Cherokee County, Northwest Iowa | Dad went from a MF 300 with 2 row corn head to a 510 gas with 4 row head. bought a new I believe 13' bean head, even added auto height control later. No air conditioning. Bean dust used to settle into the console to the right of your feet, more than once you could even smell it starting to get hot down there, stop and clean out the bean dust before it caught fire. Then poor father, was about 2-3 days from being done with his last harvest, some wiring shorted out in the cab, caught fire, fire squad put out the fire. Hurt his pride so much that he spent the winter buying a used cab, re-wired everything that burnt up, and then proceeded to tell me, who was taking over the family farm that next year: "You can borrow this 510 as long as you want, but I am not spending any more money on it". I ran that ol' girl 3 years, didn't spend much money, then went out and bought a used 7720. I never really thanked my Dad enough for loaning me that combine for 3 harvest, wasn't worth much anyway, but sure saved me a lot of money. First fall with the 7720, put Dad in the cab to run it with a hydrostatic drive, so controlled motion with hydro lever-More than once I would be waiting for him to come to the end to unload, and would catch him raising is left foot to "push in the clutch"-we would both smile and then move on. Memories.................... |
MF 510 good or bad memories?
