Big John Deere Tractor Power & Wishek 30 Inch Blade Disks 

It’s always nice smelling freshly plowed ground. Thank you for watching so many BTP videos.

You would love my area. Our soil is black. Nice rich earth with just the right mix of sand and clay. Extremely fertile. When it's freshly plowed you can smell it for miles. You can toss a seed from any thing and in a week have growth. Perfect farm land.

Great analogy.

They move right along. Tillage goes pretty fast with these.

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They move fast. They finished corn on 9/21 and started disking on 9/21. There was a 9 day rain delay so they have to cover ground as fast as possible to get the seeders in the field.

They are very impressive tillage machines.

Thank you for watching. It is neat to see variation between farms.

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It’s amazing where tractors have been and are heading.

Thank you. Many more on the way.

They do an awesome job.

They really turn over the soil.

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You will see a whole separate video on the MT875E. It’s a cool tractor.

Thank you. It’s always fun seeing these big machines running together.

Interesting point. I had not heard that before. Thank you for watching.

It is. 1,260 HP all in a line.

But they are blastign right through that corn chaff!

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So do they. Big advantage.

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It’s on my wish list to film. I have not had a chance to film that series yet. I did film a 55 last Saturday.

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Thank you. BTP is inching toward 100K. I am glad so many people enjoy seeing farming.

Probably more than that. I often think about how these fields were farmed a 100 plus years ago as I am waiting around for the next tractor pass.

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How do you know that was a yellow jacket? It sounded more like a horse fly.

The farm seeded 11,000 of wheat. The three 9420R tractors disked some and 4 620 hp tractors disked some of the ground with 34 disks.

Liquid spreading is impressive. I would like to get up to Wisconsin. I have two friends that live in Wisconsin that film for BTP. Drop me a line at contact@bigtractorpower.

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Lots of John Deere power on this operation.

I think because of the line stone we have in the area the smooth disk blade rolls over the stone better.

Congrats on the new 5055E. They are a nice tractor.

How many tractors they got

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I am 100% certain they are 9420Rs. I spend all year following these tractors up close. Is there any reason that you believe I would miss represent a model number? I will say I would love to see a 9370R or the older 9360R as they are in the rare side. 9420Rs are pretty common so if I found an entry level 9R I would be very excited to see it and share it.

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running 26ft at 8 inches deep with a 30 inch blade will but 420 hp work.

The harrow works better behind this heavy duty primary tillage disk. If it was a smaller disk with a 20 inch blade a rolling basket would work.

There are stones and I think the blades they have work well for rocks.

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Disks aren't set up for it most of the time

The farm has a 1,000 acre field that is pretty swampy. In the fall of 2000 it was extra wet and they demoed a Case IH 9380 Quadtrac. The farm purchased a 2001 Case STX440 after the demo. In 2004 the STX440 was traded for a John Deere 9620T. The farm did not like the ride of the 9620T. In 2006 the 9620T was traded for a Challenger MT865B. The farmer has been the operator of all these track tractors. He really liked the MT865B. In 2008 the MT865B was traded to a MT875B, in 2011 to an MT875C, 2013 an MT875C, 2015 to an MT875C and in 2017 to this MT875E.

The model number is on the hood up by the headlights.

I agree you can’t see if they are 9420Rs. BTP needs to zoom in to prove they are 9420Rs or I have to assume they are the smallest model the 9360R.

how does the farm distinguish between each 9420R? there has to be someway to mark them with an id number in case there is an issue with one of them. Just curious as I did not see in video.

@@adam8347 it has a cell connection to John deere, the farmer logs into a web sight and can see each machine, along with the Vin. (most farmers allow their dealer to access that as well, but for privacy reasons that isn't required)

Otis Smith Just get a few mailbox stickers and number them

Probably all their equipment is leased and turned in each year.

Yes on the tractors. Implements are kept from year to year. They bought there first Wishek in 2003 and it is still in use on one of the 9620Rs.

Had a nephew that worked for a JD dealership here in Iowa. He said most combines were leased not bought. They were also returned with all the factory oil still in them! No oil changes performed!

bullshit

@@gonerydin4225 Just that one dealership leased over 40 combines out of 1 store that year. Guess it depends on where u live.

There are some large farms from 50,000 to 30,000 acres. Several in the 15,000 to 10,000 acre range as well. There is a crop advantage in WKY that helps farms. #1 is the ability to crop half the farm with two crops in one season with wheat and soybeans. So if you have 1,000 acres of wheat ground as soon as the wheat is harvested you plant soybeans behind the combine and gain 1,000 acres of soybeans. So if you have 2,000 acres of ground with half in corn and the other half in wheat/soybeans you are cropping 3,000 acres in a year. #2 many of these farms raise tobacco. 1 acre of tobacco is equal to 100 acres of corn.

