6/18/21: Epic Combine Repair!!!
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- Wheat Harvest '21 at Griggs Farms LLC has been delayed! Over the course of a few days, Matt and Kelly chase across a couple of states to get the needed parts for an ever evolving combine repair!
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Cool that you can drive your combine to the dealer in a couple hours. For us it is over 10 hours to drive so it is fix it at home or haul it.
What a saga. Your patience and outlook is admirable. Thank you for the great content!💪🏻👍👋
Went through redoing the cage & guts 4 years ago on an 8120, it’s time consuming but a straight forward process.
It’s tuff some days,weeks ,years, so just get up and do it again tomorrow. Not the first time won’t be the last, but maybe this will be last struggle for wheat harvest. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼😎
Two years ago I waited two weeks for plantar parts and it harvest I waited 2 weeks for combine parts and it was wet at harvest
Thanks Matt. I really appreciate you sharing this effort. It puts my minor set backs into perspective.
I have to admit that when that gearbox rolled off of the pallet I would have been all done.
Lots and lots and lots of ugly words were said. 😂
@@KellyGriggsFarms 👍
Great video Matt Kelly and Zach
Had a small bolt break off that holds a large connector between the gearbox and the rotor on a cr9070. Were extremely lucky we didn't have have pull the rotor. Only cost about $5 in parts but worked on that sucker for over 12 hours for a measly bolt.
I’m only about 20 minutes from Russellville, KY. Hope your visit here was good and anyone you interacted with was polite to you.
The after hours parts guy was real nice!
My mind was ALL THE WAY in the gutter as he was pulling that thing out. Lmao. Looked like a silver rocket. 😂😂
Your Love that old service truck I got one too and I love it
Sometimes you just got to laugh to keep from crying. Loved the minions . Looking forward to the next video. Take care and May God Bless.
Get a JD the next time. Can't beat JD parts delivery.
As I was watching this I was thinking, as well as you maintain your equipment can you imagine what problems you would have if you didn't?? God bless !!!!!
No matter how prepared you think you are, stuff is always gonna break
So true, all mechanical things wear out or break, but some designs are less reliable than others but a farmer mostly won’t know until too late and with the complexity of today’s machines it usually means a parts hunt because no dealer can stock every part needed. So glad a forklift guy showed up, you don’t need a hurt back to go with a broken combine. The change over to a newer design means additional sales (expense) of gears etc, but what can you do?
Well it is an improved part. That happens a lot in farm machinery. Old part numbers will cross to new ones and the better part will work but sometimes it needs some different associated parts to go with it. It can be very aggravating and frustrating looking through the online manuals figuring out which part you actually need
Farm wives are special. You got a good one. Enjoyed
Yes sir I do!
Glad you got the combine fixed so sorry that you are having all the terrible problems lately
Mate I was feeling your pain, been there myself. All the best from Down under, enjoy your videos.
The great parts chase is always the best. We farm east of Nashville and tracking planter parts back in the spring I had to leave home go to Russelville and get part of it, then tear out to Hopkinsville and end up in Owensboro before I got it all.
OMG. Planter parts were awful to get this spring. 3 different places to get enough coulters to replace mine.
@@redbovine and I bet next spring it’s going to be worse. I’m gonna get the planter outside in a few days and make a list of what it needs and call Shoup and order it. Maybe it will all show before planting time lol.
@@benbuck9133 this spring even shoup told me 3-5 weeks for kinze coulters. I think you are right about getting things early. Ive been told by my chem rep that we may need to order early because some of the stuff we use may not be available when we need it. Seed varieties may be the same way.
@@redbovine might be easier to just trade planters than find the parts lol
That torch with all that stray had to be a little hairy !
I was standing by with a fire extinguisher!
There is always a silver lining, now you know it's fixed and you got a heavier gear box and updated gear. Now that is replaced you should be good for a while. Anyway that what my wife tells me.
Yeah but it’s a reman and I’ve had bad experiences before with reman
As blue as that gear got you got very lucky. I found in farming that sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.
She got hot alright. Definitely could’ve been much worse
I'm looking at buying a case 8021. Maybe I should keep my TR99 as a spare The only want to give me 20,000 for it. I wish I had unlimited shed space.
I used to work for a guy when I made the mistake of moving to MS that had ground from Rossville, Tn to Drew, Ms. I’m pretty sure it was a 6 hour drive on a combine from one end to the other. Plus we had to deal with the Jackson type traffic you deal with. There were words exchanged in the middle of the road more than once over people being stupid. I had a guy jump out of his car and charge the truck one time, and it’s only getting worse unfortunately.
