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Boone, Iowa | Mike, I was in a similar situation. Over the years, we have gone from a 1440 to a 1660 and then to a 2188. When we looked at trading the 1660, we had enough ground to justify the 2188 and we needed to upgrade cornheads. We ran a 25 ft head on the 1660 and found a nice 30 ft 1020 that a local farmer had. A couple years ago, we went to a Drago 830 cornhead and this year, I bought a year old 30 ft Harvestmore head. We started out the year with the 3770 hrs on the 2188 and planned on running it this season. As I did some talking with my banker and salesman, we decided to trade for a 2388 with 1470 hrs. Case-IH has 0% interest for one year and no payments until a year from the date of the contract. It was a no brainer for me, since I knew I was going to lose some value on the 2188, since I am approaching 4000 hrs. Although we had installed an AFX rotor, had hyrdo pump and motor rebuilt, replaced unloading augers, tubes, elbows, feederhouse floors, rebuilt cleaning fan gearbox, etc, there is still the sheetmetal of the grain tank and auger beds that had not been replaced. When it came time to figure out what it would take to replace some of that sheetmetal and augers, we decided to trade. By going to a 2388, we can use the same heads and run at our same harvest speeds. We currently run the Harvestmore head at 4.5 mph on dry stemmed beans and run the Drago at 4mph. We can run faster, but would then run into the problem of combining faster than we can get trucks back to the field. If you are happy with the size of heads you are running, I would look for a 2366. Some people asked me why I did not go to a bigger combine. So far, I have been happy updating from a 1996 to a 2005 model. There are alot of improvements in 9 years. If I was to go to a bigger combine, heads would need to be upgraded to the larger feederhouse opening. | |
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Combine rebuild or replace
