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I think the old NH 1400 will handle my corn yet this year, but with nearly everything obsolete from Fiat/NH, and basically no aftermarket support, I know its useful days are numbered.
Since I still raise some small grains and bale straw, I'd prefer a conventional, but even that is getting to be less of an option.
How far back can you go on the TR series before parts availability becomes an issue? There's a 24xx hour TR86 with heads for $9k reasonably close.
 
That price don't seam to bad. Any reason you want to stick with New Holland? They were not real popular in my neighborhood so if wanting to buy used parts I would go with JD. or CaseIH. Lots of them around and after market too. I would not be afraid of rotary for straw. If I back the concaves out on chopper and slow it down, straw comes out like a conventional. Mine is a CaseIH rotary. Results may vary on a New Holland.
 
I'd prefer a NH or CIH, as that's the best dealer I have somewhat nearby. Local Deere dealer is now a chain store, and service has nosedived. (And I dont like green)
 
I was never around a 1400. Was that made overseas? How old is it now? There were several 975's around here. They were my introduction to metrics, and foreign engineering. After working on simple old Gleaners, I was not happy with the NH!

Several years ago I faced an update issue. I wanted something newer, bigger, with more features, etc. Basically all I had known was conventional Gleaners. Dealers were all gone, and the Gleaner rotary didn't impress me. After helping neighbors work on their JD's, I didn't want one of them. I found a very nice CaseIH 1660 rotary. It's taken some getting used to. No problem with parts availability. In usually damp NY, straw is definitely baleable. I noticed this year, with drought stricken wheat, that the last I cut chewed up pretty good. But it still got picked up and baled.

It finally dawned on me a couple years back that the switch was difficult because, I had been on and around Gleaners for about 40 years! Now this combine is creeping up towards 30 years old, and at a beat up 65 years myself, I'm doubting I'll be buying another!

Good luck in your hunt.
 
The 1400 was the replacement for the 985, one model higgercthan the 975. (Had a 985, too) Quick-attach feederhouse, hydraulic swing auger, and more apt to be a hydro and/or diesel. Otherwise, much the same.
I went from my Grandpa's IH 82, to a Gleaner E (on its last leg when I bought it) to an Oliver 525... ran a Ford 620 (never should have bought that one) along side the Oliver one year, when a teenage cousin wanted to help, then the 985. 1400 has served me well for 16 years, but parts are either unavailable, new or used, or overpriced. So far, repairs have been minimal, but I know I'm one wrong breakdown from being without a combine.
Maybe I should be looking harder at red ones... what models or series would you avoid?
 
Forgot to add, I don't know the range of years they were made, but mine is a '77. The 1400 and 1500 overlapped with the TR70 for one or two years. (2, I think)
 
I don't know enough about them as a whole to make a recommendation. There was a discussion on here very recently about staying away from the smaller ones. Mine is a late 1660 with Case/Cummins engine, inclined auger, etc. I'd say the biggest fault with it is it was designed to run a crazy engine speed. They want it running 2750 RPM no load, 2500 loaded. Which is nuts as it doesn't need 250 extra RPM's to maintain loaded speed. Mine ventilated the block at number 3 cyl. We then discovered it wasn't the original engine! So this combine is now on, at least, its third engine! I believe they remedied this situation shortly after my combine with the 1666 which is geared so the engine runs at a more respectable speed.
 
I bought a straight IH 1460 about 8 years ago, up in Bob Bancroft's area. It runs a 6 row head just fine, and will likely be the last combine I will ever buy. I'm 70, so it should outlast me. I went from a Massey 510 to the 1460, so you can see it doesn't take a lot to make me happy. There is a combine salvage yard near Ithaca that has had the few parts I have needed thus far. I think the newer-than-1460 models can reach over a higher truck than mine, if that makes any difference.
 
I’ve run Gleaner since dads 45 JD.

If I didn’t have a Silver, I would strongly look at the Red rotaries. I hear the 1420 is the orphan, it has a smaller rotor and wasn’t a big sales volume, so there is very little aftermarket for it. The other models are still well supported.

I’m happy with the Gleaners yet, I have 3 independent dealers all about 50-60 minutes away, one has a boneyard, so parts are good for me. I can understand one wants to be by a good dealer for a combine.

Paul
 
Getting to where none of em have any parts period they just want to be ups shipping office and a pee poor one at that
 
Maybe I missed an opportunity... 1440 on an online auction, 50-60 miles away sold yesterday for $650. No heads, "runs good, needs a rotor bearing." But I'm just starting to look... I have other things at the top of the priority list right now.
 
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