50ft JOHN DEERE HD50R Draper Harvesting Soybeans

In this video Big Tractor Power spends time out in the field with two 690 hp 460 bu. JOHN DEERE X9 1100 Combines equipped with 50ft JOHN DEERE HD50R Draper Heads. Watch these combines clear off 50ft of soybeans per pass while unloading on the go at 5.3 bushels per second with 620 hp John Deere 9620RX Tractors and 1,000 bu J&M 1150 Grain Carts. This video shares the X9 combine and 50ft hinge draper heads production history, specifications, price tag and takes viewers for a ride in the combines' cab.
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[@T.WorkingMachinesTV93]

The John Deere X9 1100 is truly amazing. With 690 horsepower and advanced technology, it turns harvesting into an efficient and precise machine. Its sleek design and advanced features have set a new benchmark in agricultural machinery.

[@Jayhawk226]

Combines are so impressive. How folks came up with and improve on that technology is awesome.

[@jamesgrace7278]

This technology wasn't invented buy Deere, they were late to the party by years.

[@timnichols9015]

Eastern Iowa. Run a 2007 Case IH 8010 with a John Deere 635F Hydraflex in soybeans. Shout out to Headsight for the electronic adapter….. worked perfectly. Got done with corn and soybeans harvest yesterday the 20th. Record time! Thanks BTP for the video!

[@bigtractorpower]

The 8010 is a nice combine. Congrats on a successful harvest.

[@bighorn66]

That is one Bad Ass Ride !! Thanks for showing us !

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

This machine is a powerhouse on wheels. It’s a real treat getting to see these videos…

[@joshpitts7256]

40 year old New Holland Technology with Green Paint

[@piperdoug428]

Man when I moved over here in 95 folks were just making the big move from 25ft heads up to 30ft and in 96 we put on the first Draper in the area, a 30ft HoneyBee on a anniversary 9600.

[@georgedavidson9697]

Another great video. Very interesting and keeps me away from the TV. The prices of these combines and headers seem crazy when I can remember my father buying a new Massey-Harris Super 26 in the early 1950's for around $4000.00 CDN.

[@Meself-ks6nm]

Holy reel speed Batman

[@get__some]

that machine ain't exactly crawlin neither

[@shawnpowell5876]

That X9 is quite impressive especially with that 50' Draper head. It definitely devours those beans. The bushels per acre seemed pretty substantial as well when they can load 4 trucks per hour. I'd like to be part of a harvesting team to drive and see other states in the country. Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA.

[@rustynail2205]

Thanks to this farmer for sharing part of his day with us. Quite the combine, and that’s a huge understatement.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@watchman79kreider61]

Killin me with that reel. Raise that thing up

[@c_games5665]

Because of the beans blown over they have to have it down. I know this from personal experience. If you don’t do that the beans do not feed in well and grain loss can occur. However in my opinion that’s too low, and you will start loosing grain doing that too

[@tgh223]

u see how fast he had it running

[@edwinschwartz2472]

I would slow it down some to avoid knocking beans out of the pods. Even so it beats the heck out of the John Deere 45 with a 10 foot header that I started with 50 years ago! I can’t imagine one combine with grain header costing right at 1 million dollars !

[@beaunugget4277]

Agreed

[@gliderider7077]

That is just awesome! Love seeing the changes and advancements made in farming over the years

[@1Corinthians151-4]

comes with a cost.

[@lfeco]

My late Father always said they shouldn't have made tractors bigger than a 4020 or 806 and combines no bigger than 15 foot cutter heads and 4 row corn heads. I feel the same way but damn that is an impressive combine and head. Well done video BTP

[@bigtractorpower]

Machines have grown and grown. It will be interesting to see what the limit in size will be.

[@MRSludgedude]

@@bigtractorpower size is Probly going to be maxed in 10 years. Going to full auto so they will run alot later and longer will be the next HP wars. Put us all out of a job in 15 years.

