Just love, the fact that you are being honest. It is wonderful when the manufacturers come out and speak with the operators....Is amazing how much a person can appreciate being heard by the (engineers).....running gearboxes in my woodworking business....using heavy oil stabilizer in them....cooled them down .....
We keep a water tank and a pressure washer ready to go when in wheat due to fire chance. The pressure washer can blow water from back to front and get the wet stuff on the hot stuff where a fire extinguisher cant get to. A local fire department gave us a foam pack to put in water. Haven’t used it yet (thank goodness) but in wheat i would think it would help. Might be a setup you can add to a fuel truck.
Mike, new subscriber here. I found your channel because of your 1050 video. Love your honesty and the way you come across. Bold to take a relatively new combine, especially in North America, into the field and let it eat. Props to AGCO/Honeybee/your dealer for being so accessible and supportive. Encouraging to see AGCO stand behind their product so well. I'm an Alberta boy myself, so just wanted to wave to my neighbour. Have a great and successful harvest!
Great video Mike! Glad you guys are safe and that there were no injuries when you encountered the small fire problem. Nice to hear that AGCO has such a great supporting system. Keep doing what your doing, your honest reviews are the best. Good luck with the rest of the harvest💪
I really get a sense that there is a shifting of regions when it comes to which brand is responsive to who, when, where and why. Living in Wisconsin I hear about JD and Case all the time. Granted both companies have headquarters close by, but I know there are advocates for the brands in the south US and In the South Americas. In any case best of luck to you.
Come to norway and everyone is starting to hate JD, our company has done that for a long time. They bring out a overpriced product, overpriced parts and bad service
Hi Mike, Thanks for the video. Glad to hear that Agco is working to listen to the farmer. I hope they can refine the product and keep Deere and CNH honest. A few questions (if you are able to share the info). What is the grain feedrate (T/hr, bu/hr), the engine fuel rate (L/hr), crop yield (bu/ac) and the grain loss (ideally measured with a catch pan)? If you have comparison numbers for the Deere in similar crop and conditions, that would be great. Also, what are the combine setting (rotor rpm, concave clearance, fan speed, sieve openings) and the crop conditions (seed moisture, outside temp + % R.H.). I'm not surprised you need much more aggressive threshing to get a clean sample. Canadian spring wheat threshes much harder than spring wheat grown in some other countries. I have been in the field doing combine testing in both the US and the UK. Their spring wheat practically falls out of the head compared to ours. If you have grown some easy threshing soft white spring, that might be similar to how their wheat is. Would be interesting to see what exactly you have done to close up parts of the concave (assuming that's what you mean). Combines have to work in an amazing variety of conditions so it is natural there will be some tinkering needed to get best performance.
Can't beat good customer service and actual interest in solving the customers problems. Soo many companies don't understand that customers problems is valuable input the development of new products. Doesn't matter if you produce phones or combines :-)
Man you make excellent videos, from explanation of how things work to the description of what you're doing, both entertaining and informative. Definitely the best channel on RU-vid, big thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Brand new sub. Really like your vids Mike. Glad to hear AGCO is treating you well & listening to your input. Good luck with the rest of the season. Cheers
Great video again Mike. Good to see Agco giving you the right kind of support too. Re the overheating gearbox, was Agco aware prior that this could be an issue as they have been running a ton of demo's worldwide. Obviously a new machine so as you say it will have a few bugs but a bit surprised it went into production with such an issue. What is refreshing is their attitude and a sense they want to get this right. I think having a farmer like you as a customer can only be a good thing for them. Clearly you won't hold back if you aren't happy an that is then in the public domain. That puts pressure on them to get this right which is a really good thing. Did you buy three IDEAL'S Mike ?? I wasn't sure if the others were Agco's own combines ?? Thank you again for the videos they are a really fascinating insight into the real world of performance and ownership. Your 'unique' style is infectious, keep them coming they are appreciated by everyone here
My dad bought a 410 massey ferguson it had a horn in the cab that was tied to the Reclean Cylinder He replaced the horn with a truck clearance light because he got tired of the constant noise of the horn. When in hard threshing conditions and tough conditions!!!
