Combines CR970

2004 models are coming out with a new ladder and support, it feels a lot stronger when you climb on it

sounds like your getting it sorted out, good to hear .The reason they run cooler in 3rd rather in 2nd is that traveling the same speed in ether gear there is less oil flow in 3rd which lets the oil spend more time in the cooler hence reducing the temperature.This goes toatally against what everyone tells you as you put more pressure on your hydrostatics.We had an 8080 that used to run red hot in second so we used to run it in third all the time and it was far better.Also which part of the world are you from im in Western Australia .

Glad to see they are beefing it up. I had two or three harvest customers comment on that this summer. It didn.t bother me but it was a place for a novice to pick at us. I wish they would figure out a way to raise it up from the cab. It's disgusting to have to go back down and around to put it up befor you can even start up.

If you go and compare the CR970 to the biggest deere which is a 9860sts the 970 is still bigger in cleaning, and threshing capacities. As for competition there is none.

I think you should compare on th field not on the paper!

Deere builds a decent combine even though they have issues with repair expenses if ever a hard object should enter the rotor, but if you get a CR970 and a 9860STS in the same bean field with equal size heads then push the ground speed to 7 mph you will see a significant difference in the fact that the STS will have heavy rotor losses that the twin rotor machine will not. There's alot of die hard Deere fans in my area but any owner of any STS model will tell you that 4.5 mph in beans is about max with 30' heads or losses really start showing up.

let me know what combine is cheap when a foreign object goes where its not supposed toIJ

They are not invincible either. Three new ones were sold last year in my area and all three fell flat on their face with huge breakdowns. One of the owners has a 9860 STS now. The NH dealer didn't sell any CR combines this year while the local JD and CIH dealers sold 18 new combines together.

Well there are alot of cylinder_walker Deeres, NH TR's and I'm sure just about every other brand out there with bent rub bars in their concaves from rocks, branches, or whatever. This doesn't stop them from running. Do the same to an STS and nearly all of the cast separator tines are gone off the rotor as well as a good likelyhood of many of the cast_forged finger sections in the separator grate being damaged.

When the tines go look at replacing the whole rotor! seen it happen more than once.