Geez that would totally suck!
@@griggsfarmsllc it was not a highly anticipated event for sure.
We have a 7120 ourselves, those flagship combines are the best CIH has produced in my opinion. Very simple and efficient.
Need a John Deere
I worked on farm for 40 years I know what you talking about
We live in Ohio and we went down to Newbern Tennessee to look at a 4410 sprayer and we stayed in Union City
Know it is real pain fixing combine but it is a very interesting video thks good video.
good golly man you should not have to go through all that seriously you took it better than I would have
Welcome to farming and poor designs. CIH isn't the only brand that has those issues either. This is how things go, one dealership can't control what another does. You really need to mount a crane lift in your truck. You got lucky he did show up.
Trust me a crane is on the wish list. But man they’re expensive!
@@griggsfarmsllc You can go the poor man's way, get one of those folding engine cranes from harbor freight.
That's was painful, and it's not my business.
However, it brought back some memories that I thought I had forgotten.
I don't think I would have videoed it, thankfully the wheat yeilds soften the costs.🥴
murphy’s law is always looming no matter what business you are in !
I was worried you were gonna get a hurnea
I think theres a set of those air bags here. I you give me the number of that air bag. if these will fit you can have them. Next time I get to Jackson, will get them to you. Ordered them for my Kenworth, but they shipped the wrong bags. Told me to throw these away. Shipped the right ones to me.
You have the luck of the O’Blandys. Sorry but that Kelly is one tough lady. Hope you got my message about Brownsville that I messed up on.
Not gonna lie that was heavy. 😂
Incredible effort. Great video. Keep pushing forward .Best of luck
Went thru that disaster last year on our 8120. Bolt broke far down in the gearbox shaft on ours so we had to drill it out and rethread it. Not the greatest design lol.
Luckily the broke bolt came out easily with a reverse drill bit! Must not have been loctited in like it was supposed to be!
Let me guess the shipper was Fed Ex ???
Hello, what caused the rotor gearbox to be damaged?
Spending all this money god bless u guys and hope everyting works out
Man, I'm really sorry about all the time you lost and the expense of running around trying to get the parts needed. It seems to only happen during the heat of the harvest.
I believe you when it cost more than what you were expecting. I know that it has wear and tear on it, but I also wonder if the incident that happened when running over the header didn't help cause some of the issues and it just finally showed it's ugly head. Have a great weekend.
Those gremlins will probably show up for the life of that combine.
You need a John Deere that's what he need
That’s funny she asked where the bleep Russellville Ky was!.😂
What did y’all think about our neck of the woods?..
It’s nicer looking there than it is here
@@griggsfarmsllc thank you!..
Someday farming really does suck doesn't it
Awesome Video!!
When your combine grows a pecker, you got problems. Just to remind you that you jumped your combine in the air and that big spindle was being held in by that bolt. I don't think the engineer thought about jumping combines.
Just saying, if you had a good dealer, they would cut you a low rate rent or a trial on a new combine to help you out while you got yours fixed. He may just not be thinking it out because a lot of people watch these videos when it comes to thinking about equipment purchases.
if only they would break down in the off season there would be a lot less stress been there.
But that seal wasn’t leaking you would’ve never caught that gearbox and you would still be in the same predicament you’re in now again so good luck
Check Everything on Off Season
Maybe it started cracking when you Dukes of Hazard your cornhead. We go to Russellville all the time to get parts!
Havent gotten the bill yet. And im scared to look 🤦🏼♀️
@@KellyGriggsFarmswe broke main carry axle out from under kinze 3700 planter just going down the road and H&R did everything they could to get us going, but just like yall parts were in every store it felt like.
The accident sure didn’t help those parts. Won’t ever know if it was the reason but it could have been
Used to be dealership would do that running for parts or meet half way from each other
They have a truck that goes between stores but not on Saturday
Why the hell didn’t the dealer check to see if the seal was at another dealer an hour away before overnighting a part through unreliable shipping??? I’d be pissed.
It seems you had a $3 bolt where a $500 bolt was supposed to be. But seriously, it’s always like that with most things. A small detail causes a ripple effect of failures.
Yep. It’s not the best design. It’s a 3 piece design whereas a 2 piece design would be simpler and less prone to failure
What's the old saying...first your money..then your clothes. Lol
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Welcome aboard!
