9600 John Deere Combine Pros and Cons

Anonymous-0 · Aug 31, 2012

Looking at a 9600 combine whats the good and bad of these machines? Upgrading from a 6600. Will be running around 350 acres of corn threw it a year and maybe 100 acres of beans. Thanks Brad

JDseller · Aug 31, 2012

WAY too big for your operation. IF you don't have at least a 8 row corn head and have good corn it will not do a very good job. You have to keep these combines full to do a very good job. They are a great soybean machine. Again you need at least a 20 ft head and a 25-30 would be better.

I am willing to bet that you found a cheap one and are just ready to jump on it. They are cheap because they are kind of a misfit after they get older. The big guys don't want an older machine and they are too big for the little guys.

A JD 9500 would be a better fit. They will out sell the JD 9600. I also have found that for the same hours a JD 9600( JD 8820 was the same) will have a lot more wear as they usually had larger headers. SO for the same amount of hours they may have done 30-40% more acres. Combine wear is by the acre/bushel not the hours

ford farming · Sep 1, 2012

jd seller is right if you dont keep machine full it will throw grain out . 8 row corn unless you like to shell almost 7 mile hour with 6 row. 25 ft head for beans ans wheat. other than that they are great machines.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 1, 2012

Just bought a 8 row planter and some where in the 180 to 200 bushel corn the past three years and expecting the same this year.

JDseller · Sep 1, 2012

Brad in that kind of corn with an eight row head the JD 9600 will do fine. Are you set up to handle 3000 bushels per hour of corn coming off the combine??? That machine in 200 BPA corn will do that easily. I have seen them in good dry corn do a 1000 bushels in 15 minutes.

oldtanker · Sep 1, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:33:46 08/31/12) WAY too big for your operation. IF you don't have at least a 8 row corn head and have good corn it will not do a very good job. You have to keep these combines full to do a very good job. They are a great soybean machine. Again you need at least a 20 ft head and a 25-30 would be better.

I am willing to bet that you found a cheap one and are just ready to jump on it. They are cheap because they are kind of a misfit after they get older. The big guys don't want an older machine and they are too big for the little guys.

A JD 9500 would be a better fit. They will out sell the JD 9600. I also have found that for the same hours a JD 9600( JD 8820 was the same) will have a lot more wear as they usually had larger headers. SO for the same amount of hours they may have done 30-40% more acres. Combine wear is by the acre/bushel not the hours

LOL JD is right. In my neck of the woods the 9600 is called a 9600 seeder because our soil conditions will not produce 200BPA without heavy fert applications and irrigation.

Rick

Anonymous-0 · Sep 2, 2012

Thanks for the info. Is there anything else I need to look for
and yes it's close to home just looking. Would like to find a low
hour good shape 7720 also been looking at CIH 1680.

Huskers86 · Sep 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:41:39 09/02/12) Thanks for the info. Is there anything else I need to look for
and yes it's close to home just looking. Would like to find a low
hour good shape 7720 also been looking at CIH 1680.

I think you'd do good with a 1680. You can put a 6 row on it and travel faster or prefferably an 8 row. The 1680 rotor combine will do a much better job than the green conventional and won't throw corn out the back at faster speed with a small head. I have a neighbor that always runs the biggest caseih machines with a 4 row head so he can drive faster and has had good results. I personally think it is a waste of fuel making extra passes but to each his own.

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