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Post by SWMan on Jul 31, 2020 23:04:48 GMT -6
Does anyone know how many of these machines will be around for the fall of 2020? Did they retail any of them yet?
I was invited to a launch meeting but couldn't make it, kind of in the dark about these things.
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Post by jcalder on Aug 1, 2020 6:26:52 GMT -6
I went to that LEAD thing in Portage, there's only a couple of them out this year, none retail is what the guy said. He said they haven't even nailed down pricing on it yet.
There was one rolling up north of Winnipeg a couple days ago in fall rye that was yielding around 100 bushels an acre. 50' header, 5.5 mph. They were averaging 33 acres an hour with it with .5 to .7 of a bushel of loss. They were also dropping the straw so I'm sure that helped contribute to the speed a little bit, but the farm that the machine was on runs S790's and they were running about 20 acres an hour. So that's a pretty big jump.
I'm curious to see what it does in spring wheat while chopping straw.
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Post by cptusa on Aug 1, 2020 6:47:19 GMT -6
I think they got pricing nailed down = A LOT.
Be interesting to hear real world experience from the field vs competitor models. I'm sure it will fall in the middle of its a piece of crap the service guys kept working on and God sent the machine down from the heavens with little baby Jesus at the controls.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 1, 2020 8:35:44 GMT -6
50' header eh? I'm curious to see how it's gonna spread straw and chaff out that far because that's a long way!
Good to hear there is already one in the province, maybe there is hope of actually seeing it run.
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Post by victory on Aug 1, 2020 10:29:36 GMT -6
Looking at some videos of guys running those big midwest drapers. They are not getting a full width spread either. Maybe somebody will figure out how to make straw fly. 
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Post by shmiffy on Aug 6, 2020 21:18:17 GMT -6
Seen one in Rosetown today with a jd 45’ flex Draper. Looks like any debris coming off the front tracks would get sucked into the fan. I’m thinking a bunch of the guards were not put on yet.
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Post by hardrockacres on Oct 6, 2020 7:37:36 GMT -6
Had one end up about 6 miles from my farm Late last week. one of my sledding buddies works for the farmer they brought it to. Were straight cut non desiccated canola with the 45' JD header. canola was running in the 50-55bu area and the x9 was rolling at 25ac/hour with about 0.5bu/acre loss. This farmer has 6 790 deere's now and at similar losses with 40' headers they were averaging around 15-17 acres an hour. Seems to be a big step forward for deere, at least in canola which seems to be the big issue with their current models. We run 3 NH CR's so I am not a deere guy. Buddy said when he ran it they were using the JD automation to set the combine based on the select parameters and it was a nice unit to run. Seemed to have lots of power and handled the few beaver huts and bunches in the swath well with minimal rumbling heard in the cab. And he said the massage seat is a great feature.
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Post by phantom970 on Oct 24, 2020 4:48:54 GMT -6
Certainly keen for some non bias reports on this thing. I haven’t heard of any in OZ but surely there would be a couple. I will have to suss our if the east coast JD test guy has one..........
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Post by SWMan on Oct 24, 2020 8:55:02 GMT -6
I did not see the X9 myself but talked to two farmers that got to see it first-hand, both were very impressed. One farmer was running next to S780's and it was like he just realized that there is a significantly larger combine available(I've been telling him about Claas for a while now but he's loyal Deere...ha ha). Other guy is a Claas guy with New Holland experience and said the X9 is a contender. All the demo's were highly controlled this year with a large Deere support staff, so not sure if once the machine gets in the real world and exposed to a larger range of conditions it will perform similar??? Most of the demo's were limited time, every demo I had the dealer left the machine so I could run it late at night, sometimes interesting observations happen later in the day. Nevertheless only a handful of combines will be retailed for next year, so this is going to be a process and we will get time to hear more before you order yours.  Everyone I talked to that ran it said the header was amazing, almost more impressive than the combine. I think the headers are going to be more widely available sooner. And it's heavy, really heavy. I know the trucker that hauled it around and it's over the weight rating of his tri-axle trailer and he had to get permission from the trailer mfr. so he didn't void his warranty on his recently bought trailer. |
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Post by kevlar on Oct 24, 2020 9:28:36 GMT -6
WOW! If the header is that heavy, that will be a very serious downfall for it. The slightest soft conditions will make it useless, I would think.
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Post by torriem on Oct 24, 2020 9:49:11 GMT -6
Think he was talking about the combine being too heavy for the truck.
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Post by kevlar on Oct 24, 2020 12:49:25 GMT -6
Oh my face is a little red! lol That makes more sense. I was trying to think how it could possibly be that heavy (header). Still heavy for a combine even, must be over 31 tons.
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Post by SWMan on Oct 24, 2020 13:28:14 GMT -6
Now we see how rumors get started...ha ha. I was referring to the combine.
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Post by cptusa on Oct 24, 2020 14:39:02 GMT -6
Now we see how rumors get started...ha ha. I was referring to the combine. That's not what I heard. Heard head was so heavy it needed a special lowboy with 4 axles. |
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Post by torriem on Oct 24, 2020 16:35:41 GMT -6
Surely John Deere has antigravity on their machines now.
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