If it's like my Ford 640 combine (Claas Senator) with the Ford 300 inline six gas engine, it basically has two settings on the throttle lever-- idle and wide open. The throttle cable just moves a stop that pushes the spring-loaded governor extension lever back it idle position. IOW almost no "throttling" the engine with the throttle lever. Course they're made to combine with the engine running wide open, just need idling to put stuff in gear so you don't burn the belts... Later! OL J R :)
Looks like a good combine . Some grease,oil ,n air , she’ll be a good one ! Btw Jeff Reymond will be proud of y’all! Maybe Bandit will buy your gleaner , who knows, right . I do enjoy yalls videos! Thanks for sharing fellas!
I put the ad up for the gleaner today and the phone has been ringing off the hook. We'll have to break Brad in on combine driving. I tried to let him drive the K. Thanks for watching!
Hey Jacob great looking combine ur right doesn’t look that used u said u believe has ford 360 gas that’s great engine we ran a lot of those in the 70 in several school buses 10 years or so then they went to the 370 engine it was a great engine to this combine well give u good service have fun great video looks like cab has plenty room for shilo
Exciting stuff Jacob. Looking foreward to seeing it perform out in the field. At least your familiar with the TR70's if any thing should happen. Great video.
Sorry for chuckling at your experience, been there also. Roaded a combine 60 miles one time with the header on, because the free hauling turned out to be $300 and i didn't have it. Met alot of nice people that trip, some thought I was number 1, but most just smiled and waved. Good luck learning its quirks. Should make you a fine machine with some elbow grease and tinkering.
I wish hauling this thing home was only $300, but I think I still got a good deal. Oh, I get those finger happy people too, makes me want to keep some rotten eggs at the ready in the cab.
I knew an extension guy who drove a 2 row cotton picker 525 miles from Lubbock, Texas to Wharton, Texas down on the Gulf Coast... took a few days to accomplish their top speed was about 15 mph downhill LOL:) Trucking costs would have been outrageous... My brother thinks I'm nuts because I've driven our Ford tractors (5610S and 2310) 90 miles between our Shiner farm and Needville farm. I told him it's not that bad, only a 6 hour trip, and basically if you're in the field running 6 mph for 12 hours, heck that's 72 miles you've covered right there, and we'd do that day in and day out when we row cropped... Pulled the 14 foot disk and shredder between farms as well a time or two, that's fun because there's a couple bridges you have to cross that are only about 18 feet wide, and one of them is 1/4 mile long at least... sit and wait til nothing's coming and then take off across it! Later! OL J R :)
I cant believe that guy hauled it like that ! He is braver than I am ! LOL Now your going to have to get some bigger wagons to keep up with both the NH combines ! I think Brad is going to be really busy keeping up with both of you running ! I hope its a good one for you ! Bandit
We just keep collecting more wagons. I would go for a grain truck before bigger wagons. I might haul it wide, but that would after lots of grief from dad and trying to make it a narrower load.
I had small wagons for a long time then got 2 250 bu beds and a 300 bu bed to make it easer to haul to the elevator , Now I haul out on a semi its nice to be able to have a semi load sitting in wagons ready to load when the truck gets there. Bad thing about big wagons is when it gets wet or you got to go down hill or up one ! I have hauled a lot of equipment over the years BUT I aint never hauled a header like that ! Some people just get lucky, Me I know I would have gotten a ticket ! LOL We almost got a ticket when we hauled the AC corn head home, It was 8' 8" wide on a 102" wide trailer so 2" too wide ! I talked my way out of it after 45 min plus I don't think he wanted to do the paper work either ! LOL Bandit
That's nothing for being over width. Just hauling round bales I'm always over the edge of the trailer. If I had it my way, I'd be keeping the beans at home a few months, but the bin I wanted to rent fell through.
Congrats on the new machine! Basic tune up stuff (plugs, wires, cap, rotor) would probably go a long way to making it fire easier. Fresh gas would probably be good too. If its the same (or a derivative) of the truck engine, it's a 351 (5.8L). If the carb has accelerator pumps, the diaphragms in them get hard with age and don't work as well. This would hurt your throttle response, if its the case.
