Another one of my ladies joined the cause today

Haley

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I finally got the Dominator 76 back in the field after going over it from front to back.We started pulling corn at 22% moisture on fears that the newest tropical system is going to swamp us over the weekend.The Claas sure runs sweet with the Mercedes and does not lack power at all.The cab is light years ahead of the ones on my 642 combines.This corn is running probably close to 240bpa and is as tough as any I have ever combined.I only ran two hoppers with the Claas and was just mainly trying to check it out and get it set but it really suprised me and handled this green corn better than I expected.It does not seem to have quite the capacity that the 642 has but That may change after I get through the learning curve on this one v/s the 642.If there is one thing on this combine that I have learned to hat it is the closed up hopper---Definetly not the greatest thing Claas has ever came up with.I spent about two days in it last week working on the elevator housing and chains in 90 degree heat and I felt like a roasted pig.It sure makes all the hard work worth wile when you hit the field with a combine that has sat so long and was basically wrote off and watch the corn fill the hopper in about 6 minutes with no problems at all.Sitting in the cab listening to the new radio feeling the ice cold a/c looking over a 70 acre field of corn watching the hopper fill quick--Does it get any better? O by the way J.D. Seller you were right,The J.D. chopper on my Fords worked great running at the same speed they were running in wheat.They really are doing a better job of busting up the cobs than I thought they would.All three combine ready to roll and we get rain tonight,I guess tomorrow may be a sleep day.
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Very nice looking Fleet and great pics as well would love to be there in person and watch them running another job well done
cnt
 
Thats an impressive line up...Last year at this time the corn harvest was about done in my area..This year it will be mid-late Sept before harvest starts..
 
glad you got her running ok Haley! wish the air worked in my 106... i hope to pull the cylinder this coming week, i'll post some photos for you!
 
Why do you have the JD and IH cab tops on them? I hope you keep posting pics of your fine Ford combines.
 
Very few of the Fords came with factory A/C.I put the J.D. top on my old one years ago and used a Gleaner F2 condenser mounted on the side of the combine.The J.D. top cost me a total of $200 out of a junk yard and had the evaporator,blower,lines ,etc all in the top.It was a quick easy cheap way to put A/c on but the top was not the best fit.The headliner had to come out to make the top fit the Ford cab and so to this day it does not have a headliner.On the second one I had access to a 782 I.H. cotton picker top that was going to be scrapped and after measuring it was almost perfect for the Ford cab except for it was about 10 inches longer front to back than the Ford cab.The back panel on the I.H. cab is just spot welded in so I cut it loose,cut the top to the right length and spotted the panel back in.The I.H. top has a headliner and even has the factory radio but it is a LOT harder to get to the evaporator to blow it out or wash it out than the J.D. top is.I can have the evap out of the J.D. top in ten minutes to wash it out but the I.H. top will take at least an hour.The I.H. top really fits nice and unless you know what you are looking at you really wouldnt notice that it didnt come on the combine from the factory.
 
We really shouldnt be pulling this corn now.The farmer is taking an awful hit on the moisture deductions but this field is real close to a main river and wild hogs are absolutely destroying this field.They are afraid that if we dont get it now they may not be any corn left to get if a tropical system moves in and rains us out for a week.We were over half way through this time last year but there is a lot of corn that is still very green and will be at least three weeks away from combining this year.
 
If you were here in person I would gladly put you in the seat of one and let you run it for the day! Seriously,Finding decent help to run all these combines is turning out to be harder than working on them.Finding good help is extremely hard and I am always afraid that if I put the wrong guy in the seat he will wind up costing me more than I make with the combine.
 
really do wish I could be there would be glad to run one for you, I hear you on the needing real operators that's why I only run my own anymore even though I could have up to 13 machines running at a time one thing about it though I do have back up machines LOL
cnt
 
No,Not a new head by any means! This head was sitting in my parts pile two weeks ago waiting to be torn apart for parts.I have been trying to buy a corn head and parts combine from the guy I bought this combine from for the past few weeks and we just havent been able to get together yet.Corn season was FAST approaching so I picked the best parts head I had and replaced all the bearings and chains to get it so I could use it.This head was mostly rusty blue so to make it kind of match the 76 I just pressure washed it and sprayed a cheap "Good from far but far from good" paint job on it.I could not find Claas green anywhere so I took saftey yellow and J.D. green and mixed them to come up with something close.I added a half quart of green to a gallon of yellow and I think I really should have added just a little more to darken it up just a touch.
 

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