You already hit on the big things that's wrong with the Deere,parts. Unless Deere-Mart is a whole lot different over there than it is here in Michigan.
I don't know what model you could run with a 2 row head and 70 horse. I had a 3800 and ran it with a 90 horse 4040. I was always in low gear with my foot on the clutch. The Deere heads are a pain in the backside. They had those hex shafts and bearings so no lock collars. Unless you were darned careful to keep the right spacers in them they tore up the bevel gears that ran the gathering chains. Then there were the actual gathering chains. Nothing but 60 roller chain with belts bolted to them. If they got the least little bit loose and got any trash under them,they ran off at the top. The reverser on that one I had ran with an electric motor,so there was a two or three second delay while you waited for enough travel to stop it. Same thing while you waited for it to go in to reverse and back out of reverse. The auger has a carrier on the end that sticks straight out. It didn't bother in corn,but in hay mine would wrap and then punch the bearing right out of the flange on the drive end. I don't know if the newer ones were any improvement,but I wouldn't even look at another Deere chopper.
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