New CR9090 vs S690 Deere

[jimbobobaroo]

• Got a chance to run both the new CR9090 and the new Deere S690 this fall. I was impressed with both for different reasons. Stone trap on the 9090 was great. 690 had nice big cab. Deere still noisier to run, but 400 bu hopper was nice. Both had faster unloading augers 3.8 bu I think. Unfortunately ran the new 9090 with last year 9090 and the Deere with Claas 770s, so wasn't a direct comparison. Must say both combines had great capacity as did the Claas but regret not jumping into one of those as well. Have a feeling the Deere will use more fuel though due to DPF and reburn procedure.

[clb]

Any issues with that 9090 rock beater? Were you plugging it in canola wads or heavy swaths?

[Jester RM]

Originally Posted by clb

Any issues with that 9090 rock beater? Were you plugging it in canola wads or heavy swaths?

Beater will be better next year and as they get more out there to test. Remember it is designed in Belgium and put on combines here. I had 1 of the 5 engineers that designed it with me and he said they had test data over the years for designing it, but will take a year or 2 to get the kinks out...which I understand.

Right now in canola the beater is the combines limiting factor taking away about 20% capacity, once they get that nailed down it will be great!! I am pretty sure all our combines next year will have the beater...if change ups are applied.

EDIT: I personally feel that the beater itself is fine, they just have to work on the drive system to make it better.

[clb]

Originally Posted by Jester RM

I personally feel that the beater itself is fine, they just have to work on the drive system to make it better.

I'm assuming it's belt driven. Were the belts slipping or....???

[jimbobobaroo]

Originally Posted by clb

Any issues with that 9090 rock beater? Were you plugging it in canola wads or heavy swaths?

Ran it in a heavy 35 foot wheat swath but had no problems or even the hint of a problem where the swath was at it's heaviest around 80 bu. It was the American prototype, all built in GI, it will be in Red Deer at the show.

It kept up fine with my Euro 9090 and I'm sure a guy would make extra time up as the stone trap never opened. The power was different though, seemed to have more pull at higher loads, but I think the torque curve was just moved to higher rpms.

I did notice it was slightly noisier in the cab though. Can't imagine there'd be any problems with that beater, it was running at 1050 rpm.

[Jester RM]

Originally Posted by jimbobobaroo

Ran it in a heavy 35 foot wheat swath but had no problems or even the hint of a problem where the swath was at it's heaviest around 80 bu. It was the American prototype, all built in GI, it will be in Red Deer at the show.

It kept up fine with my Euro 9090 and I'm sure a guy would make extra time up as the stone trap never opened. The power was different though, seemed to have more pull at higher loads, but I think the torque curve was just moved to higher rpms.

I did notice it was slightly noisier in the cab though. Can't imagine there'd be any problems with that beater, it was running at 1050 rpm.

Yes, in all crops other than canola there is not difference in capacity and it works very good. It is noisier as it is right under the cab, almost sounds like a conventional combine.

Trust me, the proto's were designed and built in belgium, the engineers were out at our farm and we were in belgium last winter to see them. The production ones will be built in GI however.

[jimbobobaroo]

As well the two engineers were here from Belgium, stopped by the day before they flew back. They were very curious for feedback between the 2 9090's. As there is a stone trap kit sitting at my local NH dealership I tried to get them to instruct me as to how to make it fit on my Belgium built 9090. No go as of yet they only fit the GI built combines. The one I ran was basically a beefed up 9080, with stone trap and opti spread, no opti-clean shoe though, and a faster unloading auger. Also had the Urea Burner engine. Badging was 9090 though, was told by the guy who will be showing it at the Red Deer show in Nov. that there was 3 of these built in 2011 in Grand Island. Had some really nice plastic clovers that went over the sides of the rotors too. Very much like the ones that go on the Case.

[crking]

Originally Posted by Jester RM

Yes, in all crops other than canola there is not difference in capacity and it works very good. It is noisier as it is right under the cab, almost sounds like a conventional combine.

Trust me, the proto's were designed and built in belgium, the engineers were out at our farm and we were in belgium last winter to see them. The production ones will be built in GI however.

If you happened to get the one that was in Saskatoon back in July, then it was GI built. 2 built in NA at that time, both had issues.

[buzzhillside]

So out off the 9090 built in Belgium an the 9090 built in grand island which was a better combine an which had more capacity

[glover296]

we were running two of those prototypes this year one was a 9080 and one was a 9090 from nh with the new style beaters in them.