Days of thunder
Member
It looks a beast of a machine when I saw you using itI find it quite amusing reading this thread that some posts have strong opinions on machinery that they have no experience.
We have run two NH 10.90 s since 2015 and been running NH for over 40 years, the 10.90 is a great combine and I have no complaints about its performance and reliability or the excellent service we received from our dealer, the 10.90 we traded in for a X9 was running as nicely on the last I drove it as it was the first day having clocked up 2250 hrs .
So why did we change colour?
As in any business you are always looking for improvements ,the 10.90 hadn’t changed in the areas we thought they could, the X9 is the 11.90 that NH should have built because it is basically a CR design that has been copied and improved on .
What was on our wish list for a 11.90?
Header design ,at 41ft the header was quite often the limiting factor in difficult conditions , we did try a Macdon which was really good.
Longer rotors, we always found rotor losses the limiting factor in wheat, the PSV belt served no purpose and was prone to blocking with green OSR straw.
Less daily servicing ,less cleaning down needed, self cleaning radiator
Having done 240 hrs on the X9 this season I would say it is in a different league to a 10.90, but then it is priced accordingly.
We have run JD tractors for 45 years but have always thought their combines where too American for our conditions…until now!
You have to give JD some credit for developing a combine with immence output, even if it is based on a NH design