CNH Combines

[Richard Smyth]

Mitchell never had 8 ideal combines. They have gone to 8 Deere combines though to try and get through the workload.

something doesn’t make sense there as they seem to be very hard on equipment. The seeders for example seem to be the hardest pulling machines in the world. No one else has the same issues pulling them.

 

[goldeneagle]

Mitchell never had 8 ideal combines. They have gone to 8 Deere combines though to try and get through the workload.

something doesn’t make sense there as they seem to be very hard on equipment. The seeders for example seem to be the hardest pulling machines in the world. No one else has the same issues pulling them.

Will be interesting to see if it is the machine or the end user that is the issue.
He’s just away to start harvest so time will tell.

 

[Richard Smyth]

Will be interesting to see if it is the machine or the end user that is the issue.
He’s just away to start harvest so time will tell.

Indeed it will.

 

[kiwi pom]

This is a local farm to me run by some very good hard working people! That is some going! This is the combines 5th season too! View attachment 1057395

The difference between the combine buyers and forager buyers in the UK always makes me scratch my head. With the combines it seems the willy waving award is given to the person who can harvest the most with the least, while the forager guys seem to think they need 1000hp machines to chop a bit of multicut grass.

How much wet shite (in a normal year) do these combines cut, just to get through the work?

 

[oil barron]

Mitchell never had 8 ideal combines. They have gone to 8 Deere combines though to try and get through the workload.

something doesn’t make sense there as they seem to be very hard on equipment. The seeders for example seem to be the hardest pulling machines in the world. No one else has the same issues pulling them.

Broad acre farming an area with a lot of sloughs. So wet spots to drill through and green stuff to combine. If you were farming 2000 acres you would tile them or do some dirt work to level it out a bit, but can’t do that on 40,000 acres.

 

[kiwi pom]

Mitchell never had 8 ideal combines. They have gone to 8 Deere combines though to try and get through the workload.

something doesn’t make sense there as they seem to be very hard on equipment. The seeders for example seem to be the hardest pulling machines in the world. No one else has the same issues pulling them.

I think they had 5 didn't they plus a Deere or two?
From what I can gather the farm size keeps growing but they're always a bit cagey about it.
Some of the Deere's for this year are smaller and second hand.
Won't matter much anyway as it sounds like they have no crop again.

 

[Richard Smyth]

I think they had 5 didn't they plus a Deere or two?
From what I can gather the farm size keeps growing but they're always a bit cagey about it.
Some of the Deere's for this year are smaller and second hand.
Won't matter much anyway as it sounds like they have no crop again.

Think it was 5 yes. 6 but 1 burned. And 2 deeres last year.

not much crop down south but I think the north land is excellent.

 

[colhonk]

Well, I drove my olde JD like a Class the other evening to try and finish my wheat harvest before the rain, did not make it, half an acre left,may get it tonight

 

[MF-ANDY]

Think it was 5 yes. 6 but 1 burned. And 2 deeres last year.

not much crop down south but I think the north land is excellent.

Tried the x9 today. Only way to lower the reel was to slacken a pipe and let the oil out. Not that a reel is needed with nothing to cut.
Still more importantly he thought the cup holder was good and there's carpet so he can take his shoes off

 

[Richard Smyth]

Tried the x9 today. Only way to lower the reel was to slacken a pipe and let the oil out. Not that a reel is needed with nothing to cut.
Still more importantly he thought the cup holder was good and there's carpet so he can take his shoes off

He does have his priorities the right way round.

 

[ollie989898]

Tried the x9 today. Only way to lower the reel was to slacken a pipe and let the oil out. Not that a reel is needed with nothing to cut.
Still more importantly he thought the cup holder was good and there's carpet so he can take his shoes off

Was there Apple car play and 4 speakers in the cab?

 

[ollie989898]

Many people will note that in the 2020 harvest, Mike Mitchell got help from a neighbouring outfit who brought a slew of New Holland combines to help, I can't remember why he needed the help though.

I do struggle to listen to Mike's videos from time to time for some reason, I can't put my finger on why. He does seem to get overly concerned (only in my totally uninformed opinion) about travelling at the absolute blistering maximum speed of 4.8mph 'uphill' (not actually up a hill but what many UK farmers would call a bump in the ground) when pulling one of his monster drills, and then complaining bitterly that his 1050 couldn't do it whilst a Quadtrac can. I mean if you have a 45, 72 or 150 foot or whatever seeder does it matter a jot what your forward speed is? Why not hook a D10 Cat bulldozer to the fudging thing?

Utterly beautiful landscape though and I do like the guys toys and how he talks through them as much as the next man.

Watching a newer video today briefly he was singing along at about 10mph in his X9 but harvesting a 10 bushel (yes, 10 whole bushels)/acre crop. The extremes of temperature and working conditions always strike me as being pretty hard on machinery, how the heck do you keep a combine full if the crop is only yielding barely 300kg/acre?

