[aussie.ltd.]

After many hours of faithful service my 750tt has been updated. Harvested the first paddock of mung beans with the new 760tt, not many bells and whistles on this one 41 Midwest draper, Mav chopper & auto grease, fitted the new HHS interchangable concave, flow kit & impeller wear strips. I have a set of wind flails that Tigercat suggested to throw out to 12m with the Mav but havnt had a chance to put them in yet. I transferred the Greenstar steering kit we had in the 750 into the new machine but this time we have it steering and yield mapping we have inter grated our steering setup which is a 7000 series JD steering kit with the 2630 JD screen and ITC receiver with the FarmerGPS - Welcome! Lexion - John Deere bridging unit. This unit takes the Lexion canbus info and changes it so the JD system can understand it. So if my Lexion was factory steering ready this box would just translate steering and yield data straight off the Canbus but because our system is seperate we just spliced the box into our harness for the steering and used the bridging boxes connection to the ITC receiver and left our original steering receiver cable unhooked, harvested 35ha's this arvo and it worked a treat. I will start again on Monday after I finish the next block I'll put the info in apex and see how I went I can't see why I would have any problems, looks great so far, thank you very much for your help Johannes from Farmgps I am a very happy customer . The reason we run Greenstar and not one of the other systems is because I like it, we have a good JD base station setup in our part of the world, the biggest problem is I have lost the dark green combine feeling since I bought the first Lexion

 

[Don Boles]

Momentartily confused me

Usually when you hear a statement like that it is a bad thing.
Not this time.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

It's all about the headline

 

[phantom970]

Sounds like cash for comment to me!!

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Phantom you are so cynical

 

[Don Boles]

Phantom you are so cynical

Ever since his Easter Bunny got run over.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Here is the result of the Lexion JD bridge on one field I did the other day, yield mapping was spot on, easy to set up and the steering worked great, another great option if your thinking Lexion. Now you have the option to steer and map with a lot of different platforms ie. John Deere, Trimble, Agleader or stick with Claas, great machine :hits-the-fan:

 

[phantom970]

Care to PM the costing of this Aussie??? I stressed that the 3 coming out of dalby this year NEED greenstar in them. Boss man said no way, too deere!!
I would rather the unnecessary money for Cemos was put into this steering / mapping system instead. Would sure make life easy when mapping in the same fields as the Deeres.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

The bridging box was $2600 aus, so it's definetly a cheaper option than Cebis mapping I think it was a 11K option. The Greenstar options are a 7000 series steering kit, a 2630 screen with auto steer activation and at least a ITC receiver with whatever accuracy you want ie. SF1, SF2 or RTK. You have to have a 2630 screen to use the 7000 series kit which is Hyd steering valve
You could go with a older screen and use a JD ATU steering wheel that would be cheaper especially if you already own the units then you just have to splice the lead from the bridging box into the plug in the rear of the screen hook the bridging box to the diagnostic port behind the seat and the other lead to your reciever and away you go, farmergps made me a lead to hook into the diagnostic port to pick up the Can signal for yield data. Then you use Cebis to change yield and moisture cals and set your header width and recording height. This setup will work in older series machines like 580's and 600's as well. If you guys are getting them through Dalby, they'll soon give you a quote on the options

 

[bigswoosher]

Hey Aussie do you know anything about the 750's listed with chesterfields Dalby. I'm from South west vic and seriously considering one of them. An offer is on the table and it's pretty handy.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Yes my mate the big hat wearing country music listening mechanic went over them last year before wheat harvest and pretty much got them harvest ready, the one with number 2 on the side is the better one apparently but they are both fairly tidy just a shame the sit out in the weather in these yards. One had the drum straightened, on the early 700 series I think this was a bit of a problem if you got a server choke later models were beefed up, with the Mid west front (this is just something I am looking at with my new Mid West) i would look into gearing it down a bit, the Lexions output shaft runs very fast (745rpm) which can lead to knife drives and head failures by changing a couple of the drives you can washout 40rpm at the knife and about 20rpm at the feed drum which isn't a problem for those fronts because they are running double cut guards and sections. I think you could be pretty confident with the purchase of either one, what hours are on them 650 seperator or something like that ?