I think it’s funny when someone says they cant lift something if a 20 pound little pallet is added to 300 pounds and the pallet gives you a good handle “oh my foot is hurting that’s why I can’t lift it”
Had a gleaner went to a red combine now we're back to a super series gleaner never gonna own another red combine till the boys at New Holland get some tips from the gleaner boys
LOL.
only problem with gleaner around here is the cage wears to quick looses capacity quick
I have one of them red babies too and I hope I never see them all it was trouble
It seems like things are really getting worse this year. Parts are a real problem. I have 2 customers that have Kubota tractors that are down for a couple weeks. It’s a mess everywhere
Yes it is
How much time or threshing hours in the machine occurred that broken?
So I have too ask, do ya see two bars right hand passenger side on the palet. Could of used them to slide it in the bed!
Insurance baby insurance, you have it.
It does not cover breakdowns unless it was caused by ingestion of a foreign object
Just watched 2020 end of corn harvest and your wreck. TYJ you are ok. That jar the combine took, might have caused issue of gearbox and cylinder issue. Just a thought.
It’s a possibility even though that’s a known issue on these machines
Sorry about what happened to your combine.😔😔😔
If you could also make a really good film about when your tractor is having the gearbox fixed, that would be much appreciated.
I’d really like to as I would like to closely see how a CVT is put together. But the dealer it’s going to is an hour away and they’ll probably be working on it while we’re on vacation. I’ll see if I can get a little video of it
@@griggsfarmsllc Yea that's what I thought, could be very interesting to see.
Why couldn't they have found a combine you could use to get your wheat harvested. It looked like there might have been a one or two on the lot
Those model combines depreciate about $150-200 per hour the engine is running. I’m not going to pay that when I can have my paid for machine back going soon. And it’s not the dealers fault that my combine broke so they shouldn’t have to pay for it either.
Now last fall after the wreck when my machine was down almost 2 months, I did rent a combine to get a part of my crop out. The minimum rental period was 50 hours for $10k
If you buying new parts dealer finds then and fix in service center not customer roaming around half country to get all parts
They would have done that but it would’ve taken several more days to fix. With wheat in the field I couldn’t afford to waste any time.
Need to go green lol
Negative
Do I see a New Holland combine in the future
No. I don’t like the design of them
So, now that we have this out we may as well.........
No tractor with a bucket
Sorry for your problems. Is that pool hall that stea
Sorry about that l hit the wrong button. Is that pool hall still on the square in Brownsville. I are several good meals there during the mid 70’s when l was testing cows there. Hope you get back combining soon.
@@jimmybland6519 I don’t know if it is or not
@@griggsfarmsllc That’s ok just wondering. It was the farmers hangout on a wet day.
Seems like it's always the $3 part that ends up costing you thousands..
Was the gearbox and gear problem an after effect of the accident possibly?
It’s possible but that’s a known issue on these machines
How much money does our government give farmers per acre?
It all depends on the farm, crops, county it’s located in, the year, what commodity prices are, what programs a farm is signed up for, etc. it can be very complex. One thing subsidies are not tied to is actual yield on a farm due to that being a violation of World Trade Orginazation laws
I plant to do a video talking about subsidies at some point.
They needed to let you use another combine.
I’m really surprised they let work their employees in the shop, that’s a major liability risk for the dealer.
Should be, surprised they let you work with their employees in their shop
We have a good relationship with them.
So what did a repair like that on the combine cost you from the dealer?
Haven’t got the bill yet but I’m estimating $5-7K. Would have been a lot cheaper without the gearbox
Boy I'd even hate to see that bill
You kinda get used to obscene bills after farming a while…
@@griggsfarmsllc yes I've been through what you have Born and raised on a farm and still farming
FARMING, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS MAKE A HOLE, THROUGH A SEED IN IT, SPRINKLE A LITTLE WATER ON IN IT.
NOW WASN'T THAT EASY.
I don’t know why everyone don’t do it!😂
Use pallets to make a ladder
I was going to do that but there weren’t enough lying around
I have a 8010….Does a guy really consider a Gleaner next time??
Heck no!
@Griggs Farms……. But Bob Brown can have a rotor out in 20 minutes!! :)
@@timnichols9015 yeah but I never have to change a rotor belt or get out of the cab to unplug the rotor…. :)
Do you think the jarring that the combine took in the accident is causing all these issues to smart showing up now I know you said that before you had the accident that you had just put a lot of money in it but I still say you should have walked away from it and found somthing else I don't believe that machine will ever be right anymore.
It may have had something to do with the bolt and gearbox. We’ll never know because that’s a known issue on these machines. That’s the reason for the bigger bolt and different shaft on the new gearbox.
