Best combine we’ve ever owned, Our New Fendt Ideal 9 

Very nice machine! First generation farmer here, glad your family have stayed true through the good times and bad. Glad to see your potato loss wasn’t a total loss and you were able to bail out the potato flake producer.

Great video. That’s incredible all those acres in 11 days. I only have one request.. Raise that flag up like 3 more feet . You guys made us proud. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍

Some great questions and comments, thanks for taking the time to answer and making these videos. Always enjoy them, again thank you for feeding us.

Good to see you have a top combine my favourite part of farming is watching harvest 👍👏

That's quite a way from the combine I used to walk alongside and watch as a kid. It was a Massey-Harris, and I believe it was an 8-foot gate on the front; when they changed it and got a new one that was a 12-foot gate we were amazed. The first one must have been about 1956 or 58. No cab, the driver used to be thickly coated in dust by the end of the day if the weather had been dry and dusty. It would break down 3 or 4 times on a bad day, with the drum getting clogged or the walkers not shifting the straw out fast enough or the intake spirals or elevator belt getting clogged. The skill demanded of the driver, trying to cut the stalks as low as possible when the table height had to be set by hand and eye, was considerable. In those days the straw, when baled, was a valuable by-product and they sold all of it, especially the long wheat-straw. Later, you couldn't get decent money for it and they's burn it off where it lay in the fields, much to the annoyance of housewives in nearby towns who had washing out on the line. Most of our local farmers now seem to use Claas, but this is the UK, and they are smaller than that beast. But then, fields are MUCH smaller, and you have to move the things along public roads, through little winding country lanes; a machine that size would be totally impractical. I'd still like to see one working, close-up, but I don't imagine it would be allowed. As a kid, I used to step up on the bottom step and get a ride; I had to get off if the foreman came around, but otherwise they trusted me to keep out of the way. The golden days of high summer and childhood.

I’m amazed at how quiet it is in the cab.

I’ve watched Brian Brown Farming in Ohio and there Fent is Joy stick steering and on Tracks! I’d Say Y’all Bought the Best!

One things for certain... that is a beautiful looking machine.. Wow.

Whoa! BEAST MODE!!! I love learning through your channel and I appreciate the genuine commentary. Some channels become a production and I appreciate the fact you just keep this channel real!

Also available in red. And possibly a bit cheaper because of it. A question was asked about how you kill the crop. You answered that you stop irrigating, but I suggest that this answer is not quite correct. The crop is not killed and grain crops do not need to be. Grains are all members of the grasses or gramineae and are annuals. The seed grows into a plant that then produces a flower(s) of sorts that then becomes the head containing new seed/grain. Upon completion of filling those seeds, the plant dies off by itself and turns yellow. If you carried on watering, it would still do that. No intervention is required, unlike with Oil Seed Rape/Canola that needs spraying off or swathing first. (Cut and left in a swath to dry out before it is threshed. But that is done to ripen the seeds off evenly as the plants are very tall and the seeds at the top ripen well before the lower placed seed pods are. Similarly potatoes are sometimes sprayed off. This is done where the grower has a contract to supply potatoes of a certain size, so when they reach that size, they are sprayed off and left to let the skin set. If not sprayed, they will carry on growing untill the cold weather comes.

I wish you many enjoyable and problem free days with your new combine investment.

The beast is impressive!! Hope it treats you well through harvest.

A great machine, solves many human problems.

I did not think 120 bushels an acre was possible. You guys have great ground.

Should call the combine the rocky mountain ghost 😊😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 as it blends in with the dust

Glad to hear your success, I think they are a great machine. Run Gleaners here, great machines as well just more simpler to maintain than the Fendt machine.

They are very useful for farmers like me

got to demo an ideal 9 a couple years ago really nice combine have great dealer support and if decide to make change from s790s I think the ideal 9 will be a top contender

great looking machine

❤from Texas

Looks like an incredible machine!

Glad you have it. The first one that had so many sensor problems that I think that went back and redid All the sensors. Hopefully they don't have to send a tech out to live in your field. I Hope they've gone to a metal fuel tank also

Love your new Ideal combine!

Good video good to see y'all

That must be one of the slightly older machines with the unloading auger barely clearing the cart. The new machines apparently swing much higher

Day 1 is kinda premature to declare "best combine we've owned." I hope it holds up, and I don't know why you could only cut 700 acres / month with your last unit, but it is too early to know anything about reliability, service, or parts support. Meanwhile., that reel speed needs to be backed down.

