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Kansas | Looking for pros and cons of each equiped with disc head. Currently have an older New Holland and had the usual problems (wheel motors, flywheel bolts, hydraulic pump, steering linkage, ect). Are the newer New Hollands any better? Considering switching colors due to this and the Deere looks heavier built. Which is better on fuel? |
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east central wi | We tried out these same machines last august in pure alfalfa. We had the NH first and thought it was good and a very simple machine but lacked a little power on the 8060 so would need to go to the 8080. When the Deere came in the afternoon we went to the field and cut about 3 mph faster and did a slightly better job cutting with plenty of power. The NH is a nice machine but the travel speed was a big difference in the field and the road and the price was about the same. We also had problems with header flotation on the NH as an earlier poster had on a CASE IH machine. We bought the Deere and so far are very happy with it with about 100 hours on it now. We had a Case IH WDX 1101 sickle machine before this. |
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South Central Kansas | Get a Massey Ferguson (Hesston). Neighbors around here have traded their HN and JD machines for MF and never looked back. |
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SE montana | +1 on the Heston agco, we are running a self propelled late model and its a beast, tears down the heaviest alfalfa at 9miles an hour when the field are smooth enough. Never gets hot. Has very few problems and they have been minor.
Edited by MontanaRed 7/14/2013 22:27
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No Mans Land , Cimarron co. OK. | Just got done swathing irrigated circles of alfalfa, should bale up around 1.75 to 2 ton per acre ? I run jdr450's and I was running 12 mph and doing a nice close shave . Get into heavy triticale and that will show you which machine will walk the walk. Green chop lots of circles making 15 to 18 ton , what I have seen is the deeres are eating up nh, macdon, only 1 new massey. Unless nh changed up their disk heads they are unreliable . |
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NW ND | After I could not get the header height control to work on a NH 340 (nearly dropped a header upon a son when trying to put it into transport-the up button went up only about 1/3 the time) I traded it with but 30 hrs on it for an 8040. Expensive because I made a full disclosure, but worth it. It also had hydraulic issues from the start; I paid for the installation of an 8080 oil cooler so it did not heat the oil to shutoff going down the road, and after a year and a half with no help from corporate it got fixed. [The dealer inadvertently stripped the hydraulic block off of mine, thinking it was a donor machine not a customer machine it sat so long, and with a new hydraulic block it now works.] Get the JD. |
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Swathers: NH 8060 vs JD R450
