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Earlton Ontario | Tell me your experience with Gleaners new S77. It looks very interesting. |
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Martinsville, Ohio | Love the machine, very well designed except for one key thing, residue spreading. It will not spread as wide as the header. The Massey will, Deere pretty fair, NH and others also. I like the weight and balance, cab and controls but it fails my big test out of the factory. The new S series Deere seemed to be a NASCAR designed body with improved cab around the same machine.
Curious to hear others comments. Also the Deere is too darned heavy.
Ed |
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Earlton Ontario | We farm in the toughest conditions in Northern Ontario. Growing large acres of Canola, Peas, Soybeans, Corn, Barley, Oats and of course Wheat. We always are dealing with green rank heavy straw in all crops. We just finished harvesting 3000 tonnes of spring wheat and the lowest the moisture got to was 19%....get my drift??? We are running Deere conventionals and 9870 sts.... I'm not here to cry the blues about our current machines, but I will admit that Deere combines are not built for these conditions, especially in tough small grains. Don't get me wrong when things dry out in hot afternoons the 9870 rocks along 20 acres per hour happily, but on cloudy days or once the dew is on %$#@@....catch my drift???? I would own a Lexion in a heartbeat except there is no dealer support........
Typical Problems include:
Blown Beater Belts
Blown Chopper Belts
Blown Rotor Belts
Plugged Machines
Pathetic Wheat Sample from 9870STS....white caps
Pathetic Capacity from 96 series walker combines in heavy straw crops like canola or cereals.
Question
What should I expect a new S77 to perform like in these tough conditions and will it last??????
How would S77 compete against 9870STS in prime harvest conditions??? |
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SK.. in Frozen Cold Western Canada | Depending upon WHERE you are in Ontario you may as well try to SEE one working.. I'm guessing you may be impressed..
http://www.gleanercombines.com/info/demos/ |
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Devils Lake, ND | Blown Rotor Belts
That shouldn't be unless you are running the rotor REAL slow or you are plugging constantly. The belt and shives should be able to handle all the HP the engine can make.
Pathetic Wheat Sample from 9870STS....white caps
Deere machines are designed from front to back to ram lots of high-volume crops with big seeds (like corn and soybeans) through as fast as possible. They do that well at the expense of being able to thresh, clean and keep wheat.
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Earlton Ontario | Yes we are planning on going to the October 19 demo in SWO. Unfortunately no Ontario demo's will be harvesting cereals/wheat only soys and corn. |
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Stayner, Ontario, Simcoe County | Dave is a couple hours north of North Bay, Ontario.
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| Not just a JD thing CIH 8120 have em in wheat also |
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George, Washington | We bought one and ran it a little this year in dry peas, wheat, and cilantro. We had tough green straw in everthing this year. We are irrigated. Peas ran 4500-4800lbs acre. DNS Wheat averaged 139 across 400 acres (low protein). Winter wheat was about 145. Last field of spring wheat wind came up in afernoon and dried things down a bit and was a able to run 1700/hr for the last two hours. Sample was spotless and ground looked pretty good. Volunteer is up on wheat and nothing did even close to as clean from what I've seen around. Not alot of new machines running around here. 400 acres of buckwheat and 1000 acres of corn left to go this year with it. Dealer told me they are taking it back this winter and doing a number of updates for me, didn't really say in regards to what. |
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Seneca Kansas 66538 | Rode around with a local guy for a couple hrs while he was harvesting wheat. S77 and 40 draper head. As I was riding with him I noticed the draper belts were wet so I asked him if he had a hydraulic leak somewhere as I pointed out the belts. He said no, thats the moisture hanging in the straw and it was like that all day yesterday as well. Never seen another combine running after I left that day. His wheat was 15-16 percent moisture and was running around 4.8 mph if I recall correctly. I just remember thinking how great that draper fed damp straw compared to how an auger head would feed. But then later after I left I started thinking wow, that thing was not only ingesting damp straw but was also doing it with 40 ft going 4+ mph. |
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Idaho | Ran one today in garbanzo beans. Very smooth. The 9250 flex draper seems to perform very well over rolling hill country. the operator can control all aspects of the header configuration from the cab. Seems to have good power although we didn't get into real PNW steep stuff. |
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George, Washington | My limiting factor was the feederhouse when running in the green straw. The machine def wanted more. |
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Southeast Washington | I thought I read somewhere you had an 8200 head with air reel. How does it compare to the 9250 in cutting your garbs? We have an 8200 and looking at possibly the dyna flex next time. Thanks. |
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Gleaner S77..............