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Garnett Farms I think

Where do you farm?

The farm tried out a Degelman Pro-Till. Maybe you will see shirt disks phased in down the road. Right now they use the Wisheks. The farm bought the first of the 7 Wisheks in 2003 and the 7th one was added in 2017.

Thanks for the reply BTP. As big as that operation is, I’d be surprised if they didn’t at least demo newer tools. They obviously know what works for their farming practices.

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I am working on more detail and history on 4wds pulling choppers. The video will be posted in a month or so.

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The farm only had 3 26ft disks so only three 9420Rs disk. The farm uses four 9420Rs to run the Kinze grain carts and to rip ground after soybean harvest. The tractors are traded each spring. When the trade is made one machine is carried over to run 5 Kinze 24 row corn planters. For example in March 2018 to plant corn the farm had four 2018 9420Rs and one 2017 model. When corn planting is done the one 2017 9420R heads to the dealer.

It is a big investment.

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Not that I know of. They really like the Wisheks.

I would say 8 inches is a good depth for these. Wheat seed does not go in to deep.

They are built in Wahpeton, ND today. They started in Wishek, ND.

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I am not sure. I just focus on the machines and what they are used to do. I do not inquire about a farms business.

bigtractorpower completely understand, its impressive either way!

I can imagine California truck laws made it rough.

Heavy duty disks and mulch rippers do most of the tillage these days. Moldboard plows are still produced but are not a common sight in most areas.

@@bigtractorpower Unless you are in Europe. Almost all farms where Im from still plow their fields, though that also because its the best way to incorporate manure

I will have to ask when I film the drill. Good question.

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The GPS screen has grid lines marked on the screen for the distance you set, there is a grid line and all the driver has to do is turn and follow the line and that will be 26 feet from the next line, the tractor following sees the same lines.

You tell the display that the implement is 26 feet wide and it does the math to figure out the lines. The driver just needs to be within 13 feet and the tractor does the rest.

I wonder do they set the GPS for 26 25 r 25 and a half ft

I agree. It’s strange it’s so small. I just filmed a 8320R with the 100 year decal. You can see it better on a 6R, 7R and 8R much better than a 9R.

@krinkov545 Sweet thank you!

Wishek is part of the AGCO/Amenity Group. They are sold through Wil-Rich dealers as well as AGCO Sunflower dealers in Sunflower colors.

How does he know when its when its 78ft

The GPS monitor in the cab shows where to turn and steers the tractor into the correct pass.

There was corn in the field before the harvest. At tillage time Weeda and volunteer corn are the green plants you might see as the disks plow the ground.

Andrew Lanman If you saw one of those disk in person u would surely understand why they have high hp tractors pulling them

I will see what I can do.

I have interviewed John Deere corporate product managers on these tractors and I am pronouncing these model numbers the same way they do.

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Ballpark: $375K - $400K depending on options

The farm has a 1,000 acre field that is pretty swampy. In the fall of 2000 it was extra wet and they demoed a Case IH 9380 Quadtrac. The farm purchased a 2001 Case STX440 after the demo. In 2004 the STX440 was traded for a John Deere 9620T. The farm did not like the ride of the 9620T. In 2006 the 9620T was traded for a Challenger MT865B. The farmer has been the operator of all these track tractors. He really liked the MT865B. In 2008 the MT865B was traded to a MT875B, in 2011 to an MT875C, 2013 an MT875C, 2015 to an MT875C and in 2017 to this MT875E.

@@bigtractorpower thanks love watching that farm do it's work well managed outfit!

I have not heard of any problems with the 9Rs. There are hundreds here in WKY and all the farmers seem more than satisfied with them.

What would you like to hear from Matt? I will see him in an S790 cutting soybeans soon.

This field was harvested in mid August. Temperatures remain in the 80’s and 90’s here in Kentucky through late October when many area ate just getting into corn harvest good. In many areas corn is harvested after frost so you never see the lost corn sprout. The volunteer corn is a big sign of combine loss and the weather in Western Kentucky allows the loss to be very visible. All farms corn fields in the region look this way by early October regardless of combine brand. All combines lose some grain and if the weather is warm enough the loss will show up with a volunteer crop. If the weather is cold at harvest you will never see the re-growth and it all looks perfect.

I am a yard farmer myself. 😁.

What type of soil do you have? Western Kentucky has red clay soil and 420 hp on a 30 inch blade is a good match for this 26ft disk. There is no way a 145 hp tractor could run a 26ft Whisek here.

We can pull a 30ft disk with our 4650 but it's very very shallow and she struggles across the field. With a 26ft running at 8in deep there is no way it would pull that thing.

300hp🤔 u might stretch the ground alittle with one of those disk...145hp just to pull it down the road 😀