Experience with the Fendt IDEAL Combine: First Impressions and Review
7 Nov 242m 50s

Temple takes a deep dive into the performance of the Fendt IDEAL Combine. In this field test, he puts the machine to work on dry-land corn with a 12-row header, evaluating its efficiency, comfort, and overall operation.

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00:00:00 So now we're in the ideal combine and uh, this is a eight, this is a eight T so it's handling this 12 row head. 00:00:07 It needs a lot more head than what's on this thing. This is dry land corn, but it's doing a nice job. What I like about it the most is the 00:00:15 sample coming out of this thing. This thing has a massive amount of cleaning capacity, so it does a lot better job than what I thought 00:00:24 that it was gonna do as far as cleaning the samples super clean, this thing's super quiet. I didn't know if I'd like that without the steering wheel 00:00:33 deal, but it's pretty smooth. It doesn't get, it's not earthy jerky or any of that. So I'm pretty impressed with that. 00:00:41 What I like probably the most out of this combine is, you know, when we get in situations where it's wet or it's damp or conditions change, you know, 00:00:51 we're constantly resetting on these machines all the time and we're sitting on 'em and playing with 'em all day long. 00:00:58 So the way this combine's set up, it has a big window where usually our windows are really narrow, where we're constantly resetting stuff all the time. 00:01:07 I don't think that you're gonna see that with this combine as much because of the amount of capacity 00:01:11 that's in these machines. So, as far as that goes, I'm pretty impressed with that. I was a little bit nervous about the whole not having the 00:01:19 steering wheel, but as far as I'm concerned it's pretty good. When we first got in here, 00:01:24 I was a little bit nervous about it 'cause it seems like a lot's going on, but it's really not that much going on. 00:01:30 It's not as much as what you think, but you know, it's far as walking through the calibrations and stuff like that, just like any other combine. 00:01:38 But it does walk you through it. It gives you a lot of information that sometimes you think you might not need, 00:01:44 but it's valuable information when you go to try to tweak on machines. You know, with the, the ideal drive 00:01:49 and not having steering wheel in this machine, I was pretty nervous about it and I, like I said, it is a little bit different 00:01:56 and here I am, I got a joystick on the side that I'm turning with instead of with a steering wheel, it doesn't turn quite 00:02:02 as sharp as what a, you know, a steering wheel one or a, I think that it has a lot to do with, this one's got tracks on, 00:02:09 so I don't know if it would be different. It takes a second to get used to that, but once you get used to that 00:02:14 and you make your, you make your turns, it's really not that big of a deal. A lot of these operator comforts just like 00:02:21 that one little thing I did, I just turned that just a little teeny bit right there and that right there on that glow yellow button here, 00:02:28 and it's putting my hogger out, you know, and then you use that same function to just tap it in and you're dumping on the go. 00:02:35 So, you know, that's on my machine. That's two different functions. That's two different buttons that you're pulling with. 67 00:02:43.075 --> 00:02:44.525

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