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Combines, then Now

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B A Star

09-23-2004 20:55:24




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At Husker Harvest Days, CAT LEXION had one of their new 500 series combines in the field with a 16 row 30" corn header. Was told, List price of $486,000.00. I was looking in a Oliver Price book dated Sept, 1969, 5555 Combine $12,412 & 561 Corn head, $6,620 for a total of $19,032 !!!!! !! How many BU of corn will it take to pay for that one?




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marc smothers

09-24-2004 17:09:57




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to B A Star, 09-23-2004 20:55:24  
I recently bought an Oliver 7600 combine with 4 row wide and 13' platform. all for only $750. The machine is in great shape..... With a price like this, is the only way I can make any grain farming..... Marc



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Jim@concordfarms

09-24-2004 07:23:30




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to B A Star, 09-23-2004 20:55:24  
You know, I'm going the opposite way. I'm looking for a smaller combine. I've got a 4 row 4400 JD right now that I'm trying to sell. I want to get either a 3300 Deere or a K Gleaner. I have less than 200 acres to combine and I'm tired of getting scared to death every time I move it on our little country roads. I've got a neighbor who bought one of those silage baggers this year, so I may be in the market for a forage chopper next summer. Jim.

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MCL in IN

09-24-2004 09:17:33




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to Jim@concordfarms, 09-24-2004 07:23:30  
I would reconsider the 3300. I was a JD parts man (sorry everyone) for 3 years. I could get just about anything I wanted for a 4400 but had some problems with certain parts for 3300's. Don't know much about the K Gleaner.

I am not a Deere man but the 4400 seems to be a nice little combine. There are still a lot of them working.



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dwm

09-23-2004 21:14:41




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to B A Star, 09-23-2004 20:55:24  
At that time and into the 70s, a guy in our area farmed and did custom work with the Oliver 5555 equivalent, the Minnie Mo 5297. He bought it at the local Oliver store, and it was basically a red 5555. Had 4 row wide and 6 row narrow corn heads for it, but a modest 13 ft. grain platform with a floating bar. Had a Chrysler 383 running dual straight pipes from the factory-you could hear it running from a long way at night. Hydrostatic drive. It was quite a machine at the time. I saw the Cat at the Farm Progress show. Hard to believe combines are approaching a half-million dollars.

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MCL in IN

09-24-2004 09:13:12




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to dwm, 09-23-2004 21:14:41  
I like your Oliver story. When I was a little kid Dad had a 7600 with a 318 Chrysler. It had the dual straight pipes out the side under the rotary screen. Run a 4 row narrow corn head and 15ft grain head. He run it at the 1972 Farm Progress Show south of Lebanon IN. In 1976 the motor blew up so it got traded for a White 8600 diesel. We think it wound up at a salvage yard near Leesburg IN.

Both of these machines came from R & J Oliver Sales in Lebanon IN.

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VADAVE

09-24-2004 03:17:09




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 Re: Combines, then Now in reply to dwm, 09-23-2004 21:14:41  
And the price of corn hasn"t changed for 60 years!



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Sherry

09-24-2004 05:22:22




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 More than 1/2 a mill. in reply to VADAVE, 09-24-2004 03:17:09  
It's worse than that! If you have one of those machines, then you have to have at least one grain cart at each end of the field and a 4-WD tractor to pull each one of those. That or you'll have to buy a fleet of trucks and a crew to run them. Otherwise you'll never keep it hauled away. If you can't haul it away, what's the use of having a machine that big? Guess it would be nice if you had a combine operator that needed to take a nap at the end of each row.

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