| Excalibur - 9/10/2023 12:47 Depends on the future economics. I personally don’t want a 10 year old class 8/9 with my acres, with a two man operation we just can’t move the grain away fast enough.
You just have to buy the big combine cheap enough that it doesn't matter if you only use it like a Class 6 or 7.
We have a Class 8 combine running a 20’ corn head that usually only sees between 2000-2500 bph in corn as that's about as fast as we can haul it away.
It even spends a little time behind a 6x 30” corn head but I don't really care because we bought it cheaper than what we would have had to pay for similar hour smaller combine at the same time.
In beans where the trucks can keep up it’s awesome to be able to do 15 acres/hr instead of maybe doing 8-10 with a smaller machine.
The extra fuel use isn’t worth worrying about if you buy the big combine cheap enough.
Edited by Kooiker 9/10/2023 23:06
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