Class 9 combines .. ?

[farmaholic]

Read what bucket said in a different thread about new decals. Yup...promise 5 more HP and 3 more bushels capacity in the grain tank and there you have it...a new "class" of combine. Where is the breaking point? I guess I'll be relegated to owning someone else's good "depreciated" iron.

My combine is an 09...about 1600 hrs.

Ya I bought a new sprayer, and a drill and tractor to pull it with....but I will get my value out of the depreciation. They will all likely stay here for ten years.

Seems to me the price of some of this new shit has even surpassed the economy of scale numbers. ....just blabbing and thought it sounded good. But really.....

[sumdumguy]

Agree the New Hollands are very good , better than Deer or Case for rotor / thresher loss .
Lexion combines last fall crushed all makes here last fall in all crops but peas.

Our neighbours with Lexion have dealer mechanics there every day all harvest. As for New Holland, good f--- riddance!

[sumdumguy]

Well no it's not actually.
Parisite - a rare mineral consisting of cerium, lanthanum and calcium fluoro-carbonate.
Parasite - an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
But of course that'll be your autocorrect spelling the same word two different ways in one sentence, lol.

I sure hope you get better yields than me as I grow neither canola or wheat. I do feel sorry for the guys that are in a drought situation though.

You probably grow nothing but old.

[grassfarmer]

Your just a lonely pothetic parasite.

That's a hell of a phone you've got, you really should send it back.

[furrowtickler]

Wow did this thread come completely off the rails .
Really S/f , no one gives a shit about what you paid for you 3 or 5 or 10 combines .
That means nothing
I started this thread to ask simply what should a class Nine do ..... that's it .
You don't even realize how many people you piss off when you whine and complain about a non existent drought in your are then bring up shit like this on a thread that has zero to do with the cost of your multi trades ! Wtf is a matter with you at times there guy ?
Most guys on here have very little crop and you post shitblike that . Come on man think a bit

[SASKFARMER3]

Wow some of you really are getting a little tense on all issues.

Grass is being a total parasite. He doesn't give a rats ass about any one other than himself. He proves it over and over.

But my point on combines is that the companies are trying to keep the price up on their useless pieces of shit equipment. Farmers are trying to buy, lease and keep going. Yes two some times does the job of three but usually like in most cases out our way on guys farms who went from three smaller combines to two big, they are renting a third in a late fall or last guys harvesting. Class and Cat were famous for doing this sell the dealership three and get two big ones they perform way better than what a guy had. In the end like i said it rains for a whole month now your trying to harvest in tough conditions and two just doesn't cut it.

So my other point is combines at 700000 is just idiotic. Yes a necessity on the farm but idiotic in price.

Now for some reason guys can get New Hollands way easier than other companies. But for us I would go Red if I didn't buy Deere again.

Not trying to piss guys off as I have shit that won't Make 15 Canola on lighter land because it didn't rain for 45 plus days of heat and fracking wind. So don't tell me about drought but on the good stuff were back. That to me is what we needed after years and years of others getting ahead do to excess rain in our area and our farm sitting playing in mud trying to make a living. Yes full quarters are almost back on most and that is more important than this crop. Next year will be ok but if the drought continues its the third and fourth it better start raining again.

[furrowtickler]

Just started a thread asking for info on what I should expect from a class 9 combine in terms of performance... that's it
Not what the cost was or how much one paid or did not pay or that the wife has a Denalli or whatever.
Not just you but these other guys , come on . Why does every thread get derailed on here .
Guys need to get a grip.
Let's keep threads on topic . It's no wonder many good contributors have left agriville .

[Braveheart]

Furrow, there are getting to be quite a few 9240s in this area and their performance is very good. We grow a lot of straw here and the extra horsepower can really slug it through.

The headers you are using are also giving good and reliable cutting and feeding for beans and straight cut canola. They seem to be able to match the capability of the combines.

[Braveheart]

One farmer here traded a barely used 9240 for a Lex 780TT. I think all he got was more debt and a dealer an hour and a half away instead of 20 minutes. He's a lot smarter than the rest of us tho . . .

[tweety]

Wow did this thread come completely off the rails .
Really S/f , no one gives a shit about what you paid for you 3 or 5 or 10 combines .
That means nothing
I started this thread to ask simply what should a class Nine do ..... that's it .
You don't even realize how many people you piss off when you whine and complain about a non existent drought in your are then bring up shit like this on a thread that has zero to do with the cost of your multi trades ! Wtf is a matter with you at times there guy ?
Most guys on here have very little crop and you post shitblike that . Come on man think a bit

Furrow, Combines are so big that in Canada you can't get a header wide enough.

A class 10 can do 100 tonnes per hour and peak at 135. That's 8100 bu per hour! You would need a 300 foot header and go 5 mph!

A class 7 can easily do the numbers you have quoted. Use a stripper header or cut high and a class 6 can.

Efficiency curves drop dramatically because it takes more then just hp and grain tank size to harvest.

Why buy a combine you can't even begin to run at capacity?

[sumdumguy]

For this crop, we could have used a haybine, haha, oh yeh, not that funny.

[furrowtickler]

I am keeping this one full .... a stripper header would not work on this farm . We get snow , and the heavy soil here would never warm up till June if we left tall stubble
In some areas you are right tweety , SW sask for sure . But other areas that would be a disaster come spring . Especially on a wet spring like we just had and some areas were far wetter like Lloyd through Meadow Lake .
We ran class 7's for years , don't need a lesson on their capacity lol
No where near this , not even close.
I was at capacity last night in standing wheat at 4.8 to 5.2 mph . Was just right 👍🌾