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nickg 10-02-2012 12:43:06 96.27.164.233 Report to Moderator

Sometimes its better to keep a machine you know and know its problems than switching to an unknown machine and get another persons headaches. 1600 series are pretty good machines if you can find one thats been maintained well. But they have a lot more electrical components but are a bigger machine with more capacity.If your only running a 4 row head and a 15" header and planning to stay with that Id say stay with what you know and have. Im not sure if the heads are easily interchangable between a 1400 and a 1600 series or not. If your wanting to jump to a 6 row head and a 20 or 22" bean head Id switch machines to gain more capacity. It mite also mean adding another truck or gravity wagon to your hauling fleet. Sometimes its more beneficial to add a bigger truck or another truck to the fleet than add a bigger machine, but as you grow in acres, the jump to a bigger machine eventually becomes neccessary as well as bigger or more trucks. If it were me and I farmed by myself Id jump to a bigger 6 row machine and look at gettin a semi or a big ten wheeler or find someone to custom haul for you. Just me tho. [Reply]   [No Email]