Weird. Refer to comments on 680. Vase dealer suggests 60k less per machine similarity equipped. I'll believe it when they put it on paper. Fuel consumption definitely lower, love the rotor deslug, 8 less belts, better access for cleaning and adjustments. Rotor modules quick and easy to change by yourself. Like the macdon headers for responsiveness, particularly reel functions, deeres pretty slow. Knifes and guards tougher on the Deere though.

 

9795... was your hydro modles much better then the new combine? Sad to say... i think you will need to keep making noise and make agco fix your combine....

 

Our macdon knives can last to about 4-6000 acres... seems tuff to us.. a

 

I loved our 8230. Tons of capacity, sample was very clean in corn, beans, and wheat. The def is kinda a pain but it uses 1 tank of def to 4 tanks of fuel. After this combine i wont even look at another deere.

 

We had a 8230 on tracks this year which replaced an 8120 on tracks. We were very happy with the combine and had almost no problems. We run a 40' draper and 12/22 corn head and we had very good yields in this area and it handled both with no problems. Had very good power, sample was excellent, etc.

Fuel usuage was definitely lower however they made the fuel tank smaller so we still can't combine a long day without having to add a little in the evening. Wish they would have found a way to leave the fuel tank size alone.

DEF system worked great and we really didn't find it to be a hassle. As someone else said you can combine a lot of acres on each fill so we just left the DEF bulk tank at home and would top it off whenever we were swinging by.

Only breakdown we had was one of the cheap plastic fuel lines coming out of the engine fuel filter sprung a leak and was spraying a nice mist of fuel directly on to the big muffler!!!! Luckily we were moving to a different field and stopped at home to fuel it up and noticed it then, looked like it had just started. That could have turned out really bad.

 

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We ran two this year and I have nothing but good things to say. Capacity was great, ran 40' FD70s, fuel efficiency was very good. Thought DEF would be more of a pain, but only had to fill every 3 or 4 days. Two stage unload was very nice as well. Very happy overall.

 

Ran a 8230 with a 12/30 chopping head, poor crop........dry conditions. Rarely went over 85....90 % of power use. Used so little DEF I thought the gauge was stuck at the beginning. A small o-ring hydraulic leak was the only issue in the first 10 hours of use.

 

Thanks for the replies ..all. Speckle , did you do canola? What size swaths if so? Any trouble with the front end plugging? We had a 7120 demo against our 9795 last year and the was an issue - in canola.
How was the rad/airfilter for service? The 71-8120 series was terrible.

 

The good thing about a case is if you are plugging the feeder house picking swathes you just speed the feeder chain up . Yes the air intake problem is FIXED!!!! They must of let a farmer design the rad because they hole are big enough that all the dirt goes through. My only complaint is the price. And the 3% price increase for 2013 is more like 5 to 6%

 

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9795: swathed canola was 35' swath NH 8040 swath, very little trouble with plugging feeder unless pushed too hard. Was very pleased.

 

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Rad and air filter were good blew out about every 4-5 days. The cab filter is still a pos. hasn't really changed since 2388, about the only thing I am disappointed in

 

K, good to know - thanks!

 

Kyle, I would not complain about the price too much!! We were quoted $60,000 less for a class 8 8230 than we paid for a "class 7 " 9540 massey 5 months ago. All things in perspective.

 

Dont forget to clean ur chopper bearing housing.... on the side where the high/low speed is... just had a fire today on our 7010...
Was running great... went to move fields... took the combine over... drove a pick up back for a.cart.... fifteen minuets later when my dad came back out, (i was roading the cart) (time give or take) the flames had taken most of the engine compartment.... she got pulled out of the way... put out, but it was still smelling funny tonight when my parents went back out there... nothing you can do...
And the worst part i read on hear that the guys say they were told they were over greasing them... but they go out because u dont grease them enough.. i told day we put it out... thats what you get for greasing something...

 

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We demoed one for a day, and loved it! We were doing 30 foot canola swaths, and it lapped our 2388 easily. Running around 6mph in wet conditions. Even when it drizzled a bit, it didn't groan, bog down, plug, nothing.