Cowboy
Guest
Some of the weaknesses depend upon the year of combine.I have a 96 and have broken the main drive shaft on the feeder house.This was beefed up substantially on later years.I also had trouble with the strawchopper clutch and ended up replacing it.It seems to be less prone to trouble if you don't drop straw.But I know of a guy with 3500 hrs. that has had no problems at all.You must watch your chopper knives for breakage and make sure you keep them in balance or you will shake things apart.Otherwise mine has been pretty trouble free and just finished helping some neighbours finish up their flax.They use Case rotaries and coudn't get over how the Tx could go through 55' swaths.(Up to 42 acres_hr) and used only 65 gal. of fuel to do 175 acres and switch from dropping to chopping so easily.