00:00:00 Hey, we're coming at you from Temple Roads Farm here in Centerville, Maryland. I got Temple and I've got Adam ent. 00:00:04 We're talking about this awesome machine. It's the Fent ideal eight T. You told me there's about five cool things 00:00:10 that you would tell me if I'm coming to your dealership ready to buy a combine, why am I gonna buy this? 00:00:16 What are those five things that's gonna make me really excited about this machine? So, a couple of things we're gonna talk about today. 00:00:21 First, this combine is equipped with auto dock. That is our automatic header hookup feature. Second one, this is equipped with the ideal drive, 00:00:28 no steering wheel, all in a cab on this model. Another thing we'll talk about is the, the processor layout. So this design is quite a bit different from other 00:00:37 machines on the market. Uh, two rotors, but they're very long, very gentle on grain. Next thing that we'll talk about is the unload capacity 00:00:44 and the field efficiency that comes from having that big bin capacity and the unload rate that is, uh, 00:00:49 really at the, at the top of the market. And then finally, we'll talk about some of the things like, uh, uh, transport width, things that are important 00:00:57 to guys like Temple as they make it down some of these little fields and roads. Yeah. Got it. And by the way, we're gonna do an overview. 00:01:02 We're gonna look at each one of those things individually with Temple and he's gonna give the farmer perspective. 00:01:05 So stay with us. Let's go move on and take it the first, the first of that list right now. Alright, Adam, now let's go 00:01:10 and take a look at this processor. I'm a farmer. I wanna know how exactly this processor's gonna make me more money, 00:01:15 get me more yield and help me get through that field even more efficiently than I do with the existing combine I have. 00:01:20 That sounds good. So this machine is a two rotor machine. We've got two rotors that are about 16 feet long. 00:01:26 The benefit of that is we've got really a lot of length there and a lot of area that allows us to gently separate, uh, thresh and separate that grain. 00:01:37 One of the things we hear back from a lot of farmers is this is giving me the best quality that I've had out of a combine 00:01:43 because we have the length to do that separation, the length to allow that to work efficiently. 00:01:47 That also increases our, or allows for better fuel efficiency. The Incline on this rotor is a lot, you know, straighter than 00:01:55 what is on conventional rotors. Yep. What conventional rotors have a lot of incline to 'em and they use that. 00:02:00 Yep. So they're not, you're not doing that. You're making just throughput. Yep. I think that that's what this machine is known 00:02:06 for is for the throughput. That's right. And it's because of the size of the rotors and the flatness of the rotor 00:02:11 That That's right. We're, you know, I mean, we have a big incline in ours, so you're fighting that all the time. Yep, 00:02:16 That's right. Hey, I got a question for you. Yeah, go ahead. I got a question for you. He ran yesterday. 00:02:20 You guys ran this yesterday to get some things dialed in on this field. We're standing right now. If I grabbed the corn out of 00:02:25 that hopper, could I actually see a difference in grain quality from a combine from 10 years ago? Yep. You, You really can, when you look at this machine, 00:02:32 the green quality is much, much different than what you know. First of all, less 00:02:36 Cracks, less damage. Their, Their, their cleaning system is a lot different than a lot of the cleaning systems that are out there on conventional 00:02:43 combines that, that are around the cleaning system starts way up here. You know, other cleaning systems 00:02:48 don't start till way back there. Okay. They pull it through the rotors so we have a longer, they dump it back there. A longer 00:02:53 Area of clean. Yep. And so do I get less damage? Yes, we do. And one of the things that we will notice is if, 00:02:59 we'll look at the grain tank sample that that we took yesterday is very little cracked corn. Okay. Very little foreign material. 00:03:05 This combine was doing an excellent job in these conditions of having almost a perfect tank sample. Alright. 00:03:10 I'm excited about auto dock. You're excited about auto dock. He's a guy here in Maryland where he takes the header off a lot to get 00:03:15 through these fields and then these smaller roads and all this and around this bay. Next we're gonna take a look at the auto dock. 00:03:22 Now we're talking about auto dock. This is a pretty important feature when you think about as the farmer, why do I care? 00:03:28 Why does this matter? Let's talk about, first off, what I would've done before this system when it comes to taking my head off 00:03:34 and taking it and putting it back on. Well For me, let's say I'm done a field and I'm pulling out, I'm going up to my trailer. 