Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living Biggest break down of my career

Side hill final drive casting broke
Just the casting will be 15k leveling cyl
Ram broke clean off damaged the wheel a lot of tin and tailings elivator
Estimate around 25k total
And we haven’t found a cly yet jd has discontinued that part. None to be had in salvage. This is a 9550 not that old of combine

Try Wall Lake Used Parts. 712 664 2837

I HATE bad breakdowns.

Hope you get it going again for less than you estimate.

Thanks for the link
I did find a cyl at ag parts asap
It’s in eastern Iowa
Pretty reasonable considering how hard they are to find. It was 860 dollars and 150 freight just hope it’s not junk

Ag parts cyl was a pile of junk
My mechanic has an old one that leaks down some so we used that and got the machine going good enough to finish
I have a line on a new jd cyl in NE Iowa
We will put that one on after harvest
Can’t wait for that bill
Good thing the corn yeald has been all above 200

I never had to, but, picking corn by hand. Walking behind a team of mules. Wire checking corn. We have it good in 2023.

I helped pick corn by had a few times. The man we worked for drove the tractor, pulling a trailer. 3 or us would pull 6 rows at a time. 2 on the right, 2 on the left, and 2 in the middle that the tractor and trailer had knocked down. We'd swap up at the end of each end of the field, so one fellow didn't have to do all the stooping. It wasn't too bad for the first few hours, but if it got hot in the afternoon, it got miserable.

I know this isn't a mechanical breakdown, but....

I’ve never been around a side hill machine. I’ve always thought they looked pretty awesome from pictures I’ve seen. I’m pretty content just farming on the flat.

This farming thing is not for the squeamish
After that breakdown just wrote a check for seed 38k to pioneer 28 k to Dekalb
Ain’t even ordered beans yet

Isn’t there a local outfit that can fab a new cylinder to spec? I had to replace one on the excavator, and the manufacturer’s cylinder was a good bit more expensive than having one custom made.

No not really
It’s got a casting on the head that mounts it and it can pivot on that not an advrage cylinder.
We do have a fab shop that does that kind of work
They are capable but they are Azz holes
Aragent and used only for last resort
I ended up finding a new one for 2200
Dollars

Did you try sikeston Missouri

Yes no sidhill combines just 6620s

They still make sidehill combines? Those things are cool af.


Oh wait. It looks like just the header leans with the hill and not the whole combine like in the old days?

There is a Holcomb lot for rotor combines for an added 100k

I was in a New Holland/Ford dealership, buying parts a couple months ago, and a fellow came in to buy a filter for a combine. You could tell that he was not happy camper. Fellow behind the counter knew the guy and asked him, 'Why do you want this filter?". The guy said he had to get an old combine running, because that "million dollar green pos wont stay running". He went on to say the JD techs/mechanics were working on it in the field and they couldn't keep it running but as soon as they got it cranked again, he was sending it back to JD.

After the fellow left, I asked the man behind the counter if a combine really cost a million dollars and he said JD has one that does. Now that's a breakdown when it wont run.

That’s probably an x9 there is a farmer around here ordered 4 new ones he farms around 30000 acres

Update total cost 37000
Thankfully my insurance says they will pay
So no to scrounge and find some used parts
And get it back to a presentable condition

Damn.

Hope that it'll give you lots of service!

The big worry is the thing may blow an engine or hydrostat any time they are a time bomb
But with corn prices going down atmd inputs still too high there is no chance of a new machine
A 1000 acre farmer just can’t swing it