Forums
New posts
Forum list
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New resources
Latest activity
Trending Threads
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
FarmTV
Farm Compare
Search
Tokens/Searches
Calendar
Upcoming Events
Members
Registered members
Current visitors
New Resources
New posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Forum list
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
Farm Machinery
Machinery
How is your JD x9 combine performing?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Shutesy" data-source="post: 7919480" data-attributes="member: 316"><p>Completely forgot about this thread until tagged again today so apologies for the late reply.</p><p></p><p>To sum the combine up in one word, it's phenomenal. When we bought it to replace two fairly worn S680s on 30ft heads we hoped for a nice easy harvest to get used to it, good yields and dry crops. However we got pretty much the opposite, damp dull days, crops not ripening, huge amounts of straw, some flat crops and disappointing amounts of grain that took some threshing in certain varieties.</p><p></p><p>Reliability wise, if it wasn't for picking up a few large stones/rocks/lumps of concrete while cutting flat crops the combine itself would have had no downtime due to unreliability, it performed faultlessly. Daily maintenance is pretty simple, the lowest frequency grease nipples are at 50 hours with about 10 on the header and 4 on the combine, another 6 at 100 hours and another 4 at 200 hours. (Remembering off the top of my head). Engine air filter only needed cleaning twice all harvest. Otherwise check belt and chain tensions as well as the standard oil and coolant levels and blow it down and shes ready to go each day. The automatically reversing radiator fan (every 15 mins while working) is incredible how it kicks out all the dust in the rad, loads of people who saw it work from the outside said about the plume of dust that blow out each time it kicked in, I tried blowing the radiators out with a leaf blower and an airline and barely anything bar a bit of surface dust came out, the reversing fan had already got it all out! The airflow round the engine is also impressive, it never built up with any chaff reducing fire hazards and took very little time to clean what light dust did build up. Its been very well thought out.</p><p> </p><p>The HDX40 header again pretty faultless, the main problems being damage from stones causing replacement knife sections, fingers and retractable fingers in the centre auger, the biggest non-rock realted issue was the rhs top auger slipping when under pressure to pull crop into the centre of the header, however most of the time the top auger was off so not a big issue and its due to be modified this winter which should fix that, other minor issues such as a oil leak from a pipe and a broken split pin so nothing to much to worry about given it too was also a newly designed piece of kit for 2020.</p><p>The performance of the header in all crops but certainly flat crops was very impressive, the belts drawing in the cut crop into the header was quite an unbelieveable sight at times that the machine could handle so much biomass at the speeds we were traveling, the crop always being presented headfirst and evenly into the feederhouse makes a noticeable difference to a non belt style header that I had been used to before.</p><p></p><p>We didn't directly have it in the same field at the same time as any other machine to compare but we did have the chance to compare its performance after talking to a neighbour running a Claas Lexion 8900 with a 45ft header and running a JD S790i with a 30ft header ourselves whilst the X9 was out of action due to rock damage.</p><p></p><p>The 8900 was in a similar 8t/ha crop of wheat at 17-18% moisture, straw like a 10t/ha crop but just not the grain there, both chopping the straw leaving a similar stubble height, the Lexion was using its extra 150hp to run a 5ft bigger header at the same speed as we were going of 5.5-6kph so not much in it at the point of comparison. (Didn't ask fuel usage figures at the time).</p><p></p><p>The S790i obviously isn't supposed to be a comparable machine to the X9 and that showed when we ran one for an afternoon. With a 10ft smaller header (30ft) during the day in similar wheat to that mentioned above it would be doing circa 4-4.5kph and once it got dark and the damp came down the rotor losses shot up causing an enforced slow down to nearer 3kph, in the same field 2 days later at the same time of day with the X9 back up and running we were still doing a minimum of 5kph late into the night, engine power being the limiting factor not rotor losses. The huge threshing and cleaning areas of the X9 really showing there advantages.</p><p></p><p>Losses never became an issue due to the reduced forward speed from damp crops with large straw volumes meaning we couldn't push the machine to its max until near the end of harvest. But a loss test we did with our dealer in Winter barley early on in harvest, running around 6kph in a 9t/ha part of the field came out as a 0.2% loss which we did twice as we couldn't believe it first time round.