NeussMeister
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Just picked up a nice, 2100 hour JD 3300 for my 45 acre place. It has a 10-foot header and the whole shebang is in good condition. Yes, it's a gasser and I bought it because the price was attractive vs a diesel (which appear to be very rare here in NW Ohio anyway). I keep a diesel tank here for my tractors but don't really want to maintain a separate gas tank if I can help it, nor fill the thing via jerrycans. The max amount of acreage I would be combining per season is 30, more often just 20, so I'm trying to plan ahead for this fall's soybean crop by calculating how many gallons per acre this 3300 might use. Thinking I'd like to buy a 55 gallon drum of gas once per season if that would be enough. Been looking on line and scouring the manuals but can't get an estimate of how much fuel this combine (219 four) might use. None of the old timers around here remember. I've been getting estimates from a half-gallon an acre to about a gallon an acre. I generally prefer diesels in everything and forgot how sweet and smooth these slow-turning ag gassers run... this one just purrs and you can hardly hear or feel it idle. Thanks guys! Jim