John Deere X9 first drive

Clive

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Lichfield
Had the opportunity to take a look today and drive one of these beasts. Hard o drive conclusions re output as it was in a spring wheat crop that didn't really test capacity.

The Draper header (hinged not flex) was very impressive and was really helping output, left me thinking this type of header is a must on and 40ft plus-sized header

Big shock was engine HP - just 700 - JD claim they need no more due to very efficient drive systems but this is significantly less than the competition now


Anyone else get a look at it? what do you think? the new king of the combine world or not?

@Tom H - how was output vs your 780 with macdon on the day ?
 
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Clive

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Lichfield
It's not for the likes of us. John Deere have said that anyone with less than 10,000 acres isn't allowed to look in it's direction, we're supposed to wring our caps and look at our feet when it passes by.

Its marketed as a 4000ac type machine I think in common with the biggest offerings from Claas, NH and Agco etc its price will have to compete
 

D14

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Had the opportunity to take a look today and drive one of these beasts. Hard o drive conclusions re output as it was in a spring wheat crop that didn't really test capacity.

The Draper header (hinged not flex) was very impressive and was really helping output, left me thinking this type of header is a must on and 40ft plus-sized header

Big shock was engine HP - just 700 - JD claim they need no more due to very efficient drive systems but this is significantly less than the competition now


Anyone else get a look at it? what do you think? the new king of the combine world or not?

@Tom H - how was output vs your 780 with macdon on the day ?

No idea on the combine but these Macdon type headers are without doubt very good. Seen a demo running a couple of weeks ago, it upped ‘spot rate’ capacity by 20t/hour on the combine monitor.
 

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Looks a hand header - cutting brackled spring barley yesterday I was thinking to myself I wouldn't fancy having a 40' header trying to pick the crop up as I feared half would have been left behind.

Some impressive fields in this video too...

 

John

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Location
Cambridge
Next door have had one for the summer. I believe they were very impressed with it over the 790s. Didn’t get chance to go and have a look but could see it was quicker.
 
Next door have had one for the summer. I believe they were very impressed with it over the 790s. Didn’t get chance to go and have a look but could see it was quicker.
Our beet man was on about it other day , said a local bit outfit had it in , 25 acre an hour in w w , . 107 ton hr , ,was like a forager going down field
Gossip is they having a 54 ft mc don header , on it ,
 

bluegreen

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The Mormons farm you mean, 8000 acres and they don't work any Sundays due to religious grounds!!

Up the road Walderseys had 5 x 690/ 790s think they may have gotten an X9 in late season too.

And then theres Caleys even further up the road who had 4x 690/790s but chopped one in very early on for an X9 as well.
JD sales reps obviously not waiting for Claas to drop an 8900 demo machine in on any of these 3 huge estates ;)
From my limited combine experience I can say its bloomin big, very smart appearance and notably quicker than the 790s...………..but then again so is the NH CR10-90 with intelli sense.
 

Barleycorn

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Hampshire
Being a luddite I wonder if half a dozen JD 1075s, or NH 7080s etc could perform as well? Very low purchase price, but a few more students to sit on them. Keep thinking as I go onto farms that these were once cultivated by grey Fergies, and combined by Massey 21s (we had one and I remember it well).
 

Pingu

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The Mormons farm you mean, 8000 acres and they don't work any Sundays due to religious grounds!!

Up the road Walderseys had 5 x 690/ 790s think they may have gotten an X9 in late season too.

And then theres Caleys even further up the road who had 4x 690/790s but chopped one in very early on for an X9 as well.
JD sales reps obviously not waiting for Claas to drop an 8900 demo machine in on any of these 3 huge estates ;)
From my limited combine experience I can say its bloomin big, very smart appearance and notably quicker than the 790s...………..but then again so is the NH CR10-90 with intelli sense.
Still have 4 the X9 is on top there clocking a lot of acres now
 

oil barron

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Location
Aberdeenshire
The Mormons farm you mean, 8000 acres and they don't work any Sundays due to religious grounds!!

Up the road Walderseys had 5 x 690/ 790s think they may have gotten an X9 in late season too.

And then theres Caleys even further up the road who had 4x 690/790s but chopped one in very early on for an X9 as well.
JD sales reps obviously not waiting for Claas to drop an 8900 demo machine in on any of these 3 huge estates ;)
From my limited combine experience I can say its bloomin big, very smart appearance and notably quicker than the 790s...………..but then again so is the NH CR10-90 with intelli sense.

how is the Mormons farm set up? Are they controlled by the mothership in Salt Lake, or is it a local tribe and they just tive back 10% of the profits?
 

robs1

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Being a luddite I wonder if half a dozen JD 1075s, or NH 7080s etc could perform as well? Very low purchase price, but a few more students to sit on them. Keep thinking as I go onto farms that these were once cultivated by grey Fergies, and combined by Massey 21s (we had one and I remember it well).
Surely its profitvthat counts regardless how you get it, big isnt always best.


Well that's what I tell my wife
 
Being a luddite I wonder if half a dozen JD 1075s, or NH 7080s etc could perform as well? Very low purchase price, but a few more students to sit on them. Keep thinking as I go onto farms that these were once cultivated by grey Fergies, and combined by Massey 21s (we had one and I remember it well).

You are gonna struggle to find 6 minters of that vintage surely, but what about 3 of the newer shape Axial flows or New Holland rotaries? Bought second hand with some hours on, fettled in the winter and you would have a heck of a lot of combining capacity for half the price of this X9? Yes it won't be in the farming press or look as flashy but it cuts corn doesn't it?

I know there is a labour angle but a lot of farms rely on seasonal labour to drive a combine and you could have the more experienced man telling the others what settings to use over a radio.
 
You are gonna struggle to find 6 minters of that vintage surely, but what about 3 of the newer shape Axial flows or New Holland rotaries? Bought second hand with some hours on, fettled in the winter and you would have a heck of a lot of combining capacity for half the price of this X9? Yes it won't be in the farming press or look as flashy but it cuts corn doesn't it?

I know there is a labour angle but a lot of farms rely on seasonal labour to drive a combine and you could have the more experienced man telling the others what settings to use over a radio.
Some of the deckers cannot drive , no operate the new one to a degree of skill what they going to do on an older one ,
Best to get the biggest one you can deal with , with the best operator you have , will get more done than two monkeys , cause when a problem , the “ brains “ will be stopped sorting their problems out
 


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