Running New John Deere Combine (S7 900)

Back to the channel. You guys said, like last video, I bought too big a grain cart for my combine. And so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna fix that. I'll just buy a bigger combine. I'm joking. We got a demo here. Mark at Van Wall set up a demo so we could run a S7 900 combine 12 row to finish this field here. For my acres, it's something that is way too big, but on the YouTube channel to show everybody kind of how this new combine operates, some of the technology on it, to have it for a day, it'll be super fun to run with it. That's kind of the plan. We're gonna get in it. We got it for a couple hours and we're gonna try and push it to its full capacity here. Mark's the Van Wall salesman out in Marshalltown Van Wall and got us this demo. So do you think we can get 60 acres done today? If we can- If we can haul it away. If we can haul it away fast enough. That's the goal is what we're trying to do is get the other 60 acres done. Scott will teach you how to run it and you're gonna get something done. Scott's the technology demo guy. He's gonna run us through this whole combine. What we have here is a model year 25 S7900. So class nine machine. It's in the seven series coupled with a C12F. So corn head, 12 row folding. This is a stock master head. So it is a chopping head. If we don't want to chop, we can shut our chopping knives off. The big thing about this machine, when they look at it, it has what we call the X9 styling. So it has, you know, the different side panels on it that look like an X9. It has what we're affectionately referred to as the X9 cab. But the big thing we wanted to really touch on is up here, hanging by the mirrors, two pairs of stereo cameras where the cameras come into play. That's called predictive ground speed automation. We have a boundary around this field. It looks at biomass from satellite imagery. So throughout the summer, it's taking- It's looked at it all summer. Yep, and it says higher biomass directly correlates to higher yield. Then it's gonna bring in what we call a predictive yield map. After about 15 minutes of harvesting, say, okay, this is what I think it should be. This is what it is. Yep, okay, I'm all right to go. Then we can engage the predictive ground speed on there. We set a maximum miles per hour, a maximum horsepower, and it is going to adjust the speed of the machine. And then it's gonna use these cameras to look out in front and look for height differences. You know, if we have a drowned out spot in a field, everything's gonna be slower. So it's gonna be looking out ahead and it's gonna say, okay, I can go faster through that area. The idea is we don't want this combine to ever run really low on crop inside it because it does its best job when it's full. Yep, awesome. Well, let's check her out. We're all trained to slam the door on combines. Yeah. When you get done, just pull it, latch, and then let it go. You don't have to- We don't have to slam these ones anymore. So I pressurize cab. You're just running row sense? Yeah. Okay. This corn was pretty good until two days ago. Yep, it went down a little bit in that wind. Yep, I had too fast fungicide and everything on this high management and these two hybrids got wrecked. So we got some wind a couple of days ago and our stock quality is really horrible with southern rust disease. And it's not too bad where we are in part of the field and it's really just along the ends. But that's one of the reasons we kind of started a little earlier on corn. It's just because doing push tests, all these stocks were just falling over. And if we really got a lot of wind, some of these corn fields would probably be flat considering how much disease pressure we had this year. Super interesting to see a little wind come in and even this field that had two fungicide passes, tried to manage these well, still some corn blowing over here. Let's see, we've got our predictive yield map now. This is a bad spot, it's a hill. So all this is, we're right here. It's saying, hey, there's a little worse corn here. We're on just a little ridge over top of here. What's the corn running here? It's running good. Still around 230, 240. Right at the very top of it, it was 200. Four mile an hour, we're doing 4,000 bushels an hour, probably. Instantaneous, 32, 3,400. Just this pass so far, we're averaging 3,400. Gotcha. You have it where you get into poor quality corn with small kernels where it's tough to get a combine set. For me, at least, that's my toughest trying to get combine set in low quality corn. Yellow quality and smaller, really light corn, you really have to pay attention that you're not just blowing it out the back. You really have to play with the fan, which that's, with the harvest settings automation, it's gonna hit our loss centers back there in the back. It's gonna know that. So chances are, it's gonna adjust our sieve, chaffer, and our fan to keep it in the machine. Gotcha. Buck, go ahead and pull under the auger. Just does have the adjustable spout. Okay. So it's pointing straight out. That's the field position. When you're loading the field, do you try and run it with that pointed out then? No. You always run it down? It comes down to about 50%. Okay. Judge my grain tank sample, not by what piles against the back window, because every cob, every leaf, every stalk comes to the back window. I always let the tank get some in it. Pretty clean, at least. At least compared to what I usually have it at. There'd be 12. Let's see, are we gonna... Is that 12? Yeah. We'll be able to get these 12 off and then unload on the go on the way back, probably. How many end rows did you put on here? I put on 90 foot. 90 foot. Okay. I'm gonna hit this capture and I'm just gonna stop. Then we're gonna get out and we're gonna count seeds. Just stop at our travel. Okay. So I'm just gonna hit capture and I'm gonna stop right here. Gotcha. You're gonna see header loss. See what we have for header loss? Yeah, I'm looking for that one square foot. I shake it. Okay, so I've got, let's just call it four of header loss. Yep. Okay, so we'll subtract these from what we find behind the machine because I can't control this. The machine can't control this. I can only control that by adjusting the head. Yep. There is not, well... Not much. Five or six. But we'll be able to adjust this out. I've got six here or four there. Yep. That's literally, we're calling it two coming through the machine. Let's call it three. So then we go into our equipment mobile app. I'm gonna change it to corn. I'm gonna call this wet corn because we're in that 20. Yep. Our yield, that was around like 230, give or take. 230, yeah, 220. My area that I did is a one by one and I calculate my loss. That is 0.75% or 1.73 bushels. So now we're gonna take this number and we're gonna