</p><p></p><p>Overall everybody was very pleased with the machine, it did all we asked of it, completed a difficult harvest in a similar time to the 2 previous machines would, using less fuel, only one driver and the logisitics were so much simpler, plus 40k on the road makes a big difference on long road moves. The cab is a superb place to spend the day, JD have gone all out to think about the operator in there and I loved driving it! The backup from our local dealer and John Deere has been excellent, they are continually looking to improve the machine and have taken ideas and thoughts from owners and operators across the country back to the USA to keep refining the machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shutesy, post: 7919480, member: 316"] Completely forgot about this thread until tagged again today so apologies for the late reply. To sum the combine up in one word, it's phenomenal. When we bought it to replace two fairly worn S680s on 30ft heads we hoped for a nice easy harvest to get used to it, good yields and dry crops. However we got pretty much the opposite, damp dull days, crops not ripening, huge amounts of straw, some flat crops and disappointing amounts of grain that took some threshing in certain varieties. Reliability wise, if it wasn't for picking up a few large stones/rocks/lumps of concrete while cutting flat crops the combine itself would have had no downtime due to unreliability, it performed faultlessly. Daily maintenance is pretty simple, the lowest frequency grease nipples are at 50 hours with about 10 on the header and 4 on the combine, another 6 at 100 hours and another 4 at 200 hours. (Remembering off the top of my head). Engine air filter only needed cleaning twice all harvest. Otherwise check belt and chain tensions as well as the standard oil and coolant levels and blow it down and shes ready to go each day. The automatically reversing radiator fan (every 15 mins while working) is incredible how it kicks out all the dust in the rad, loads of people who saw it work from the outside said about the plume of dust that blow out each time it kicked in, I tried blowing the radiators out with a leaf blower and an airline and barely anything bar a bit of surface dust came out, the reversing fan had already got it all out! The airflow round the engine is also impressive, it never built up with any chaff reducing fire hazards and took very little time to clean what light dust did build up. Its been very well thought out. The HDX40 header again pretty faultless, the main problems being damage from stones causing replacement knife sections, fingers and retractable fingers in the centre auger, the biggest non-rock realted issue was the rhs top auger slipping when under pressure to pull crop into the centre of the header, however most of the time the top auger was off so not a big issue and its due to be modified this winter which should fix that, other minor issues such as a oil leak from a pipe and a broken split pin so nothing to much to worry about given it too was also a newly designed piece of kit for 2020. The performance of the header in all crops but certainly flat crops was very impressive, the belts drawing in the cut crop into the header was quite an unbelieveable sight at times that the machine could handle so much biomass at the speeds we were traveling, the crop always being presented headfirst and evenly into the feederhouse makes a noticeable difference to a non belt style header that I had been used to before. We didn't directly have it in the same field at the same time as any other machine to compare but we did have the chance to compare its performance after talking to a neighbour running a Claas Lexion 8900 with a 45ft header and running a JD S790i with a 30ft header ourselves whilst the X9 was out of action due to rock damage. The 8900 was in a similar 8t/ha crop of wheat at 17-18% moisture, straw like a 10t/ha crop but just not the grain there, both chopping the straw leaving a similar stubble height, the Lexion was using its extra 150hp to run a 5ft bigger header at the same speed as we were going of 5.5-6kph so not much in it at the point of comparison. (Didn't ask fuel usage figures at the time). The S790i obviously isn't supposed to be a comparable machine to the X9 and that showed when we ran one for an afternoon. With a 10ft smaller header (30ft) during the day in similar wheat to that mentioned above it would be doing circa 4-4.5kph and once it got dark and the damp came down the rotor losses shot up causing an enforced slow down to nearer 3kph, in the same field 2 days later at the same time of day with the X9 back up and running we were still doing a minimum of 5kph late into the night, engine power being the limiting factor not rotor losses. The huge threshing and cleaning areas of the X9 really showing there advantages. Losses never became an issue due to the reduced forward speed from damp crops with large straw volumes meaning we couldn't push the machine to its max until near the end of harvest. But a loss test we did with our dealer in Winter barley early on in harvest, running around 6kph in a 9t/ha part of the field came out as a 0.2% loss which we did twice as we couldn't believe it first time round. Overall everybody was very pleased with the machine, it did all we asked of it, completed a difficult harvest in a similar time to the 2 previous machines would, using less fuel, only one driver and the logisitics were so much simpler, plus 40k on the road makes a big difference on long road moves. The cab is a superb place to spend the day, JD have gone all out to think about the operator in there and I loved driving it! The backup from our local dealer and John Deere has been excellent, they are continually looking to improve the machine and have taken ideas and thoughts from owners and operators across the country back to the USA to keep refining the machines. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Farm Machinery
Machinery
How is your JD x9 combine performing?
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top