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| There's an IH 615 gas combine for sale near me with only 1,000 hours on it and a 12' flex head. Said to be in excellent condition. Owner is asking $3500. Anyone have experience with these combines in beans? Good points/bad?
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | A good friend still runs a 715 and gets along good in beans. He has been able to get needed parts from the CIH dealer and scrap yards. |
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n.c.iowa | have a cousin that runs one. simple, cheap, lightweight, easy to work on, and dependable. down sides, burn a lot of gas, low capacity, if you are running the flex platform, it leaves a little bit to be desired, and it's old, getting older. |
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| Yep... I have one. It's parked in the weeds. It just cost too damn much to run. We had constant problems with the pitman drive on the head and fairly frequent problems with the unloading auger. It's something I'd endeavour to not own if I were you. Never mind the fact it burns a solid 5 gph to cut 2 ac/h if you're lucky. Parts for this one were hard to get 10 years ago. No idea what it's like today.
I think I'd go looking for a green one myself if you want something of that vintage.
Rod |
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New London, Wisconsin | I had one as my first combine. I traded it in 1982 for a brand new 15' 820 flex head even up. It was a good trade.
Mine was reliable but small. I can confirm it used a lot of gas. The last year I had it, I did 300 acres of corn along with about 150 of oats and beans. I would never want to do that again. My next combine was a 1 year old axial flow and it was like going to heaven.
Edited by 150pilot 7/14/2014 07:06
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Republic OH (NC OH) | johnny skeptical - 7/14/2014 07:36
have a cousin that runs one. simple, cheap, lightweight, easy to work on, and dependable. down sides, burn a lot of gas, low capacity, if you are running the flex platform, it leaves a little bit to be desired, and it's old, getting older.
with my 715D i would not consider it to be easy to work on. every change out
the straw walkers? or work on the hydraulic pump? nothing like having to
lean over the top of a hot engine to work on some stuff. glad i don't have
that combine anymore.
jmho
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| Ran a 715 over 800 acres for years. $3500 is not a lot for a combine with 1000 hours, won't have to cut much to recover cost. If there is a simpler machine, I'm not aware of it. Granted, it is not an axial flow, but it is low cost and it will harvest for you. Certainly rare to find a combine of that age with only 1000 hours. |
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n.c.iowa | speaking in relative terms duane, as far as conventional machines go it's as simple as it gets. |
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sc ia | $3500 is way too much for that combine in my opinion. Neighbor sold one last year for little more than scrap price. It did a decent job in beans but a 4 row head is too big for it. He still has the 13 ft. bean head for sale. |
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Central ND | Didnt the 615 and 715 have some screwy designwhere they used a different kind of cleaning fan that wasnt a paddle fan like all other combines were built with?Seems to me they ahde a bladed fan mounted in to the side or somehting silly like that.
Neighbor had a 715 D and says it was a pain..... |
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n.c.iowa | yup all the x15's had that design. |
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| johnny skeptical - 7/14/2014 07:03 yup all the x15's had that design. NOT true, only the 8/915 had the side mounted fans. 6/715 are a conventional horizontal paddle fan. |
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n.c.iowa | yup you are right clay, run and was around one for enough years should've remembered that. |
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Central ND | I am thinking they were made both ways depending on the year they were made.But I could be wrong.Seems neighbors 715 had a side fan, and another's 915 was a paddle fan like our 914 was designed.
Edited by School Of Hard Knock 7/14/2014 09:02
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Centralia, MO | Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the 8/915 a little fire prone and it was because of the cleaning fan system they were using? Been a while, but that's the way I remember it. |
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| Not on my farm. I had crops custom harvested years ago with 615 and 715. In corn if it wasn't full it spit out quarter cobs out the back with the kernels still on them. The replacement very used 1440 did a much cleaner job until the tank split.
Gerald J. |
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| Are you sure the tach has not be replaced? |
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| I think the 815/915s were prone to burning because they weren't very reliable machines and it was easier to get an insurance company to buy one than find a dealer who wanted one in on trade. We have a neighbor who say's the worst mistake he ever made was putting his 815 out when it caught on fire. |
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| I bought a new 615 in 1971. Mine had a 13' platform & a 2x36" corn head. You really didn't want anything bigger in decent crops. It was only one in this area that I knew of. I really wanted a 715 but there were none available. Only other combine our dealer had was a 315. I was needing a combine ASAP as the engine gave up in my POS 303 right at the beginning of bean harvest. They were basically an upgraded version of a 303 but not by much. No way would I give $3,500 for it.
Like others have said, they were gas hogs, don't think they offered a diesel engine in the 615. Never had any major problems with mine but had a lot of small stuff. I remember the last year I ran it I replaced 4 chopper belts in four days. Only problem was to change the belt you had to take the drive housing off the rear of the engine to get to it. A good 4-5 hr job as I recall. IH belts were an odd size so you could just go anywhere & get one.
Edited by boog 7/14/2014 16:18
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Cleveland, MS. Own small farm near Booneville, MS | My brother bought a 615 new in either 72 or 73. We ran it for 8 or 9 years. We didn't do corn at the time. It was only used in soybeans. It was reliable for us and did a decent job. At that time yields were not what they are now. It had a 13' or 14' head and would cut 30 bu/ac beans at about 4 mph. The last few years we had it we also had a JD 4400 with the same size header. The 4400 would outrun, out cut, and put cleaner grain in the tank, but it was also a higher capacity combine. Between the two I much preferred the 4400, but that is just my opinion. |
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| I bought one this year for my first combine, has the late model 800 series heads with it, I only used it on 23 acres of beans but it did a pretty good job with very little trouble, worst thing about it is the 810 13 foot grain table is missing the sensor bar for the automatic header control, I would be interested in any parts machines I can find near southern Illinois as I plan to use this combine for several years before upgrading. |
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