I find it funny that so many fellows think a JD combine is hard to work on. If you know what your doing then they are not that bad. Plus they are pretty durable machine compared to the others. JD must have been doing some thing right as they have had over 50% of the total market share for the last 20-30 years here in North America.
The hardest combine to work on would be a MF combine. They just had many things that made them tough to work on. Like having to remove the final drives to drop the transmission out. Then the big cast steel drive pulley on the main drive. That sticking taper really did not have to stick that HARD!!! LOL
Yes a Gleaner is easy to work on. They had to be because you have so many bearings and light shafts that they need worked on often. In small grains they where not bad but in heavy corn they just did not hold up that well. Then the time and PARTS needed to go from one crop to another. That was a REAL PAIN!!!
A White conventional was not fun either to work on. With the engine buried behind the cab.
I never have worked on many Ih machines other than a 715 and they where not great to work on either.
The long and short of it is none of them are "FUN" to work on.
The hardest combine to work on would be a MF combine. They just had many things that made them tough to work on. Like having to remove the final drives to drop the transmission out. Then the big cast steel drive pulley on the main drive. That sticking taper really did not have to stick that HARD!!! LOL
Yes a Gleaner is easy to work on. They had to be because you have so many bearings and light shafts that they need worked on often. In small grains they where not bad but in heavy corn they just did not hold up that well. Then the time and PARTS needed to go from one crop to another. That was a REAL PAIN!!!
A White conventional was not fun either to work on. With the engine buried behind the cab.
I never have worked on many Ih machines other than a 715 and they where not great to work on either.
The long and short of it is none of them are "FUN" to work on.