EDIT

Whilst I have your attention I still believe the Fendt combine is best avoided for now. There, I said it.

 

[Two Tone]

Many people will note that in the 2020 harvest, Mike Mitchell got help from a neighbouring outfit who brought a slew of New Holland combines to help, I can't remember why he needed the help though.

I do struggle to listen to Mike's videos from time to time for some reason, I can't put my finger on why. He does seem to get overly concerned (only in my totally uninformed opinion) about travelling at the absolute blistering maximum speed of 4.8mph 'uphill' (not actually up a hill but what many UK farmers would call a bump in the ground) when pulling one of his monster drills, and then complaining bitterly that his 1050 couldn't do it whilst a Quadtrac can. I mean if you have a 45, 72 or 150 foot or whatever seeder does it matter a jot what your forward speed is? Why not hook a D10 Cat bulldozer to the fudging thing?

Utterly beautiful landscape though and I do like the guys toys and how he talks through them as much as the next man.

Watching a newer video today briefly he was singing along at about 10mph in his X9 but harvesting a 10 bushel (yes, 10 whole bushels)/acre crop. The extremes of temperature and working conditions always strike me as being pretty hard on machinery, how the heck do you keep a combine full if the crop is only yielding barely 300kg/acre?

EDIT

Whilst I have your attention I still believe the Fendt combine is best avoided for now. There, I said it.

The so-called ‘Fendt’ Combine is Fendt by name only and as with the real tractors are now becoming, will eventually become a name for less than reliable tractors, if it hasn’t already!
That is just the AGCO effect for you and as with anything to do with them, just like death and taxes, is inevitable.

 

[Lowland1]

Many people will note that in the 2020 harvest, Mike Mitchell got help from a neighbouring outfit who brought a slew of New Holland combines to help, I can't remember why he needed the help though.

I do struggle to listen to Mike's videos from time to time for some reason, I can't put my finger on why. He does seem to get overly concerned (only in my totally uninformed opinion) about travelling at the absolute blistering maximum speed of 4.8mph 'uphill' (not actually up a hill but what many UK farmers would call a bump in the ground) when pulling one of his monster drills, and then complaining bitterly that his 1050 couldn't do it whilst a Quadtrac can. I mean if you have a 45, 72 or 150 foot or whatever seeder does it matter a jot what your forward speed is? Why not hook a D10 Cat bulldozer to the fudging thing?

Utterly beautiful landscape though and I do like the guys toys and how he talks through them as much as the next man.

Watching a newer video today briefly he was singing along at about 10mph in his X9 but harvesting a 10 bushel (yes, 10 whole bushels)/acre crop. The extremes of temperature and working conditions always strike me as being pretty hard on machinery, how the heck do you keep a combine full if the crop is only yielding barely 300kg/acre?

EDIT

Whilst I have your attention I still believe the Fendt combine is best avoided for now. There, I said it.

Me I’m quite keen of Fast Ag on you tube and this year he got a 100 foot air seeder which was too much in some fields for a 600 + hp Quadtrac but then it carries about 25 tonnes of seed and fertilizer. It’s a wonder anything grows after you drive on it with that rig.

 

[glasshouse]

Me I’m quite keen of Fast Ag on you tube and this year he got a 100 foot air seeder which was too much in some fields for a 600 + hp Quadtrac but then it carries about 25 tonnes of seed and fertilizer. It’s a wonder anything grows after you drive on it with that rig.

Madness

 

[quattro]

Me I’m quite keen of Fast Ag on you tube and this year he got a 100 foot air seeder which was too much in some fields for a 600 + hp Quadtrac but then it carries about 25 tonnes of seed and fertilizer. It’s a wonder anything grows after you drive on it with that rig.

Is it not 25tons of each!!

 

[ollie989898]

The so-called ‘Fendt’ Combine is Fendt by name only and as with the real tractors are now becoming, will eventually become a name for less than reliable tractors, if it hasn’t already!
That is just the AGCO effect for you and as with anything to do with them, just like death and taxes, is inevitable.

It would be good to see a sharpened up CR 10.90 with a Macdon in the same field as the bigger JD and maybe the biggest Axial flow too, in good conditions just to see what they can do in real world situations.

 

[Simon Chiles]

It would be good to see a sharpened up CR 10.90 with a Macdon in the same field as the bigger JD and maybe the biggest Axial flow too, in good conditions just to see what they can do in real world situations.

You can start with this.

 

[Farmer Roy]

does any of this really matter ?

 

[Lowland1]

Is it not 25tons of each!!

I looked up the Bourgault air seeder and the largest cart they make holds 1300 bushels which if it were all wheat would be about 35 tonnes but with the cart you’ll be looking at a good 50 tonnes or more plus a 100 foot seeding bar so you won’t be keen on a wet drilling season.
I looked it up and empty it weighs 50000 lbs so with a load on it’s closer to 60 tonnes all up weight than 50 tonnes.