95 for the win

DeltaSteve · Nov 27, 2020

I am haveing my corn stalks baled off. The guy running the flailer said my old combine did a great job. Said the guys with the big new ones have ears and grain scattered everywhere. He said there was no such waste behind me. Said they simply drive too fast.the Complement made me feel good.

flying belgian · Nov 27, 2020

BTO in our area has the biggest new JD. combine made. 45 ft. platform. After he combined his beans he went over ground with some sort of finish tool. Then we got 2" rain and temps in the 70's. The beans that came up looked like a lawn. Must have ran 10 bpa. on the ground. Unbelievable.

paul · Nov 28, 2020

Was done with harvest, just so, went to pay property taxes, on the way drove past 300-500 acres of standing corn in that snow squall we had around the 14th, heard it was one of the big outfits with corn left. Corn looked really bad, short and stunted, from a 55mph tour in a falling snow it looked like 100 bu corn or less.

Can be lots of reasons for a poor crop, but even I had pretty good corn this year.

Don’t know how they can be that big and pay so much rent an acre and that the crop and harvest timing they have.

Paul

tomstractorsandtoys · Nov 28, 2020

They are good machines. I hope to have my 95 back going for next fall. I started a total rebuild and so far have not got far. My son has need of my shop for his fencing and fence building welding projects so it might have to go till next winter. I am considering getting a cylinder out of a machine without variable speed cylinder as we constantly fight belt slippage. I had the same issue with the 105 this fall in good corn. Tom

IowaJohn · Nov 28, 2020

Heck there's little guys can do it too. Had 1 that lives nearby that ran a 6620 he always had a green streaks thru the field after a rain. I'm guessing not enough air to float the trash or grinding up the stalks overloading the chaffer. I've looked at the draper headers it's easy to see where the loss starts, plenty of places for beans to get by the belts.

DeltaSteve · Nov 28, 2020

I think you asked me this earlier.My machine doesnt have the variable speed cylinder,just the old chain and sprocket system.Set at 400 rpm for dry corn. Works good with no issues. No maintenance other than a bit of oil and the occasional adjustment.1965 'wheat Queen' I hauled in from Kansas.

DeltaSteve · Nov 28, 2020

You can have bigger and newer,but it's darn hard to beat good old 95!

mudcreek183 · Nov 28, 2020

Saw this last year the corn was take off beginning of Sept.,this was about 1st week of Nov.looks like he blew half his profit out the back of his new shiny combine

retired farmer · Nov 29, 2020

It helps to actually know how to run a combine.

DeltaSteve · Nov 29, 2020

The new big combines have computers,yield monitiors and who knows what. Just immagine if they had to go back to 'old school' pre electrictonic technology.Like an old 95???

GreenEnvy · Nov 29, 2020

Imagine cutting 4,000 acres a year with a 95 too. I'm with retired farmer. Don't matter how fancy these new combines are, you still have know how to operate one. Besides losses always look worse then they actually are. Plus I know plenty of guys that grew up on 95s and other combines from that era. And none of them wish to go back to a 95 or even a 7700. You, me, and others on ytmag that love vintage equipment are a small minority of the overall farming community. I even know a few guys that scoff at threshing bees and antique tractor shows because they lived it. I have my vintage combines and they are fun to run for a day. And honestly, if I was only farming the homestead my equipment would be my 55 combine, my Case 500 and JD 820.

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