Not to be argumentative, but Ford used a 361 and a 391 in their medium and heavy duty trucks in the 1970’s. These were part of the F.E. block engines, similar to the 360’s, 390’s, etc used in pickups, but modified for heavy use. Ford did have the three different 351’s, the m, Cleveland, and Windsor, but I personally haven’t seen them in applications like this. Just my two cents, my guess is Jacob is likely correct that it is a 361 truck engine.
Good information Mike, thanks for sharing it. You're likely right it, you seem to know a lot about them and I was still playing with my Tonka trucks in the 80s. I do, however, stand by my thoughts on giving it a tuneup.
KC2DZB yup for sure on the tuneup. I think you can buy those accelerator pump diaphragms off eBay for a few bucks, had to replace them on my dump truck. They were leaking externally, as in gas running down the side of the block, not good
Most of the cars in the 70's would put you in the back seat when you floored it. That 360 Ford engine will never fail you long as you can afford the fuel for that thirsty bugger. Good luck with the new equipment.
I hope the new machine works good for you the 361 was a good truck engine it was in an f600 and F700 they were governed around 3900 in a truck I think it sounds good just spray lube on all the linkages a new fuel filter fresh fuel if it starts going over 200 degrees just ease off a little don't ever run it lean the heads are very expensive on that you will crap corn cobs
Whooo doggy, that's spinning fast, I hope that's no true for this combine. If the engine gives me troubles, I have a dealer close enough with a TR grave yard. Dad said he saw another Ford diesel there. How is running lean hard on the head?
Greetings from the UK. Now subscribing. Never new those combines were available with petrol engines. Looking forward to seeing it in action. You could try double de-clutching on the higher gears.
Thank you for viewership! The manuals we had from the first TR70 had pages about the gasoline engines, but I never saw one until I found this on for sale. I still need to investigate the stiff shifting. Given the machine's history, I think it just needs grease and use to free up the linkages.
Congratulations on the purchase. Always nice to get another piece of equipment. I enjoyed the ride along from where you unloaded it to your farm. what do you think is up with 3rd and 4th gear? Will you leave a corn head on one TR and the soybean head on the other, or will you use both combines for a given crop?
Either the gears weren't meshing in the transmission, or I had a little rust to break loose in the shift cables. If the combine stayed on the farm, there's a good chance third and fourth wren't used.
The first bin and auger are used, the other auger is in the way and the other two bins need work, which I hope to accomplish this winter. One needs re anchored and both could be re tarred around the bottom. One has a partial drying floor, and the other is on concrete. I would like full drying floors in both.
look like fairly good machine, could you buy like an old combine cart for your far away farms, because isnt that why you Bought the K, for the far away farms? so you could pull them to the fields on a cart, so wouldnt have to drive them?
I have set a new rule on the distance of fields I rent. If it's unreasonable to drive the combine there, the field isn't worth it. But that is why I bought the K. Even for closer fields, A cart would be nice so we can save the precious rice tires.
oh, and ya i bet lol, how much do you have to harvest this year yet? also one small, thing i noticed that the door latch on inside is the same our old 1972 oliver 7600 combine lol
I'd be interested to hear one day, you have an awesome farm/ranch there. Reminds me a lot of home. Grew up surrounded with farms... now all housing developments... sadly
I guess if you ever wanted to you could pull the gas motor out of that one and put a diesel in it but I think it will be fine as it is we have a old John Deere 45 gas we use to cut terraces with since the 9660sts can't do them very well but the terraces and half the field went into CRP so we only farm a small section of it now
From their stories, they planted much less than us and seemed good enough with maintenance. The big sell for me was that the bottom of the bubble up auger was all original, no patches. Most TR70s I've seen have big patches there.
Don't mean to sound harsh but in my opinion even a gas TR70 would be better than a K Gleaner (I don't like them tin can's though) Never knew they made a gas TR combine. Ours had the 3208. I know it's kind of a lot to ask but one of these days when you guys arnt slammed it would be neat to see a walk around of one or both of those combines with a things to look for when buying one. Hope to see some BTO shots of both in one field, that'd be neat!
I plan on making a "Can you spot the differences" video. The new one is a very early model. After trying some wet corn, I was ready for a twin rotor. If we have time, I want to get all three in the same field just once. But with the way I am getting calls on the K, it may not happen.