Awesome video Mikey, and you crack me up. Glad to hear a manufacturer actually has their head on straight and taking care of their customers, seems like that’s one of the biggest issues from everyone around our area and around US, no support from most dealers. That overheating issue could have been real bad Mike, better be giving some thanks tonight brother 😉. Stay safe
To keep track of who is who in combines put the coloured whips on the combines, will help out the cart guys as well as anyone looking for a certain combine
I have worked for the blue garbage company for 15 years and the Mcneilus front load trucks with currotto cans and CNG power trains were $380k us. Autocar chassis. That was 2010. Now we are getting Peterbilt 520’s with Heil bodies at $485k us per truck. The lack of warranty support and out of the gate problems astounds me. If I was a suit in the position of warranty recovery for our company, I’d be pushing hard to recover millions that are given away now. I wish Fendt made refuse bodies because it would be refreshing to have actual support. Enjoy it my friend.
I disagree. The way they have evolved over time and how well their engines run and how easy it is to do maintenance on is what u love about them. If you buy a used one it will pur like a brand new one.
@@Brian-rj1un their engines are actually the one thing I have not had trouble with but then again I never have with their older ones either. We have a lot of trouble with wiring and electronics and the biggest problem is JD as a company will give the consumer no support what so ever. They want you to go through your dealer and unfortunately my dealers most experienced tech is fresh out of school and the other ones have never been to school. Yes they may pur like a brand new one when they're used but that's only useful when you're driving back and forth from the field broke down.
It’s good to hear that Agco is treating you well. Hear in west central Illinois Agco service is terrible. We run all Deere mainly because we have 4 dealers within 30 miles.
Mike ur hilarious love ur vids . Tbf agco our dude the pond are excellent to work with Brought a mf combine couple of years ago n backup is brilliant John deer have sum catching up to do !
Please get a new class out and demo it side by side.Just discoverd your channel and like it. We run John Deere and am getting pissed off and tired of all the reason you mentioned.These machines and the fendt tractor and the new class combines will make them get their shit together but not before they loose lots of custumers.Have your tried the automation system on those fendts.Do they have decent yield monitors.Please do a close up of the straw spreading system in action in heavey crop.
We had an opportunity to buy one of the pre-release new Claas combines, but didn't have the option to trade and we only had like couple days notice of the deal as well. So Canada Harvest Centre sold their pre-releases very quickly and so unfortunately we couldn't demo that. Personally, I think It was a mistake that they didn't keep atleast one back to demo, like how are we supposed to know anything about them? Isn't a pre-release exactly what that is for?! They totally dropped the ball there. Second: I can get a video of the Fendts in action, in fact I had one of the header in flex on a good crop of lentils, but just before I finished the video I ran out of memory and it aborted the video 🤦♂️😂 Third: Demoing a Claas was always the plan, unfortunately it has to be an older one - which i worry isn't an apples to apples comparison 🤷♂️. So then, is really worth it? Or maybe demo the new one next year. I also worry about how Agco would feel under the circumstances, and I don't want them to think I am an unappreciated dick. 😂
My dad and gpa always told us that if our machine was on fire gotta haul ass away from the crop lol works great unless the fire is underneath than you catch half the countryside on fire
Just stumbled on your channel tonight, I’m not a farmer but I really enjoy all things Ag, I grew up running heavy equipment for my family’s excavation company so I’m a life long iron geek, lol,!i played fam hand on the side doing hay for several neighbors equestrian outfits and helped doing hay, silage, and spreading manure a few summers for a couple dairy’s as well. Blew out my back young and back surgery f’d me up even worse so unfortunately they only way to get my tractor fix is main lining RU-vid;-) Ryan from southern Maine
Hey Ryan, thanks alot for chiming in here! I really appreciate for passion for Ag and am quite honored that you would consider my channel like wise. Sorry to hear about your back, I know all about that as my dad has had 3 operations and still not fixed. Again, really appreciate the feed back! Hope I can get you your "fix" 🙂
Thanks Blake! Spread that around so I can do more of them. I would like to review the new John Deere 8Rx to list a few! Need more subscribers to carry more manufacturer incentives 🤷♂️🙂
@@mikemitchell2554 I follow a page called farm life maybe post videos there on face book too. Or links to your videos. There is a lot of people on there.
