Harvesting to the Power of X

posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 in News/Blog

Schrock Farms, near Holdrege, NE, put the John Deere X9-1100 to test the maximum harvesting capacity for the second year in a row. Tom got in the X9-1100 with a C16R corn head at 9:06am for a total of 13.5 continuous hours and never looked back!

• 366.4 Total Acres Harvested

• 101,554 Total Bushels Across the Scales in 13.5 hours

Click here to view the X9 in action!

Equipment and Technology:

• 2021 X9-1100
• 1100 LSW Tires
• 2020 C16R
• Opposed Stalk Rolls
• Non-Chopping
• 9 Semi Trucks
• 3 Grain Carts

Settings:

• Chaffer 24
• Sieve 23
• Fan 1430
• Concave 30
• Rotor Speed 450

Location and Run Time:

• Holdrege, Nebraska
• Two 320 Acre Fields - 4 Miles Apart
• Center Pivot Irrigated with Dryland Corners
• Yields - 290 bu/ac and 264 bu/ac
• 9:06am Start Time
• 10:36pm Stop Time
• 13.5 total Hours Harvesting
  

Summary:

8 hours

• 61,981 bu - 7,748 bu/hr
• 58,271 - 7,283 bu/hr (X9-1000 harvested in 2020)

10 hours

• 77,717bu - 7,772 bu/hr

12 hours

• 91,850bu - 7,654 bu/hr

Total (13.5 hours)

• 101,554 Bushels
• 7,522 bu/hr
• 366.4 Acres
• 27.14 ac/hr
• 97 Semi loads

Conditions:

• 20 MPH winds, 40-50°F
• 250-320 bu/ac, 14-17% moisture, 59lb test weight
• Light rain shower the evening before made starting conditions tough
• Stalks in lower-yielding field allowed combine to pick clean
• Tough stalks early in the day had some cases of row unit plugging at 7mph slowing us down
• Stalks in 2nd field were very dry and brittle where combine took in a lot of trash
• Total header/combine losses were between 0.5-1 bu/ac
• Grain quality was very clean with minimal cob in tank for such open settings
• First field was baled so windrowed
• Second field was spread
• Some rough terrain/rolling ground
• Less than 4° slopes

Total Loss - Combine + Header:

• 0.5-1bu/ac or less

Grain Quality: 

• Clean Sample
• Very Little Grain Damage

Productivity:

Total

• 7,522 bu/hr
• 197 acres over 8,000 bu/hr
  • 54% of the time
• Second field was higher-yielding, but rougher terrain and took in a lot of trash from brittle stalks

Average Speeds

• 5.89 MPH While Harvesting
• 9.85 MPH Headland Turn Speed
  New map capabilities in your Operations Center Account on November 10th – Example below – Yield / Fuel Productivity
  

Fuel Efficiency: 

• 351.3 gallons in 13.5 hours
• 0.95 gal/ac
• After 12 hours, we stopped for 7 minutes to refuel to get to 100,000
  New map capabilities in your Operations Center Account on November 10th – Example below – Yield / Efficiency
  

Fluid Efficiency: 

Diesel Fuel Consumption

• 351.31 Total Gallons
• 26.02 gal/hr
• 0.96 gal/ac

DEF Consumption

• 14.2 Total Gallons
• 1.05 gal/hr 
• 4.96 Fluid oz/ac

Power:

• 100% JDLink power is displayed as peak power (690hp/515Kw)
• X9 1100 Rated is 603hp/450kw
• Average power while harvesting is 96.76% (668hp/498Kw)
• Unloading continuously allows harvesting beyond rated power and remain at rated speed