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E.C. MI | Wouldn't it be nice to take all the good things on these machines and put them in a single machine! My only experience of the three machines is that I run a 7120 AFX, other than riding with a few neighbors deeres. I have been very happy with it so far, this was my first year with it, always had Deere conventionals before, so had a bit of learning to do going to the rotor machine, but didn't take long to get comfortable with it. Monitor was a bit overwhelming at first, but love it now- there's a ton of info on that thing! We started corn here in the low 30% moistures, I run the large wires in front modules, skip wires in back. Thought I would need to change to round bars but my setup did awesome. I was running 5-6MPH with only 8 row head 180- 215bu corn and wasn't losing much out back, probably more at the head, a small chunk of cob here and there in sample. I've been running .3 to .9 %FM on stuff I've delivered so far, except for coring my big bin, that load was 3.1%. I am very happy with that compared to what I'm hearing some guys samples are. I do wonder what the round bars would have done, they are supposed to be easier on the corn and give more capacity? I can't really think of a bad thing to say about the combine. Yes, I can run low on power in soys and wheat if I push it, never had a problem in corn. As far as fuel, it does seem like mine burns alot, not so much in corn, but wheat and beans, but I do have the extra knives in the chopper- theres not much left of straw when it comes out the back- and run an air system on the head- those two things take extra power. It helps to think about it in terms of fuel per acre instead of fuel per hour- in that regard it probably beats my old deeeres on fuel economy and I'm chewing the straw up alot more. If you have any questions about the way mine is set up, fire away...I've heard some red guys say they have a hard time setting these machines, from a rookie rotory guy, I thought it was pretty easy...guess that AFX and other factory setups must make a huge difference? I can't imagine what a 8120 or 9120 could do...mine seems to have alot of capacity, don't see how you could keep em full, guess thats why they have 16 row heads...and 45' drapers- although I doubt that would keep a 9120 full in beans.
Edited by twinrowboy 12/5/2009 08:03
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Deere vs Case IH vs Lexion demo day