I have dealt with a number of Us were dealers in Australia and only found two to go the extra mile. One was a Melbourne based dealer and the other was a major south Australian dealer.
I would really appreciate a more in depth equipment tour then you did really. To see it all would be really intresting, split it up to several videos if u need :)
But i think that it's only for ideals or people that have a media presence. We have 4 Fendt 8370p combines. They break down basically every day, their efficiency is horrible, guys from the Italian factory were coming and going, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes but they did nothing. Their conclusions were that they only break down on our farm. As per their efficiency they dialed in "their best settings", yeah - we were going .5kph faster and loosing 20% of the grain. Fendt tractors are great but their combines are poor (and that's an understatement). We had their ideals on demo but still didn't come close to claas.
@@dziadek1287 looking bad and RU-vid is deffintly more of a motivator me thinks. That huge long lasting bad PR and they still ended up burning up one of them anyway.
Fendts are the best we have 3 small ones like under 150hp and if we need any help with the tractors the dealership and fendt manufacturers are always willing to help its so so handy.
Hi Mike. I am a new sub from Sweden. You guys have a big and nicce farm. I where in Kamsack Saskatchewan 14 years ago when a worked for a custom combining crew from Beardsley Minnesota.
Hey Philip, thanks for the input!.. That's cool, yeah that's a nice area up there... If you make it back sometime, look me up... I ll give ya a tour 🙂👍
Hi Mike. Thanks for the offer i will sure do that if i make it back some day. If you ever visit south part of Sweden some day let me know and i will give you a tour.🙂
That header looks seriously impressive. Did you say that’s Durum wheat? The yield seems very low, certainly compared to Uk winter wheat? Damn you’re so right about those words “your combine is on fire” not heard them yet, never want to either!!!!!!
We never see a salesman or anyone unless ya go into their stores or call them, even when we buy a new machine the salesman loses your number once ya give them the cheque
Well shit me too, did Welkers or one of them mention you in their progress show vids??? LOL Now I have to watch all your vids.... love to see the different machinery across the channels,,, Farmed til I was 34, CaseIH equipment... those Fendts seem awesome... Edit: LOL I did a price comparison on Zachs channel between the QT, RX and DT, the Versatile is a freaking bargain... The RX, really, base is 100k over the DT...
Impressive operation you have there . Yeah Jd is very costly my boss got a 680 spent have last fall being hauled up n down the highway getting fixed , clutch pack × 2 shaker shoe broke like 400 hrs then they brought a 780 it broke on them so they brought another 680 a year older a 17 I think and the concave fell right out so we basically fueled up there combines ... I'm a jon deere guy I wont lie but I like my old 9630 ... no def not much tech haven't had a problem with that in 3 years nothing just service and treat her nice
Yikes! 😬 That's sucks man - but I have been there too! They all break down, every colour.. Just comes down to service and warranty - atleast it does for us being 100miles from our dealers.. And thanks for the input!
Those fendt s look perty bad ass ur 100% right Jr has had the same combine for ten years and even if you wann sync em 30 grand kinda redonkilus fer half mill plus chunk of iron .. you'd think by now they would all communicate with each other
"Its not a competition, but its always a competition" love it! How true is that. Dam those headers are massive! Some cool features on those fendts, i kinda feel like they should be called "fendt millenial edition" with the amount of gadgets on it 🤣
😂 I know right?! Ohh.. Nice! I like the name - and to think I have even cracked into the automation yet, like I was playing with it yesterday abit and sure it's nice but I like driving it! Haha But with saying that, there's like 4 or 5 different types of automation to my knowledge 🤔. It will push itself to grain quality, to losses, to speed, to efficiency, and It will load the combine for you in all those OR you drive it and keep the settings on it will constantly be changing its settings to whatever you value the most.. - which i like because then I can still drive and it's fine running to my operation of the combine. At least that's how I think it all works, still playing around.
