Love the commentary. Love not having music blocking out the tractor and field noises. I wish more tractor videographers would do the same. Thank for a job well done.
I never miss your videos. I used to be a John Deere service manager and know more than most about agricultural machinery, but I didn't know what a walker combine was. I grew up in cotton country. This video, like all you videos, answered every question I had. A telemarketer or housewife could have easily explained what a walker combine was and why it was chosen after watching your work. Thanks again. No one does it better!
When I was a boy, the guy who farmed my grandparents' farm had a White combine. I would even crawl inside the threshing compartment when it was parked in the barn to get an idea exactly how it worked. I didn't know what type of thresher it had at the time, but your explanation of the combines in this video tells me that the old White that I used to crawl around inside clear back in the 1980s was indeed a walker type.
Straw out of a walker is the best. We had a 9550 until we sold it a couple years ago and got a 9770. We were so disappointed with the quality of straw out of the rotor that we bought a 9510 just so we could have good straw again. Thanks for showing some good looking conventional machines!
Absolutely loved the video ,it is always good to see these older conventional combines at work and the cutaway was great ,beautiful combines in good order ,thank you for all your hard work putting these together.
interman 77 my parents actually own these combines we do strictly custom with them the only reason we have the 9650’s is for the straw we upgraded our 9550 to a S670 and the S was almost as good as these. We also run a 9610 with a 25ft head
This was great and very informative has I often wondered when the Wasker style harvesters when out of vouge, What was the main reason? Was it efficiency, cost, etc. Great Video as always and the comentary is always a bonus
The 20ft seems to do well. When the 9500s were out allot farms in WNY ran 18ft heads. Straw production often makes more than the grain harvested in the region. In the fall many farms have a second larger head for soybeans. For example one area farm has an S660 they run a 922F head on for wheat and a 630 head for soybeans.
bigtractorpower my parents and I own the combines in the video and we run these heads in soybeans too. We also have a 9610 with a 925F and a S670 with a 630FD.
Thank u Big Tractor great Educational video 🤠I have said before I enjoy farming and watching the farmer work there equipment 😃And u take me there 😊Take care my friend 🐝
You don't see many of these walker machines in my area anymore. One neighbor had one for a while, but he moved on to a rotor machine. Really once Deere switched over to the dark side, there was no turning back. Older walker machines are still popular with us guys who bale straw, but a rotor machine will run circles around them if you don't care about the straw.
We used to clip the stubble with a 7 ft sickel bar mower mounted on a Ford 8n. Mowed in the opposite direction the combine went so we could clip the straw that was leaning over from the tires. Couldn't leave the stubble in the field, that would be wasteful.. lol
thanks for that video, i am just playing farming simulator 22 and got a JD9650STS in that game, found your video while searching for infos about that combine. If i would start farming, i think i would buy such a 9650STS ;)
I'm obviously showing my ignorance here, but is the reason for putting that tread on the steering tires make them better able to steer in marshy ground? If so, it surprises me, given all my years of seeing conventional two-wheel drive tractors with the front tires lacking aggressive tread, only ridges running parallel to the direction of the tire's rotation.
+beaver one the farm runs several bakers to keep three bale wagons rolling. All the tractors get hooked up on balers. You might see a 4020, 2240, 4440,7210,8130 and the 8300 out baling. I would rather be in the 8300 than outside on the 2240.
Looks good with those wide tires, combines should have wheels not tracks! BTW, how common are new walker combines in the US? Are they also fading away as in Europe?
They are not very common any more. In WNY where small square baling is popular farms ran 9650s and then 9660s. The last new 9660 was sold in WNY in 2005 and for 2006 that same farm went to a 9660 STS. After the 9660 John Deere introduced the 9660 WTS for North America as a small grain only combine which was followed by a T670 which initial used a 70 series cab and was upgraded to the S series cab. I visited a farm in California that ran two T670s. Unfortunately it was not harvest season so I did not get to see the T670s run. While I can not see much difference between a 9650 and a T670, John Deere markets them as small grain only and makes no mention of corn and soybeans for this model. That limits the T670 to the Norther Plains.
Great historical video, BTP. My only question for the people operating these machines: Why park the header wagon in the uncut crop? Was it just that hard to maneuver in the grass at the edge of the field?
The entrance to the field was a cut through a fence line and a creek. In order to get all the equipment in the first combine had to park in the wheat to get started. If you notice later in the video at the 5:43 mark the 9650s cross paths. You will notice the second 9650 moves across the headland and gets the piece of unharvested wheat where the header wagon was initially parked.
nice video I think they could use more ponies on that square baler! we have a big guy by use that runs two of them just for straw. the draw back on them was the walker change from the hundred series they shake them selfs apart.
Is the threshing cylinder spike tooth, or rasp bar? What is the arrangement of counter concave tooth/rasp bars are used - e.g. tooth spacing, number of rows, etc.? My point of reference is the much older JD 45/55/95 combines. I think these look similar - feeder housing, threshing cylinder, beater, then on to the straw walkers.
I am sorry I do not know for sure. I know allot about machine production years,, machine factory history and general specs off the top of my head. When it comes to the mechanics of a machine and tire size I am not very good. Hopefully another viewer can help fill us in.
Just a though here, but can't much of the issue of using rotary type combines scattering the straw too much to make proper wind rows be overcome if you followed the combine with a tractor pulling a rotary rake to put things back in order for the baler to follow?
We still are doing the same basic thing with our wheat except we are using an old gleaner L3. We use an accumulator to pick up the bales outta the field. The horse farmers like the conventional straw better than chopped straw.
This farm cuts over 1,000 acres of wheat with 4 combines. They travel over a wide area through several towns. It is easier to remove the headers when they move.
I don't live far from Rochester NY there's a big farm in Elba NY which is not far from Rochester there calls star growers they do few thousand acres same with Jeffrey's
Very cool. We have a video of the POD Squad harvesting Lima beans out in Kendall on the way. I have always wanted to visit Star Growers to see their Steiger line up.
The machine combines cutting and threshing. Before the combine grain was cut and bundle in the field. The bundles were carried to a thresher at the farm where straw was separated from grain. The combine made it possible to cut and thresh in one step.
It is not intentional. In the past I have narrated the video while I was filming. I am just starting to create some videos with a micro phone and voice over. It is taking some practice to get the microphone and the pacing to line up with the video.
bigtractorpower oh okay but I still love the vids, it's probably better to hear yourself in a nice quiet room than with tractors and such buzzing around, and you'll sound a lot clearer, and you can adjust the voice of your volume to make sure people can hear you a lot clearer and louder
It's a time saver as well. Trying to narrate in the field has several challenges. If I mess up s line a clip is ruined and I have to wait for the machine to make another pass. There are only so many rounds in a field so if I mess up a line I am losing ground each time to get a good shot. Also the sound is tough when I am getting s close up. The machine drowns out my voice. Now I can turn down the machine noise and turn my voice up.
ToluMolu Jha these are my family’s machines we do custom. And we use them for wheat, barley, oats, buck wheat, soybeans , high moisture corn, cob corn, and normal corn
