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Latimer Iowa | Has anyone ran a Macdon fd2 and what are your experiences? We currently are running a fd145 and it was a decent upgrade from the fd 75. I like the heavier center drive/drum. I liked the way the fd 145 cut looked while we we combining but a month later fields looked shaggier then I would like for fairly new head. Running the head on soybeans and oats on a tracked case 8250 at about 4.5-5.5 mph. I would probably be looking at a 50 foot head, prefer to run slower and still keep combine full. Equipment dealers telling us that if want one for 23 harvest to order now. There is a pretty good price increase for the fd2 but I guess we cant even order a fd1 anymore. I have been trading for about $4.35 an acre head cost and trading to an fd2 would be pretty close to $8 an acre. I know, inflation happening too. How does a Honeybee head compare? not familiar at all with them. Willing to run any brand except Case IH on a draper head, demoing a 3162 did them in for me for a while. Did a side by side with our Deere draper/680 combine in 2015 and that was part of the reason we switched to Case combine/Macdon head though. Not sure how the new Deere heads are but not willing to go to a Deere combine at this point. | |
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Macdon fd2 or honeybee?
