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breweye
Posted 7/21/2013 09:39 (#3220397)
Subject: 7500 hesston chopper


eastern ontario		Anyone have opinions on a 7500 hesston forage harvester. Good things, bad things. Should I stay away from one? Can you still get parts? Have a gehl 1260 sitting in the shed and it is not doing me any good so looking to see other options
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garvo
Posted 7/21/2013 10:57 (#3220523 - in reply to #3220397)
Subject: Re: 7500 hesston chopper


western iowa,by Denison		good chopper same as a dion1224
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dieseldoc
Posted 7/21/2013 11:10 (#3220549 - in reply to #3220397)
Subject: RE: 7500 hesston chopper


Iowa		whats wrong with the gehl
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breweye
Posted 7/21/2013 12:58 (#3220719 - in reply to #3220549)
Subject: Re: 7500 hesston chopper


eastern ontario		love gehl. We have been getting custom guys to cut for many years now. close to 10+ - . Gehl has sat that long and i didn't think parts were easy to get plus it has no processor for corn
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mndairyfarmer
Posted 7/21/2013 16:09 (#3221053 - in reply to #3220719)
Subject: Re: 7500 hesston chopper


swmn		you can still get parts but may have to wait for them. 1260 has pretty good capacity
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breweye
Posted 7/21/2013 16:40 (#3221109 - in reply to #3221053)
Subject: Re: 7500 hesston chopper


eastern ontario		yes it is and if it had a KP I would be using it, but no KP and waiting on parts when it breaks down gets me looking around and I saw this Hesston locally that looked good so I thought I would ask questions. its a 2004 and they are asking $9000 seems cheap. definitely would want to know the history on it
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sweetcorn70
Posted 7/21/2013 18:30 (#3221335 - in reply to #3220397)
Subject: RE: 7500 hesston chopper



We have one at the prison farm where I work, and another prison farm has one too. You can get parts but they take a while and are expensive. We have a lot of trouble with ours but when we had a good mechanic who went over it like should be done it wasn't bad. I do know the big gearbox has been rebuilt or replaced at least every other year. We do about 3500 tons a year and between the Heston and a 5440 Jd self propelled we almost always have one in the shop.

I will say the manuals are very hard to read and the corn head sucks in short corn. It will chop heavy first cut hay at 9.5 mph. we had a lot of trouble with the kernal processor last year. We were looking at buying a rotary head but now they are talking about trading the whole mess for a real chopper, a new holland.

All in all if you need to chop more than 1000 tons I would pass.

Do a search, I think I have posted about ours before.

Mike
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proud2Bafarmer
Posted 7/21/2013 19:30 (#3221488 - in reply to #3221335)
Subject: Sweet corn 70


Baldwin City, KS		Would you mind telling us more about your prison farm? Sounds like a big operation. I didn't know they still had prison farms. Sounds pretty cool. Thanks.
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