@@mikemitchell2554 some serious thought has gone into that combine. Id be leaning towards running it the way your talking aswell, itd be interesting to set it up the way you think is best and then turn the automation on and see what it changes
Good video Mike. When you say you have good visibility out of the cab you obviously don’t mind the windshield wiper that thing is like it came off a Mack Truck The class combine has a much more comfe Cab all the best.
Thanks man, I appreciate that! You know, I never noticed it - it's actually not in the way until it is haha.. Like the time I moved it during the video. 🤷♂️😂
Great Video , Love your videos. Your Fendts are Alsome . I am a AGCO Brand Fan. Dont care for the other green Brand at all . That being said, What ratio would you say save on Fuel with the Fendt Tractors & the new combines compared to the other Brands. Those combines & tractors are Alsome. Hello from Ohio . Keep the videos coming. You guys have a Alsome farming Operation. Love your air seeders that you have. One other ? for you. I see you getting more Fendts on your Farm. Will your Farm change over to all Fendts? You seem like you like them to have 3 combines. Can you get software updates for your 1050? Seems like something needs to be done with that . That tractor should have more then enough Power to pull your air seeder carts up a grade shouldnt it? Maybe i am missing something. Seems like a update or tweek is in order.Keep up the Great Work. Safe & Happy Harvest...........
Thanks for the comment Chad, yes it's being looked into and yes we have traded all the Deeres off for Fendts. I also really like the Fendt.. Not saying they are best or that any other brand is a bad brand - because I don't colour smash. But thier warranty is second to none.
Shocked to hear agco wants to improve something had mf combines for years till 2013 never had a company rep ever, if we had issues they could care less about us. Switched to case for the 13 harvest best decision we ever made! Neat seeing how you farm so close to the border. Can you mow that no man's land swath? Do you farm any in the us?
Hmm... Yeah that sucks.. I don't care what colour anyone runs, I want to see reps, I want to know the manufacturer actually cares. Haha I have tried to farm it! 😬😂🤷♂️ Didn't work real well, they keep driving all over it. And no we don't, gosh... I can't imagine that headache!
What do you think of the honeybee heads compared to the Deere fd’s? Does the large stainless transition area in front of the drapers bother at all in short crops? Aren’t they all belt driven everywhere?
Great question! I want to withhold my full review/ thoughts on it yet - only to be fair to the Honeybee because I only have 100 or so hours on it.. And want to put more on.. But forsure, short crop can and most definitely is a problem if the crop is tough or green at all. It just sticks there - unless you lower your real down to scratch the surface. In flex, no issue. So far I like the belts, broke 1 already when I jammed into the ground my accident. (not its fault) but could potentially be in a bad spot. Don't miss the hyd of the JD, had so many of those pumps fail and send filings into my combine 🤦♂️ I look forward to doing a full comparison review on that near the end of harvest.. Gotta run in standing Canola, Chickpeas, and finish the cerials first. 🙂. Really appreciate the questions, and I hope that helps
@@mikemitchell2554 We quit in 96 after the loss of the crow subsidy with Nafta put our feed wheat and barley prices down to less than1.00/bushel,It dropped our lnd prices to less than we paid for it with bush on it.Where I quit breaking ,the trees have just regrown. I was 4 north and 4 east of High Level
Mike Mitchell , You might have “More Success” with by going with the expression of “Walk Before You Run” where you and Ashton get together with Brian & his wife ( Sorry Forgot Her Name ) and do a podcast where Ashton can participate at a level that she feels comfortable. The four of you would be “AWESOME” and “EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING” with all sorts of “Knowledge” being presented to your subscribers.
