Watch this John Deere 8820 Titan II combine harvesting corn in northern New York. The combine has floater tires and an 8 row corn head. Follow us on Instagram: @tractorchasers
I love this upload since you included the behind-the-scenes of your hard work! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
Awesome video and nice find. I grew up drooling over the Titans...seeing them displayed at Monroe county fair and empire farm days in WNY. We owned a 6620 Turbo at one point, now have 9500&9550. I love seeing videos of the classics working and you’re right, this one looks really good with those huge floaters on it.
Keep your 9550...I went to a S680...While the creature's comforts are nice ..it is the hardest combine I've ever had to set. It only stops throwing out the back when the corn is under 21%.
@@EDBZ28 We're 100% corn...so it's a little more combine than we need. Going from a 9500 to a 700 hour S680 was a huge leap. Oddly enough only a 2 mph difference in 200+ corn. In 120bu they were only 1 mph different. Set right the 9500 could really fly.
The 8820 is running at about 3-4 miles per hour from the looks of the video. He could probably go faster if he wanted to. I've seen a video with an 8820 going 6 mph in 200+ bushel corn theoretically at about 2900 bu/hr. Just gotta be careful not to plug the clean grain elevator!
Keep the belts up to date and zero re-threshing...if you have nothing but cobs going into the combine...these oldies can really fly. In fact we tried an S670 with the same head as our 1995 9500. Side by side the S670 was 1.3 mph faster. But had the corn been 240bu plus, it would have been much different.
@@tf7274Not sure I understand, so you had a 670 w/ a 6 or 8 row head and you were going like 4 1/2or 5mph? You couldn't go any faster, or you chose not to go any faster? We had a 680 and not always, but I had a JD 12 row and I was in between 220 to 240 bushels an acre a running 6.5 up to 6.8 on the top of the big hills as the yields were down in the low 220's
@@chipwinningham5515 At 31% we couldn't do more than 5mph with an 893. But once it got to 19% I got to 6.4...depending on the hybrid. We need different separator grates in the back. Too much material going thru the machine.
With my 88 20 Titan to combine I could average 3.2 mph with a 12 row 22 in corn head and 165 bushel corn. I might have been able to go faster but there's just so much corn coming up the clean grain that it was afraid of plugging it up
Thanks Rick! I’m not sure on yields but most farmers have been happy with the yields for a drought year. This field had wet spots and dry spots so the yield was very different throughout the field.
It is. They were built at a time when 160 bushels an acre was a good yield and 200 bushels was what got boasted about at the coffee shop. 2 mph should still be doable though.
It's going a lot faster than 1.3mph. Everyone turned the power up on those combines back then making well over 300hp. We had a topper on ours that was bigger than that one. It went to the far edges of the bin not sitting a couple feet from the edge like this one. It supposedly held over 300 but it really only held 290 bu before it became cab corn. Those tip tops would also prematurely wear out the upright auger very quickly pushing the grain up. Also the gear box went out every 2 seasons. The limiting factor on these combines wasn't power at all but the clean grain elevator couldn't handle the amount of clean grain the combine could produce. Needed to be a good bit bigger. It could eat up some wheat. Corn was limited to that elevator capacity
Not sure how the 8820 jd and 860 compare. By both what they can take in and save out the back. I had two 860's. One a 1984 and the other a newer model. I think the older models of those were better. They started adding to much fancy s#!t on them after that. Personally Imo, Jd in no way hurt Massey. Rather, Massey did it to themselves in the finance department. If they started making 860's again, I would buy them. But since they don't, and mine are getting past due date, I have been looking at a few jd 8820's. Or 9610's for replacement. Anything newer is just ridiculous pricing.
I know that because I had the one in the US went to get seal kits for lift and John Deere dealer couldn't figure out why it had bigger cylinders so they ran the serial # and he showed me where it said that and no seal kits available so we had to go to salvage yard and buy a pair of another 8820
My thoughts EXACTLY! A 1480 would eat that thing alive. Decent machines, no doubt, but separation and cleaning capabilities, (and ease of repairs).......Hands down.....IH.
OH Yeah, it's not for sale. Ya see when you get ahold of an unstoppable Green Machine like this, hell, when we are done harvesting we just drive it around town as we know it's the best looking multipurpose machine (combine / and a 4 x 4 green truck when you just need to run to Walmart for a few things!) But yeah these are not for sale!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