What year was your combine build? I drove a 2020 Ideal 9 on tracks with 40 foot mc don. Many updates where made on the ideal the last few years. What do you think about the straw quality? I think it is the best I have ever seen out of a rotary combine

Grain and boom… I’ve never heard those 2 words used in that context before.

Nice Fendt

You and Chris are pretty good sized Men. I would see about shortening the ladder a few feet before I bent it crossing a ditch. Looks like the manufacturer would have made the ladder retractable like on a spray rig.

If you think the Fendt Ideal 9 is good. Then you need to try the Claas Lexion 8900

Another great video, glad you love the Fendt.

Brian farms bought one this year and they seem to like it

In Oklahoma we call the wheel line sprinklers a side roll.

The reason why it is going so fast is the 40 ft header is kinda small for that combine it was designed for the 45 or 50 foot header if you had a 45 or 50 foot header you wouldn’t be going as fast

that’s one bad mamma jamma

Short rows and side rolls.... Productivity killers.

they are nice combines those ideal

Wow, that is a beast! I was surprised that it is black considering the heat during the summers, I would think a lighter color would help to keep it all cooler over all. Well, until the dust coated everything then I suppose it doesn't really matter, lol. I saw that huge Fendt and I was reminded of a system I saw a few weeks ago, called a Nexat. I don't know if that machine can do potatoes though... If you haven't seen it in action yet, look it up(you probably already have though.) it's pretty different. Was dust in the sensor the culprit or did one of the sensors go out? I fell behind on your videos and was actually looking for an update on the water situation. I continue surfing through to see if you posted and update on it. Love the vids!

Need bigger grain carts soon

You have GORGEOUS grain trucks holy moley!! What brand is that!

That's one incredible combine! It does so much and so fast. Nothing beats having horsepower. I think it's the first combine I've seen that also acts like a swather. It's so big, is there a general rule when you meet traffic on the more narrow roads?

Wow its amazing that you post video quickly hope that this will work great and what is the average per acre i enjoy this video

awesome!

I feel like a lot of people commenting here only come in touch with farming when they start up their PC and start playing farming simulator, a lot of these people do not understand that this is a business which is relying on how much money goes in and out. I'm really glad you and your family are happy about the purchase even though I feel like some people here are trying to ruin the fun for you 🙃. I'm just glad you've gotten one heck of a good price on the machine it seems and that it runs good, as it is supposed to! I would like to add, I think a 40ft header is alright when u guys average around 120bu/ac cause those numbers are impressive for me, because to my knowledge farms in North America usually average way less! (It getting irrigated is a different topic to me though, due to the lowering of water lvls etc. but if the government allows you to do so, I'd do the same.) Also it seems like you got a good ACGO/Fendt dealer near you and also guys from Fendt who know how to set up a combine properly, I'm just a lil sad you couldn't get the Ideal Drive (Joystick) due to it being a demo machine, from what I've heard it's a different way of working and less exhausting. Anyways great machine! I hope you'll have a lot of fun, a great harvest, a cool fridge 🥶 (very important :D!!!) at any time and hopefully no breakdowns and just minor repairs in the next 12 years! 🛠Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🌾

Growing up, we had a JD 45 bagger, with PTO, 5’ or 6’ cut. How long do you think it would take to do 1600 acres?😀

Glad to see the combine is working good for you. Are the crops good this year? From the ones that we got the demo to your machine there has been almost 200 little minor improvements and changes. And I thought the early models were pretty impressive In wheat we could run away from the S-Series deere. I mean literally leave it in the dust. In corn the Fendt had such a nice sample! Great warranty and service plan behind the scenes to keep your machine nice.

Apparently they've resolved the rear chopper issue so it quit breaking and plugging on a daily bases.

Have you ever flown a space craft as you stated

Time to invest in a bigger grain cart now

Hi always an education when I watch your awesome videos. What happens to the tailings that don’t get processed by the combine and is left behind in a straight line?

What was cure for the gps problem, watching from Northern Ireland 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Check out Mike Mitchell post harvest update on the Fendt from two years ago

so what combines have u had before this one ? good lookin machine. Neighbor got one a few yrs back, ran it one season and traded it to a x9 an still has it. may have been one of the early models with some issues

Good looking machine. How many bushels per acre are you stripping? Is all your wheat growing country reticulated?

