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Price …… is usually the biggest problem. But that’s not restricted to red.
They’ve all got stratospheric price tags on them!

And I’ve got to ask. Why a 92 & not an 82?

 

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I can only provide information on my 8250 “chrome” ….. & it is limited at this stage, simply because I’ve only done rice with it so far. Our cereal harvest will start the last week of October.
However, I can confidently say the ‘50 is an improvement on the ‘40. The totally new feeder house is smoother than the ‘40 & provides a smoother feed to the rotor. Something has improved in the cleaning system as well. Maybe they plugged up the holes where air escapes! I haven‘t had a chance to pull sieves out to see what differences there are yet.
I have a Redekop ”Euro spec” factory fitted chopper …… yep, not cheap …. but excellent chop & spread.
So I don’t any reason why you won’t be happy with the 92 …… AS LONG AS ITS SETUP PROPERLY.
16lt motor will definitely use more fuel than the 12.9lt.

 

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Off topic, but all of this leads me to call BS on the guys that claim you have to keep the combine full for it to work best. So you have a class 7, 8 and 9 machine, all identical in every way except horsepower. A "full" 7120 could be a 9120 at 70% engine load. So the 9120 would not be "full" but the 7120 would be doing the same exact material through-put.

Agree. 8240 ran its best around 75-85% engine load….. depends on the crop. Anything more you were either pushing through mud or pushing up hill.
8250 - at this stage - seems to be the same. There maybe be some extra HP that could be used via HarvestCommand but I very much doubt setting “maximum power at 100+%” would be optimistic ….. at best! This coming harvest may prove me wrong but I’ll be surprised if that’s the case.

No pun intended….. 😉