Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | Sorry,not much, except for the pinto bean guys who buy them cheap and run enough dirt/rocks through them harvesting pintos to turn them into scrap in a couple of years. They then buy another one cheap at auction and repeat the cycle. The small operators who would use a pull type machine are almost extinct in this area. I still use an old 1482 PT as a backup combine and for harvesting field pea. The local CIH dealer has a 1682 with all the toys (reverser,rock trap,chopper,hydraulic hitch,grain loss monitor.) That shows very few acres and always stored inside judged by paint and sheet metal wear, I bet even money that it ends up harvesting pintos or cut up in the local combine salvage yard. I love running my old 1482 pull type machine with my small Steiger 4 wd (KR 1225) I am totally blind in one eye and have glaucoma in the other one,so I have no depth perception to judge header height of the SP combine,but I can sit in the tractor looking back at the front of that old PT machine and do just fine. |
Jon Hagen, is there a market for PT combines in your area????
