 head we had on the old 1660. Always seemed like we were getting some corn out the back no matter how hard we pushed it. We could over run the head & still not get enough corn in it, this was in 200 bpa corn. The next year we traded for a 1083 and no more corn out the back and though we were running about 1 -1.5 mph slower we could shell more corn in a day with the 8 row & get a better sample in the tank. |
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