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Post by Southern on Oct 23, 2011 21:35:58 GMT -5
I know you guys got a few good ones. Lets hear them.
Back in the 1980s the farmer who rents my dad's field. Was cutting soy beans. Well the belt to the chopper broke. Which the chopper stopped working. And it filled the whole back of the Gleaner F2 full of trash. So tight it was solid when you hit the sides of the back. And it was bulging out as well. Well I had to help on that project. Not a fun job digging all that trash out to clear the combine.
This was last year during grain harvest. Sunny was cutting with his R50 and M2. The M2 unloading auger bearing went out so he couldn't get bin unloaded. He had to get it unloaded so the could fix the auger. I saw him and another inside the bin scooping the grain out with shovels and 5 gallon buckets. That had to be a rough job to do.
Also last year I saw a M2 ate a piece of metal siding. That came off in a storm. It got into the cylinder and got all twisted around it. That killed the combine for a few hours while they cut and pulled it out.
The worst one ever was back in the late 80s or early 90s. Where I witness an actual combine fire. The where I saw an Oliver 7800 burn up.
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Post by racinfarmer on Oct 23, 2011 23:03:50 GMT -5
There was a farmer in my area that pulled a Lexion 595R apart trying to get it unstuck. Asked a couple guys at the dealer about it and they were pretty quiet about the whole ordeal, but one of them said they knew where the combine was sitting. Should ask one of them the next time they are out what ever became of it.
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Post by djt14 on Oct 23, 2011 23:44:32 GMT -5
Well this year we hit a sink hole. We finished harvest yesturday. So today i saw the damage. Not to bad but heres to the pic.  Dallas |
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Post by steelin81 on Oct 24, 2011 0:09:37 GMT -5
There is a farm about a half hour away from here that bought 3 new 50 series Deere combines. The first morning they were running them one of the feeder chains came apart after 3 hrs, and went through the combine. The guy that was running it said that all he heard was a bang up front and some steel going through the chopper. They drove it back to the dealer and picked up a new machine and kept on going. It's funny how having 16000 ac gives you pull at a dealership.
My wifes dad says that he remembers when he was little one of their neighbors was and older guy who had an open station cockshutt combine. Whenever it plugged, instead of getting off the seat he would throw a match onto the pickup and let it start to burn , then turn on the combine and kick everything out the back. he said the old guy never started a feild fire or burnt down the combine.
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Post by TwoTone on Oct 24, 2011 0:31:40 GMT -5
Our 9600 caught on fire last year in corn when the bearings on the belt that drives the unloader went out. It tried to burn the field down and there was 70mph winds that day. Last week the gear box on the unloading auger went out when we were doing beans. It made both cross augers in the bin bend and need to be replaced. Had to dig out a whole bin full of pintos. And it is going to cost a few thousand  |
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Post by John K. on Oct 24, 2011 16:25:48 GMT -5
I heard about one crew that went over the Missouri river bridge at Pierre, SD and had one combine get busted up when the truck driver got too far over one way. The parts to fix it were $36,000. Labor not included.
When they were cutting in the Gettysburg/Lebanon, SD area they had a combine hit a sinkhole and it ended up damaging everything on the bottom of the machine.
While they were on the same farm, they had a raccoon get in between the fan and radiator on another combine one night, and when they started it, the radiator got ruined. When they went to buy a replacement, they found out they were the 9th crew running IH to have that happen happen this year.
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Post by ManitobanFarmerKid on Oct 24, 2011 17:04:39 GMT -5
Last year we had a rock the size of your head go through the rotors.
Have had the bolts holding the engine fan on go at full rpms and the spinning fan went on a cutting spree through the rad.
Not a break down, but have combined a dead skunk... NOT FUN
Had rocks bend and break feeder chain bars.
Burnt a combine's engine and fuel tank when we demoed it.
Neighbour was combining corn and in the same field had a big whitetail ruin their corn header when it didn't get out of the way, next day (same field), with a rental head a big black bear did the same thing. They were ready to pay hunters to hunt their land by the end of the year!
