This week we're taking a much more technical look around the new 9800i. Ross Skimming walks Donkey through the finer details of this mighty machine and gives us all a better understanding as to just how impressive it really is!
Will the choppers plug up in dry hay..?ps because krone choppers can't chop dry hay at all with out a water truck handy to wet the hay before they chop it...
With power like that available these days, it seems there's less and less use for chase tractors/trucks, when you can just hook a large chaser bin up to the back of the harvester.
Man that's a mean bit of kit. If it goes half as well as it looks it'll be the best of the bunch. Now? What sort of money are we talking about? Just a ball park figure.
There's nothing functionally wrong with Mitas tires. I dunno what you have against them, but they do what they're designed to do. What are you, a Trelleborg or Michelin fanboy? Being that it's a forage harvester, I would have preferred to see industrial-treads (cross between an Ag tire and a turf tire) on it instead of the Ag tires it comes with, but that's just to mitigate ground damage. The tracked variants do a perfectly good job of that as well, though.
This is a forage harvester. Those tires are never going to be under excessive weights, considering that foraging headers are generally much smaller than harvester headers, and there's no grain tank in the machine, which means it cannot be over-loaded on the front-end. Notice how they used Michelins on the back, where the counter-weight and hitch is? Michelins are great for handling heavy payloads, and they don't need a super beefy tire set on the front, so why use them? What they did makes perfect sense to me. Since the front-end will never see excessive loads, they used softer, cheaper tires for more traction and a lower end-price for the consumer, and if you think there's something wrong with that still, you're not seeing the big picture. "There's nothing wrong with them" is not just what I think. It's a fact. Use your head. If this was a combine harvester, I might agree with you, but nobody uses Mitas tires on the fronts of combines. Combines usually have Michelins, Trelleborgs or tracks on the front, because of the extra weight of the larger headers and grain tank. Every tire has its place. Even the ones you don't like. You not liking Mitas tires is an opinion. Me pointing out that everything has its place is a fact. There's a difference. We're not talking about Chinese tires here. Mitas tires are a high-end industrial product, with prices that reflect that. They're still more cost-effective for use in forage harvesters and 8-series and below tractors than their competitors, but those things are not cheap, and they are not to be abused. You act like you know something Deere doesn't, when it's fairly clear that they thought of that already, and designed the machine in accordance with what would be required of it. Why use a huge, gnarly and expensive tire on the front when a lighter, cheaper tire will do? On a forager, the only concern with the front tires is maximum traction, and that's what they went with. There's a reason why so many mud-trucks and Siberian haulers have Mitas tires on them, y'know.
Mitas = Continental, they will carry the same weight as the Michelin and Trelleborg tires...and it's a machine that will spend perhaps 3-5 % of it's life on the road... they will never wear out FFS.....!
never wear out lol. the road work these things do these days they will wear like hell, Michelin and Trelleborg would out last them twice over. why have Michelin make the back tyres and not have them make the fronts, talk about a mix match from new,
Lmao. Says it doesn't smoke... yet every video I see shows its smoking! It doesn't have a dpf. So every time the engine accelerates it smokes until the turbos spool. Typical sales guy. Should have said it still smokes but much less than the Cummins. The engines above 760hp still have higher emissions levels vs the smaller engines. Fyi FPT engines in new Holland have always been dpf free! Deere is just a copy cat