I was saying the combine it’s self (TR70) is better than a K Gleaner. And if your baising your bias on gas vs diesel combines, gas is highly more likely to catch on fire and burn and also I would be willing to bet that Jacobs combine will burn 1/4 to 1/2 as much MORE fuel in a day over his dads with the ford diesel. You need to do a little more reading into comments and understanding.
Neighbor had a TR70 bought new locally. It's setting in the weed at another neighbor who bought it with plans to demo it, but caught carb on fire and melted it.
Nope, they buy them a few years old so all the electronic kinks have been worked out. One of them complains to me the idiocy of a solenoid going bad, which then they can't lit the cultivator , so they have to wait for a service truck to change a $20 throw away part.
Because I want a rotary combine. The K is for sale. I have set hard distance limits of fields to rent. I bought the K because it would fit on a 30" deck over trailer to haul it 40 miles out to a field that never froze.
more new old stuff to fix ?? u should get something slightly newer, like a ummm CR 8090. then u can finish all your harvesting in 1 good day and park it till next year, should last you 30+ more years with no repairs for at least 10 years, at your current farming size. look at all that saved time you will have for making more bales.
It's pretty well running, change the engine oil, grease it and check the concave, fan and sieve adjustments. The bean head needs a couple little plastic parts, which I can borrow off a parts unit we have. I don't see why these TR70s can't last another thirty years. They probably cost less than one payment for a new CR model, which we don't cover the acres to justify. The time saved would apply to wheat, which we rarely plant. I don't like stubble and stalk bales because I don't want to deal with them for bedding if I can't sell them all.
so the real answer is that you just love the challenge of fixing old broken down equipment, no matter what it is, you just love trying to figure things out, as with the new modern equipment your skills in fixing won't work with computer chips and hundreds of miles of wires and relays and just tech. a near by farmer got a new, new holland combine this past harvest, brand new. started cutting and in seconds the system shut down all plugged up. rotor never came on, even though the computer read out speed and everything was working. lucky for powerful reverser to back out everything. whole problem was due to some dust on a sencor, try and run any combine without making dust.
i wonder if some dust on the other sencors effects things like false bushels per ac read out and all those other things they now have on their touch screens. oh look we are getting 250bus corn, seen that on another channel, but was it true or was it dusty.
We have and know the TR70 very well. I found a three row wide head for sale for the K, and then I found the TR70 much closer and well enough priced. If I didn't see the TR, I would have driven to PA for that three row head.
It seems like that old new holand is a pretty good combine considering the age(ignoring the not being able to shift into high gear haha) last year I didn't see any problem videos regarding the one you already had so I'm assuming everything worked nice. Do you guys actually do enough acres to where you wanted to get another one? Also you'll have to invest in rice tires with all that Clay you got out there. Where in PA was the header? Was it around Pittsburgh that you'd be willing to drive to a different state. I live in eastern PA so just curious
We should have both out in the field, but I have had too much other harvest stuff to deal with. If I can find more acreage, it will be very nice to have two combines, and it looks better to land owners that I am prepared. And lets just say these two combines cost less than buying a 14 series IH. I am searching for rice tires too, but it looks like I will need wider rims for the more common 28L x 26 rice tires. I think the 3 row for the K was near Erie, PA.
Yep, and the hauling to me will be more than the combine is worth. And his is missing the ladder to get into the cab... I want to know who ripped that off.
If it's like my Ford 640 combine (Claas Senator) with the Ford 300 inline six gas engine, it basically has two settings on the throttle lever-- idle and wide open. The throttle cable just moves a stop that pushes the spring-loaded governor extension lever back it idle position. IOW almost no "throttling" the engine with the throttle lever. Course they're made to combine with the engine running wide open, just need idling to put stuff in gear so you don't burn the belts... Later! OL J R :)
Nothing like learning a new machines tricks lol... nice looking combine cant wait to see it in the field
I can't wait to use it.
I wish you good luck with your new combine it looks really great !!
Thank you.
Looks like a good combine . Some grease,oil ,n air , she’ll be a good one ! Btw Jeff Reymond will be proud of y’all! Maybe Bandit will buy your gleaner , who knows, right . I do enjoy yalls videos! Thanks for sharing fellas!
