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Impressive

How many pickups are gonna drive by in the next hour or so 😂

From drought to flood 😂

@jwilgenburg1 I’ve just heard they’ll spend more time in the shop than the field which not something I want to deal with

@shanktc Yeah, buddy from when I was on harvest had 2 in Scotland and liked them but haven't heard many good things from this side of the pond. They run a Fendt CVT I believe but their own programming and it just isn't as good

@shanktc quit following us around lol

@jwilgenburg1 I’m sure some of them do, at one point I thought it would be nice to find a fastrac for a utility tractor but found out they’re kinda garbage but they’ll go 45 😂

@shanktc I would assume some of the 100-150ish HP tractors can go 30, just hard to find as nobody specs them like that

@jwilgenburg1 I just want something that goes faster to road the mower as far as we do.

@shanktc We run a 7R on one sometimes but they've also got like 15K hours. Nice to have the power for a 20' in big weeds

@jwilgenburg1 You’re gonna make me want to put a 360hp tractor on a batwing mower 😂

@shanktc A standard wheel machine but not a 50 kph machine. The Fendt will do 34 and we have a few Deeres that will do 31. New high hp 8Rs will do 37 I believe and I think some Fendts in Europe do 40+

@jwilgenburg1 Our 8370RT will go the same speed as a wheel machine, but I ruined a brand new track doing that so we keep it at 18 now.

@shanktc Yeah, I remember that a few years ago. I feel like they should've known better with choppers haha. Most track machines also don't go very fast and it adds up when going down the road a lot. Ironically our 740TT goes faster than the 750 on wheels lol

@jwilgenburg1 This was when they had the tiered program I can’t remember what it was called but it went away, had a tech tell me they had one loaner chopper and at one time 5 chopper’s in that program down. Yeah you don’t want to road a track that much, I think it’s better with wider tracks

@shanktc Which is ironic for how many tractors they're sitting on... Makes sense, we've contemplated tracks but the roading kills that option for us

@jwilgenburg1 21st century had that too, they never had any loaners available though. Wheeled, have enough flood we can’t go all track machines

@shanktc Haven't had to use it but they've also got a deal where they'll bring you a loaner if it's more than so many hours of downtime. Wheeled or 2 track?

@jwilgenburg1 3 years is more than Deere or Case. Getting a demo sometime this week, would be nice to try out on the planter but that’s to much work for 10 hrs

@shanktc I think they're hitting critical mass of having enough machines around to keep good techs around which is good. Yup, gold star base warranty is 3 years 3K hours and they do all the services in that window. Can extend it but not sure how far

@jwilgenburg1 Service been good? Salesman told me they do the oil changes and everything while it’s under warranty

@shanktc This one hasn't really had anything go wrong but it's also only has a hair under 1500 hours. Have a 930 on a feed wagon and it had a few things like a bad joystick but nothing crazy. Customization is pretty easy to me but some people get intimidated by the volume of options.

@jwilgenburg1 Had any problems? How easy is it to customize the layouts?

@shanktc 933, gonna tune it to a 942 eventually cause I need more power for the triple mowers in big sorghum. Though the way it's looking I won't need to do that this year...

@jwilgenburg1 That a 936?

@shanktc Claas combines, Fendt tractors, gotta keep it interesting

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@iamyourfarmer Isn’t the plural of corn, corn?

We grow corn, wheat, milo singular, but soybeans plural. Why?

If that’s not a record it has to be close

And it begins

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