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john deere 3975 chopper that is. ie bought this chopper new and only 6 or so yrs old. i traded my 3950 jd chopper that was 20 yrs old and didnt have half the problems in the 20yrs that i owned that one than i have in this 6yr old POS. im about sick of this big turd nothing but problems. would have rather bought a new holland because ive always heard good and nothing bad but too expensive. this chopper is the biggest POS ive ever had. ok im done.

What type of issues are you having??? My brother and I own one an it has been a very good chopper for us. We chop 250 acres of corn each year and 75-100 acres of hay. Ours does not have the kernel processor on it as they don't work the greatest, but other than that it has been great. I really like the newer iron guard on this over the old system. It performs much better.

We run a 3RN corn head and a seven foot hay head. Pull it with a JD 4960 tractor so it has always had a horse on the front of it too.

broke the chain on the feed rollers twice in 2 days in a week. first time it got all bunched up had to take the hay head off both times and broing it home. now as of 2 days ago it wont feed forward something broke in the gear box and thats going to be an expensive fix taking it to the jd dealer cause i dont have time to do it. part of the front needed welding up from last yr because it got a good crack in it. the metal detector quite working which i liked alot. i ordered it with the proccessor and i wanted it and after it got all the paperwork and signed for everything they told me i couldnt get it and after i didnt even want to buy it but the said i could get fined or something like that. bearing went bad in a wheel the first season i used it never had one ever go bad in the other chopper. broke a sprocket the same one 3 different times in a month. i was running a new holland tm190 which is 190hp on it up till last yr. my 3950 chopper i ran my case 4690 on it rated at 200hp with no probs and ran the tm on it till i traded it and never had a prob. the 3975 is rated up to 190hp wich is the nh but still cant handle it so know i put my 9700 on it rated at 130hp and still breaking everything. im hoping to get a selfpropelled soon so i dont got to deal with it anymore and save time. aslo running a 7ft hay head and 2 row corn head but i chop very little corn with it because i usually have somebody do it for me who does custom chopping mostly because he has the proccesor on. didnt even chop any corn last yr.

Mark shoot me an email. I would be glad to talk to you over the phone. I have several questions on things that might be causing you issues.