I put the ad up for the gleaner today and the phone has been ringing off the hook.
We'll have to break Brad in on combine driving. I tried to let him drive the K.
Thanks for watching!
Are u gonna use this one in the field .
Yes
Boehm Farm Enjoy the new combine 👍and have a Happy Thanksgiving 👌
Way to go, hope that new machine does a great job for you!
G Koplitz I agree
Thank you.
Congrats on the new Combine!
Thanks for the three point brand of forks.
Thank you and you're welcome.
Thanks for video , and im new on your chanel love farming videos .
Thank you
Hey Jacob great looking combine ur right doesn’t look that used u said u believe has ford 360 gas that’s great engine we ran a lot of those in the 70 in several school buses 10 years or so then they went to the 370 engine it was a great engine to this combine well give u good service have fun great video looks like cab has plenty room for shilo
He has never rode in the combine, I am sure he will like it. I had only read about gad TR70's, now I have one!
Great video and a beautiful combine harvester!
Thank you.
Gotta love a NH combine. Sweet man.
Thank you.
Exciting stuff Jacob. Looking foreward to seeing it perform out in the field. At least your familiar with the TR70's if any thing should happen. Great video.
I can't wait either, but we need a lot of drying or a freeze.
Sorry for chuckling at your experience, been there also. Roaded a combine 60 miles one time with the header on, because the free hauling turned out to be $300 and i didn't have it. Met alot of nice people that trip, some thought I was number 1, but most just smiled and waved. Good luck learning its quirks. Should make you a fine machine with some elbow grease and tinkering.
I wish hauling this thing home was only $300, but I think I still got a good deal. Oh, I get those finger happy people too, makes me want to keep some rotten eggs at the ready in the cab.
I knew an extension guy who drove a 2 row cotton picker 525 miles from Lubbock, Texas to Wharton, Texas down on the Gulf Coast... took a few days to accomplish their top speed was about 15 mph downhill LOL:) Trucking costs would have been outrageous...
My brother thinks I'm nuts because I've driven our Ford tractors (5610S and 2310) 90 miles between our Shiner farm and Needville farm. I told him it's not that bad, only a 6 hour trip, and basically if you're in the field running 6 mph for 12 hours, heck that's 72 miles you've covered right there, and we'd do that day in and day out when we row cropped... Pulled the 14 foot disk and shredder between farms as well a time or two, that's fun because there's a couple bridges you have to cross that are only about 18 feet wide, and one of them is 1/4 mile long at least... sit and wait til nothing's coming and then take off across it! Later! OL J R :)
I cant believe that guy hauled it like that ! He is braver than I am ! LOL Now your going to have to get some bigger wagons to keep up with both the NH combines ! I think Brad is going to be really busy keeping up with both of you running ! I hope its a good one for you ! Bandit
We just keep collecting more wagons. I would go for a grain truck before bigger wagons. I might haul it wide, but that would after lots of grief from dad and trying to make it a narrower load.
I had small wagons for a long time then got 2 250 bu beds and a 300 bu bed to make it easer to haul to the elevator , Now I haul out on a semi its nice to be able to have a semi load sitting in wagons ready to load when the truck gets there. Bad thing about big wagons is when it gets wet or you got to go down hill or up one ! I have hauled a lot of equipment over the years BUT I aint never hauled a header like that ! Some people just get lucky, Me I know I would have gotten a ticket ! LOL We almost got a ticket when we hauled the AC corn head home, It was 8' 8" wide on a 102" wide trailer so 2" too wide ! I talked my way out of it after 45 min plus I don't think he wanted to do the paper work either ! LOL Bandit
That's nothing for being over width. Just hauling round bales I'm always over the edge of the trailer. If I had it my way, I'd be keeping the beans at home a few months, but the bin I wanted to rent fell through.
Congratulations on the combine. Looking forward to videos of you using it.
thank you. It will be a star!
Nice score Jacob! A diesel would be better, but you already knew that, and I am sure you got a great deal on it!
Thank you. I am a deal chaser.
Congrats on the new machine! Basic tune up stuff (plugs, wires, cap, rotor) would probably go a long way to making it fire easier. Fresh gas would probably be good too. If its the same (or a derivative) of the truck engine, it's a 351 (5.8L). If the carb has accelerator pumps, the diaphragms in them get hard with age and don't work as well. This would hurt your throttle response, if its the case.
