CaseIH 8010

[bluefargo]

I know this is a marketing forum but there just isn't enough action on the machinery site. I know this bugs some of you so my apologies in advance.

We bought an 2004 8010 at the last Ritchie Bros auction. It turned out to be a great combine for our relatively small acres except for the fact that the rad needs blowing out 2-3 times per day or more if wind and chaff conditions are bad. The previous owner installed a reversing fan which would probably be OK except when it reverses it plugs the air filter.
There is a pile of these machines out there. Has anybody come up with a solution? Any help would be much appreciated.

[HFL]

I thought the plugged air filter was common on these combines and had nothing to do with the fan reverser. Theres an 8120 in this area and it sounds like the air filter is plugged twice a day.

[riders2010]

Don't worry it's not really a commodity marketing forum, because if it was we would be finding ways to gain more control of the market by controling what we sell, promoting our product etc. and therefore determingin the price we get. All that is discussed on here is who can best predict when to dump our product at the right day that the price is highest, not the price it should be. But the powers that be have enough farmers convinced that the key is competing against each other rather than working together to have some market force.

[tubs]

i had a 8010 and had no problems accept the airfilter I now have a 9120 and combined over 4000 acres with the same airfilter and cleaned the rad maybe twice .

[TOM4CWB]

Riders,

I hope that was 'tonge in cheek'. We work PRIVATELY with many folks... pooling, selling together, and innovating grain sales. Why would we expose our plans... and betray confidences?

Folks like Cotton and Errol express interesting perspectives... even I do from time to time. In marketing TIMING is the biggest factor to price.

To think we should do as the praire pools did in 1929... with hold our produce... not use conventional risk mangement tools... and expose ourselves to this ideal folly...

Marketing COSTS PERSONAL time and money. Just as does production... equipment research on R and M... and how so many MOCK the NEW CWB pooling system... that were sooo in favour of the mandatory CWB 'single desk' that used to dump our personal farms' grain every day of the year... is beyond me.

Rider... have YOU marketed any grain through the new CWB pools?

[riders2010]

The new pools are no different than the old. They are not going out and saying we have this much product and will accept only this price minimum, all they are doing is going out and averaging price recieved trying to pick the best days to sell.

You are stuck on the ME concept of doing better than the neighbor at picking the right day. Real marketing involves picking the right day but also promoting and using what ever advantage your product has to gain a higher price. If we all told the crushers look no 16 bucks for canol no sale what would they do?

[Burbert]

Neighbour would rush in and sell cheaper
than our demands BECAUSE well he has got
some bullsh*t reason or other to do so.
In Comedian framing, its a dog eat dog
world, framers hate one another nowadays
and are greed driven, they'll step on
anyone or all to get ahead. Cooperation
is as dead as the doooo dooo bird, thanx
to Herr Harper and his Ritz cracker gag
minister.

[charliep]

Always interesting the twists and turns of a thread. Moved from a question about a combine to the cooperative/regulated marketing to a debate on the CWB. I am okay with the discussion on the combine - an area for farmers to talk about whats on their mind and more relavent to farmers day to day decisions than half the political crap that is discussed here (IMHO). Participants chat area, however, and you decide the direction and tone of discussion.

[gregpet]

Ask the local dealer about any updates. Turn your spare speed down and maybe adjust the funds on the spreader to blow downward instead of straight out.

[gregpet]

spreader not spare