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Post by Tim Carlson on Aug 31, 2010 20:56:48 GMT -5
I got to ride the biggest claas chopper claas makes. 12 row corn head. we were cruisen doing 4-5 mph. twin mercadies motors crankin out 860Hp. thing was pretty dang cool i think. This was a custom outfit from WI. Here is a link to a mivie of there outfit. I was not at this one but this is what they were running the day I rode. Minus one chopper they only had the big one with the 12 row where i was.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonvFG3lOsw. check it out its pretty cool. |
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Post by Tim Carlson on Aug 31, 2010 21:03:08 GMT -5
the 860hp was both motors combined..
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Post by sean on Aug 31, 2010 21:56:41 GMT -5
Sweet, ive never ridden in a chopper before. But with hay Im more of a Krone person than Class, always have been. Krone makes a bigger chopper though (just throwin this in) Big X 1000 @ 1020HP.
Sean
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Post by sean on Aug 31, 2010 21:57:35 GMT -5
BTW, were those H&S boxes and trailers?
Sean
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Post by Tim Carlson on Sept 1, 2010 13:45:04 GMT -5
they were a meyers trailer. They had 2 semi with em and 1 7430 with a little smaller one.
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Post by sean on Sept 1, 2010 15:38:54 GMT -5
Ok, thanks. While on the topic of choppers, Fendt is now in the chopper market with the new Katana 65, Mercedes V8 powered.
Sean
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Post by Quinton DeDecker on Sept 1, 2010 19:33:12 GMT -5
is it just me or is that 12 year old kid driving the deere handeling that tracotor pretty good for his age
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Post by Tim Carlson on Sept 1, 2010 20:23:06 GMT -5
Ok, thanks. While on the topic of choppers, Fendt is now in the chopper market with the new Katana 65, Mercedes V8 powered. Sean This one had twin mercedes I 6 in it.. |
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Post by Tim Carlson on Sept 1, 2010 20:25:31 GMT -5
is it just me or is that 12 year old kid driving the deere handeling that tracotor pretty good for his age Yeah that little guy was not at this field he was with his dad(owner of the crew) in IL.. But yeah they are pretty good from what i heard bout em. |
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Post by sean on Sept 1, 2010 20:45:26 GMT -5
Ok, thanks. While on the topic of choppers, Fendt is now in the chopper market with the new Katana 65, Mercedes V8 powered. Sean This one had twin mercedes I 6 in it.. Krone has twin V8's if I remember correctly. Its a beggining for Agco in the chopper market so we will se how it operates. Sean |
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Post by Tim Carlson on Sept 2, 2010 20:47:55 GMT -5
from what these guys said deere doesnt make a very good chopper. Thats why they got a claas..
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Post by sean on Sept 3, 2010 20:22:05 GMT -5
We dont have any Deere sp choppers round here, not really even any pull types. For SP 1 farm has a old NH. We have a custom crew with 1 Claas chopper. Where my grandpa works at sells Krone and theyve sold some Big X's there.
Sean
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Post by 774630 on Sept 13, 2010 22:40:28 GMT -5
the 980 is a heck of a chopper. but we've had nothin but trouble with the one we haul with. The darn thing is only on its 2yr and is broke down all the time. This yr has been alittle better than last yr but not much. the same guy had an 880 with close to 10,000 hrs and that thing ran as good when he traded it as the day it rolled off the line. I used to think the same thing about the deeres but when they got behind in Tx last week they called in back up and they had a 7750 deere that was runnin circles around the 900, dont think it can out do the 980 but it would be awfull close. they ran across the road from a Krone 1000 last yr and dad said there isnt anything that could keep up with that Krone though. lol.
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Post by Austin Stewart on Sept 13, 2010 23:16:02 GMT -5
Krone is testing an 1100 HP chopper now, supposedly there is one out in NE colorado right now.
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