We've Gone to the Grey Side!

that's a fine looking machine! glad you got it! I think you'll be happy with it! there will be a few things that will perplex ya sometimes...but it's usually a minor thing! (I like the pics too, will expect to see more)

Will do! We need to get the tachometers working, but that's in another thread. Other than that, it seems like a nice machine. It even has the original AM Radio for the trips down the road. That'll be nice sometimes. There will be little things and we'll need to change filters and fluids, but this machine looks way easier to service than the Deere. The old 6600 was a servicing nightmare that was falling apart. It would have taken us about $1500 to get the 6600 somewhat ready for the fields. This machine looks like it's basically ready to work.

We're in Northwestern Wyoming, so we're behind a lot of you. The first farmer started harvesting yesterday, but he was one of the few who got a field in before we had some rain. That's not too common. We're still 2-3 weeks away from starting. Usually, we start harvesting around the 5th of August. We only do about 100-120 acres, so it shouldn't be too bad of a harvest.

I've never operated a combine, since I've been afraid to touch the 6600 for fear of breakdown. It'll be nice to learn how to operate a combine, but I doubt my father will want to get out of it now! 

I see it has ac and a straight auger tube. Very nice.

fine looking combine right there!

yep...chevy/gmc/gleaners all work well together!

We bale everything as well, which is why we took off the straw chopper.  The back end does get a little light with the platform or the corn head.  We use two rear wheel weights.  But we had a K2 where we welded a bracket to the rear axle to add some suitcase weights.  In both cases it helped a lot with rear end lift.  

lol...Mike...I remember one day I had broken 2 sickle sections on my "G", and pulled it up to the shed door...this was before I had bolt on sections, and the rivet tool was in my pickup tool box. drove the truck up behind the combine, fixed everything and got in the combine...but it wouldn't back up but a few feet! oh....$%$&^%*& my truck is still back there! well the new bug deflector I had just put on the truck 2 days earlier was fubared.and a scratch in the top of the hood! guess 19 hours ina combine cab was to much for me! shut it all down and went in for sum sleep!

Here's something to think about for later:

Edited by Jim Hancock - 24 Jul 2015 at 10:33am

We don't do anything but small grains, and fortunately, not much goes down. If I'm understanding what I'm seeing, a Hume Reel is just the one with tines on it, kind of like this:

Did he tell you what happened in Douglas? That'll be a fun story for him to tell you!

Out here, that would pass as a very nice truck! The neighbors Freightliner has no inside door handle, and it's nicer than the truck we got two years ago! Notice that there is no tailgate on my old Dodge in the first photo (The bed's also a different color). In Wyoming, that's how we roll!

The sleeping accommodations should work. If it rains, go in the combine cab. I wouldn't know or care.

I'll go for the paint, but from the Deere dealer in Billings. I cringe whenever I have to walk into the local one. I have absolutely no use for them. They charge for loading dock use, which is a little cheap (The never did in the last 20 years), but they didn't want to do it when they found out that our tractor wasn't a Deere. We bought an 8350 drill, but the only reason was that I couldn't find an IH 510. I have no use for that dealer...

I see no reason to buy Deere- why should I pay more for less machine?

That wasn't our 6600. Ours is nowheres near as nice as the one in the photo. I'll grab photos of ours tonight. I can't believe that anybody would spend $10k on one of them!

There were always six Gleaner photos. Me thinks you may need a better fwip phone!