He does his job and never complains! But he does seem a little weak in the knees, especially when the ground is really hard, and I’ve had to straighten him out once or twice and give him a pep talk.
Your 4400 is really working well. I've had mine for 6 years now, and love it. Was having overheating problems, but last winter (video on my channel) I had the radiator re-cored and that solved the problem. They are really great machines for us smaller farmers - just the right size. And they clean well. Mine does an especially good job on corn. My friend Cory is amazed at how clean my sample is - he can't duplicate it with his JD 9500. In terms of your lights, I replaced all the lights on mine 2 years ago. This past fall I was putting in a new cab fan and noticed that my lights worked intermittently. Actually, just the ones mounted on the cab. Those that were not directly on the cab worked fine. I had grounded each light on the cab TO the cab directly and it turned out that whatever grounds the cab to the rest of the combine was not making good contact. I ran a new ground wire directly to the cab and no more light problems. Something to think about. I not an expert on automotive wiring, but this worked for me.
Thanks Boe! Our buildings and infrastructure need some TLC, but you're right, it is a beautiful place to live and work. We remind ourselves regularly how lucky we are.
Looks like the goats did a good job! I am thankful for the new video. I agree about folding the auger in, it is expensive and a pain in the butt to fix an oops.
Ah, it's good to see Autumn again, although today is 34° and it's raining on all the snow. I never thought about the auger on that combine being manually positioned. It's motorized on my ol' 105-I just tap the O key on my keyboard. 🤓 But with last year's lack of rain and poor yield, you didn't have to worry about constantly extending/retracting it. Rod = bahaha! Did you end up selling any of your maple syrup?
Those computer combines are slick! Just a tap of a key and you're on your way! I ended up hanging on to quite a bit of my syrup, just because I wasn't putting in the effort to market it. But now I've made a deal with some neighbors to sell it in their on-farm store, so that's pretty exciting stuff!
