[jbharvest]

jump to a 9000 series you will be alot better off if you can jump that much

 

[markat425]

8820titan2,, my pleasure ! I have always enjoyed your thread, pics and all the info. I run a 6620 T2, so most of the info is transferable. I hope you do update us.

jbharvest,,,,, I respectfully disagree.....

Mark

 

[jbharvest]

i did not say sts sounds like a 9600 OR 9610 might be best for the setup
thanks for the respect no reason not to be decent about things

 

[veitchy]

We did actually go and look at a 9500 with 3500 hours up before we looked at the 8820 only problem is $$$$, its about 5 times the price. I know the owners of both machines quite well and no doubt about it the 9500 is a top machine and the owner is exceptionally good with his maintainance, but he isn't shure when he wants to part with it because at the moment he hasn't secured a replacement and we needed one for this harvest. The 8820 on the other hand is available now for a lot less dough, the owner through family berevement is selling most of the farms machinery, he only got the machine a couple of years ago and hasn't had any trouble with it so we have now officialy bought it. (havn't given him the cheque yet but have shaken on it so the deal is done)

**20titan2 , Thanks for that thread and all the pics of your ongoing project, it shure looks a lot better than when it was sitting "in the weeds at the back of the dealers". There is a lot of information in that thread and I read it from one end to the other, well done she is a beauty now.

Stevo, its funny one of the harvesters we are using now came from up your way. It belonged to a bloke named Jim Bodington at Yandanooka, I remember well picking up this old XP88 from between Mingenew and Threesprings and driving it home to Quairading, took us 2 days to cover the 500Klm but its been a good machine. I used to have a mate with a farm at Canna for a few years and one of the reasons I like Johnny harvesters is Les had a 7720 and except for trying to "harvest" a power poll with it while he was doing lupins (something you cant blame the harvester for) I don't think he had any trouble with it at all.

Thanks guys,
See ya,
Graham

 

[jbharvest]

sounds great i have had 8829 thru my new 9770 the titain 2 are just a improvement over the older models bigger clean grain better cleaning fan ,go find an air foil non adjustable sieve will help cleaning and waste.ground speed will be the biggest thing to watch fast in good crop = waste. Good Luck with the new beast

 

[stevo]

I had to have a laugh at the harvesting a power pole thing, I have heard of that a few times and nearly done it myself. Its not hard to do when your harvesting lupins and the wind is in the wrong direction.

steve

 

[veitchy]

Yea, we all laughed when we heard about it but it realy wasn't funny. He recons he knew there was a pole there somewhere and was looking all around the end of the front for it and consiquently wasn't watching directly in front ! He was going down wind in lupins with visibility next to nothing because of the dust. It hit about level with one side of the broad elevator with enough force to push the knife back into the spiral, the knife ended up wrapped around the spiral by the retractable fingers. It didn't hurt the rest of the machine (which was amazing) and he was able to borrow a front to finnish with off one of his neighbours. It ended up getting fixed and he used it again the following year.

 

[markat425]

I once heard of a husband and wife that were each running a machine in the same cornfield. They were going across the field in opposite directions with just 6 rows between them. You know what happened don't ya,,,, that's right... They both had their augers out.... Took the augers clear off both machines.... I wonder who was mad at who? LOL

 

[koldkanuck]

Later model 8820 Titan11.......almost bullet proof. Might not have the creature comforts of the 9000 series, but a well tuned 8820 will just about cut as much as a 9600 at the end of the day.

 

[JASartain]

Great looking machine.