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Post by johnwayne360 on Feb 14, 2012 19:31:02 GMT -5
Joshua..Im just like you running older machinery. Ytmag has helped me a lot..do a search there and you can find out a bunch of stuff.
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Post by barker4650 on Feb 14, 2012 20:35:50 GMT -5
I know we had a pair of 715's at one time and they like to poop out thw walkers. Traded them on a 6620 and got more done with one machine than the two 715's
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 14, 2012 21:07:50 GMT -5
Rats, don't know how I lost the OM, oh well. Only IH I have ever been even partially familiar with is a 615, never were many rotarys in these parts, until recently all combines here were 70's early 80's vintage. JW, I know about YTmag, was a poster at one time and lost interest over there. Dad is adamant about a John Deere 4420 and I have been looking all over the web for one, or possibly a Gleaner F2, stumbled across this and was curious.
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Post by Sofakingwhat on Feb 15, 2012 8:35:25 GMT -5
I could tell you anything you wanted to hear on a 815, if it had room for a passenger. Otherwise I'd have to tell you on the ground.
Joking around here. I know NOTHING about anything before an axial flow.
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Feb 15, 2012 9:13:32 GMT -5
Ran a 6 and 715, but never an 8.
The big-timers around here jumped over the 8 and went to the 915.
Honestly, I don't think I was ever around an 815 to tell you anything about it.
The 715 was a pretty solid machine if you took care of it and didn't run it hard. Keep it at just under it's capacity and it'd hum along all day. Push it and bad things happen. I know there were guys that hung a bigger head on it, but a 4row or a 15' head was plenty for it.
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Post by MarlandS on Feb 15, 2012 11:56:21 GMT -5
The first combine I ever ran was a 915 , pretty much the same assessment as Dave , don't push it and it'll be fine .
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Post by Hobbyfarmer on Feb 15, 2012 14:20:00 GMT -5
I have run them. Still have 3 of them parked around here. what do you want to know? They have the same cylender as a 715 but they have hp the 715 never dreamed of having. Larger grain tank heavier axles. Great 4 row machine will run a 6 as good or bettter than a 6600 Deere. They are almost all Hydro.
The older ones were High profiles the later ones were low profile, the later ones were a nice machine and one step less to get into.
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 15, 2012 18:37:07 GMT -5
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Post by cornandbeef on Feb 15, 2012 21:54:41 GMT -5
Joshua would you be interested in a very good 1460 around that price.
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Post by Hobbyfarmer on Feb 15, 2012 22:03:08 GMT -5
Looks decent in the photos but nothing like a personal look. check straw walker play in the crank bearings
cylinder bar wear etc. sieves, elevator chains for wear and a rat or mouse that might have went up it chewing each paddle.
My personal opinion was they were a good combine and under rated. I could be your parts depot if not half a continent away.
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 15, 2012 22:32:33 GMT -5
Joshua would you be interested in a very good 1460 around that price. I would be maybe, the two hangups have been I have to have heads and right now I have a little more time before the $$$ come together, seems to be a perpetual issue.  |
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Post by cornandbeef on Feb 15, 2012 22:49:01 GMT -5
What size headers are you looking for.
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Post by acfarmer on Feb 16, 2012 8:18:30 GMT -5
I would be a closer used parts department. I know where 2-3 of them are sitting around here for parts. ;D
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 17, 2012 18:38:11 GMT -5
What size headers are you looking for. Need no wider than a 15' Flexhead, prefer 13' and a 4 row 36"-38" head. Between planting 2 row and the land will not physcially handle a big combine, at least not without some mods anyway. |
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Post by ogden on Feb 17, 2012 19:17:14 GMT -5
Up here in my area wide row heads can usually be had for around 500 dollars in the 8-9 series . 820 bean head will be in that 8-900 dollar range.
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