[@SimonKL11]

Cool to see two x9's in one field👍😉 this combine is a massive machine😁👍

[@bigtractorpower]

This was a fun filming opportunity

[@dirtpofarmboyful]

It's amazing how much farming has changed. Not long ago a 30ft head was big time.

[@davidtrapp8417]

We thought 24 was big time.

[@anthonybanda8192]

2 Gleaner s98s with a 40 foot macdons and a case 9240 with a macdon 45 foot head. Our beans ate running 65 to 80 bushels and our first field of double crops was 38 bushels .

[@shaggydogg630]

What part of the country?

[@anthonybanda8192]

@@shaggydogg630 southern Michigan and Northern Ohio. We farm in South East Michigan near the Ohio border. We farm 8000 acres between our land and rented ground plus we do custom farming.

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice combines.

[@kylemock1804]

Hello from Gibson City, IL 9770 STS 35' mac don draper. I couldn't imagine running with those. Harvest would be over in weeks instead of months. Awesome video. God Bless

[@bigtractorpower]

I have filmed in Gibson City. 😁👍. The 9770 is one of my favorites. Thank you for watching.

[@MilkMan608]

Ya, we got an Allis Chalmers model 60 sidewinder wit a 5ft. head. We still grow beans in 40 inch rows, so we cut 2 rows at a time. The WD pulls her pretty good.

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow awesome harvesting team.

[@MilkMan608]

@@bigtractorpower 😉 Like your vidyas.

[@colelundahl4196]

Saw a x9 set up identical to this one at husker harvest days, the amount of flex that the bean head it had attached to it was insane, they had airbags underneath each end of the head both going to maximum flex both up and down, that was really amazing.

[@bigtractorpower]

The hinge flex is impressive. This fields were so flat there was not allot of flex to see.

[@abdulkuddus5260]

@@bigtractorpower to fff f f f and f tv news Today

[@dalemyers3945]

A million dollars for one machine, wonder what the pay back time is on that. I never thought in my lifetime that a combine with head would cost that. I hope corn and soybean futures are high to pay for it. Great video by the way.

[@davidoden]

It’s a game of quantity. Just 1000 acres at 90 bushels per acre would be 90,000 X current soybean market $12.32 = 1 million 108 thousand and 800 dollars More than likely they farm more than 1000 acres. They ain’t hurting. lol

[@MilkMan608]

@@davidoden It ain't all profit, son!

[@bentongriffiths1431]

​@@davidoden Good math, highest number you ever see on the yield monitor X price X acres = farmers take home pay

[@georgedoolittle9015]

"time is money" meaning if the product is *just right* then the more massive the volume throughput the better *QUALITY* is the outcome. That means *COMMANDING* a higher price. With prices this high just for beans creating a "premium product" really counts as you want to separate yourself from the competition. In short even at one million us dollars "worth every penny" if you know what you are doing and you have top shelf weather conditions as appears to be the case for 2021. Same said be true for wheat, corn, oilseeds, peanuts... making *quality* in the agricultural business is really really really hard...but some times you get lucky and now seems like one of those times. Good news for Big Grocery (Kroger, Publix, Royal Ahold, etc) certainly! This excludes obvious savings in fuel and possibly maintenance costs although I don't really know how all this new electronic gizmo stuff in fact actually works at the Dealership level. Top shelf business model for the Farming Community at the moment seems to me tho. Gives John Deere an opening into small scale 100 acre farming in theory as well now ("Good works tractor" KZbin channel.) Just ten acres and a greenhouse can yield an enormous amount of food and do so Year around. Very surprised to see pricing where it is at the moment but as the saying goes "make while the Sun is shining!" absolutely. Take it right from the combine to the food processor at these prices. Surprised the food Company hasn't shown up to the field and take that problem off the harvesters mind now that I think about it as "time is money" to them even moar bigly. "Need to get their product on store shelves immediately immediately immediately immediately immediately immediately immediately" when consumers are hurting like this and just refusing to consume. Long $tsla Tesla Motors Strong buy

[@davidoden]

@@MilkMan608 yea, I know that just did the gross. What I am saying is they ain’t living on food stamps.

