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We started shelling corn the last day of August. For the most part, the corn tested in the 16 to 17 range all through corn shelling, which lasted through Sept. 21. Corn yields for the most part were in the 140's, with a few exceptional fields that caught some spoty rains coming around in the high 160's, even a few tests as high as 180's. VERY surprising yields for the bone dry summer we had. The new 9760 performed flawlessly through the corn. The only problem we had was with a small switch on the chopper drive that wouldn't work properly causing a buzzer to go off for no reason. It was replaced and there were no more problems after that in corn. I am not convinced yet that the Deere cornhead is as good as the 2208 CIH we had, but it still did a pretty good job. The variable speed drive for the header is a pretty nice feature in corn. In greener stalks, the speed of the head could be increased to do a beter job of chopping the stalks while keeping ground speed up. We had some corn that was down pretty flat in places, and didn't have much trouble getting it picked up without having a corn reel.
Here are some pics of shelling corn...
We cut Milo the weekend of the 23rd. We only had 116 acres of the nasty crap, but we did a lot of hauling to keep it away from the combine. All of our milo was contracted to Hassard Elevator at Monroe City, MO, so it was hauled out of the field the 20 miles to the elevator. We had some extra man power that wekend, so we decided to go ahead and blow through it before cutting beans. The milo tested 14% pretty much straight through, and made ~135 bpa. Again, a pretty pleasant surprise as far as yield. We never had a breakdown cutting the milo, which was really nice. I hate working on a combine in milo. There is no possible way to not get that crap all over you to the point you dig your eyeballs out from scratching. They don't call it "Itch Berries" for nothing. This was also the first test of the 35 foot 635F platform head, which worked great. I will say this... 35 feet of green leafed milo is a LOT of material for a combine to handle, and the new combine handled it pretty well I thought, averaging only about 2.2 mph, but we never got much over that with 25 foot 1020 on the 2388 last year.
Here are a few pics of cutting itch berries.
After the milo was cut, we started straight into the soybeans. This was the crop I was most anxious to see how the 9760 would perform. I was not dissapointed one bit. My lord that thing will flat roll through the beans. 5.5 mph taking out a 35' swath, and you couldn't hardly tell anything was going through it. I honestly think if we had the high speed pulley on the sickle drive, we could have been running in the mid 6's. No noises, no feeding slugs, just a plain amazing piece of machinery. We had to do a lot of learning to cut out terraces without leaving beans in the channels, but after a while, we were slicking them off like we had a 10 foot head. The hydraflex feature of the cutterbar is awesome. It follows every little contour and never hardly misses a bean. We did have a couple breakdowns in beans. The first was a post that rubbed the sickle drive belt and threw it off. We were only a few minutes geting that going again. The next one was not quite so simple. A slug of foxtail in a sprayer skip got wrapped on the table auger and slipped the clutch on the auger. When dad reversed the header to turn it loose, the auger spit the slug out the front, taking one of the stainless bottom sheets of the platform with it! The foxtail got under a small lip at the back of the sheet and popped the sheet up, breaking some spot welds that hold it at the front. We had to remove some pieces and I took them back to the shop and re-welded it back together. All in all it was about a 30 minute breakdown, the worst of the season, and didn't have to buy a single part. The bean yields were also pretty good for the dry summer we had. I really don't know where they came from. Average on beans was in the mid 40's, with moisture for the most part being in the 10% range. There were a few super hot days that the beans got down to 8% moisture... dryest I'd ever seen...
Here are some bean cutting pics I took...
That is a nieghbor's 9650 on the road there. I thought that made a pretty neat picture.
All in all my opinion of the new combine is two thumbs waaaaay up. Now all we need is some more acres....
By the way, here are some pics of some BINDERS!! The 856D on the auger, and the IH 9100 dumping corn in a bin...
Bill
Here are some pics of shelling corn...











We cut Milo the weekend of the 23rd. We only had 116 acres of the nasty crap, but we did a lot of hauling to keep it away from the combine. All of our milo was contracted to Hassard Elevator at Monroe City, MO, so it was hauled out of the field the 20 miles to the elevator. We had some extra man power that wekend, so we decided to go ahead and blow through it before cutting beans. The milo tested 14% pretty much straight through, and made ~135 bpa. Again, a pretty pleasant surprise as far as yield. We never had a breakdown cutting the milo, which was really nice. I hate working on a combine in milo. There is no possible way to not get that crap all over you to the point you dig your eyeballs out from scratching. They don't call it "Itch Berries" for nothing. This was also the first test of the 35 foot 635F platform head, which worked great. I will say this... 35 feet of green leafed milo is a LOT of material for a combine to handle, and the new combine handled it pretty well I thought, averaging only about 2.2 mph, but we never got much over that with 25 foot 1020 on the 2388 last year.
Here are a few pics of cutting itch berries.



After the milo was cut, we started straight into the soybeans. This was the crop I was most anxious to see how the 9760 would perform. I was not dissapointed one bit. My lord that thing will flat roll through the beans. 5.5 mph taking out a 35' swath, and you couldn't hardly tell anything was going through it. I honestly think if we had the high speed pulley on the sickle drive, we could have been running in the mid 6's. No noises, no feeding slugs, just a plain amazing piece of machinery. We had to do a lot of learning to cut out terraces without leaving beans in the channels, but after a while, we were slicking them off like we had a 10 foot head. The hydraflex feature of the cutterbar is awesome. It follows every little contour and never hardly misses a bean. We did have a couple breakdowns in beans. The first was a post that rubbed the sickle drive belt and threw it off. We were only a few minutes geting that going again. The next one was not quite so simple. A slug of foxtail in a sprayer skip got wrapped on the table auger and slipped the clutch on the auger. When dad reversed the header to turn it loose, the auger spit the slug out the front, taking one of the stainless bottom sheets of the platform with it! The foxtail got under a small lip at the back of the sheet and popped the sheet up, breaking some spot welds that hold it at the front. We had to remove some pieces and I took them back to the shop and re-welded it back together. All in all it was about a 30 minute breakdown, the worst of the season, and didn't have to buy a single part. The bean yields were also pretty good for the dry summer we had. I really don't know where they came from. Average on beans was in the mid 40's, with moisture for the most part being in the 10% range. There were a few super hot days that the beans got down to 8% moisture... dryest I'd ever seen...
Here are some bean cutting pics I took...






That is a nieghbor's 9650 on the road there. I thought that made a pretty neat picture.

All in all my opinion of the new combine is two thumbs waaaaay up. Now all we need is some more acres....
By the way, here are some pics of some BINDERS!! The 856D on the auger, and the IH 9100 dumping corn in a bin...


Bill