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Post by CRFarms on Oct 24, 2011 18:21:08 GMT -5
A friend hit a rock 4 years ago with their New Holland TR97 while harvesting vetch, went up into the feeder house and was wedged in there. Took them a good while to get it out. Not a breakdown, but our nieghbor at our cabin, hit a wild boar with his Deere 9400 while cuttting corn, cut the head right off. lol. Took those guys time trying to wash the blood off. HAHA!
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Post by djt14 on Oct 24, 2011 21:19:54 GMT -5
Where with you Manitobafarmkid. Last year out of all 5 we probably ate over 20 feeder chains.
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Post by mnjosh on Oct 24, 2011 22:42:26 GMT -5
We use to run Massey Ferguson 510/550's. That says enough right there.
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Oct 24, 2011 22:43:34 GMT -5
A friend of mine was running their 9500 this summer when the left final drive broke in half, sent the tire up into the tin work and the return grain elevator.
My dad was roading our L2 home the night we finished corn harvest the last year we owned it. He was about to meet a loaded corn truck when he tried pulling back on the hydro and nothing happened. In a panic he turned to shut the combine off to make it stop and as he did that he lost all of his lights and steering. Now on a L2 to get it started you have to put the gear shifter in Neutral and get it into a certain spot. While he was heading toward the ditch and the truck with no lights he somehow found the shifter, got it into neutral and got her fired up just in time to hit a drive way of the neighbors field and get out of the trucks way. Pretty sure he was cleaning his pants out after that one. Turned out the hydro cable came off.
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Post by Tim Carlson on Oct 24, 2011 23:04:59 GMT -5
our 9070 new holland has caught fire couple time.. Luckly we always caught it in time a got it out... Always carry a jug of water and full fire extinguishers.
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Post by 70ds on Oct 25, 2011 8:04:42 GMT -5
A friend of mine was running their 9500 this summer when the left final drive broke in half, sent the tire up into the tin work and the return grain elevator. The same thing happened on a 9610 where my Dad and brother work. I will have to get the pics uploaded and post them. |
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Post by 70ds on Oct 25, 2011 21:38:20 GMT -5
Here are the pics of the 9610 with the broken final drive.   |
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Post by djt14 on Oct 25, 2011 21:41:27 GMT -5
okay guys who's combine win's our's in a sinkhole or claytons buddies combine with the wheel lying on the ground? lol
Dallas
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Post by miniskfarm on Oct 25, 2011 22:05:32 GMT -5
Holy crap, that is a sink hole. no ruts or anything leading to it. I dropped a loaded grain cart into one of those in 99 in Oklahoma, you sure stop in a hurry with no warning. |
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Post by HuskerGLEANER on Oct 25, 2011 22:08:11 GMT -5
Clayton that looks just exactly like my friend's combine except the opposite side and the tire isn't smashed into the elevator lol.
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Post by tp24c on Oct 25, 2011 23:02:31 GMT -5
I was in Reliance South Dakota two weeks ago. The guy that owns the ranch I was staying at said a custom crew was working a field not to far from his place, as they came off of the highway under pass the combine, which was on a trailer, did clear the under pass. He told me it took out the cab and part of the hopper. I wonder if that guy still had a job after that. Ill try and get pictures if I can get some.
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Post by treymo on Oct 26, 2011 18:54:07 GMT -5
Dad was roading an ol 8820 and 30ft rigid head back in the day and hit a telephone pole in road gear. Ripped the head off... Lol
We hit the system with one of the drapers a couple years back. Needless to say, we got a new draper...
If only I knew how to upload phone pics... Our neighbor was demoing a new S series machine on a circle and shut down for the night. Well, he forgot to shut the pivot off and it wrapped right around that combine...
Trey
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Post by TwoTone on Oct 27, 2011 0:50:30 GMT -5
send it to your email in a text and upload it to your photobucket if you dont have an SD card
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