Outrageous parts

notjustair · Oct 26, 2014

I know that green parts are high. I'm used to that. The bill to keep the 9500 in tip top shape is high every year. This one surprised me, though.

I have never turned or replaced the hammers in the chopper. It sees beans and wheat but no corn. I decided that this year I would replace those hammers. There are six of them in a box. They are about eight inches long. AND $200 A BOX! It takes six boxes to do the old girl. I may just run the old set for another year or so and hoard these boxes. Sheesh.

JD Seller · Oct 26, 2014

Something is not right there.

I will check JD but Shoup has them for $22.95 a set. With 5 sets needed. That is only $114.95 for a complete set.

I just looked the hammers/knives up on JD.

AH124635 set of six knives/hammers $29.10 each set. $29.10 x 5 = $145.50

So I don't know what you looked up but it is not the hammers/knives for the straw chopper for a JD 9500.
Shoup JD chopper hammers

8850dave · Oct 27, 2014

When I worked parts JD did also sell the complete set in 1 box or like you said boxes of 6 hammers and you still need the hardware .

Levi · Oct 27, 2014

it could be that the dealer thinks you will pay it so that is what he charges some dealers jack the prices on parts try another dealership that is nearby might be cheaper

DeltaRed · Oct 27, 2014

Our local dealer jacks up the prices way above JD sugested retail.They have to pay for their new 'mega store' somehow.......

4435 · Oct 27, 2014

Google is generally your friend I check this site also. http://www.greenfarmparts.com/ Tom

gbs · Oct 27, 2014

never can figure dealers of any brand out ,have bought parts and had that knife in the back feeling then dread to have to get something from them and wind up paying equal or less than aftermarket,i just love it when a parts person tries to explain that oem is the best, like jd's advertisement of the corn head on a car they've been lead astray it don't matter if it comes in a plain white wrapper if it contains i.e. a Timken bearing it's a Timken regardless of packaging and price, parts man at local dealer use to call after market parts possum parts and get cranked up about their quality but he wasn't paying for them either

tractorguy2 · Oct 27, 2014

I had a Gleaner LII. I broke a 3ft shaft that drives the sickle. I went to Agco. They charged me $300 for the shaft. I took the broken shaft to the machine shop. They made me a new and charged $80.00

newhollandnut · Oct 27, 2014

agree totally the parts are crazy but if found with our planter (1780 12/23) and our 9500 your better off to spend the money on deere parts vs shoup or some place like that. we put a new straw walker crank on the rear this year guy doing it apparently didn't "time" the crank ended up breaking two straw walkers and having to go ahead and replace the front crank very expensive repair not to mention the headache of doing it and the down time getting parts but I will say and idk why the oem stuff just seems to work better some times

vscummins · Oct 28, 2014

How long did it run before breaking the walkers?

Robert Major · Nov 13, 2014

Hi if the guy doing the jobs passed the Idiot test with top grades, even brand new parts won't last long.
I have seen A JD dealer mechanic put genuine parts in wrong and it' didn't last so well either. At least if that was jobber parts the customer only got adjusted for half the cost of the part L.O.L.
Regards Robert

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