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jcfarmboy
Posted 1/3/2014 21:25 (#3571560 - in reply to #3571329)
Subject: Re: John Deere flex draper on new case combine?



South Western Ontario, Canada
bigbelly_acre - 1/3/2014 20:45

jcfarmboy - 1/3/2014 19:23

Why are you on this rip of putting deere stuff on red equipment?

Your better off leaving the green equipment with green software and hardware and red with the red! Mixing only makes for headaches.

Best advise I can say, option one. use the head you already have this year and trade in everything if you swap colors.
Option two, buy a Macdon. Put the deere bish adapter and when or if you get a case you trade in and swap the bish adapters.


Because it is nice to know all your options and no one has been able to answer my questions. There used to be a ton of red combines running around with green platforms.

It's not that I'm not considering a macdon, but I have good deere support and not sure how the macdon support around me is yet.

Every thread I read one guy says the macdon is the way to go and then the next guy says the deere is better and all the videos I see showing how good they are supposed to flex are on flat ground.




I do understand wanting options. "YEARS AGO" that's the WHOLE answer right there. My family had a IH815 combine with a deere corn head. NO electronics that will ROYALLY make your life easier and harder all at the same time. JD and CNH (every brand truely) don't want farmers to "match brands" that's why the electronics and "isobus" are all different to the point where its a pain to make it work.

Do you have a neighbor that runs a Macdon in the same type of field conditions? Or maybe get a demo?

Personally haven't seen a jd flex draper around here work, all Macdon or flex augers. Md will flex as in smile and frown better than flex auger, can be measured in feet. The three pivot backbone allow each section to follow ground separately terraces and berms. Flex augers will shine in smaller hollows measured in inches (like washouts). The ridged backbone keep it from flexing anything beyond what the cutter bar movement allows.

Most (not all yet) Case dealerships have signed up to be Macdon dealers even with CNH pushing their own draper.

Them are my findings after running Macs on a harvest run from Texas to north Saskatchewan and around Ontario.

Edited by jcfarmboy 1/3/2014 21:31
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