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EC IL | We ran new 9060 from 2008 until 2011, and nearly new 9070 from 2012 to about 2019. Needed to go 12 row which was the only reason to trade the 9060. Well, the 9060 was an early one with the 9.0 Cummins and it was a fuel hog come to think of it. Cleaning system was about to take a dump on the 9070 and we attribute that to the overloading of the clean grain elevator repeatedly in corn at as low as 2800 bushel per hour.
IMO, the best updates are on the 4 number series that ends with "90" where the first number is the class. 6090,7090,8090 9090. Clean grain elevator and unload are bigger.
We have been running a very well-equipped Class 7 flagship since trading the 9070, but I just said Saturday that either our 9060 or 9070 would have had lower rotor losses in the dry corn we ran than the factory concaves in our 7230. We will be putting some aftermarket ones in by next year. The 7230 is a widebody, and it will out-shell a 9070 in corn by a mile due to the clean grain elevator size, but have not ran one of the above newer CR's to compare. 8090 would compare to the 9070.
The re-threshers are amazing in a CR. Case got it right using that style re-thresher in the new class 11. This helps make the CR's a hoss in beans. Nothing but round bar concaves in both corn and beans. Typically saw over 1400 bushels per hour with the 9070 in beans and had a few 200-acre days with it. | |
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