Ok, thanks for the information!
Not to be argumentative, but Ford used a 361 and a 391 in their medium and heavy duty trucks in the 1970’s. These were part of the F.E. block engines, similar to the 360’s, 390’s, etc used in pickups, but modified for heavy use. Ford did have the three different 351’s, the m, Cleveland, and Windsor, but I personally haven’t seen them in applications like this. Just my two cents, my guess is Jacob is likely correct that it is a 361 truck engine.
Good information Mike, thanks for sharing it. You're likely right it, you seem to know a lot about them and I was still playing with my Tonka trucks in the 80s. I do, however, stand by my thoughts on giving it a tuneup.
KC2DZB yup for sure on the tuneup. I think you can buy those accelerator pump diaphragms off eBay for a few bucks, had to replace them on my dump truck. They were leaking externally, as in gas running down the side of the block, not good
awesome man! Hope you have good luck with it!!
Thank you.
Most of the cars in the 70's would put you in the back seat when you floored it. That 360 Ford engine will never fail you long as you can afford the fuel for that thirsty bugger. Good luck with the new equipment.
Good thing it has two rotors and can move fast to save fuel.
the excitement of a new to you piece of equipment. :)
Hopefully the progress made matches the excitement.
good choice buying tr 70. put some new plugs and wire, that help a lot. plus has burner easy to start in the winter time.
Thank you. Dad will have to help me with the ignition system. I know more about diesels.
Good for you Boehm and good luck.
Thank you.
Always nice to get something new. Hope it treats you well. I thought the k was to small for u when you bought it.
The K is small, I would love if it had a rotor. So much anticipation with a new purchase; it ranks up there with Christmas morning.
Congrats on the purchuse of spongebob hope it gives you many years of trouble free service
NO Squidward shall get in my way.
I hope the new machine works good for you the 361 was a good truck engine it was in an f600 and F700 they were governed around 3900 in a truck I think it sounds good just spray lube on all the linkages a new fuel filter fresh fuel if it starts going over 200 degrees just ease off a little don't ever run it lean the heads are very expensive on that you will crap corn cobs
Whooo doggy, that's spinning fast, I hope that's no true for this combine. If the engine gives me troubles, I have a dealer close enough with a TR grave yard. Dad said he saw another Ford diesel there. How is running lean hard on the head?
Boehm Farm Maybe burn pistons and values up when running learn
Greetings from the UK. Now subscribing. Never new those combines were available with petrol engines.
Looking forward to seeing it in action. You could try double de-clutching on the higher gears.
Thank you for viewership! The manuals we had from the first TR70 had pages about the gasoline engines, but I never saw one until I found this on for sale. I still need to investigate the stiff shifting. Given the machine's history, I think it just needs grease and use to free up the linkages.
@@boehmfarm4276 yeah could be residue or crud down there blocking the linkages too... OL J R :)
A turbo on that engine would be an interesting project.
Try a little grease in those shifting zrks should help a bit. I am sure everything will work fine after using it a little Love the new machine.
Yep, grease and use make everything better. Sitting idle can be as bad daily use for some parts.
Congratulations on the purchase. Always nice to get another piece of equipment. I enjoyed the ride along from where you unloaded it to your farm. what do you think is up with 3rd and 4th gear? Will you leave a corn head on one TR and the soybean head on the other, or will you use both combines for a given crop?
Either the gears weren't meshing in the transmission, or I had a little rust to break loose in the shift cables. If the combine stayed on the farm, there's a good chance third and fourth wren't used.
Oh, the new bean head needs a few minor parts, but we'd use them both in the same crop.
My grandpa ran a tr70 when we farmed. Good combine
That's awesome!
So I see you have bins and augers in your yard. Do you use them at all?
The first bin and auger are used, the other auger is in the way and the other two bins need work, which I hope to accomplish this winter. One needs re anchored and both could be re tarred around the bottom. One has a partial drying floor, and the other is on concrete. I would like full drying floors in both.
How many acres do you plan on running next year?
At the moment, I will still be renting 100 or so. I have not picked up any new fields yet for next year. I am trying, though.
