FENDT IDEAL 8 Combine with a 50 FOOT WIDE MacDon FD250 head. Illinois Soybean Harvest 

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He's got some pretty good sized fields. That 50' will definitely save time and be more productive. Always enjoy your drone footage Mike!!

Another impressive video Mike and thanks for it. 10 more feet for a Honeybee 60 footer would even be more 'candy' for the eyes.

It most definitely gets coolest looking combine award for sure 👍👍

Great to see this black beast in a soybean field😁👍 the challenger looks good on the grain wagons👍😉

Nicely filmed Mike, really like the overhead shots. When 30' foot heads came about I thought that they couldn't get much bigger and now here we are at 50'. A quarter of beans would be a short day for that machine.

A 50 feet Draper Header is quite a piece of kit. In Australia, I believe they have headers as wide as 60 feet, due to the quality of their soil not being able to support such a high crop density per unit of area. Broadacre farming I believe it's called. Anyway, the point I wish to make involves the combines unloading augers - as headers get ever wider, the unloading augers must be made longer too, in order to allow chaser bins to be 'spotted' along their centre line. When one thinks of the sheer length of these unloaders, that's a substantial weight on its own, plus the enormous leverage effect induced on the 'elbow' on the main body of the combine. The unloader becomes even heavier and induces even more strain on the 'elbow' previously mentioned, when it's in the act of dumping its grain into the chaser. With the high volume of grain being moved with the aim of emptying the combine grain tank as quickly as possible, the unloader effectively becomes like a solid bar, with all the greater attendant forces that are generated when it is doing so, versus the empty unloader plus its internal auger. The main support for the unloader 'elbow' on the main body of the combine must be approaching a limit in terms of its mechanical strength and ability to support such high mechanical loading. With the advent of these super wide headers, at least the effect of their increased weight can be mitigated somewhat by outrigger support wheels just behind the rear vertical wall of the header, but for the unloader tube, there doesn't seem to be an equivilent additional support method. This, I feel, will lead to stress failures within the 'elbow' of the unloader on the mainframe, in addition to loading the left side of the combine frame more than the right side. Additionally, with such wide headers now commonly used to make best use of these Class 9 & 10 combines tremendous output potential, the grain tank will fill up so quickly between one dump and another, that the operator will usually leave the unloader in the extended position rather than folding it back along side the combine body between dumps. This practice can only potentially create stress fractures in this area of the machine, particularly over bumpy ground, where such shocks are transmitted through the structural frame of the machine, and because the unloader 'elbow' is already under a lot of mechanical stress, subjecting it to even more will not help its longevity. Anyone else got any thoughts on this matter ?

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Great video, Mike. The bean headers continue to get longer

Thanks Mike for another awesome video I always enjoy watching your videos each time you edit another one.technolgy has come along way from Allis Chalmers combine the all crop 90 my dad had when he farmed back in the late 50s and very early 60s and the one my aunt had her farm was and all crop 60 a 5 ft combine to this 50 ft combine that is massive. Thanks mike

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Top machinery, top video 👍 Regards from Down Under.

You got some great drone footage lovew watch your video you do a great job.

Surprised an 8 can power that header! Always thought you’d need 600hp+ for those! Great shots of the harvest!

Don’t see gravity wagons being utilized in that part of the country much anymore,let alone with the newer bigger equipment on hand.

Fantastic video again. I like Mike 👍

15,2meters, wow!

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Looks like a lot of fun Mike..😖

i would like to operate one of these machines. great video

Mike, Thanks for another great video, love to see Titan LSW tires. One thought that did come to mind, this farm is a big AGCO customer, and they could have had a class 8 Gleaner !!!

surprised hes not cradling that massive unload auger between unloads, i get in corn as its always in use but soy is way slower

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Someone should have shown the combine operator how to retract the unloader arm!

Why would he just keep running with the unload auger out? Seems like putting back in the cradled position wood be better.

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That 50’ head is beyond cool, but being the king nerd around here, I’m on a strict 3:1 CTF format. So I’d need a 150’ planter, or go 1:1 with a 50’ planter / drills. Before I could afford bigger equipment, I was 20/60. Now I’m 30/90. I could put the wings on my planters and get bigger heads and be 40/120, but a DB120 set up on 20” rows is more than I can pull, and I need the narrow rows for weed control being organic/regen. Darn impressive display of equipment here though. Size matters.

What is the combine auger broken? It never came back to side position.

Mike.they have 50 foot headers now how much bigger do you think they can go ?

Didn’t see an auto steer receiver. 50 ft is pretty wide to watch and take a full swath plus unload on the go that close. Maybe I’m just not seeing the receiver?

I guess the unload auger button doesn't work. Why else would he be driving around with auger out all the time.

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Agco needs to offer this in Gleaner colors and badging, give the Gleaner customers the twin rotor option.

The one thing I will never understand is why the operator leaves the unloading auger out instead of swinging it back after dumping. It's a dangerous habit that could cause all sorts of damage to the auger if you get complacent

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Why a wider header? Wider header costs extra, requires more horsepower, is bulky to maneuver/transit, and poorer at ground contouring. 10mph on a 25' header is the same productivity as 5mph on a 50' header, but without these extra downsides. Doesn't make sense to me. Seems to pad the ego, not the brain. What's the logic here?