00:03:41 Mm-Hmm. I'm screaming at the truck driver or Alexander or Temple or whoever. 'cause I need my shaves unhooked. 00:03:48 I need to unhook my electric. I gotta unhook the, the, the latch. I'm the my hydraulics and I've got shaves on both sides. 00:03:55 So you gotta get the shaft on this side and the shaft on this side. I'm not saying that it's a real timely process, 00:04:00 but it is kind of a pain. Yeah. And when you're moving from smaller fields or going from field to field 00:04:05 and you live in a populous area, if you're in the middle of the boondocks, you can just probably leave the 00:04:10 head on and go down a dirt road. Yeah. But that doesn't happen here. I got a 16 row corn head. There's a 12 row. You 00:04:15 Can't go down, you can't go Anywhere. And we're not folding either. So Adam Baird, there's a whole lot of stuff going on here. 00:04:20 I've got electronics. Yep. I've got PTO shafts right here. I've got, um, hydraulics. There's a lot going on. 00:04:26 How That's right. How do we simplify this? Yeah. So as Temple was walking us through, you've got really three main processes that you have to do. 00:04:32 Uh, in order to hook up a head manually. You've got the hydraulic and electrical coupler, you've got the PTO shafts 00:04:39 for the head, whatever design that is. And then finally you have the head Side, usually one on each side, Right? Usually 00:04:43 one on each side. Yeah. Right. So what this system does, the auto dock system takes all three 00:04:47 of those different things and automates that process. So from one touch, we have a, uh, hydraulically actuated extension of the, 00:04:56 the electrical single point and hydraulic single point coupler. This one will come together. 00:05:00 We've got the hydraulic actuation of the PTO shafts. They're gonna extend out and made up with the head and then finally hydraulic locking of that header. 00:05:09 So we took that process that if we've got good help, maybe that takes us five or 10 minutes if we don't have good help. 00:05:16 Yeah. That takes much longer. If we're in a bad sweat on the field, uh, that takes that whole process down to a matter of seconds. 00:05:21 Got it. One touch from the cab, all of that comes together. Uh, really what's left to you is 00:05:26 somebody's got undo your tiedown straps. Yeah. If I can drop the head in minutes, you know, and run to the next field, it's saving a lot of time. 00:05:33 And think about if I save myself 10 minutes per hookup, I may hook and unhook the head four times a day, six, seven times a day, going to wherever. 00:05:41 Yeah. I've saved myself now an hour. Yeah. Okay. Auto dock at a Baird from Fent. Is there anything besides temple's perspective on auto 00:05:49 dock that would be important to me? The purchaser of this combine as a farmer? Well, One, one other thing, uh, that 00:05:54 that comes up a lot in conversations is like Temple said, when we're connecting three and four 00:05:58 and five times a day at different fields and different locations, sometimes we just get in the position where we have 00:06:04 to get the head on the combine on the side of a road or in, uh, in the way of traffic flow. And at that point when we can do this in a matter 00:06:10 of seconds without any of our other people running around in that spot, uh, 00:06:15 it can be a much safer operation for everybody Involved. He's got a great point to that because I can't tell you 00:06:19 how many times that we've grabbed a head and somebody was standing right here where you are, Damien, and we dropped the head off the trailer. 00:06:26 That's happened multiple times and you get away and you barely get away with your life. That's, that's a major feature. 00:06:32 Somebody doesn't even have to be here. Yeah. I like that. Alright, we talked about the grain tank and unloading capacity. 00:06:38 That's where we're going next on this f combine. Alright, we moved on now to talk about unloading capacity over our heads is a 32 foot 00:06:48 length, 18 inch diameter auger. You're talking about getting a whole bunch of grain outta that combine and into the catch buggy 00:06:55 or grain cart, whatever they might call it in their part of the world. This is big. Yep. And this is fast. Yep. 00:07:00 Talk to me Adam Baird. Yeah. So 485 bushel grain tank with a six bushel a second unloader. So that is, uh, you're moving 485 bushels, 00:07:09 half a truckload at just over 80 seconds is what it takes to unload that. Uh, there's a, a tremendous amount 00:07:15 of benefit in field efficiency for the farmer. Not only can we make it farther in the field before we have to call that cart, 00:07:21 but we can get that grain off faster to make that process of getting the cart to the truck more efficient, easier for 00:07:26 That's a pretty major deal. Getting it off the combine and getting it onto the grain cart and getting the grain cart back to the truck. 