I was looking for the "what ya need three combines for" comments lol
So I can sell the K.
or
Investing in video material.
look like fairly good machine, could you buy like an old combine cart for your far away farms, because isnt that why you Bought the K, for the far away farms? so you could pull them to the fields on a cart, so wouldnt have to drive them?
I have set a new rule on the distance of fields I rent. If it's unreasonable to drive the combine there, the field isn't worth it. But that is why I bought the K. Even for closer fields, A cart would be nice so we can save the precious rice tires.
so did you not rent that far away field, that the combine got stuck in this year?
I let that field go. I set the owners up with the nice neighbor who hauled the grain away for me. Boy, I'm sure he had fun chiseling out the ruts.
oh, and ya i bet lol, how much do you have to harvest this year yet? also one small, thing i noticed that the door latch on inside is the same our old 1972 oliver 7600 combine lol
I am sure some parts like that were very common. We have 50 acres of beans left and 75 acres of corn to go.
Nice machine, if you need another I think Wes Pandy out in NJ has a 60 Diesel too he was kicking around the idea of selling off.
Yeah, we have heard, but the shipping will be more than it's worth.
true. you guys are pretty far apart, I've actually never seen a gas engined one before, do you know how they compare economy wise to diesel?
We'll find out when we use it.
I'd be interested to hear one day, you have an awesome farm/ranch there. Reminds me a lot of home. Grew up surrounded with farms... now all housing developments... sadly
I guess if you ever wanted to you could pull the gas motor out of that one and put a diesel in it but I think it will be fine as it is we have a old John Deere 45 gas we use to cut terraces with since the 9660sts can't do them very well but the terraces and half the field went into CRP so we only farm a small section of it now
Tyson McCrary My uncle has a 9660sts.
As long as gas prices stay low, and it runs well, I am fine. I just need dad to teach me about old gas ignition systems.
Got some work to do on that combine - give you something to do when there's nothing to do
Oh, I hope not much, just fuel, grease and go. The bean head needs a couple small parts.
What year is that combine we have a Tr96 and 98 ever think you’ll upgrade
1976
I want an 86 with rear wheel assist, but nothing worth while has come up close.
Hopefully the last owner kept it lubed well. What state u in. Upstate ny.hr north albany here.
From their stories, they planted much less than us and seemed good enough with maintenance. The big sell for me was that the bottom of the bubble up auger was all original, no patches. Most TR70s I've seen have big patches there.
How many acres do you do total
Well, between dad and I, plus counting all the hay, about 250 acres.
Don't mean to sound harsh but in my opinion even a gas TR70 would be better than a K Gleaner (I don't like them tin can's though) Never knew they made a gas TR combine. Ours had the 3208. I know it's kind of a lot to ask but one of these days when you guys arnt slammed it would be neat to see a walk around of one or both of those combines with a things to look for when buying one. Hope to see some BTO shots of both in one field, that'd be neat!
I plan on making a "Can you spot the differences" video. The new one is a very early model. After trying some wet corn, I was ready for a twin rotor. If we have time, I want to get all three in the same field just once. But with the way I am getting calls on the K, it may not happen.
JohnDeere3020Boy don't mean to be harsh but gas is 2.45 diesel 2.99 have a good Thanksgiving 😀
I was saying the combine it’s self (TR70) is better than a K Gleaner. And if your baising your bias on gas vs diesel combines, gas is highly more likely to catch on fire and burn and also I would be willing to bet that Jacobs combine will burn 1/4 to 1/2 as much MORE fuel in a day over his dads with the ford diesel. You need to do a little more reading into comments and understanding.
Now, if dad's TR70 had the Cat diesel, then fuel consumption with the gas might be close.
Neighbor had a TR70 bought new locally. It's setting in the weed at another neighbor who bought it with plans to demo it, but caught carb on fire and melted it.
nice :)
Thank you.
ur welcome :)
Nice purchase you have hair on your chinny chinny.
What is the black stuff in the cab??
The floor mat? Or foam from the cab liner?
Wait so you have two combines now?
We had three for a few days, then the K sold.
What part of Ohio are you from
Southwest.
So you have 3 combines now?!?!
Yep, but the K is for sale. I need the barn space.
