Combines 9750 test

[Greenfever]

Sorry, I'll try to be a flower child for now on!

 

[bob]

hey greenfever why does deere copy evrythign fomr their competitionIJ Deere never will have 100% of the combine market or 99% of the tractor market because then thye would have no way to copy off of anybody. It is funny though how deere said that the rotor would never work but then they came out with one.

 

[TR]

As a New holland man listening in I think that we should change dumb and dumbers name to smart and smarter. Good calculating at least someone does their homework.

 

[Corn_Pro]

Sounds impressive, but for an old conventional man, I'd like to know how the 9750 STS with 7,053 sq. in. total cleaning area can shell more than a 9650 cylinder_walker with 7,719 total cleaning area. In my expirence, a combine running at max capacity in corn has the problem of putting corn out over the screens. That always seems to come before a power shortage.

 

[Dumb_and_Dumber]

Thanks. As Greenfever said, I run Red machines. I don't doubt that the "NEW" Deere combines are a great change from what the JD people have had to deal with for a long time. There are some really good ideas on their "NEW" machine. We have a 2144 and a 1660. We even have a good sized grain handling operation. I just have trouble understanding how a machine that cost as much as the "NEW" Deere can be affordable when is has to set waiting for the wagon, truck, railcar or whatever during harvest and then the remaining 11 months out of the year. But I am not to sure that any combine is worth what we have to pay for them now. The 1660 we have is starting to need more upkeep (2500 hours on the seperator). Bit I still ran it till 11:00 last night for under $4.50 an acre. Guess I am getting old enough to not have the "NEW PAINT" diease.

 

[greenfever]

You have a very good point there Case IH man but the size of the farm operation that my dad, my three brothers and I run. We fill like we need to trade our combines off after every harvest because this is how we fill, why keep a combine for ten years, then trade it off and pay $120,000 this might be a little high, plus the interest you'll have to pay if you finance it and who know's how much money you will have to put into it in those ten years, or, by trading every year we have to pay any where from $15,000 to $22,000 depending on hours and options and also you have that warranty, some farmers don't really need to be finance on those amounts. Plus the rollover program Deere offers we think it is a excellent deal. We did have to pay a little bit more when we traded our 9610 off for our new 9750sts and we will do the same thing with our other 9610. It is a big expense to only use them only for a month or two I do agree with dumb and dumber, that is why we rent two 9510's with 30 foot platforms just long enough to do our soybeans harvest. My Dad, brothers and I have always been rotary fans because we felt that you could always combine at a little faster speed and they did a better cleaning job then a conventional combine. I won't tell you what color we use to have because I'll probably never here the end of it, but I do admit they were nice. Tr person you are right dumb and dumber is a very smart person, but I do love to argue it would not be me if I didn't.

 

[Bruno]

Just wondering how many acres to you harvest a yearIJ

 

[Plowboy]

I drove a 9750 today. we were in a 55bus_acre spring wheat crop picking up a 25' swath and traveling at 5.0 mph. the sample was not the best. the deere guys running the demo did not put in the proper filler plates. we ran beside a 8820turbo,1688,and a 9610. there was no comparison to the other machines, the 9750 was a lot better. i never ran it too long, but the time i did it was pretty impressive. it remides me of the 9720 white in the whole design. the 9720 was good for about 2 years and then you had to be a full time mechanic to keep it in the field. could this be the sameIJIJIJ the 9750 was a nice machine but the $308,000 canadian was a little hard to handle. i think i will keep my 9600's.

 

[darryl]

The rotary machines do much better in longer straw than the conventionals do. In a year with less straw the difference will not be as great, or if you are straight cutting and not taking much straw, there is not that much difference in capacity between machines.

 

[Greenfever]

Well if you need to know we roughly combine 6400 acres of soybeans, 3200 acres of field corn, and 3200 acres of seed corn which we pick with Byron seed corn pickers. No, we don't own any oil wells but we do sell our mineral rights on roughly 1600 acres of farm land and timber to a underground limestone operation and lease 320 acres of it for there stationary separation plant and stock piles. It roughly sells 3 million tons of limestone a year and our family gets a percentage of each ton that is sold, which a percentage does go towards our farming operation. Even though price are down we fill like they will come back up, it seams like they always do and if they don't, we will just store our grain. We have a storage facility that put some elevators or COOP's to shame.