thinking about a unisystem with kicker, chopper and combine.

TDS

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I was just wondering if these where pretty good machines and how they where to get parts for. I'm a small dairy farm so I would only be chopping 25 so acres of corn, pick around 150 & combine a few hundred of beans. thanks in advance
 
I ment picker. reason I want one of these rigs is I can't afford a self propelled chopper , 3 row picker and my one row is just to slow for 150 acres lol
 
They were very popular here in central NY for a while. I think people got tired of switching them from unit to unit. But a major issue here was they aren't good in the mud. And you can count on that here. Even if you don't sink, you may well be sliding all over. Maybe you have a drier climate?

I don't know how well you would make out harvesting beans. Most Unisystems here were used for chopping and picking. There are so many older Gleaners being scrapped, that might be an alternative for combining.
 
Anything that does everything does nothing right. They were good corn pickers fair combines and poor choppers. Parts are getting hard to find as the same parts are wore out on all of them.Unless you get a real late model that uses the Deere cornhead for silage you will have nothing but problems if you grow tall hi yeilding corn. The older style heads had to much room between the back of the head and the feedrolls and way to often big corn would lean forward rather than feed in like it should and the throat would plug. I went thru this same issue with a Fox self propelled chopper.Had friends with uni-system that complained of same problems. I know of one that caught on fire in the feild and the farmer walked to the barn to call the fire dept instead of taking his truck in because he did not want the fire dept getting there to soon and saving it. Dad had one with a husking bed but it put lots of trash in the wagon would have worked better with a roll head rather than the stripper plate one we had but also would shell lots of corn onto the ground with a roll head. Tom
 
I have a 706 and an 800 power unit . the 706 has the 710 combine and a 13 foot head on it. Works great. I also have a 706 with a 760 chopper on it ,no problems with it. The 800 has the 729A sheller on it. I also have a Picker but don't use it much. If I can I want to get a 767 chopper to replace the 760 chopper since I can still get knives and shear bars for it through Kooima.
 
You are kidding, right! You just described a large farm with 175 acres in corn and several hundred in soybeans. Sound to me like you need a corn chopper and a big combine. Those old uni's would keep you harvesting until next planting season.
 
well now I have a 1 row 323 new idea picker, 2 row chopper and a m2 gleaned. I.need all the ear corn I can get so might aswell have the complete machine. anything is faster then how.I'm.doing it now
 

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