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where could you get one of those forklifts
We found this one in a FarmWorld classified ad. I have no clue where to look for a new one.
Boehm Farm could you do a video on that to show how it works and to help people if they think they can build one
Yes. I'll mark it down.
Boehm Farm thanks
Asome forklift for 1466 is it 3 point
Tate Levasseur yes
If they farm 20,000 ac they would buy tractors new
Nope, they buy them a few years old so all the electronic kinks have been worked out. One of them complains to me the idiocy of a solenoid going bad, which then they can't lit the cultivator , so they have to wait for a service truck to change a $20 throw away part.
That one from OLF?
No. this one was comparatively local.
Never seen a TR combine with a gas engine.
Me neither, but I know the manuals acknowledge their existence.
How come you didn't put in 4th gear while on the highway
I struggled enough trying to get it into third. I didn't want to stop again, if I had issues, so I kept a steady pace.
Isn't that going to have to be fixed - somethings not right
were do you live
Southwest Ohio
I thought you already had a tr70?
He does
Why do they need three combines?
Because I want a rotary combine. The K is for sale. I have set hard distance limits of fields to rent. I bought the K because it would fit on a 30" deck over trailer to haul it 40 miles out to a field that never froze.
more new old stuff to fix ?? u should get something slightly newer, like a ummm CR 8090. then u can finish all your harvesting in 1 good day and park it till next year, should last you 30+ more years with no repairs for at least 10 years, at your current farming size. look at all that saved time you will have for making more bales.
It's pretty well running, change the engine oil, grease it and check the concave, fan and sieve adjustments. The bean head needs a couple little plastic parts, which I can borrow off a parts unit we have. I don't see why these TR70s can't last another thirty years. They probably cost less than one payment for a new CR model, which we don't cover the acres to justify. The time saved would apply to wheat, which we rarely plant. I don't like stubble and stalk bales because I don't want to deal with them for bedding if I can't sell them all.
so the real answer is that you just love the challenge of fixing old broken down equipment, no matter what it is, you just love trying to figure things out, as with the new modern equipment your skills in fixing won't work with computer chips and hundreds of miles of wires and relays and just tech. a near by farmer got a new, new holland combine this past harvest, brand new. started cutting and in seconds the system shut down all plugged up. rotor never came on, even though the computer read out speed and everything was working. lucky for powerful reverser to back out everything. whole problem was due to some dust on a sencor, try and run any combine without making dust.
That's why I don't want new electric controlled stuff.
i wonder if some dust on the other sencors effects things like false bushels per ac read out and all those other things they now have on their touch screens. oh look we are getting 250bus corn, seen that on another channel, but was it true or was it dusty.
Yeah 250 for ten feet.
Man replacin the ol Gleaner already?
We have and know the TR70 very well. I found a three row wide head for sale for the K, and then I found the TR70 much closer and well enough priced. If I didn't see the TR, I would have driven to PA for that three row head.
It seems like that old new holand is a pretty good combine considering the age(ignoring the not being able to shift into high gear haha) last year I didn't see any problem videos regarding the one you already had so I'm assuming everything worked nice. Do you guys actually do enough acres to where you wanted to get another one? Also you'll have to invest in rice tires with all that Clay you got out there. Where in PA was the header? Was it around Pittsburgh that you'd be willing to drive to a different state. I live in eastern PA so just curious
We should have both out in the field, but I have had too much other harvest stuff to deal with. If I can find more acreage, it will be very nice to have two combines, and it looks better to land owners that I am prepared. And lets just say these two combines cost less than buying a 14 series IH. I am searching for rice tires too, but it looks like I will need wider rims for the more common 28L x 26 rice tires. I think the 3 row for the K was near Erie, PA.
was that onelonleyfarmers
No.
id buy the k form you but im only 13 and dont have 500 to 1000 bucks just laying aroung then again what farmer does
One day, you'll get there, just start saving.
ok will do have a great day
One Lonely farmer is selling his New Tr70.
Yep, and the hauling to me will be more than the combine is worth. And his is missing the ladder to get into the cab... I want to know who ripped that off.
Your right I just hate seeing a good old equipment setting around waiting to die a the scraper.
I hate that too. I would have a barn full of old combines....