Farming Video | Temple Rhodes on Why This Older Claas Combine Still Pulls Its Weight

00:00:00 This isn't our primary combine. This is a combine we bought a few years back, um, actually quite a few years back. 00:00:06 It's an older model. Um, we don't have the newer models like Chad and, and Kevin do the the new series. 00:00:12 It might be something that we update too, but tempo. Do you wanna tell 'em some history on this combine? Like why you like it? 00:00:18 You're the one that runs it. I don't run it. Yeah. So this combine we've got all the way back in, uh, I think it was 2015 00:00:25 or 16 with uh, it was low hours, came outta Ohio along with the um, draper head. We got all them years ago 00:00:31 because we needed a second combine to uh, go with our John Deere 98 70. I think one of the plans for was it was gonna run our, uh, 00:00:39 16 road chopping corn head. Didn't end up going that way, but this has been our, uh, wheat beans and sorghum combine. 00:00:46 It's been an amazing combine. It really shines in those small grains. They really shine in small grains 00:00:51 and they really shine in, in, in sorghum as well. Um, but we, we couldn't run it. We ran in dry land corn and it was fine. We had trouble. 00:01:02 It was really not a, this really isn't the size of be run the 16 row and we found that out. Um, but the reliability of the combine is what we kind 00:01:10 of like, like as a secondary combine, just to have an extra machine on the, on the field, like it does everything else that our other machines run. 00:01:18 I mean, we run the newer series John Deere combines now and it keeps right up to it when we're cutting beans. I mean, we don't lack in power or nothing. 00:01:26 I just like the reliability of It. Yeah. And along with the reliability compared to our other combines, this, 00:01:31 this thing does a lot better fuel economy than the other ones do. Yeah. Which is a huge plus. 00:01:37 'cause you're saving so much money on diesel fuel and the maintenance on this thing. I feel like it's a lot easier. 00:01:42 Everything's a lot easier to get to. I mean, it's a lot of belts when you first look at it, but it's so much 00:01:48 Easier. It, it is a little bit disturbing when you look at all, when you open up the side shields on these combines, 00:01:55 like it looks like a lot of belts and stuff. But like we've changed bearings on it, we've changed pulleys on it. 00:02:00 We've had to work on it ourselves. And the engineering in these things is so much different than an American made one. 00:02:07 You know, it seems like it's just a lot easier to get to a lot of the big pulleys and a lot of the, the bearings that are behind it. 00:02:14 Like it, I can't believe the amount of engineering that kind of went into this thing to make it easier for us. 00:02:21 You know, we work on all of our own equipment. The other thing that I'll tell you guys that, that we really like is, I know it's a secondary combine. 00:02:28 I know it doesn't do all of our corn. The corn gets run by the Deere, but our per, you know, dollars per hour of machinery a year. 00:02:38 We spend half the money in combines like this. And I bought New John Deeres and run alongside of it. I've had older John Deeres and run alongside of it. 00:02:48 The dollars per hour that we spend on this is less than half. Like it just kind of say goes back to maintenances. 00:02:55 For us it seems like it's better for us. Um, serviceability is better. Um, we've got a tremendous, uh, dealer 00:03:02 around here that helps us out. That's one reason that we got it. But money that we spend is a big deal. 00:03:09 When you talk about the money that you spend versus the hours that you put on the machines, less than half. 00:03:16 And that was one reason that we kind of jumped paint, you know, colors over the years. We jumped from one color 00:03:22 'cause it was costing us too much money. We got into green paint and then it was costing us less money than the other one. 00:03:28 And then we get into the clauses and the clauses costing us less money again. So that's kind of the things 00:03:35 that we seem to like about ours. Again, this machine here has pushing 4,000 hours on now, isn't it? 00:03:41 Yep. So pushing 4,000 hours, still not ready to get rid of it. Still running every day. Um, doing a good job. 100 00:03:48.415 --> 00:03:49.005