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| Having run AF combines since '82 I'm a little prejuidice. We have demoed a couple JDs over the years, even owned one back in the '70s & cut my teeth on a 45 & 55 back in the '60s. The ones we demoed were a 9650 when they first come out & a 9860 when they came out. Both were nice machines but a lot more complicated than the AFs IMO.
Everybody talkes about the difference between the red heads & the green ones but the main reason we didn't buy the 9650 was because we couldn't keep the head out of the ground. I got so disgusted with it that I left it sit in the middle of the field & walked back to the truck. Come to find out later that they hadn't bothered to hook up the lateral tilt :((. It was ashame because if it hadn't been for that I maight have bought it.
All I can say about the 9860 was that it was a horse. 5 mph with a 12 r cornhead in 200 bu+ corn and it an like there was a 6 row on it. Again the dealer, different one, didn't bother to switch the settings from soybeans to corn & the kid that brought it down didn't know a thing about how to either. Wouldn't have bought it anyways as we were wanting to try a 9560 but they brought the 98 down instead.
My biggest complaint on the red machines is not the heads, we have gotten along fine with our 1020s, but in the feederhouse. Same design they were using back on the old 303s. IMO the fh needs to be larger but CIH apparently doesn't thing so.
Just put a AFX rotor in our 2388 and really like the new rotor. Has increased bean capacity by 25%, if you can get the material up the feederhouse. | |
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Anyone traded a deere walker to an axial flow?
