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| Dad and uncle bought a new 410 the year milo went down terrible. They also bought the ONLY roller cone head in area. They started in fall and didnt shut it off till after Christmas sometime. Think they paid for it the first year. Didnt come with a cab but the milo dust made them get one added real quick..Think it was about 64 when they bought it. and they ran it till mid 80's and it was many times wore out.
Cuss words were used regular in the repairs made. MOST of the trouble was the double bevel gear running the 44 cornhead. Never ran more than a few days in a row and a real pain to fix. No quick tach here. I still maintain it was partly the fault of never replacing the stripping plates on the snapping rollers and rolled up too much weeds and foxtail and corn trash and over loaded the gear. Couldnt tell them that tho. I had a narrow row head I replaced those strippers and never had a problem. Lot of patched up tin tho but that is age related.
Heater was a corn cob stuck in the inside tin so fan pushed motor air thru,,,AC was was a fan blowing when it worked,,,mostly not (at last)
Had the chevy engine in one and mopar flat head in another and had no probs much with either. The machine engage clutch was a problem tho. At the end they bought another 410 and ran 2 so one might work. Some times got 2 to run at once,,,some times none.
IF combines were traded off every 20-25 years it would have helped the cuss words. The next one(which was green) after that stayed for 25 years and was well used when it came. | |
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MF 510 good or bad memories?
