There is no comparison at all, the 62 is cleaner and will eat up the 9500 hands down. I much prefer the 62 for working on too, the deere is a scary thing to work on compared to our 62.
We have six bat Crary air reels on some of our 800's and I can't imagine anything could work better in any condition. Did you have the electric adjust air tilt so you could fine tune on the flyIJ I did stegger the teeth on one of the latest Crary pickup reels to do even a better job feeding the most resistant to slide material. Maybe you should look into the tube trick or the hump kit to more or less bring the reel closer to the material. Where exactly was the header goofing up on youIJ What size head do you runIJ