New Holland CR 8.90

Not sure why the NH combines have poor resale value to them. They are a great machine. I couldn’t tell you the maintenance costs on the newer ones but when we ran them it was less then guys I know who ran JD with about the same hours on our machines. In talking to the shop foreman and service manager the newer x.90 seem to be holding up better then the previous generation.

Thanks bob123, Who do you use for your prime dealer and thanks for the advice on tracks, how would a 8.90 compare to a deere. would it be more capacity than a s680. what is the difference between asp and dsp . I notice more guys switching over and wondered what the number one reason is. How is the engine holding up and do most guys delete the emissions or is the emissions less trouble.
The 13.5 l deere engine scares me a bit from major failures. I used to run a pair of TRs 20 years ago and found they were short of horse power but it looks like they solved that problem. Have run deere for 17 years but to trade up now on a 780 is not in the cards.
How is the mazer dealer on the east side of winnipeg for service. That would be my closest dealer by a bit. The most important factor is if Mazer has enough service trucks on the road. Enns service has been incredible great and prompt when a problem comes up. however the repair bill is killing me even if we baby my two machines.
I am stuck in between Winkler , Steinbach and Winnipeg all 45 minute drives. I guess I am spoiled with Enns being 10 minutes away. Should that distance be a major issue.

We run a 2014 8090, It has many of the same features as the "dot" series. 410 bu tank, the DSP with shorter feeder house etc. If you have stones at all you will want the DSP. The DSP has a feed roller and stone box that you have to manually empty. The ASP has electronic sensors that trigger a stone door to open, dropping stones from the bottom of your feeder house. They can be quite reliable if setup properly but the biggest headaches is having to stop, reverse your feeder, lift your feeder house to close the door and then continue on.
We have a 9070 with ASP also, so I can tell you first hand what a difference it can make. In the fall of 2019, our canola was all flattened from "the blizzard". We were scraping it off the ground with FD140's and the 8090 was doing 50% more at times just because it didnt have to stop for every stone. Last year, everything was standing and the ASP opened once or twice all harvest.
I don't know about tracks but our 8090 has 620 duals and 710r30 rears with rwa. That thing went through anything and everything in the fall of 2019 without leaving much for ruts either. Thats the way to go in my opinion.
The 8090 has a Ekotune plug-in delete that has worked flawlessly but its Tier 4A, so you would have to find something for Tier 4B in the dot series.

I've only been to east wpg mazer once and it seemed like they focused mainly on construction and acreage, but I could be wrong, not nearly the parts stock as steinbach anyway. Steinbach is who I use mainly, been very good for parts, pretty good for service, sales I only tried to deal with once but they never called me back,but I prefer private sales anyway. I'm using winkler mazer for the combine I'm working on now for someone else and they are alright, not as big as steinbach but they are growing fairly quick I think. I've gotten 3 service calls in the 5 years from steinbach and they've all showed up in around 2 hours or less and I'm 45 minutes away, thought that was reasonable enough. dont think anyone is gonna show up for cheap tho, around 200 for the drive plus time spent fixing.

I would delete it right away, one breakdown in field pays for it.

My tuned cr970 will keep up with a s690 for most part with less losses until it gets really humid, then the Deere can keep pushing it through, have outdone s670s by quite a bit in canola, I think an 8.90 should have no problem with capacity, especially at similar loss levels.

I've never ran a dsp so I cant weigh in too much there other then I've been happy enough with the asp and it's never really caused me grief. Opens a few times a year and can clear it in about 15 seconds. I think the best rock trap is not getting them in the header in the first place, keeping the header set light enough to not scoop.