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fred goodrich

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What can you tell me about these machines? I am selling one at auction Jan 30 in Newark Valley NY
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got one just like it I got stuck with when a guy could not pay any of his 8000.00 repair bill,,, only thing he had worth anything,, mine has the husking bed rather than the combine unit,,, sure would like to sell mine,, no corn here in wheat country
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There were quite a few here in Cayuga county back in the 70's-80's. Every one I saw was the old GMC V-6 gas, though over the years several engines were available. I think the model was 702. Several attachments were available, but most here ran a chopper, picker, or combine. I don't recall any reliability issues. Keeping the engine area clean was a necessity. The biggest challenge here, using them in the fall, was they were not well balanced, and were terrible in mud and/or slippery conditions- which are a given. Weights would be hung on the right drive wheel, and on the rear end, in an effort to balance them. But ADDING weight in not really what you want to be doing. I don't know how the newer rear wheel assist worked. Seems like it had to help. Right at the tail end of the run we sold one new one in Auburn. It had the newer style cab like yours, 4 WD, and AC 426 diesel engine, but I had nothing to do with it. It was the only new Uni I recall in the years between 72- 84. I think there was one model in there with a Perkins too.
 
you are correct 354 thanks,,,, if Steve was not so far away and across several mountain ranges I would have bought the CASE 150 his neighbor has,,, he is 700 or better miles one way for me
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That appears to be the sheller unit on there, not the combine... that was a really useless unit. They could handle very little trash going in, and if you slugged the cylinder, there was no dropping the concave to aid in unplugging. It was just you and a really long shaft. There was a drive gearbox that seemed to fail about every 2n or 3rd season as well. I'm really surprised to see one in working condition.

As for the Uni units, my father-in-law still picks some corn with a picker unit. He's always glad when he's done. The picker was okay unit.

They also could be a fire hazard- the low down engine caught a lot of dust, and many of the gas ones burned up.
 
I would have to disagree with you coonie on the CAGE shellers.We ran Uni's from 1970 til 1995 and 3 different sheller models over close to 15-20,000 acres and NEVER PLUGGED one up.The last 10-15 yrs.were with 4 row Deere heads which were dirty vs NI heads.They would match a 4400,F or 715 all day long and do a cleaner job.They were FAR from perfect,but if they had spent money on a good Rotary Combine,rather then the 818 Combine and THAT 858 SHELLER,things might have been different,but they had too many OWNERS in the end.
 
You were lucky. We had a 729 that was actually modified into a pull-type, tractor pulled machine- part of a corn sheller/stalk harvester my uncle had put together. We used it from 1980 until 95, and the weakest link of the whole thing was the sheller unit. If corn was down, it would struggle with two 38" rows going in. We too had a JD head on it- a 244.

Too much trash was definitely the enemy of those things.
 
My father in law had several. One burned up, I think it was one of those with the GMC V6 gasser. Toward the end he picked a lot of seed corn with a husking bed and 635 Deere head. He picked some field corn for me but the six row Deere head overloaded the husking bed, giving me trashy corn that was hard to shell out of the crib. I don't remember the model number of the last one but it did have the Perkins engine. 706 maybe?
 
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