JOHN DEERE 9RX 830 Tractor Working on Fall Tillage

Happy Tractor Power fans, this video comes to you from western Kentucky where an 830 engine horsepower John Deere Niner X 830 articulated track tractor is working on fall tillage with a 34 foot wide Wishek 862NT disc. This large tillage tool is equipped with 30 inch blades spaced at 13 inches apart and offers 1,080 pounds per foot on weight plowing up the ground. In this presentation I would like to share with you the tractor's production history, specifications, and baseless price tag as well as taking viewers who ride in the cab of the tractor to see its operation and talk with the operator. I would also like to take viewers who ride in a John Deere Niner X 640 tractor for a comparison on the large mid-sized Niner X compared to the top end model with this Niner X 830. But first let's head off to the field so of articulated 4-track tractors on February 28, 2024 as new products for model year 2025. The range in the HP series includes a 710, 770, and 830 horsepower tractor. They are manufactured at the company's Waterloo Works in Waterloo, Iowa. The Niner X 830 is the largest tractor that John Deere has ever produced. It's powered by an 18 liter, 1,098 cubic inch John Deere 18X engine that has dual turbochargers, air-to-air after cooling, and exhaust gas recirculation for clean engine solutions. It's rated at 830 horsepower and can provide a power boost up to 913 horsepower when the tractor encounters tough field conditions and offers 335 PTO horsepower when it's equipped with that option, which is an additional $23,543. This tractor is equipped with a 515.7 gallon diesel fuel tank and features a John Deere E21 21 speed power shift transmission with 21 forward and 11 reverse speeds, which allows the tractor to travel up to 25 miles per hour. The HP Niner X tractors come standard from the factory with 30 inch Camso Ag 3500 tracks. They can be equipped with optional 36 inch tracks that come at an additional cost of $24,133. When the Niner X 830 rolls off the assembly line, it weighs in at 74,000 pounds and can be fully field weighted up to 84,000 pounds. This tractor stands at 12 feet 5 inches tall and is 28 feet 9 inches long and has a wheelbase of 181.9 inches and a turning radius of 22 feet 3 inches. According to JohnDeere.com, for model year 2025, the Niner X 830 tractor has a base list price of $1,228,808. Beginning in model year 2025, the John Deere Niner X 830 is the company's largest tractor. Previously, the model Niner X 640 was the big tractor in the long green lineup and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the two machines side by side working in this field. Before we take a ride in the 830, let's review the Niner X 640. It's powered by a 13.6 liter 827 cubic inch engine rated at 640 horsepower. It's equipped with a John Deere E18 full power shift transmission and weighs in at 56,981 pounds off the assembly line and can be fully field weighted up to 67,000 pounds. It has a turning radius of 162.4 inches and this tractor is working with the same size 34 foot wide Wishick disc equipped with the 30 inch blades. I'm up in the cab of a John Deere Niner X 640 tractor working on fall tillage, turning under corn stalks to get the ground ready to plant my wheat. It's running here at just about six and a half miles per hour running a 34 foot Wishick 862 MT disc. This tractor is well matched to this big implement where I'm getting speed. The Wishick does an excellent job in just slicing the little stalks and comparing them which will help prevent disease carryover to next year's crop of winter wheat and it helps level the field out. We can see the Niner X 830 tractor is working just across the field and it'll be interesting to see how that tractor performs compared to the Niner X 640 on the same Wishick disc. I'm up in the cab of the John Deere Niner X 830. This is an impressive tractor and it is working on fall tillage. It's running here at about eight and a half miles per hour and we can see it's pulling this 34 foot wide Wishick 862 MT disc. It does a great job in turning those stalks over and burying them and the most impressive thing about the tractor right now is it's running two miles per hour faster than a Niner X 640 which is also working out here in the field with the same implement. This tractor is pulling it effortlessly just gliding across the field getting the tillage done. The other tractor does a good job but you know that big disc is back there and it just kind of makes the tractor ride slightly rough compared to this where this is just cruising along. We can see the tractor has excellent visibility with the large cab. It's a little bit wider and bigger than the Niner X 640 cab. It has the same two-stage mirror. Keep an eye on the tracks and the implement back there. It's using auto guidance. We can see here where it's painting dark blue where it's worked. The light blue is where the other tractors are. There are 10 big John Deere's and a Fendt out here working together. It's using auto steer. We're going to come up here to the headland and see it turn around and despite its size it can work right up to the edge. It's tight turning and then the auto guidance puts it back on that next 34-foot pass. So we're going up a slope here and even with that the tractors just slow down to about seven and a half miles per hour. It's just doing a great job. We can see those other Niner X's cruising across the field with 640s. So you've had the opportunity to run a lot of big tractors out here on the farm going up from 500 horsepower to this big 830 now over the years. What do you think of this tractor? It's a lot better. It's more smooth and then power steering is fine when they turn it. The other one is kind of hard when they turn it and you feel the power steering like trying to lock it in. But this is really smooth for anything. Turn it and across the field too. With this we're fine. I would like it to ride on the horse under the cedar. Yes definitely with that 60-foot cedar. Yes because we have a problem that can take us a lot of power on the tractor. They would have wanted to pot it for once. I'm a dreamer. Well kind of run at this speed and it looks like you could probably use a bigger implement but it's uh this is kind of maxed out but you're covering a lot of acres more per hour. You can climb up higher getting to nine miles per hour. It's like leaving a wake with a boat. Yeah that's really correct. So that's kind of reaching the limit of the implement as far as its effectiveness and making the seabed. Yeah I don't know what to do from the price with these. It's uh I rode in the 640 a little earlier because I wanted to compare but this one's way out ahead. Well I appreciate the ride along and it's a great tractor to see. I hope you've enjoyed spending some time out in the field with this John Deere Niner X830 tractor working on fall tillage with the Wishek 862NT disc. I would like to hear in the comment section below this video if you use John Deere track tractors on your farm tell me about the model that you're running and the implements that it operates. If you've appreciated this presentation I hope that you'll consider subscribing to Big Tractor Power YouTube where there's over 3,000 videos of farm machinery in action. As always thank you for watching.