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Blue Grass (Eastern IA) | They are very reliable. Not much electronics to go bad. I have put over 2500 hours on my 5830 which is closing in on 5000 total hrs. With off season maintenence, I have very few in season problems, most commonly a blown hose. A 4 row Kemper is the biggest head you want when running a kernal proccesser. With rotary screen, I have never had it get hot. Spout extensions are available to do a great job filling trucks. I can chop 80 ton/hr in corn silage, which will bury most 9' baggers. Parts are cheap because a lot are common to 7720 combines and 3960 pull type choppers. Aftermarket parts at Kooima and Maize corp. Just about every wear part on it has been replaced by now, and I have no plans to replace it with something newer. Average repair cost has been around $10/hr. plus all my own labor. It has never been in a dealers shop. I put on about 250 hrs./yr. Been charging $4/ton + fuel including wagons.
The chopper man at the biggest chopper dealership in Kansas once told me that if you are going to buy a 6610 - 6810 you should keep your 5830 for when the big chopper is in the shop, which will be often. They have a lot of wireing issues. Don't even consider one without the 50 series wireing harness update.
I have a neighbor who thought he was going to buy a 6610 with 6 row Kemper and get a lot of my custom business away from me. In the 5 years he has been running it, it has been broken more days than it has been running. When it was running, he was plugging the kernal proccesser a lot, so he usually runs without it. When a guy hires a custom chopper he wants to get it done without interuption. I have lost no customers to my neighbor. | |
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JD 5830 sp forage harvester-good or bad???