00:07:32 Getting the truck outta the way. That takes a lot of time. Like, you know, what we're used 00:07:36 to is we're unloading on a cart and say mine holds, uh, roughly 400 bushel. Well, by the time that I'm done unloading Yeah. 00:07:44 I put 550 bushels on the grain cart. Right. That's a problem. If I can get 500 bushels off there like that and then hurry up and get him, get him to the um, truck 00:07:55 and get the truck out the road, I'm wasting less time in a field. Adam. It's remarkable the kind of yields we're talking about, 00:08:01 especially these guys like extreme mag, they're talking 250, you know, plus bushel corn. 00:08:06 It doesn't take long to fill it up at 4 85 bushels. Yep. It almost makes you wonder. That's a lot. 00:08:11 But my goodness, you still need more. Yep. So if, if we're in, uh, let's say 280 bushel corn and, and we're running pretty good, a lot 00:08:19 of times a guy can have, uh, a grain tank full every, let's say five minutes. And that's a, a semi load every seven to 10 minutes. 00:08:26 So you think about the number of cycles that these guys are making, anytime you're unloading you're using more 00:08:32 fuel, you're using more power. So if that unload time with some competitive machines takes time and a half or twice the time to unload the same amount 00:08:39 or less grain, that's a huge efficiency boost to those, to those operations. Got it. And when you get done with this field, 00:08:44 you gotta go down the road, not just the other car, but you gotta get this machine down the road. And one of the things that you told me if I'm buying this 00:08:49 combine that I'm gonna be excited about is it's a little bit more narrow than some of the bigger machines. 00:08:53 That's right. Let's go look at that. Absolutely. Alright, we moved over here to the front. Now you folded up the head 00:08:59 and you also brought down the grain tank, uh, extensions if you will. This combine just got small. I'm ready for transport. 00:09:06 A guy like Temple has to move a lot. This is a big feature. Yep. Absolutely. So out here in this part of the country 00:09:12 and a lot of others, we've got very narrow roads back to some of these older farms and fields. Uh, we're dealing with a lot of the general public 00:09:20 and they're hurry to get to town. This combine in it, in this configuration, we're just under 14 feet in width, 00:09:27 which is much narrower than a lot of other machines. So that has a lot of benefits. And That's not the head is that That's the head 00:09:33 That, that that's the combine the head's add another couple of feet in this Situation. Yeah. Right. So we could drop this 00:09:37 head and so we're at 14 feet without the head and this'll fit down most of your Roads. Yeah. I mean mine is 00:09:42 closer to 18. Yeah. And when we're running down the road with duals on and stuff, so I mean I'm pretty wide, 00:09:48 but like, like he said, it's not just narrow roads. We've got a lot of traffic around here. Yep. We've got that. We go down major highways, 00:09:55 dual lane highways are these things. And you should see the line of traffic behind us. Yep. And it's because we're taken up from the shoulder 00:10:01 all the way to the center line. Yep. Like we got it all. So it, it's pretty nifty that the, 00:10:07 you're narrowing it down this far that we can get up and down here and be safe. There's tons of accidents on the roads nowadays. 00:10:15 Theirs was, uh, three or four different accidents where cars, tractor trailers, nighttime moving, all those things. 00:10:21 You know, we really shouldn't be moving at nighttime, but a lot of times we have to. Yep. It's less traffic. That's a safety issue for me. 00:10:28 Absolutely. Adam, I gotta tell you that I live in a more populated area. Uh, maybe not as much as here 00:10:32 where Temple is in Maryland, but, um, There's three people living in this county. I, I I I live in a more populated area. 00:10:37 And I'll tell you if I think this is a big issue because for my entire life and your entire involvement in agriculture all over talking 00:10:43 about bigger is better, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. It's time that we start talking about let's get small so we can actually safely get down a road 00:10:49 and get to the next operation. That's right. Even with the track configuration or duals configuration, whatever that is. 00:10:56 Our, our road speed is 25 mile an hour. So, you know, we don't have any limit on, on uh, having the tracks or wheels. 