capacity issues with 9870's in wheat and barley

Re: capacity issues with 9870's in wheat and barle

Your Dealer or Claas?

Cause Claas is just getting started. There not going anywhere but everywhere.

Re: capacity issues with 9870's in wheat and barle

Yes we are looking for a bridge as we speak. But seriously we have not been able to make small wire work any where. We have now ordered smooth threshing elements this is Deere,s suggestion here. I am beggining to wonder if no one has put these units under the microscope like we have. We are dropping the straw and using a 4'long x 1'wide screen to throw under the combine, this way we get close to the entire width of the machine. At this point we carefully sort off the MOG. We have determined the weight of 100 seeds on a gram scale. We then weigh the grain on our catch screen, divide by 4, this gives us our weight / square foot. We then convert that to a seed count. We have a solid calibration on our mass flow sensor due to the fact that our grain cart has a scale on it that reads within 1% of our legal for trade truck scale in our yard. So we know our yield monitors are very close. Because we calibrate them in every field. So eliminating all the variables in yield we document the yield at the same point in time that our screen is thrown this gives us the percentage of loss based on the yield / acre. If any one has gone to these lengths of checking their combines and can with a clear conscience tell me that they can get 1200 bu. / hour of wheat or 1700 or 1800 / hour of barley with any combination of equipment speeds and or clearances in a 9870 Deere combine in an average 14 hour day all day long I want to hear from you and I will pay all your costs to get here tomorrow. We and our dealer cannot get this done.

Re: capacity issues with 9870's in wheat and barle

Yes we are looking for a bridge as we speak. But seriously we have not been able to make small wire work any where. We have now ordered smooth threshing elements this is Deere,s suggestion here. I am beggining to wonder if no one has put these units under the microscope like we have. We are dropping the straw and using a 4'long x 1'wide screen to throw under the combine, this way we get close to the entire width of the machine. At this point we carefully sort off the MOG. We have determined the weight of 100 seeds on a gram scale. We then weigh the grain on our catch screen, divide by 4, this gives us our weight / square foot. We then convert that to a seed count. We have a solid calibration on our mass flow sensor due to the fact that our grain cart has a scale on it that reads within 1% of our legal for trade truck scale in our yard. So we know our yield monitors are very close. Because we calibrate them in every field. So eliminating all the variables in yield we document the yield at the same point in time that our screen is thrown this gives us the percentage of loss based on the yield / acre. If any one has gone to these lengths of checking their combines and can with a clear conscience tell me that they can get 1200 bu. / hour of wheat or 1700 or 1800 / hour of barley with any combination of equipment speeds and or clearances in a 9870 Deere combine in an average 14 hour day all day long I want to hear from you and I will pay all your costs to get here tomorrow. We and our dealer cannot get this done.