bluegreen Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Harvest pics, mainly bloomin Claas............I think the competition apart from JD have given up trying to sell against them!! Claas are cheaper, with a cartel controlled resale value which is higher than the others, and they therefore can throw more money at their service team!! "Baah humbug" Just wait till Deutsche bank collapses that will throw a spanner in the Claas works Haha. Rant over, actually they are nice machines, especially the narrow body 760 on tracks with a 35 ft split reel....................A L Lees pictured below had two new uns this year along with 7 brand new NH T7.210s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 And moving onto Bill Legges mob around my village who also had two new machines, this time 750s with smaller 25ft cuts which meant they simply flew around the fields! The good news was he had his contractor doing the carting jobs which meant 3 nice Masseys instead of the usual boring Fendts! I had hoped the new 7720vt was Bills and that he had swapped one of the old 718s in for it, but no such luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 And a few for the JD crowd, including a brand new 8320R with the new design exhaust platform which looks much neater than the original design. And no bar axle on the rear wheels which is a first in my experience of photoing 8Rs. The S690 pictured was one of three which unfortunately was the only one still working as both its mates had broken down! Should have bought big yellow CRs instead............. This meant the one S690 still going had three 8360/70Rs servicing it with 60 tons of trailer space ha ha!......how ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the farmer Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Top pics.a bit of a mix of combines down around me,a few claas,a lot of new Hollands and John deeres and a few Massey fergusions to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted September 3, 2016 Author Share Posted September 3, 2016 A lot of New Hollands? Im moving down your way then I did try and find some Massey combines locally and actually there are three on different farms harvesting 2-3000 acres between them I suspect. Two 7280 Centoras and one 7282, all old shape unfortunately. New 7300s look really nice but AGCO are getting a very bad reputation on the farming forums due to the dreadfully unreliable generation 1 Delta "Disaster" model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whincebros Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Your right. It's a shame as from what I've read the 7300's are not a bad combine. Are the older centora' saw bad as the version 1 delta's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 No...............nothing is as bad as the generation 1 Deltas!! exceptionally unreliable according to those unfortunate to be stuck with one. Centoras have just carried on from their Dronningborg ancestors.......40RS and 7282 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 There was a running report of a Delta in Farmers Weekly a year back - ran on 570ha in Hampshire. It said their 9280 had teething problems which was found to be because the rotors were incorrectly assembled (!) but after that it performed 'faultlessly'. Was then replaced with a 9380 for 2015. I have read some of the nightmare stories on the Farming Forum - I thought perhaps it may have been a sanitised article in FW though it also features a Deutz which isn't cast in the greatest light. Perhaps this bloke's machine was an exception to the rule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whincebros Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 36 minutes ago, CX820Joe said: There was a running report of a Delta in Farmers Weekly a year back - ran on 570ha in Hampshire. It said their 9280 had teething problems which was found to be because the rotors were incorrectly assembled (!) but after that it performed 'faultlessly'. Was then replaced with a 9380 for 2015. I have read some of the nightmare stories on the Farming Forum - I thought perhaps it may have been a sanitised article in FW though it also features a Deutz which isn't cast in the greatest light. Perhaps this bloke's machine was an exception to the rule? Would you be able to post a link to the article, please.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 it was in the magazine sorry, you have to pay to view the articles online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whincebros Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 12 hours ago, CX820Joe said: it was in the magazine sorry, you have to pay to view the articles online Was there any info in on acres covered per hour, tons per hour, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Apparently 45t an hour on banks, nearer 60t an hour in flat land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whincebros Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 How many acres or hectares can it cover? Sorry for all the questions..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 That one was covering 560ha - but the bloke said it was probably bigger than they needed but allowed them to be choosy about when they cut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whincebros Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Thanks for that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 Due to my other thread not uploading itself properly I thought I would extend this harvest thread with some more recent pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 Heres a few more from October...............Really like the new Pumas with the fancy roofs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Gough Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 23 hours ago, bluegreen said: Due to my other thread not uploading itself properly I thought I would extend this harvest thread with some more recent pictures. Interesting to see. Were they getting too much cob loss with the krone header? Seems to be a complaint about them around this way but no independent kemper dealers to push just the headers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 Hi Tommy, The Kemper had spent the last 3 seasons on a silver Claas 980 harvester. I was surprised the Big X didn't have a new header on it, Kemper or Krone. Another Big X 1100 user near Norwich had a 16 row Krone header originally on his machine but switched it after a few years for a Kemper 12 row, so you may be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 Last pics of 2016.......................Paul Gunther contracting Norwich................MF 7726, 7626, 6499.........Claas 970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 JD 8370r , JD8320r, CAT 765E and CASE Puma 220 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Nice photos and thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Good amount of horsepower in your updates there. The soil after the ploughs looks like good growing ground, I take it it's drained, is it? Looks relatively low lying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 Its all fenland soils round here Tris....................As soon as it turns wet the farmer above goes from one set of discs, to two big ploughs in tandem. And this past year saw both his 30 series Deeres changed for 8Rs and his Fendt 930 went for the new CAT 765......................Also the hired in Puma was new to, so I had been tracking them for a couple of weeks until they came into range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 7 hours ago, bluegreen said: Its all fenland soils round here Tris....................As soon as it turns wet the farmer above goes from one set of discs, to two big ploughs in tandem. And this past year saw both his 30 series Deeres changed for 8Rs and his Fendt 930 went for the new CAT 765......................Also the hired in Puma was new to, so I had been tracking them for a couple of weeks until they came into range Is this a contract out fit or farmer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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