Why is it chucking all the swarf in to the rear wheels won’t that mess up the bearing and also sand blast effect on on the inner edge of the tyre

Do you have the grain on contract for fall delivery? Or do you have bins to store it.

can you get a clip of the grain coming in the bin on the harvester, from the window in the cab?

Will the straw be baled?? That would be an amazing amount of bales!

Will you be bailing your straw and if so do you use large squares or rounds?😊

Sweet! Work hard and you'll get stuff so that you produce more while working just as hard lol. What part of Idaho yall in?

Do you plant both hard red and soft white wheat?

Why not dump into the truck cutting on the go instead of dumping into a cart and then having to dump again into the truck-? Less augering of the grain means less fines in the grain. Other crops are dumped from the harvester on the go into trucks.

What’d you give for it? Full price? Lease? Or a gimme for your videos.

It never ends, bigger combine now you need a bigger cart, what did you have to do to fix the wheel sensor?

What a glorious monster!! Not too sure about the funny green tractor. Time for a 1050 maybe

I love watching the channel If you want to know what to watch for on new combine watch Mike Mitchell from last year or year before he farms 40k acres in Canada with that kind of acres you find problems alot quicker Best of luck enjoy your machine

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="930">15:30</a> I like to see pictures of cars selling well. Do you specialize in selling this harvesting machine?

Great awesome video , different terms ive never heard of . Must be a western thing lol its doing what it was designed for ram it in and go 4 to 5 , mike mitchell didnt have good luck with them but so far brian brown has one with just joysticks

3 weeks for a class 9 on 1600 acres ? My family farms in north Dakota and last year we knocked out 5800 acres of wheat and durum in 17 days with 4 class 9's and one class 8. Run one 1350 bushel and one 2000 bushel carts.

Nice Video. i am pretty new to this and i cant afford this in real life. why is it that the back tires of the harvester are mounted the other direction ( pointing the wrong way)? thanks for the answer. id like to understand

just curious to know how much this beauty cost

Are you bailing the straw that the combine leaves?

Is that spring or winter wheat

Just signed up 👍👍 You have got the best machine on the market 👍👍

You gotta get go pro mounts.

Nice Combine, Why dont you put a 45 or 50 foot header on it?

Who runs the combine ?

Where does the wheat go to?

What is the cost of the new FENDT. Header and all.?🤔

Who makes a black combine.????

Do you guys bale up that straw?

How old was your New Holland capacity has increased over the years all machines have increased a lot you should have got a CR11 new holland if you wanted capacity

Nice machine, your mostly green, what was the main decision you bought Fendt over jd.

Great awesome video , different terms ive never heard of . Must be a western thing lol

You will sell it! Soon

Best of luck with that Fendt. I know Mick Mitchell had a small fleet of them 2 years ago ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-miEBVi7mMlo.html ) and for the most part he really liked them but... he had X9's the next year, and he's had problems with those too so just my beloved Green paint doesn't fix everything it just makes it more expensive :) I'm surprised that you can harvest with the hopper closed like @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1469">24:29</a>, I think... that a JD you can't even engage the thresher without opening the top

grow it in the USA by USA

👍 from Iowa

What was your moisture? Looks dry.

Yours has a steering wheel, some have a joystick

Custom cutters are the way to go. Could’ve saved a bunch of money paying them to come in and cut instead of buying a combine. Less labor and time too.

What are the wheel lines for

What model was your New Holland combine ?

I don’t wish ill will upon you but your tune will start to change when the rotors continue to plug right before the chopper due to poor design and worse yet when the sheer bolts let loose on the rotor drive. Being the “first one” should have been a hint. Stick with What’s popular and what works and you may have a chance at finding parts and a person that knows how to fix it. Good luck.

Think they had problems with the main gear box on theses. Not sure if they fixed that. Not sure of the general review of theses combines. If they have had alot of problems or not. Haven't seen anyone around here with one. Usually Case or John Deere. Neighbors want to try one of these out. Dealer didn't seem interested. So they went with a Case.

The mountains are so beautiful and then they had to put those ugly ass windmills on them.

CR 11 makes this one look like a toy.

A month to do 1600 acres?? that machine should do 120 acres a day. 2 weeks tops

No satellite, no GPS, no autosteer.