Need a combine

Anonymous-0 · Jul 8, 2014

I rented my land and sold my machinery, now I find myself needing some machinery for about 500 - 600 acres. We grow, canola, flax, durum, lentils. About 25000 bushels per year.
Next week Ritchies are having a sale with over 30 combines, JD from 8820's up, 5 Cts's, IH 1688 up, a lot of the older combines have over 4000 hours, the IH's and 8820's have 5000. Any suggestions would be welcome, in the past my combines have been JD and I have had good luck with 96's up.

Jim in Sask · Jul 9, 2014

For crops like lentils the JD guys around here seemed to go to the CTS models (before the rotaries came out), apparently less seed damage compared to the 9600's. They strike me as somewhat complicated, at least compared to the IH rotary I've run for years.

casecollectorsc · Jul 9, 2014

Some of the 95-9600 engines had waterpump issues. Waterpump goes bad and shells the engine out. Has happened to a few neighbors here. Don't know if the CTS uses that same engine or not.

Matt Griggs · Jul 9, 2014

I'm partial to the CIH 16xx series but at 5000 hrs you're in the "I've never seen that break" territory. But if you do go that route make sure it has the Cummins engine. You never said what your price range was. And I'm not familiar with a lot of your crops so I don't know which machine would work best

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