jdfarmerboy
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hey where from saskatchewan are uIJ im 1hr from regina mark
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Combines 9400VS8820 Capacity Durability
Rusti
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Hey jdfarmerboy.In this world we are almost neighbours.I farm 3000 acres 20 miles west of Sasatoon.The old timers even admit our crops were worse than the 30's!!!!
Rusti
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Hey jdfarmerboy.In this world we are almost neighbours.I farm 3000 acres 20 miles west of Sasatoon.The old timers even admit our crops were worse than the 30's!!!!
Erky
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From 20 miles north of Regina. You see the 9400 is just a 9500 with a smaller engine and shorter walkers. You see most of us that run 9000 series know that walkers are the limiting factor when it comes to capacity. You might consider that and as compared to a 8820 I'm sure you will be disappointed in capacity. Now if you have a off farm job and the farming is after 5 pm you will like the cab and controls. I put my 70 year old father in law in the cab at ten in the morning and I am falling asleep in the truck at midnight while he wants to move to another field. As for weaknesses, you may want to get the bolt that holds the gearbox onto the walker shaft updated as some dealers failed to do it before it means new walker shafts and bearings. I believe if it has wooded walker bearings that they were not so much a problem in those machines as they were in the 9600. I ran the wood in my 9500 to 1500 hrs. before I lost the bolt and had to upgrade the whole thing as shafts are not available for the woods anymore. At that low of hours it should go a long way before it needs much work. Early crops were poor,canola 10 bus peas 25, later wheat topped 40 bus. Have a good Christmas and I'm sure the wife will enjoy a new combine for a gift.
jdfarmerboy
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hey well then your lucky our canola ran 2bu_ac it took us 2 hrs to combine 90 acers of it we run a jd 7701 and 2 mf's a 760 and 8560 rotary i like the best that machine just keeps on running we ran it for 2 years with the front drum on the feder chain broken but dident know what was rong but if we could we would run all deere but we cant afford it we farm about 1600 acers mark
Big_Green
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3000 acres and you want a 9400IJ Alot of farmers I know have less than you and have sts combines. Does this not press you for time on your 8820IJ
Rusti
Guest
Thanks for your comments so far.I should add I seed only 2500 acres and our area yields are only 25wheat 22canola 19flax 70sunflowers 50oats on average. 40bus_wht_canola is a bumper.I must admit the 9400 may seem small. My 2 neighbours have 9400's and cover about the same acres and are quit satisfied. MAYBE THEY DONT WANT ME TO HAVE A lARGER COMBINE. BUT THEY ARE GOOD FRIENDS AND WE DON'T COMPETE. REPlYS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. THANKS FROM Rusti SK.CANADA
Erky
Guest
You probably noticed his dry land yields. He likely doesn't grow a pile of straw so a smaller machine will handle it. Now with "tongue in cheek", perhaps those handsome subsidies have your friends buying more combine than they need.
Big_Green
Guest
He had not posted the yields then Krky!! And those guys grow almost all corn and very little milo.
Erky
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Sorry, I guess I didn't recognize the sequence of the posts.