John Deere X9 first drive
- Thread starter Clive
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- North Wiltshire
They should find some spring barley, run a flat roller over it and then pick it up with the convio/macdonI’ve seen plenty of corn over the years which you walk over and it doesn’t go any lower
did you see Olly Harrison’s video last week ? that’s exactly what they did
Hard to say with limited time on either machine but the full flex of the claas would surely be better in really flat crops
the jd header had nice features though like the patterned belt to reduce losses and the double knife, I think the jd header would cope with higher forward speeds / big crops very well
Frankzy
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- Location
- Jamtland, Sweden
That will depend on what a lot of small farmers do in the next few years. I can see small places like myself either joining a large outfit to supply skilled labour at peak times and benefit from the larger machine pool.
I can’t see the arable sector having a problem.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
can anyone tell me what price roughly i should get a claas 630 22ft cut for new? list price obv irrelevant
Acke
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- Location
- Sweden Enköping
Reduce list price with 33-35%
Would you?
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
how much depreciation am i likely to loose on that in 5 years cutting 600 acre a year?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
That depends greatly if you retail if yourself or trade it back into the dealer.
I can't put any figures on it but personally I can't see changing a brand new combine every 5 years cutting 600ac/yr would stack up financially.
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Just buy a used 600tt for 80k ?
Be cheaper to keep your crops standing .
- Location
- West Wales
Maybe not the best to buy as most 600’s would have been bought for one purpose, total throughput, I remember seeing 2 not far from Clive that we’re doing close to 9000acre apparently but they grew everything you could put through a standard header to spread harvest window from all types of cereals/oilseeds/linseeds/pulses. A 570tt or 750tt would be a better buy
I guess its not just flat crops, if we could have cut our beans lower this year there would have been more yield, crops like peas can often go flat regardless of how you grow them and linseed in a dull damp harvest can be a wrapping nightmare
The crop is sadly not always in the farmers control so when things go wrong having the tools to deal with that can be a big advantage
A lot of big combines are also owned by farmers with far less workload, if you can find those gems they are the ones to buy
I linked 600TT on another thread recently that had done just 1800hrs in 11years (less than half the hours our machines do) and it was £85k
That's right , but it begs the question why would you want a 40 foot header to cut peas off , pita with a 20 foot .
- Location
- West Wales
Yeah 1 of those would be a good find but unfortunately very hard to find and very sought after as someone of your size would potentially buy 1 as a second/spare machine. Dealership salesmen will obviously favour the bigger usual clients to phone if a machine ever did come up more than a potential client the other side of the country that they will probably never deal with again
Surprised machines like that ever get advertised as you’d think they’d be sold in the first day of the owner contemplating it....because cutting thousands of acres takes a lot longer 20ft at time than it does 40 ?
I learned to drive combines with 18ft and today can drive a 40ft faster and with less effort / closer to the ground ........ If I had a flat crop of peas today I would do a better job with a modern 40ft than I ever could have with the 18ft machine and I would doit MUCH faster
That 18ft machine couldn't even harvest linseed so growing it wasn't even an option
this is the technology that's justifying these price tags (or trying to !)