I own 2 (a 660 and a 960) . Both have been flawless and can expect a lifetime usage as long as properly sized to your needs.
Buhler Industries (Farm King is one of their brands as is Versatile) is a huge international company which started in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. Recently biggest shareholder has become the Rostov Combine Factory LTD out of Russia which back in the day of the Soviet Union was the biggest combine factory in the world with .
There stuff is sold all over the world and is considered very good quality by many people including myself
Buhler sells about 1/2 billion dollars of stuff a year and publicly traded on a couple different stock markets.
Rostov Combine was HUGE in the old soviet era. For the old Soviet farms they made over 3 MILLION of these combines alone!!
Puts JD to shame on the number sold in the old days. Less now as the fall communism was not kind to this company. Ran out of parts to maintain so most farms switched to European equipment as they could at least get parts to keep stuff running. I am good friends with a guy who used to be GM of Production of one of their biggest factories. (700,000 square feet and
View attachment 116736
Now looks like this.
View attachment 116737