Just had 2 days on a 9090 - having run 3 cr980's for 2 years, we're having two of these next year. Eat youre heart out Lexi 600's.

85-90 tonnes an hr at 12kmp and she still wanted more was staggering, God only knows what my late father would of thought, I remember him buying his first New Holland (Clayson) . 12' cut and cab-less, yet he was as pround as punch.

But if, like us you have some large acres to cover, scrap that ancient Lexi 600, The new king is born, Long live The King

i have to agree, fantastic machines, wouldn't go quite so far as to say scrap lexions but i deffo think these are better machines, ours had a software upgrade and the engine is doing approx 590hp, i think i would handle 40ft and still chop and spread perfect, how many acres you covering to warrant 2? we do over 1700 acres plus a fair amount of contract work and ours will do that easy

We're doing 5640 acres this year, up 25% on previous seasons. Previously (and this year) we've coped easily with 3 CR980's, but having trialed the new 9090 we've worked out that chopping the 3 in for two 9090's will do the job.

They have meant a few changes will be needed with our corn cart program, presently with the 980's we have a 24t chaser in the field carting to 2 lorries,plus 3 tractortrailer rigs (18t each) filling in. But in standing wheat 7 miles from home this set up will be stretched.

My only slight concern is the New Holland headers. Currently we have Viso headers on the 980's and the New Holland header we keep on one of the 980's does'nt hold  a candle to it. "Time will tell".

Horrible weekend we've just had, so we are now 10 days behind 2007. I fear alot of late nights coming up.

What have they improved from the cr9080 to get this extra capacity?

We have just got a cr 9080 elevation to replace our cr980 ,we are really pleased with it and it is a good 10% faster than its pre decessor.Can't wait to get it into the wheat to see if it will achieve the 25% output increase over the 980 claimed. Going to see the 9090 at the weekend.

Its a shame if they havent sorted the header out. Agree that the stadard NH one I have on our CX880 is a pile of poo. Why they cant buy Cheval and fit them as standard I dont know.

vibration is a pain on the headers, our new one is not so bad, our old one was horrendous.

have to say our new one so far seems very good much improved but i will agree the claas is still better header, strange thing is is that the harder you push the new one the better it is, a few days ago we could see the rain coming about a mile away and still had couple of bouts to do and i pushed it flat out the header coped no problem struggled more to clear the straw out the back if anything, would never drive at this speednormally but the crop was coming off so well really didnt want to loose any quality for the sake of a half acre

We find that with fit wheat and barley it likes to be full, but as soon as you hit some rape it was crap. Not too bad this year as it was dead as you like all the way to the root.

What headers are you guys running to experience vibration? We have a 9080 with 30ft extendable header which doesnt vibrate - im surprised by these comments? Only thing it does make is a loud noise when the front is engaged so weather thats normal or not would be nice to know.

 

what was the name of those headers that had the wheels either end which doubled up as the transport wheels, that was a hellish header! cant believe that a harvesting specialist like NH would not take action about these vibration issues,

 

we have run 30 ft vari feed headers on both the 980 and the elevation, the 980's vibration was so bad it caused the dividers to crack up and fall apart,as i said before the new one is much better but it still vibrates which is a pity because if you have the threshing gear running alone there is absolutly no vibration, the new sieve arrangement has cured that .

 

Vibration is'nt something Ive ever noticed on either the standard NH header, or the Viso. Are you sure its the header? take it off and run it at full tilt before jumping to that conclusion. Then start at youre rotor balances, my "you'll think Im mad" tip is if in the morning youre blowing the combine out, take a look at all the balanced flywheels and pullies - they've got weight holes drilled out of them for a reason, I always blow them out clean and any vibration I feel in the combine, goes straight away.

Twinkle  New Holland have changed a lot of things, some in minor ways and some in quite a big way.  To give you an idea of what they've changed in brief:

Engine, Cooling system, Fuel tank, Grain tank,  New Cutterbar, Seives, Rotor covers, Residue management system, Wheel and Track options, Intellicruise, Grain Cam, Visability Options, In Cab Screen and since this lot means that this is a wole new machine they have changed some of the tin work a bit too.

What headers are you guys running to experience vibration? We have a 9080 with 30ft extendable header which doesnt vibrate - im surprised by these comments? Only thing it does make is a loud noise when the front is engaged so weather thats normal or not would be nice to know. 

The NH 30ft varifeed header vibrates badly in my opinion. This is caused by the entendable table and the wobble box, the knife drive in particular causes a lot of vibration. Disconnect the belt or chain and its possible to pinpoint the source. The loud noise you hear when the header engages is NH idea of smooth start. This is a two sided lemon inside a 3 sided one on the PTO shaft thats connected to the straw elevator. A bit primitive but functional. After running this header for two seasons it is being sidelined. I can not think of one part of the header that did not break or fall off, a terrible unit compared to the previous make we ran for 3 years. Its favourite was the main side panel on the LHS flying open when unloading and hitting the chaser bin wheel, gone down the professional header route now, only time will tell

 

We are on our 2nd 30ft header in 2 seasons. Terrible vibrations, dividers falling apart, wobble boxes shearing off, side panels cracking etc etc etc. There is a new header that was on the NH stand at Cereals this year but i dont know of anyone that has used one or if they are any better.I know of a couple of Axial Flows that are experiencing the same problem as Case use the same header.

N H came to us last autumn with engineers from belgium to try and rectify the issue.We had aa mod done to the header at the end of this harvest which consisted of shimming the rails that extend the header,it has improved things but we still suffer vibration.

looked at the shelborn reynolds macdon and  the biso , that could be the way to go,the base unit is brilliant, why can't they get the header right.

We had a similar mod done and initial impressions were an improvement. The vibration was still there, with two rape knives on its comical watchin them buncing around when cuttin, not so funny when the in crop one rattled loose and fell off, but no harm done and after a quick refit it was off down the field again. The heavy duty header touted by NH is long over due, the only problem is it is not a proven unit. NH were quite happy to sell a unit they knew they had problems with. They would even admit they have problems with it, not much use to the farmer who is broke down in the field!! The heavy duty header would need to prove itself in the field before it could restore my faith in their headers. The CR combine is a good harvester, let down by a poor header.