Love the 4400! Just found your channel and I look forward to more. We have a 4400 in mint condition used for small grain. See it in action from last August on our channel.
I’m thinking about trying corn on our farm so I want to watch your videos about rebuilding the corn head. Might be a future project if I can find one around here.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn There's a lot of the 4 row units around. Tractor house, Craigslist, and facebook marketplace would be some places to start. couple of things to look for are gathering chain drive sprockets. Get one with the hex drive not round. hex's are cheap to replace and round ones are not available. Also make sure that the one you get has good gear boxes. They are replaceable and get-able but are very expensive even for a used one. All the rest of the stuff is common and relatively cheap. I did mine for under $2000.00
Nice, I put 29 seasons through a '74 4400. I loved that thing. I was always sad on that last pass. Retired four years ago or I'd still be running it. Looks like your trailer has 10,000# axles on it. Better check with someone though. Best regards from Indiana.
Thanks for watching, Farmer Bill! The more I use mine, the better I get at running it. As for the trailer, I have put 15000 lb +/- on it and have had no problems.
happy new year bob i live in ohio to my dad farm 150 acres for over 25 years with two jd 55 and a 95 he quit 2009 sadly though he died 2021 were hopping a better 2022
Be careful with that trailer. 325 bushel will weigh 18,200 lbs. Those are probably only 7,000 lb axles so legally you cant weigh more than 14,000 including the weight of the trailer.
@@BobontheFarmOhio We have a gravity wagon that holds about 300 bushel and its a real load behind a pickup truck. Your trailer will be much better atleast you will have some weight one truck. We have tandem axle gooseneck trailer and legally we can only haul 10,000 lbs on it. We tried hauling a wheel loader that weighed 14,000 and the trailer blew a tire and the tires were almost new.
@@TheJohndeere466 Pulling gravity wagons on the road always has made me nervous. All of mine are old and rickety and wander around on the road. I feel a lot safer pulling the trailer. 2 loads today running 40 -45 mph loaded and straight as an arrow. Empty was highway speed.
@@BobontheFarmOhio My son and I combined about 110 acres for the neighbor with our 4400. Now we need to do our own corn. I figure we will have about 2000 bushel that we will have to haul in gravity wagons. Our is still pretty wet though. The last time we tested it, it was testing 25
