Saturday, November 30, 2013

Yesterday morning, John and I traveled to Ireland, Indiana to the Wright-Stemle JD dealership to see our new S680 combine that had arrived there.  This combine was the focus of our recent Gold Key visit at Moline.  Now that it was fully assembled, it was delivered to the dealer.  It was fresh off the truck the previous day, and it still needs some set-up work in advance of being delivered to the farm.  We climbed inside the cab to check out the new features.   Looks like there will be another ‘learning curve’ to get fully acquainted with the operation of this S680.  But I’m the kind of guy that reads the owner’s manual, and tries to figure out the features from that method.

John checks out the new S680

All the S680’s tires are Michelins, but the rear ones are bigger than I anticipated. I expected a 600 width, and this one has 750s.   See how the rear tires are mounted backwards?  That’s one of the things that the dealer must re-arrange to get it set up.  The inner duals on the front will also need to be installed.

Here’s the identifying sign of our Gold Key visit a couple weeks ago… sequence number 5575…still attached to the front window.

There are some details that remain to the set-up on the combine before it can be delivered to the farm.  But, hopefully, it will arrive here in a week or two.  Does it seem like an early Christmas present?