The 6410 seems to have plenty of power, your cruising right along! I found another 3950 with a 2 row narrow head just down the road from me, might be the next purchase!
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
larsonvalleyfarm I was surprised how well it did she can chop in c range of the field was smooth enough but man the field is rough
@lukestrawwalker
5 жыл бұрын
Good job! That IH truck looks almost exactly like the one my BIL had that I used to drive for him, except his was a tandem with a 600 bushel box on it. It was a DT-466 with a 13 speed with the granny gears. It was an old mine truck he that originally came out of West Virginia I think-- Usually you drove it like a ten speed because if you shifted into low range the gears were SO low you'd shift five times before you got out of the driveway LOL:) So, usually if you were on soft ground, you'd put it in low gear (granny gear) in the middle range and take off. Soon as your tires hit more solid ground, you'd shift up to first and start running gears from there. I really liked that old truck-- WAY better than anything we ever had here on the farm. Later! OL J R :)
@Theblindfarmer
5 жыл бұрын
Souls s like to me it came from McDowell county was it just geared low or did it have the low reduction in the floor you shifted into to make it crawl? The DT-466 is my favorite motor by international
@lukestrawwalker
5 жыл бұрын
Not sure exactly where it came from... used to say "Jasper *something* (maybe mining or mine, can't remember) on the door but the letters had been stripped off and it was just the dirt in the remnants of the glue that let you know that there was lettering on there and what it said. No, it was a regular 13 speed twin-screw... actually I guess you'd call it a 15 speed technically since it had the granny gear. Basically if you wanted the granny gear you pulled the shifter all the way over toward you and pulled it back and that put it in "low". You'd get rolling then resume the regular shift pattern, going over to the main pattern from "low" and forward into first, back into second, over a rail and forward into third, back to fourth, then over a rail and forward into fifth, preselect high range on the shifter lever, and go back to first again for sixth, and run the gears again to tenth. Basically you drove the truck in "middle range" and ran the gears, then jumped to high range and ran the gears again, like a 10 speed. Never really used "low range" on the shift lever toggle. If the truck was parked in the field loaded, it was often easiest to pop it down into "granny low" in middle range to take off, then as soon as you were rolling, upshift to first gear mid-range and start grabbing gears from there. Once or twice I dropped it into low range on the shift toggle and ran the gears just to see what it was like-- the BIL told me he didn't use low range because you'd shift five times before you got to the end of the driveway, and he was right (and their farm shop and Dad's house is RIGHT NEXT to the road; the driveway is about maybe 50 feet long LOL:) He was right-- I was still going slow enough I could have walked around the truck by the time I was in 5L and going back to 1-mid range... LOL:) It was a fun old truck to drive and I enjoyed running it-- good solid air brakes, good steering, nice hoist-- no problems. Wipers could have been better and the heater/defroster was nonexistant LOL:) If it was foggy or drizzly you pretty much just ran with the windows down and kept a rag handy to wipe the windshield inside to keep it from fogging up. I was actually in a Pioneer seed video they were shooting out at the nephew's family's farm (Smith Family Farms in Rochester, IN) one day... I think it was a video about the Plenish soybeans, and they needed some footage of some Plenish beans being unloaded, so they filmed me and one of their employees that runs the pits/elevator there at their grain storage facility while we were unloading. As I was weighing out and about to hit the road back to the field for another load, the camera guy ran up to me with a Pioneer hat and thanked me. That was nice LOL:) I've got some video of the truck while I was unloading corn in their self-operating pit... they installed a second pit that can take an entire semi-load as fast as you can dump it, and the augers are powered by a self-monitoring system that shuts itself off once the pit is empty... You just push the start button and unload, the pit does the rest LOL:) Heck they even added one of those automated vacuum sampler rigs to stick the load when you pull on the scales, so the drivers don't have to climb up a catwalk and stab the load to grab samples for them to moisture test (and do the oil test on the Plenish beans). Must be nice having money LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
@Theblindfarmer
5 жыл бұрын
These old trucks are hydraulic brakes and are a 4 speed with a 2 speed rear end aka 2 speed axel they are not a fun trick to drive no power steering and it takes about 14 turns from lock to lock and has a steering radius of a train it takes about 3 ha dark to drive them lol but they get the job done that’s all that matters
@michiganfarming1955
6 жыл бұрын
I can almost smell it! I need to get me a chopper next year
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
Michigan Farming oh ye got to love it
@koryleague8833
6 жыл бұрын
Miss seeing chopping set ups like that. The few people that still chop usually have self propelled. Majority of the guys just grow cane and bale it
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
I’ve been told Kane is really good
@koryleague8833
6 жыл бұрын
Smalltown Farmer88 yea it is. I believe that it's basically the same thing your gonna plant in your field
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
That I’m not sure of something I would have to research
@koryleague8833
6 жыл бұрын
Smalltown Farmer88 around here in SW nebraska we call it cane. Some guys call it sorgum. I think it's also called hay grazer depending on your area I think.
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
I’ve always heard it as hay grazer
@larsonvalleyfarm
6 жыл бұрын
Something isnt right on the hydraulics. My 3950 I ran with my 4440, I had a piece of steel wedge to hold the lever forward and it would raise and lower as it should with out moving the hydraulic lever. Make sure the right plug is in the hydraulic bank on the chopper for closed?open hydraulics. Or ask your local Deere dealer for advice, but yours isnt working right
@Theblindfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
larsonvalleyfarm yeah it what I thought something isn't right it a 2 hand deal to do the functions and that just don't seem right to me John Deere has to of done something backwards or idk
@lukestrawwalker
5 жыл бұрын
I know on the air planter the BIL bought (1780 Deere 12/23 row split row 15/30 inch planter) you have to put one of the remotes in "lower" to operate the fans, and there's a block-off you install in the groove to prevent going to "raise" on the hydraulics so you don't shear the fans off the motor shafts... to stop the blowers on the planter, you're supposed to push it forward into "float" so the fans can spin down gradually rather than lurch to an "instant stop" even though there's a bypass check valve between the two outlets on the fans so the motor just pumps oil in a circle from the pump outlet through the check valve back to the inlet if you accidentally pop it back to "off" instead of forward into "float"... Sounds like it's something similar to that, but something might not be set up right. Later! OL J R :)
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