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cropsey, il 61731 | Last spring I bought one of the $8000 outback rebel specials for my 7088 combine - hydraulic steer. It works quite well and besides steering, it only needs to provide gps data to the 20/20 yield monitor. I've been using agleader paradymes for my mx305 (planting and manure), hagie sts12 (spraying) and stx 325 (steering only). Unfortunately, the paradymes occasionally go off line more often than when I bought them (used). Ag leader has a deal where they pay nicely for the paradyme, but the rest of the system is pretty spendy. I'm using integra's or a versa and they don't talk to the 7500 or the Z2, so I need to upgrade consoles also (around $15K total after paradyme rebate).
I guess the 1200 is going away and the replacement is even larger. I'd like to use smaller consoles in the mx305 (the versa was fine, except it does do pdf reports like the integra), but I'll survive.
Another possibility is to keep agleader just for application control and go to outback. My tractors have the hardware already and the hagie has the plumbing so maybe the kit is a little less. Outback does not have good application control and data management.
The bottom line is I may be looking at $45K to go all agleader or $24K with outback. I've had older outback systems and they worked good enough (bang bang valve). My combine on waas in beans was good so I would expect the outback to work well enough. Is this all a bad idea? Will Agleader send moose and rocko after me?
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Considering a move to outback guidance