Mike Mitchell, You keep the videos coming and I will keep the comments coming since I normally only sleep 3 or 4 hours a night and with this COVID-19 even the moose & rabbits in my yard are respecting “Social Distancing”. I love sitting around a bon fire with either a wine or beer at the end of the day but do you know how “BIG” a 🔥🔥🔥I need to keep my friends warm at 2:00AM and still keep everyone 6 ft apart. The owls in my yard want me to scale my fires back so they can spend their time catching mice. I don’t want to piss off the owls because I am like you where I don’t like mice around the yard.🦌🦌🐇🐇🤣😂🍷🍷🔥🔥🍻🍻🦉🦉🐁🐀🤣😂
Mike I have one question for you would like you to ask any one of your Reps , when they sell those combines for that kind of money why don’t they have an option for a fire repression system like large loaders and large excavators have . I know that it would be more money but they could have it as an option. Thes machines work in an high risk environment with hydraulics and grain chaff . You know that risk of fire is very high and I have never seen or herd a of such an option from any manufacturer. You would think insurance would be less with an option like that as well . I have seen hydraulic fires that your fire extinguishers will have very little affect. Im just wondering why manufacturers don’t sell such an option.
That's an excellent point Dallas! And I ll bring that up with them forsure.. I guess I am not familiar with the loader ones, what exactly is it and what does it do? What's the reload cost or is that an option?
Mike it is just like your fire extinguisher but it is mounted solidly with a plumbed system that incorporates the chemical into hard to get into areas of the machine. It has to be activated by the operator be for he leaves the cab . It is serviced just like a fire extinguisher with a nitrogen canister that is changed if discharged. They can mount it were ever there is room on the machine. There are different size systems and The bigger the system I do believe you can discharge certain areas such as engine compartment or rightside leftside . Most all large hydraulically powered equipment utilizes these systems. Time is essential in trying to save the equipment because now with all the So called worker safety laws a employee can not put himself at risk , well if were me I treat it as if it were mine and calmly try my best to deal with the situation. Fire is a very strange beast with only the paint onthe machine heat will make it burn . I just find it odd that with the cost of equipment these days that manufactures don’t offer an option on farm equipment. Industry equipment manufacturers have such options.
Really fire suspension rarely saves the machine They're for earth moving gear because loaders and dozers the operator sits over the trans near the engine Trucks the driver has to walk past the rdiatormto climb down You smash the fire suspension and it buys you 2 to 5 min to get the hell out of there There's thousands of litres of oil to burn up as well as every other flammable thing They stop some very small fires or if there's a fire truck right next to the equipment Same as in farm equipment there's tonnes of chaff to smolder away as well as the oil and fuel A few company's in Australia have tried it but it's mostly failed to really stop anything Mostly people who run it are in peas because static electricity can set them off and the dust is almost explosive But they also have a manned fire unit in the feild as well if the risk is deemed high enough Most people like me blow the dust off each morning and go round with an infrared themometre to check bearing temps That greatly reduces fire risk
Hi Mike. New Sub. Great video's. Question have you seen a major difference in residue management between your machine and the JD's. My family farmer in SW North Dakota till 2006 and raised wheat, flax and peas and the flax and pea residue was tough to no till into
Hey Greg, thanks for the support... And yes, huge difference between the two combines, but let's be fair - the Deere has more wore out blades than the "New" Fendt but even new to new, forsure! The Fendt will spread a full 50+ feet evenly with or without your chaff - your choice. Where the Deeres new, could barely it 45ft..they were meant for more like 40s - at least the spreaders we have.
lucky u, never buy deutz my lambo has isobus problem since new I told deutz about it under warranty its been over 4 years now still no fix. I will be buying fendt next
When you see dealers engineers and the main company doing that and they rush it and bend over backwards you know your problems will be taken care of . As much l like John Deere they have and arrogant independent attitude generally that makes it difficult to sort problems. Your dealer and company support realise and appreciate that there has been major expense laid out for these machine and need to run at trouble free peak performance.
@@mikemitchell2554 Cool. The new Fendts look pretty awesome!! I grew up on a farm in Oklahoma. My dad also had a custom harvest crew. I really miss running combines.
