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I certainly do feel for ya.

Good luck.

Leon B Mo

Man this'll be one ugly 'can of worms' with you in the middle...sigh...

Any chance the dealership can RENT you a combine until the 'dust settles' ?

I'm happy no one got seriously hurt but as others have said there could be some internal damage that won't show up until hours into harvesting...

please keep us informed what's happening...

Jay

pictures ! takes LOTS, no MORE pictures !! every nook and cranny, closeups too ! The WHOLE combine not just the 'easy to see' areas. If it's already off the trailer, get copies of all pictures taken at the scene as 'stuff'  will look different .

my gut feeling is you'll walk away from it unless you KNOW it's 100% OK. If you say I'll keep it, I'd still insist on a 'loaner' until they deliver it to you. Just be sure to test use,every function, for 2-3 hrs , to confirm it runs right, sounds right.

Jay

 

About the combine......boy, I don't know.  If the combine did not get airborne and slam down in anyway (which it sounds like it didn't), I wouldn't be surprised if the damage is all fixable.  Though I totally understand your thinking and don't blame you.  If I could an out clause built into the receipt of the combine, that it works great for xx number of hours while harvesting, something like that, I might still take it.  Tough call.

 

Im guessing the insurance company will declared it totaled, if the grain bin was tweaked that alone is a huge amount of work.

 

Best of luck.

 

Jim

 

Why wouldn't you refuse delivery and move on to another machine?  Like your insurance man said, its the dealships baby....no way would I take it regardless.

Dang Lonn, that sucks big time.  Never really been up close to R62, but seems like those unloading augers are pinned to those machines pretty hard to hold those augers out in unload position while on the move.  And if the substructure got twisted cracked or bent, it might cause failure later if it doesn't show up now.

 You already know that and others also have said it too...  I think maybe you should go back to looking again... and find another that hasn't been damaged... but that doesn't guarantee the the next is without problems either.

  Hope all turns out good for you.

 

   Do not fool your self with looks

 

I would be looking closely at the shoe to make sure that is ok as well.

 

Jim

The grain tank and unloading auger would not seem to be the deal breaker if there are new parts available for the pivot,and undamage bins in the junkyards.

I would think if you could undue belts and roll the separator parts by hand you could get a good idea of if shafts are still straight but I have never been around anything newer than a MH2. So no idea of force needed to turn newer machines.

It's what you CAN'T see that might(will) be a problem. You could say fix it but you need xx hours of actual field operation before you agree it's yours. What I do know is there's a LOT of parts in any combine and they all gotta get along with each other. A minor tweak here, slight bend there and maybe the thing's fine for a day or two but 4 days into the harvest and 'something' let's loose....