The accident didn’t help. That rotor weighs 2000 lbs and it’s just resting on one bearing and the gearbox shaft.
I’m still $70k ahead from the insurance settlement and owe nothing on a new machine. I’m still confident in my decision
You couldn’t have custom hired a neighbor or something to finish your wheat ? The running with your head cut off thing just never works out .
Oh I could have but it would’ve cost another $35-40 per acre. And everyone else was busy cutting theirs at the time
If that combine ever catches fire let it go. This is like a bad penny it keeps coming back
by the look of all that straw on the floor and in the concave not much point trying to stop a fire.
Go get a deere please
As long as we keep letting China take our scrap steel, cheapen it and resell it to us in bolts and assorted parts, we will continue to have problems. The biggest problem with sending our manufacturing overseas is that we produced a good, solid, dependable product, and now we get a cheap, not as well made, product. In addition, we did not provide the oversight to insure quality. I think Grandpa was right, penny wise and dollar foolish.
Well stated
I guess because that gearbox would work in your combine there was no documentation of the need for a bigger gear. So many errors, too many.
That’s the way it is in ag. Parts are constantly being upgraded and old part numbers cross over to new ones. It can be very confusing when it comes to ordering parts.
They usually charge an extra $10. An hour to watch. Haha
That's ridiculous. I can maybe understand you having to drive to Caruthersville since it's Don Medlin but you having to drive all the way to Kentucky when it's another H&R dealer is complete BS in my opinion. You'd think they'd treat treat their customers better than that. Did they offer you a loaner combine?
You have to remember that it was on a Saturday when I found out I needed a gearbox. They could have transferred it but it wouldn’t have been there Monday morning to install when I needed it to be.
@@griggsfarmsllc I see. Glad yall are back and running. I hadn't seen much of your videos prior to this wheat harvest but you sure do put out some great videos. Hope y'all have a safe remainder of the 2021 season and some good yields on your fall crops.
@@brianpayne8931 thanks! Check out some of the earlier vids. Some are pretty epic!😂
@@griggsfarmsllc I like how you use Google map and the layout of things. That's pretty unique!
The good Lord always shows up in your time of need, are has someone there for you. Ask seek and knock and the door will open.
Would your dealer rent you a spare machine.
Yes. $10k for 50 hrs. That’s what I did last fall when I wrecked this one
Kelly has it right it's a common problem she got out the Google but the loading dock had me I have been there me and my wife but our part wasn't that heavy and I cheated I had my keys and I used a skidsteer on the lot 🤣 oh my I would have just went from zero to a$$hole right then I would have to go home
I was thinking “I wonder if I can hotwire the combine sitting over there and use the feeder house to lift it.” 😂
But yes what happened to my machine is a known issue. Unfortunately every brand has common troublesome problems like that.
@@griggsfarmsllc they all break from something doesn't matter what color you choose
That was easy
That poor cage doesn’t have much life left either.
What did that repair cost
Haven’t got the bill yet but probably gonna be in the $5-7k range
at least better tan 75xxx reman green weanie mtr
So why didn't the good lord show up and stop all this from happening in the first place...
I’m not going to pretend to know His plan. But I choose to believe every aspect of His plan has a purpose.
Whether or not you believe is your choice
Freaking red iron 🤦♂️
If you need help in Kentucky you can call me. Wane hunt likes you. 10,000 $
Your dealer is cool but you should have off loaded that combine. Jumping it was a major wreak and it should have been scraped. That dealer should have provided another combine during the repair you did to much work. I give you and A+ but the dealer sucks and I would never buy red again. Sorry but they have options to help you and Case supports it. They decided not to provide you loaners. I would never buy from them again. Sorry but million dollar machine they need to see future sales and help out more. They are worthless an your video clearly show what’s wrong with case! Great video sorry for you bad luck. I’m just evil but I think your to nice
I have no complaints with the dealer. They did a great job getting me going as quickly as possible. Typically you have to wait a few days to be able to get in the shop due to other jobs but they got me right in.
It’s not their job to give me a loaner. It’s their job to fix my machine, provide me parts, or sell me equipment. A combine depreciates about $200 every hour it’s run.
As far as scrapping it after the accident, I’m still about $70K ahead after all the repairs. So it’s been a pretty good choice for me. Better than being in debt for another one.
@@griggsfarmsllc ok sorry I was just being evil. But I think to much sometimes
Why didn’t you just have the guy that was with you before come instead of a woman