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Erik Ks farmer 12-26-2012 18:04:40 199.241.240.16 Report to Moderator	Thank you for you service. As to parts, I farm with Deere, Case IH, New Holland and Massey Ferguson (AGCO) in my opinion you aren't going to see much difference in parts prices in any of them anymore. For your goals an F2 Gleaner or a 550 MF with hydrostat would be good choices. A guy can run a 13' to 15' platform in beans and a 4 row cornhead and get a 100 acres done in 2 or 3 days with good trucking. [Reply]   [No Email]
dboll 12-27-2012 06:11:35 209.23.168.228 Report to Moderator	Re: best age enhanced (old) combine in reply to Erik Ks farmer, 12-26-2012 18:04:40   One thing to remember is that a 550 will eat any F series Gleaner alive as far as capacity. Either is plenty for what you want to do. A gleaner may be easy to work on but they have alot more hardware to work on. A 550 will easily havdle an 18' bean head in heavy soybeans. The main thing is to get something that you can readily get parts for. Shoup is a good after market source.   [Reply]  [No Email]
cornking 12-26-2012 18:53:13 76.111.134.243 Report to Moderator	Re: best age enhanced (old) combine in reply to Erik Ks farmer, 12-26-2012 18:04:40   Thankyou VERY much all of you , from what I've read today and your inputs , the gleaner is the ticket. A friend of mine has the MF550 (for show).He's concerned about a few "quirks" Massey has if I had trouble in the field (belts mainly).I'm gonna drive to PA. next week ,there's 1 F2 and 2 F3's for sale. Thanx again ALL of you...Mike   [Reply]  [No Email]
GreenEnvy 12-27-2012 16:53:16 216.220.12.48 Report to Moderator	Re: best age enhanced (old) combine in reply to cornking, 12-26-2012 18:53:13   We used to run Massey and a Massey would be the last combine I would get unless you have somebody around to fix it or help you fix it. Funny your friend mentions his 550 has "quirks". "Quirks" means they break down often to those of us that have moved on to something better. The gleaners should be fine since they are easy to work on and another combine that would be easier to work on and reliable would be an IH 14 AF series like a 1440.   [Reply]  [No Email]
CORNKING 12-29-2012 08:28:50 76.111.134.243 Report to Moderator	Re: best age enhanced (old) combine in reply to GreenEnvy, 12-27-2012 16:53:16   That's what my freind said...He'd never forgive himself if that Massey left me in the field yelling "mayday" on the CB hahahaha!!!!!!!! And I'm a BIG Mr.Ferguson fan..I do all tillage and planting with a 8N.....If Mr.Ferguson isn't the sadest story in the history of farm machinery ,I don't know what is !!   [Reply]  [No Email]