Help, Used John Deer 9780 cts any good?

[Andy Warriner]

Terrible combine, you stick to the new Holland's, give me the man's name and number and I'll put him right for trying to sell such a heap to an unsuspecting customer! [emoji6][emoji6][emoji23][emoji23]

Haha!! I know!! He’s a naughty chap! Tempting me from.... ups.. I mean TO the dark side [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Cowcorn]

As a Deere man any of their combines you would recommend?

The one you have !!!!

 

[Farmer Roy]

TBH - I think they were really designed for North American / Australian conditions, not Euro / UK

We cut as high as we can & try to minimise the straw going through the machine

However, here they very succcessfully harvest wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, beans, Sorghum, sunflowers, Mung beans, corn, rice - you name it

The 97 series & now the S series are probably the most common machine on farms & as used by contractors

My contract harvester has 2 x 9780, 1 x 9750 & one older CTS sitting is his shed, gathering cob webs. No work for them last year & no work again this year :-(

 

[D14]

CTS isn’t great in OSR. I know of two that were changed because of this. Effectively lack of engine power, but both were good in other crops. Both farmers moved to lexions as replacements but both trying to cut about 500ac of osr which is a fair chunk to get through.

 

[jh.]

We used to get cut by a later c670. As said it was great in barley , oats and wheat . For osr we had to put the rotor plates in to get an even feed onto sieves or no matter what we did , the straw got smashed up and left in 2 pointed heaps on sieves. Sure claas have them called bomb doors and adjusted from cab, on Deere it's a manual job to fit one at a time but it was worth the effort imo .

We used to be Deere through and through but imo for Scotland the c series was a great combine , and again imo Deere have not made a decent walker combine since the 2200. Was cut by a W before the C and not a patch on the 2200 in our conditions . T never impressed but hear later ones have had a lot of modifications so possibly different now .

I've made switch to a cx new holland but if Deere had still offered a c series that would have been my choice . The 5 walker chassis is ideal for narrow tracks and roads

 

[Case290]

I’ve a 9780i 2000 drum hr goes better now with engine remap mashes straw when its hot and fit 3-4 kph combine in osr wheat and beans . High losses if not set up spot on as only small sieves. For the size v good I like it good chopper spreads 25ft
quite cab. Can take it apart and fix easy enough.
Throws dust under grain tank from over throw beater and can catch fire.
Check list
Counter shaft and nut .
Counter shaft gear case rubber mounts
E clutch
Fan. Variable drive pulley . Large one
Rear rota gear boxes oil seals
Air con drain pipe
Header retractable finger cam shaft can twist off
Header drive pulley
+ normal stuff

 

[Flat 10]

I've been looking since this thread came up and there seems to be a few about so some people clearly liked them enough to buy them.....

 

[D14]

I've been looking since this thread came up and there seems to be a few about so some people clearly liked them enough to buy them.....

Or dont like them so getting rid.

 

[Andy Warriner]

Wow thanks for all the information folks, nice one.

 

[Andy Warriner]

Wow thanks for all the information folks, nice one.

 

[Mr Charisma]

I've had a C670 for 8 harvests now, time for a change now. Wouldn't have another as we have to many straw issues,

 

[AndrewB]

We have a 2007 9780cts bought when it was a year old, probably averaged 1500 ac a year. It’s been a good combine, when conditions are good it can fly, don’t think it would have the capacity of lexions or cr’s but never worked with them.

The only downside it straw quality especially when crops are very ripe as it does smash the straw, you only have a high and low gear for rotor speed not variable like some other brands.

Straw does take longer to dry if rained on, we bale everything and also run a straw walker combine as well.

 

[Robert K]

We used to run a 2005 CTS it was a brilliant combine for us.

I still have lots of spare parts and a vertical side knife available from our combine, mostly header parts

 

[Will1964]

We used to run a 2005 CTS it was a brilliant combine for us.

I still have lots of spare parts and a vertical side knife available from our combine, mostly header parts
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Hi - do you still have your 9780 parts? If so, would you like to sell them?

 

[Jimbo]

very good
I drove prob one of the first cts back in 1997 in australia while on my travels . Would fair romp on against a case 2188 … good times …








in Australia
cant comment on UK conditions, but very reliable

 

[Hard Graft]

Just seen this

We used to run a 2005 CTS it was a brilliant combine for us.

I still have lots of spare parts and a vertical side knife available from our combine, mostly header parts
View attachment 832441

as well and looking for side knife

 

[Robert K]

Hi - do you still have your 9780 parts? If so, would you like to sell them?

Just seen this

as well and looking for side knife

Parts all gone now