Hello Daniel! Hi from SW Saskatchewan! Have to be careful about using a broad term like "Canada" because not many people are to fond of the Eastern part of the country. Mostly due to political reasons
@@mikemitchell2554 i got a very leftist liberal friend almost neighboring you, he's name is south sask farmer and he's not liberal or leftist, and I'm pretty sure he would argue the friend part aswell. I'm from Finland my self and sorta not liking European politics either but luckily we are pretty conservative here. And ya Canada is a wide term, so is your country. From what i understand you use every measurement system there is. And languages. Getting any fendting done or is it raining?
Mike Mitchell I’m a farmer from southern Ontario and we all hate eastern Canada too lol. Provincially we’re in the same situation as you guys in the west, Toronto and Ottawa chose our premieres and leave us with little to know choice of our leader. Love the channel, I definitely want to go check out the farms in the western region of our Country, not too much flat land in my area.
Hey Austin, (I copied and pasted this from another person who asked) but so far so good... In flex they worked really well, liked the long transition plate and the hyd For & Aft on the header gives you that much more range. So far in standing crops, still like it but it takes more messing around to get it set for your cutting height (atleast for me it did) but once set it seems to be working pretty good. That long plate doesn't like short green crop in the sloughs or when it gets tough at night it tends to stick to it. Now you can lower real down until it scratches that plate, but then I think you ld need to up it again for pulses. Overall, so far I really like it! Mostly the size of it haha. Hope that helps for now.. Quite simple to run now as they changed their monitor.
Ha! 😂 I answered this in a separate post but obviously something went wrong 😬🤦♂️ To the question: "what made you choose the wheeled Ideal over having tracks?" $100,000 reasons per machine.. 😬 Sorry about the late response
with autosteer your left hand has nothing to do 99% of the time. Who drives combine with a drink in their right hand? Unless your ground is tabletop flat, I would be scared to see combine operators with a drink in their right hand instead of on the controls.
for me you are talking to fast and in your american pronunciation is difficult to understand but i am appreciate such a big farm, this is amazing to control so huge surface of cultivation, greatings from Poland, good job
@@quappelle3637really his farm/acreage is close to american border but I am from poland for me both languages are seams to me stranges in understanding
If we are spit-balling suggestions.... How about they get rid of the clean grain camera/picture.....you can look through your back window directly into the tank or view your grain when unloading...what good does a picture of that do you?....about as helpful as a picture of your lug nuts....yep still there. Instead, have them give you a picture of the returns! If you can see if your returns are light chaff, stems, cracked grain, whole kernels, a lot or just a little in volume, etc., you can dial in your whole machine from knowing what is in there and comparing it to what is making it into the tank. Older machines brought the returns right by the cab and made it easy to check on the fly....was pretty darn handy.
Hey Kris, so far so good... In flex they worked really well, liked the long transition plate and the hyd For & Aft on the header gives you that much more range. So far in standing crops, still like it but it takes more messing around to get it set for your cutting height (atleast for me it did) but once set it seems to be working pretty good. That long plate doesn't like short green crop in the sloughs or when it gets really tough at night it tends to stick to it. Now you can lower real down until it scratches that plate, but then I think you ld need to up it again for pulses. Overall, so far I really like it! Mostly the size of it haha. Hope that helps for now.. Quite simple to run now as they changed their monitor.
Thats a good question! I haven't played enough with that yet to be honest nor the automated part of the systems. Hopefully I can sooner than later! Thanks for the input!
@@mikemitchell2554 holy cow... You must make tens of millions on crops to afford that. I think you're lucky to have a family business to build... I always wanted to farm.. But starting from virtually nothing would be impossible
From what I see and hear if never go back to the Deere combine. (I’m a John Deere guy). The customer support you get from AGCO is unmatched and we are thinking hard about the switch. That to me is worth more than anything.
I was waiting for that comment.. I typically run with my seives far more open then I should and wind lower just to be sure I don't incurre losses. But I should have tighten it down abit for the video 🤦♂️ Thanks for the comment tho!