 

[bigswoosher]

Awesome thanks. About 680 and 710. I run a few deere combines and I'm seriously looking at this deal. I'm offering a 9870 with 2000hrs as trade and the changeover price is a third of that on a new s670. Would be very interesting to throw one into the dark green mix. Also excited me to hear what you had to say about being able to run 2630's in them, as a majority of my clients have apex.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Certainly makes life easier when you can match the platform your already using, if you do end up getting one let me know what you think at the end of the season also make sure you end up setting it up with the right APS grates for the crops you are doing you'll already have the small grain grates with it, think about adding 5-6 mm key steel to them for your wheats and barley it helps a lot getting more threshed in that first part of the separation system if your harvesting chickpeas get yourself a set of key stock soya grates out of HHS. But you will get away with just the small grain grates just if the peas get a bit weathered it does help a lot with splits, good luck

 

[bigswoosher]

Thanks again. I will certainly be looking to this forum, yourself and others for advice along the way to give this thing a fair chance.
Also think I will run a thread documenting all comparisons and findings next to my dark greens.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Thanks again. I will certainly be looking to this forum, yourself and others for advice along the way to give this thing a fair chance.
Also think I will run a thread documenting all comparisons and findings next to my dark greens.

That sounds great, what crops will you be harvesting on your run?
Our winter harvest up here consist of direct heading canola which is only what we're trialing on our place about 100ha, wheat, barley, chickpeas & faba beans we harvested all these crops with keystock small grain APS grates in the APS area and keystock soyabean grates in the front of our HHS interchangable concave I got away with this setup with such a dry harvest and was able to get a great sample but if we had of had weather issues I would have gone to soya grates in the aps area instead of the small grain ones just to get the seed out of the threshing system quicker which would be good in all your winter legume crops ie chickpeas, lupins & faba's. Don't put off ordering your grates out of HHS so you have them well before harvest

 

[bigswoosher]

Fabas, chickpeas, field peas, lupins, barley, wheat, canola both direct and windrowed, linseed and sorghum. Can I ask what HHS is without sounding dumb?

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Fabas, chickpeas, field peas, lupins, barley, wheat, canola both direct and windrowed, linseed and sorghum. Can I ask what HHS is without sounding dumb?

Check out Buy Lexion Combine Parts & Pre-Concaves | HHSparts.com they are a company in the states making quality harvest aides, concaves, aps grates

 

[aussie.ltd.]

Well I was able to rack up 80hrs of harvest with the new 760tt before the end of our summer harvest all went well, great sample in the beans using the round bar HHS setup and great sample in the sorghum, I really like the differnt gearing with the new combine being able to do 15km/hr in 1st gear vs 12km/hr in the old 750. I like the Mav chopper over the radial spreader I use to have especially with Tigercats wind flail suggestion in the sorghum it was spreading as far as the radial spreader would have in the same conditions. My Greenstar mapping setup didn't miss a beat, the Farmergps bridging box that allows this to happen had no glitches what so ever. Auto grease is a great time saver, not overly happy with the fixed speed feeder house, **** those feeder house chains are noisey if your in light crop conditions once you start to feed a heavier crop in they quieten down a lot, the variable drive on the old 750 was good in light crops I would just slow it down to about 360rpm. Winter crop is in and up, looking forward to pulling the Lexion out of the shed in October already

 

[SW-Vic]

I would give the MAV a go in its standard setup. While I have not done Sorghum with it they destroy and throw everything else with ease. We have no trouble unless its windy spreading the 12m. You will love the auto grease system after about week 1.

 

[ausmac]

If only Claas had more dealers in the key grain growing areas then we might go there. I'm running a S670 JD and our QLD contractor had a 760 on tracks and it was pretty impressive. It walked over our machine in 2.5- 4 t wheat and it should. I would buy one if they had more dealers in Nsw. I will never buy one if the only spare parts are in Narrabri or Moree which is 600km round trip. Claas need to come up with a decent draper front because not everyone wants to buy a Midwest.