Are you smoking somethingIJ You sound like a Claas tech that has nothing better to do that try to convince others of your machines greatness. , After you pony up the money for one of these babies, and then your machine is down for 4 days because the part is in Germany, you'd finally understand why this combine probably isn't going to fly "as is". A combine isn't something you need "proper training," to operate. In fact, if its sweet spot is so big, a "proper training." isn't really that important. Heck, just get in and go. I can't really imagine anything easier to set than the 8010. I have ran both combines and that lexion just felt foriegn the whole time I was in it. Never got use to the toggle screens or how a foreign guy was there showing us how to run it. Great, it'll print out avg. bushels per acre, and current combine settings on a piece of paper. WOW! So you could open the door and check your tailingsIJ Big deal. I did like the sound of that engine, I'm a big cat engine lover. Not sure why, but have always liked big cat engines. Claas makes the best silage cutters I've ever been around. Those things flat cut silage, but combines, they aren't that much better or worse than a comparably priced combine whether its john deere or case. Give me a break about how workmanship and design on those combines is superior. I couldn't even get the panels to open up on it or when I was closing the covers on the rotor I couldn't get the clips to close without scraping my fingers up or using two people to finally get everything closed up, one to hold the panel and one to figure out which way they turned. Heck, the US has quite a few states with a bigger GDP than 90 percent of the countries in the world. But what do I know about the US_world economy. I'm just a little guy trying to make it in this crazy world. I can never get the true numbers out of manufactures of combines, but I'd like to know how many combines of each color were sold in the US and world wide in the last year.
