Hey guys just traded off one of mike mitchels poorly reviewed combines that I bought last year and took a new 10t with geringhoff 45 ft header. We want to do the same thing as last year all the pros and cons and breakdowns throughout the year. We run 7 new new Hollands and this new fendt. really liked that 9 and I hope this 10 is better yet. We’ll be starting harvest in the next few days and we’ll start posting some comments. One thing u Cant beat is 3 year bumper to bumper warranty with the option to add two more years full warranty. Jerry and the guys at kmk in humboult have been great so far and I hope this ideal is great. One thing is the 10t with tracks sits a little higher and more cleaning capacity then the 9’s witch I feel is actually more cleaning capacity then just horsepower like other models. 800 hp ready to put to the test this season.
Ideal 10t goods and bads vs ideal 9 and all problems during this harvest
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and what was your reasoning for a gleaner. They’re supposed to be good but that’s one I’ve never seen in the field. Gleaner has a top notch cab then. The monitor is great and joystick is great. Really luv how to nudge over on your line it’s just a trigger on joystick. You’re not constantly hitting monitor for every inch or 2 nudge. We had the 10 in wheat the last couple days running with no blanks but we put all small wire concaves and what’s machine in the dryer straw. Just luved it for losses/fuel/capacity in the last couple days in the dry wheat.
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I’m not running it much but the little I have has been exciting. The other night we did have chopper plug and Blew chopper belt. It was tough out but if it happens again we know how to fix it quick. the 2023 have the chopper fixed i beleive and higher auger for dumping. kmk made me up a fendt box just like the Claas dealers used to and we had a belt in there in shop. Other than that the boys did some swapping of concaves and a couple little minor things. It’s been great so far and absolutely luv this machine
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You can do the nudge on the New Hollands on the handle as well. You just have to hold the function button on the back of the handle and use the header tilt buttons to nudge your line left or right. Lots easier than hitting the screen all the time.
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I was thinking the same. Put centerpoint rtx in and never nudge.
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Exactly! There’s an absolute rule where I harvest with 3 other machines.
NO F..KEN NUDGING.! NEVER!
All run RTK, all have the exact same guidance lines. No nudging required - ever.
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It would be interesting compare straight linear distance, what would have been called slope chain surveying and what GPS steering is trying to do, and the actual distance along the surface. Or maybe you do know that for your mountains?
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Yeah once your all on rtk and running the same lines there’s no going back.
That hillside wouldn’t be an issue except for the hills! 😂. You would have to set your swath width considerably narrower to not have misses.
That hillside wouldn’t be an issue except for the hills! 😂. You would have to set your swath width considerably narrower to not have misses.
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So speaking of RTK. Who has put their own systems in and how’s it been working?
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We have had the Outback rtk for probably 15 years or more. Its great, bang on everytime all the time. The Novatel wass on our gleaner is crap at best. No way apparently to hook our RTK up to it.
How well do the Cell based RTK work when you in a limited cell coverage area?
All it takes is a bit of trig to figure out the width on a slope. multiply the cos of the roll angle by the implement width to get the effective straight-up width. A 45% slope is an angle of 24 degrees. That's an adjusted width of about 91% if looking straight down on it.
With hills that vary wildly in slope there's really no way to use GPS at all---RTK or not---when trying to cut contours, especially when they are also trying to choose the path that is the safest and most optimal. Maybe if you had a detailed topological map a computer could generate concentric contour paths ahead of time.
I don't think I've ever seen a hill on my farm that's more than 3 degrees of roll, and that works out to about 99.9% of actual width, so if I set my width a few inches narrow, I've rarely seen any skips on my hill sides. I guess comparatively my land is table-top flat!
With hills that vary wildly in slope there's really no way to use GPS at all---RTK or not---when trying to cut contours, especially when they are also trying to choose the path that is the safest and most optimal. Maybe if you had a detailed topological map a computer could generate concentric contour paths ahead of time.
I don't think I've ever seen a hill on my farm that's more than 3 degrees of roll, and that works out to about 99.9% of actual width, so if I set my width a few inches narrow, I've rarely seen any skips on my hill sides. I guess comparatively my land is table-top flat!
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The more I know I find out the less I know!
Equipment always varies due to the draft of the equipment down the hill so we can't even set in a set swath width because it varies so much. An air drill behind a cart is crazy variable. I had a hill this spring whew the tractor tracks were higher in the hill than the width of our 50 foot drill. To compensate for hills there is too much overlap in the flat ground for sprayers. Had a group of graduate students from Nebraska one summer visit trying to explain it to them and precision technology was their specialty. Had one gal with her parents visit again this summer.
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I have a friend who gave me the axiom “I know more and more about less and less”.
Probably doesn’t apply to you (I think you are younger than me) but the vast amount of information available now on everything is astounding!
When I think of the equipment sidehill drift on my Mickey Mouse hills I can well imagine the drift level you speak of, and thanks for confirming my TBT preference.
When it affects a spraying operation you know the hill is significant.
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I have been through that area a few times. Never got to watch machines run on those hills. I had 1 hill side the seeder furrows would cross over each other as I went across it. Only 1. Always had to shut off auto steer on the sprayer as I went over it and never do it with a full tank. Doing that all day long would add some stress in farming. Not sure I would get used to it.
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One thing about the new Hollands that I like is quick access to hop and grab a sample off the tank, just step on front rail, one in the slot that has the no shoe symbol and your up. We got one more day then we will be hitting canola and that’s whene we really start seeing the capacity, and a little more technical on losses
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