go up into the cab. Now this is basically calibrated. If it goes above that 4.4, then I'm losing more than my 1.3%. Gotcha. Makes sense. So now I'm gonna engage the predictive ground speed. All right, max speed of 4.5. I'm giving it 100% of our engine load. There's our 4.4, okay? Yep. 4.4 is a bushel, what we said was like 1.3%. But I'm half of that. And here's my foreign material. This has been where I've been running. This is my broken grain. But now I'm gonna engage what's called predictive ground speed automation. I am not using all my power and I have very little loss. This machine, I can pick this for in five mile an hour all day long. Gotcha. And not put anything on the ground and maintain my sample. So we're gonna be running this semi here and then we got a couple wagons. One thing that's gonna be tough is filling that big red wagon. You won't be able to see anything. Well, at least you got the weight on the axle. First load of corn going in this morning here. We should have no problem knocking this field out. It's about 60 acres of corn. We had a little bit of a blow over. So fields are dry enough. Should be able to get out of here with the semi. That tells you how much power the chopping head actually utilizes. It takes. That chopping head's using, what, it looks like your clog in there? I can throw it in too or you can try and plow it through or it's gonna go. So we're gonna unload. We're not gonna make it. Yeah, our wagons will have him follow and I'll cut a land. Perfect. So we're running turn automation here. It's skipping a pass here and then we're heading back on our next pass. There we go. We're loaded up again here. So we'll keep moving. Yeah, haven't had to stop too many times. I think once we had to wait. I better keep moving. Okay, so we're running her buck and the grain cart cannot keep up with us. So they're not able to keep up at all with the combine. So we're having to stop a lot. We're doing probably 35 to 3,800 bushel an hour. We're running four mile an hour, 12 row head. There's almost no way you can keep up even with a bigger grain cart. You just have to keep up with it. We got trucks. Yeah. We got corn spilling over the side. I thought I was good. There we go. Two grain carts or a little dinky grain cart would keep up with this at least. This is what kind of sucks with down corn is you pick up a whole bunch and it goes through the combine and it's wiggling its way through it looks like. That's why it's super nice to go get corn when it's good standing, has a little green to it, maybe a little higher moisture. If I had a bin site and dryer set up, I would be going, I'd easily be starting at 24, 25% corn and running full throttle then. It seems like is the move. I could be wrong. It seems like we always get these situations where windstorm comes up, weak stocks. So currently we're going and we're in a hybrid that tops are down. We're having a lot of trouble with down corn and having to get out, throw it over. I wish I would have got all this like a couple of weeks ago. We're getting it actually some better corn, two thirties, two forties, which for this year is pretty good. Carter ran the grain cart. What'd you think? We spilled a little corn. That was auto steer wasn't working. I blame it on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was drifting towards the combine. Exactly. And Buck's rolling in the grain cart, keeping us going. Yeah. Spencer's running right now. Cause we can't keep these trucks and these trucks and wagons going. So we're rolling and we got about probably 20, 30 acres left till we're done. So far this combines working awesome. I mean, runs fantastic, like automation, everything, technology of adjusting to it. It's just, we're not able to run it to its capacity. Not because we can't keep up with it right now, but just because I've got down corn and I've got to take it slow. Otherwise this corn piles all the middle, creates a huge ball and I got to get out, toss it in the combine and then keep going. This field was perfect just two days ago. And we had this field all ready to go and run it on this combine until we got some wind and some rain. Nobody has a fun time when you're cutting combine down corn. So especially when you got a demo that can run fast and you're like, hey, let's knock this field out quick and run it to its full capacity. So right now we're going 2.8, 3 mile an hour, just slow. Could be a lot worse, not complaining, but I mean, awesome being able to run this combine here and kind of see what it's capable of. So we've been loading in the field here just at the end of it. I mean, the ground isn't hard and dry. We got rain earlier this week, but dry enough where we can sneak out of here. And yeah, thankfully this field has a nice kind of entrance and plenty of room to work and everything. So this truck is a automatic for all the gears besides when you stop and start and when you're switching. So there's no, there's just buttons down here and then, yeah, right now it's going to be automatic. But when we come to a stop sign, I need to push the clutch in, put it foot on the brake. And then once we take off, I need to use the clutch too. So I don't know what you call it, semi-automatic, something like that. Got a little Jake brake here. We just leave it on all the time. It works decent and yeah, 10 speed. I've been going 25 mile an hour on gravel, 30, and works good. We're hauling it to those elevators off in the distance. As the crow flies, it's two and a half miles, but I don't know, it's maybe four or five by the time you get there. We're running this semi and then we're running the wagons too. And we're able to keep up with the combine. All right, now it's well into the afternoon. I think it's about four, 4.30. Buck's got a full load here. I don't know how many acres Grant has left, but it shouldn't be too much longer, I wouldn't think. Well, we have about 5,000 pounds extra every time. A little bit of a slope right now too. There's no adjust on the auger there. Sometimes it's tough if you get lined up weird and usually at the end, we got it straightened out. Sometimes it's wasted space here. Back up a little bit. You can just drag it off. Okay guys, we are done with this field. Got 60 acres done today. Finished the field off. Gotta give a big shot to Van Wall for letting us demo this combine, test it out. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video, seeing the combine in action. Class nine combine. We were originally supposed to get a class seven with an eight row head, but then this worked out to take the class nine combine with the schedule and where it was at. So, but super fun running it. Awesome to see it. And hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. Class nine combine running the S7-900. So, thanks for watching guys. I will see you guys in the next one.