00:11:02 That really gives us an another piece of efficiency to be out there on the road to, to keep moving down the road within, uh, the confines 00:11:08 of the traffic patterns and everything else. We Only make money when we're in the field running. That's right. Get me there quick. 00:11:13 Yep. Adam, you gave me five things when we started this segment that if I was coming into your showroom to look at buying one of these F combines 00:11:20 and the fifth thing was ideal drive. That's right. What is it and why do I care as a farmer? Ideal drive is our joystick steering that's steer by wire. 00:11:28 That's removing the steering wheel from the cab. A lot of benefits to the operator from that. So it's not a skid steer. It's not, 00:11:33 it's not, it's not two joysticks. It's Joys. Joyst. Yep. It's two joysticks, but one's operating the head 00:11:38 and the other one's operating the machine. I thought it was gonna be totally uncomfortable, but I test drove uh, one of these when I went out 00:11:45 and out to the F plant and I, I tell you, it was way smoother than I would've ever thought. Yep. I thought that you would get 00:11:52 this, you know what I mean? Like moving back and forth like you get with a skid loader and that's your first assumption. 00:11:57 Yeah. Like a skid loader. It's nothing like that really. Let's just show you how it works. Smooth. Alright. 00:12:02 We've been hearing about Ideal drive. Now we're sitting in the cab with Temple Roads. Uh, you look pretty comfortable. 00:12:08 I am. I got no steering wheel with this big thing in front of me. I mean, Would you really sit like that? 00:12:14 Yeah. I'm, I, when I ran this thing out west, I, I literally, I sat like this. If you're gonna spend 16 hours a day in here 00:12:19 or 12 hours a day or whatever it is, this is a pretty comfortable situation. This is no different than my bark lounge 00:12:24 or at home or my lazy boy. So what, Uh, Adam told us from Fent this your first reaction if you're a farm kid is, oh, it's a skid steer. 00:12:31 So I'm in here doing this. Uh, or, or the uni loader where you're also operating a bucket with your like this. Yeah, you 00:12:37 Would think, you would think that it's like that. But I mean this is still the same. It's very much similar to our other combines. 00:12:43 You know what I mean? Here's forward, here's backward and then you have all the same functions. Mm-Hmm. So it's very normal to what we're 00:12:49 Used to running. Okay. Now I don't have a steering wheel right here if I wanna turn left and right. 00:12:52 No. So it's right Here. That's what this is on your left hand. So You're running left and right. 00:12:56 So I mean if you're running straight, you're not doing anything. And Then these are turn signals. Those 00:13:00 are just turn signals. There's even a horn up on the front. Yeah. That, that's from other combines. The other. 00:13:04 And you run different brands. You've got two different brands on your farm. There's the, the header controls and all that. 00:13:11 That's pretty close to the same. It's all basically it's the same as the rest of 'em. So it's very comfortable for a guy to get in here. 00:13:18 You would think that it would be uncomfortable to not have a steering wheel. Mm-Hmm. But it's really not. 00:13:22 I mean with this, I was surprised how smooth it was. 'cause the first thing I thought was what you thought skid steer. 00:13:27 Right. You know it does this. Yeah. Well you're not going like this. This is just left and right 00:13:32 and it's extremely, I mean it's comfortable. And look at the visibility in my combine, I can't even see that center point. 00:13:39 Right, because it's behind the steering wheel and it's behind the main steering column. Yeah. So you don't even get to see that. 00:13:45 I can see everything that I wanna see sitting up here relaxing. Like I'm in my lazy, I do like the visibility and that's a big thing. 00:13:51 Headers keep getting bigger. You're talking about, you know, 16 row head, which is, this is a 12, but you're talking about visibility 00:13:56 and I can see that'd be a big issue. Anything we missed here about Ideal drive? No. I can't wait to see this thing in the field. Danger 00:14:01 Of you falling asleep, getting too comfy Probably. All right. That's it for the overview. 00:14:06 Now we're gonna take this to the field and you're gonna see how this machine works and performs and he's gonna run it. 00:14:10 And there's even a chance I might run it. I thought you told me you were gonna run it. You never Know. We're gonna watch Damien 427 00:14:13.925 --> 00:14:15.005