Combines new lexion combines

I think we will keep my 9600!! I was just curious and thought you (dakota) Might give some details but i guess not!!

Don't feel bad. I know from experience that the 9600 is one of the best combines out there. By the way I have given some details earlier on this page.

Claas doesn't want me to publish it.

Aw, come on! Its a free country with free speech last I knew.

1st Amenment 1.PPASR = FREEDOM OF religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech. I think your right magnum man. And dakota I have thought that it is hard to beat a relible 9600 they were the best in their time and still are dang good!!!

HI ED IS there any specific problems that you have heard or experienced with the CR's IJ I know they had some software updates for the header height and stone trap. Pete

Pete, Don't take me wrong. My son posed a hypothetical question. I would never consider another brand as long as AGCO keeps making their transverse rotor machines. I just thought that the TRs seemed like a fairly simple and well proven design and that's why I said they would be my second choice. The new bumble-bees look way too complex and the seperate returns thresher is the last straw. I remember the older Masseys cutting weedy wheat and watching that little thresher bleeding green juice as the combine inched it's way down the field. I think I'll pass on that scenario. Ed Boysun in Montana

Freedom is nice in either way. Sometimes a person may choose not to do one thing because it would jeopardize another. About your 9600 - that would be my choice too, if the lexions don't work out.

I wasnt planning on trading to a lexion. I was just curious on them. We will keep the 9600 around and if we ever do trade it will probley be another Deere!!

Sounds like a sales meeting to me. New Holland holds the honor of selling the most combines in the world. Claas is number one in several countries in western Europe, but they are not the leader globally. Claas does have a first-rate chopper, and I may be inclined to believe their market share is 65%, as the hot beds for these are California, Wisconsin, and New York, to name but a few. But it is a much smaller market (units sold per year) than that for combines, and Claas's goal of being number one in the US seems a bit ambitious based upon their present position. It would be more realistic for them to set an achievable goal, such as having 5% market share. Then grow the business from there. Things won't happen overnight, no matter how much money you throw away. My 2 cents. And this is free: Not to be confrontational or start anything, but I'll weigh in on the JD 9600. My opinion is that it is one of the (if not THE) worst combines of its era in several categories: performance, grain quality, durability, cost of ownership. Now the 8820 was a tough combine. But the 9600 wasn't much of a replacement.