Ideal combine

[beardface]

Anyone running one this year. 2 I know of locally. Both reports not good. Crap in barley, crap in rape and both needed major work before harvest. Brother spoke to a lad who worked for agco and he said they had been released a couple years too soon without enough testing. Safe to say I don't think they'll be robbing sales from claas or nh locally.

 

[Steevo]

"Less than ideal combine" might appear a better name then....

 

[Lincsman]

Sounds like a standard MF, no doubt dirty green paint has made a difference on other ones?

 

[daveydiesel1]

Mabe theyl get all the niggles sorted and it be a mighty machine

 

[quattro]

But how long will they take to get a good second hand value
that would be my biggest worry

 

[nick...]

Mabe theyl get all the niggles sorted and it be a mighty machine

Agreed but they should be sorted prior to sale.im sure they are running somewhere in the world all the time so must be easy to find issues.hope they don’t go the way of massey combines from the past which were shite.
nick...

 

[Rust]

Anyone running one this year. 2 I know of locally. Both reports not good. Crap in barley, crap in rape and both needed major work before harvest. Brother spoke to a lad who worked for agco and he said they had been released a couple years too soon without enough testing. Safe to say I don't think they'll be robbing sales from claas or nh locally.

What's wrong with it in rape.
Surely a nasty look will thrash rape ?

 

[beardface]

Chucking it over the back I think

 

[Beefsmith]

Anyone running one this year. 2 I know of locally. Both reports not good. Crap in barley, crap in rape and both needed major work before harvest. Brother spoke to a lad who worked for agco and he said they had been released a couple years too soon without enough testing. Safe to say I don't think they'll be robbing sales from claas or nh locally.

Neighbour had one last year on demo against a well used 10.90. It was no match, no where near so he had a new 10.90 again for this year.

 

[Rust]

Neighbour had one last year on demo against a well used 10.90. It was no match, no where near so he had a new 10.90 again for this year.

Which model ?

 

[Chae1]

There's meant to be a couple sold up here. One came without the leather seat the farmer specified when ordering it. Apparently they had to remove windscreen to get the leather seat in cab!

 

[Happy]

There's meant to be a couple sold up here. One came without the leather seat the farmer specified when ordering it. Apparently they had to remove windscreen to get the leather seat in cab!

Brave man.
Would have thought an MF combine in a typical Aberdeenshire harvest would provide enough squeaky bum time as it is without the need for a leather seat

 

[Chae1]

Brave man.
Would have thought an MF combine in a typical Aberdeenshire harvest would provide enough squeaky bum time as it is without the need for a leather seat

Brave man that removed windscreen!

I'd drop it.

 

[beardface]

Neighbour had one last year on demo against a well used 10.90. It was no match, no where near so he had a new 10.90 again for this year.

The trouble is there a bit late to the game trying to re invent the wheel. The others are just perfecting there 100t/hour machines and that's after years of building them

 

[Sharny dubs]

Brave man.
Would have thought an MF combine in a typical Aberdeenshire harvest would provide enough squeaky bum time as it is without the need for a leather seat

At least one of them up here has fendt written on the side so it will last forever, be worth more second hand than it was new and use absolutely no diesel doing it. True story......

 

[Foxcover]

Local big outfit (East Yorkshire 5000 acres) swapped 2 35ft Lexions for 2 Ideal 9’s, and they’ve been Claas for years. Time will tell.

 

[Norfolk Olly]

Ill have a more informed opinion after next week but initial reports are they are not the lexion eaters they were claimed to be

 

[Beefsmith]

Which model ?

His 10.90 was a 2014 model with a 40ft header and they wanted more output as they are struggling to cover the area in a wet year so demo’ed whatever Agco matching combine is. I’m not sure of the exact model but I’ll ask next time I see him. I know it had a 40ft header on it though and it was a close match on HP because I remember him saying he was disappointed because on paper it was a good match power wise.

 

[Beefsmith]

The trouble is there a bit late to the game trying to re invent the wheel. The others are just perfecting there 100t/hour machines and that's after years of building them

From what he said it was somewhat behind the 10.90 even with the Fendt demo driver running it. The losses were quite bad apparently.

 

[8100]

Letting farmers do the debugging again and paying big time for the pleasure .Too much of that about it pee's me off