|
North Central Iowa | We run mostly green equipment, but have ran Case 870 and 875 rippers for years. Last fall we demoed a new Deere 2730 9 shank side by side with our Case 875 9 shank. We were really happy with the job that both of them did and you can't tell much difference between them in respect to levelness, clod size, and residue coverage. After running the two for a day here are the differences we noticed.
Deere
It is build heavy. Deere did their homework on this. There is a lot of iron in this tool and you can tell it. It pulls really hard. We pulled it with a 560hp tractor that's fully weighted and you could stop it in it's tracks if you wanted to run deep. It definitely pulled harder than our 875 which we pull with this same tractor. Shank depth was set similar to our 875. Front disk depth may have been a little deeper. The TruSet option seemed to be nice and I found myself fine tuning depth settings more than I thought I would. I'm still undecided how necessary this feature is, but it was nice. We did have some issues with the rolling basket plugging on the Deere. We demoed this at the tail end of the season and soil conditions were just a touch wet (not real bad). We finally switched the basket over to float mode which helped but didn't fully eliminate the issue. Overall it was a good machine and we were impressed.
Case
We've ran 870 and 875 rippers for quite a few years. It's a pretty well built machine, but no where near as heavy as the Deere. We've never had any major issues with any of our Case rippers but seem to always break a bolt here and there or disk hub about every season. The case definitely pulled easier than the Deere. In the field where we ran them side by side we had 560hp (fully weighted) on the Deere and 460hp (only rear weight) on the Case. With a 100hp difference in tractors, we were only pulling the Case .a half MPH slower. We left the Case ripper set at the same depth when pulling it with the 560hp tractor. As stated above, field conditions were a little on the damp side. We had the rolling basket setup in float position and didn't have any issues with plugging.
Final thoughts
- Surprised how similar of a job the two machines did. When standing on the line where the two started right next to each other, I couldn't tell a difference. Both did a very good job.
- Case pulls easier than the Deere. Maybe if we had more time to do adjustments we could have gotten them closer. For the one day we ran the Deere, it seemed that if I shallowed it up any to make it pull similar, it didn't do as good as a job.
- TruSet is nice. Still not sure how necessary.
- For price, the Deere is the more expensive machine. I'm not saying I wouldn't lean towards the Deere, but I wouldn't for a lot more money.
- Overall they're both good machines. We still own a Case 875. If we ever look at trading, we'll probably price both and probably go with the better deal.
Edited by codktz 8/9/2017 10:57
 (2016-11-05 10.07.14.jpg)
Attachments
----------------
 2016-11-05 10.07.14.jpg (150KB - 260 downloads)
| |
|
Case in ecolo tiger ripper 875
