700 Grinder Mixers

[Toby Harter]

My dad has always told me that the 700 Grinder/Mixers were junk comparted to the 400. We need a grinder/mixer and I've found some 700s but he says we need the 400. Are the 700s actually junk or why are they not as desired as the 400s?
 

[tim s]

We have been working the crapp out of a 750 with a hay mill on it, for the last 25 years,, they are much better than a 400, the flat bottom won't plug like the 400 style do where the cone and the vertical auger come together. Much heaveyer drives and capacity's..
 

[Canadian Ken]

We owned 2 New Holland machines, a 340 from 1965 and traded for a 355 with Hydraulic augers -both were great machines in completely dry feed as they all are - we picked corn for the cows -and when you ran out of dry corn in the fall and ground corn directly from the field at 20 - 27 percent moisture the mix would stick and bridge in the hopper -I always wanted a 750 with flat bottom - I am sure it would have worked much better

Ken
 

[Dalet]

I have a 400 deere, the 700 is much better all around, especially when you have hay in the ration.
 

[Old weldor]

I worked at Deere des Moines works when they built the grinder mixers there. The 700 was considered a much better machine.they refered to it as the 700 Cadillac.
 

[rrlund]

I had a lot of trouble with the gears down under that plate on the left hand front of mine. There's a slip clutch in there,then a pair of gears,taper bearings on the shaft,another pair of gears in a sealed box. Just seemed like a whole bunch more moving parts than they needed to have. The parts manager at the dealer gave me way too much attitude when I wanted parts for it too.
It's got melted down a year and a half ago.
 

[tim s]

A lot of the parts are unavailable for them,we buy one for parts now and then, and make what we can't come up with. We only feed 1 batch of steers a year now about 250 head during the fall/winter months, we start them on stuffers grinding a large amount of dry common hay in with a little corn to get them filled up with out foundering, this mixture would plug a conventional mixer, plus the hay mill makes the grinding process much better.