Fendt combine........

Badshot

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Location
Kent
Are MF (Agco) combines really that bad?

I've not heard of any going up in flames, but are Claas immune from criticism?
I know of a 5 Walker one, been alight twice, and the daft bugger put it out both times too. Wiring loom is the problem. He's a massey man through and through but even he hates this new one.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
That pic was actually of a single-rotor machine made in the US on a North American combine platform, ExFarmer (just up the road from you and me...). The one in the picture here is a Breganze-built combine, with a drum and concave plus twin separation rotors.

You know far more than me!
I only go by the colour of the paintwork:)
 

willy

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
I have a 9380, so i feel i probably have a right to reply than just rely on gossip.


I started with a 9280 hybrid, lots of issues, agco then did a deal on a 9380, far better combine but still plenty of niggles in the first year ( you have to remember this is a combine that is new design 5 years old from the start of the 9280 and just 3years for the 9380) , last year i had 2 and not a bit of bother everything sorted out and actually they are the cheapest combine i have yet owned and also give the best sample for a rotarty i have owned (prior a couple of sts jd and before that claas lexion)

So i have to say the start was a rocky road but give it a chance and you will be pleased, and i just wished they had waited for the 9380 and not seemingly rushed out with the 9280.
 
Pah! That was a genuine pic! A privately-imported machine that's a single-rotor (no drum/concave) model made in AGCO's factory in Hesston. It came here after a season in Spain - AGCO had been selling US-built single rotor combines in big maize countries in Europe for most of the late 90s/2000s/early 2010s but has now stopped.and is focusing on the twin-rotor hybrids. This is just up the road from ExFarmer and me. I think the text was edited a bit too harshly - the owner was not looking for a Fendt combine in particular, but was wanting an AGCO no-drum-and-concave/single rotor design in whatever colour: http://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/rare-fendt-9390r-combine-spotted-in-suffolk.htm
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
Same farmer may have an agco dealer working out of his yard.......

It was all kept quiet ..... until the foreign lorry driver decided to stop overnight ........on the A14........ at Saxham....... opposite Claas UK.......
 
Reckon you might be right ;) This had one had nothing to do with AGCO's plans to offer Fendt-branded combines in the UK - I think the owner would rather have had it in MF red but when looking across Europe for a machine to buy this then-nearly-new ,green machine was the one he found. AGCO were not involved.
 

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