Combines 9750 sts

Yes we picked up 600 acres of canola with two 9750`s. You have to put separator grate cover plates on the second stage of the rotor. hopefully this will take a lot of the trash away.

I can relate to your experience but in a different way. When I was younger I thought it was cool to see some piece of equipment going fast in the field. As I grew and matured I learned different. We have a few STS's in our area and they do have great capacity but in your scenario I have to believe; 1.) Must have been some poor soybeans 2.) Alot of them soybeans are back on the ground again 3.) He needs to go that fast to cover the acres to ever pay for that thing at these prices! I believe in quality and not quantity. I might make a few more rounds then the STS and take a little longer but I guarantee the job I do is going to be optimal and I can sleep well at night knowing I own it and don't have to make payments. ;-) My $.02.

Not everyone makes payments to own 9750s...

REAllYIJIJIJIJIJIJ how do you propose getting an STS without making payments. Is Deere giving them away or somethingIJ last time I checked there were three options for putting a machine to work in your field. Either you are a millionare hobby farmer and can afford to write a check for it because your farm is a nothing but a huge tax shelter. If you are like the rest of us poor dirt farmers, you go to the bank, put a second or third mortgage on the farm to buy it. Or you can lease it from the deere dealer. In all three options you are going to pay big bucks one way or another.

I don't know how good the beans were but I am guessing they were around 50 bu, because thats what mine were running across the road on the same soils. I didn't see any beans on the ground behind the STS. Not like the Gleaner R 52 this guy used to have. That thing was a wildlife special. It looked like a crop had been sowed behind it. Once a couple of years ago I was shooting doves in one of his cornfields he had picked with that Gleaner and the game warden came by and accused me of baiting the field! I don't know how my neighbor plans to pay for that STS, but I don't think he is going to do it farming beans and corn with the prices the way they are. I sure wouldn't want to be in debt for all of the stuff this guy has bought in the last several years. His barnyard has more late model JD equipment sitting in it than most Deere dealers have on the lot. It amazes me, and all of the other farmers around here that he has not gone bankrupt, because between the hurricanes and droughts we have had some really bad crops recently.

As a 18 year custom harvester, (retired) in addition to a life long combine operator on our farm and for others, I dismiss many stories I hear about certain combines loosing too much out the back, damaged grain, etc. I've ran nearly everything out there. While I do have preferances, I found that all brands out there can do a good, even great job in the field. They can also do a lousy job too. I haven't run the new Deere Roteries. I have run Gleaners, Case IH, New Holland, and all other Deere's from the south, to the north and west. I feel the R 72 Gleaner to be one of the finest and most productive combines, I've operated. When set right, the samples were clean with very little loss out the back. There is nothing wrong with high speed if all other standards are met. If the new Deere, is in the same class, then it must be a good machine. I'll have to see one run under many different conditions to learn more about it. I feel that increased productivity is what agriculture has been all about over the last 100 years. To say that increased ground speeds are not what we want, is the same as saying advances in productivity is finished. Nothing wrong with your neighbor running 8 mph. There is something wrong in saying your neighbor lost lots of beans out the back of his Gleaner and coming to the conclusion all Gleaners are bad.

Every Gleaner this guy ever had, and he has has everything from Gs to Rs,over the last 30 years, and they all left a lot of grain in the field. I could drive through the county and pick out fields that he worked by the green stripes where the the grain he left was sprouting. I always wondered if he just drove the thing and did not take time to make sure it was set them up right. When I walk across a field that has been harvested with my old 4400, I don't find hardly any grain if I have got it set right.

FINAllY, a voice of reason! It's refreshing to read a post from someone with some sense for a change! I guess I've been acused of being anti-Deere, and that's true to an extent, but I will give credit where it's due if dealing with reasonable people. I have to give Deere credit for their durability - at least on the older 66**, 77**, etc. Too bad their design is a bit inferior or they'd have a helluva machine!

I agree that all combines can be good. Every machine on the market can be set to provide a good sample with minimal loss. Some combines are just easier to set to achieve these results than others. Mostly why our farm has had Axial-flows instead of Deeres for years, we are able to set them easier.

Deere definately makes a durable machine there a lot of the old 44s, 66s, and 77s still running in this part of the country that were built nearly 30 years ago. The biggest gripe that I have with Deeres is they are a nightmare to work on compared to the Gleaner and the IH. The cab that is mounted over to the side on the older Deeres is also a huge drawback because you can't see the right hand side of the grain table.