[@sandraward116]

..wow..what a country we live in..my uncle Jesse sure didnt have any of this..he had some awesome equipment..I just was too little to know what they were..girl in the city..🤗🤗😌

[@davidmarley9471]

Great job, thanks for producing the video! Just awesome capacity running here. 👍

[@goldingerfarms9357]

We have two S790s. One runs a Macdon FD140, and the other runs a John Deere 735FD. We have the smaller head because it fits on terraces much better than a larger platform would.

[@bigtractorpower]

Which of the two headers do you like better?

[@TerrellSpivey]

330 Gallon Fuel Tank!!! Myyy Goodness!! 31 ft Auger!! Lol Man! This combine is so huge it makes the 50ft header look small! Nearly a million dollar set up! Not to mention the other equipment! Wheeeww!! Yeah that's moving some beans! They can pick all our acres in a day! Well if they didn't have to move so much! Lol Swee video brother! God bless ya!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@bobducharme4809]

Amazing machine. I assume the beans are separated from the plant and deposited in the machine until full then the other machine pulls along side so it can off load the beans without stopping. Then the remains of the plant are deposited on the field. When is it determined the beans are ready to harvest? We drove thru Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and South Dakota this fall for the first time and was amazed at the amount of farms. Hats off to the farmers and their machines.

[@ryanwaege7251]

A combine is a big ol' sifter - you can change the "screen" size to select for the crop you're harvesting. To maximize harvest of the beans the plants need to be dry enough that the pods crack cleanly & release all the beans inside the combine.

[@bobducharme4809]

@@ryanwaege7251 Thankyou. Amazing equipment.

[@thomasvogelgesang667]

Great video. Those are some massive combines. It looks like the farm is proud of his combines. The price WOW. If you farm many acres, you have to have big equipment.

[@miguelamaya6246]

We would like to thank you for sharing your video with us...

[@chadlewis6197]

That was a great video thanks big tractor power.

[@danieldzurko8053]

A powerful, awesome combination! Thank you for showing this footage.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@danieldzurko8053]

@@bigtractorpower You're welcome

[@larrydavidson3402]

That is a big combine!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrShanester77]

Love these videos. What an incredible new combine. Amazing engineering and technology involved in John Deere.

[@bigtractorpower]

The X9 combine is an impressive harvester.

[@davepayne9162]

some combine very good, keep them coming.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@KNJensen]

First time I've seen an X9 1100 with the 50 footer on youtube. Thanks BTP! I'd like to see a Claas 8800 in comparison, if you run in to one of those ;)

[@bigtractorpower]

I would like to track down an 8800 as well. I just filmed an 8700 over the weekend. It was impressive.

[@KNJensen]

@@bigtractorpower They are really impressive, especially in Corn. There is a video here on youtube, with a guy demoing an 8700 with a 12 row. He was running 7-8 mph, and the head maxed out before the combine.

[@karllangner1579]

One hell of a mashine ! I,m usin a Sunshine combine with a 10 ft. cutterbar from the 40 ,s ! South Afrikan sheepfarmer .

[@glennmoreside787]

Just love your videos, that machine is such a beast, love all of your footage and videos.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@silasstedman7801]

Thank you Jason. What a header!

[@artfranz2273]

Wow that green paint don’t come cheap!

[@danl9334]

thanks for another great video!!!!! it is not that many years ago that the unload auger would have been long enough to fill many gran bins!!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very true.

[@bigcheese370]

Deere has been a little late to the game with the 50 ft Draper head. Now a huge header to match the huge combine. Awesome video you have here.

[@stickdude101]

@@freebooter247 Deere actually have the 50 foot out a year before Macdon has the FD250, Honey bee was out for a few years earlier with the airflex but the 60 foot is a rigid only header so you won't see it in soybeans, peas or anything you need to shave the ground.

[@donfrisch6437]

i think every one copied deeres single point hookup all companys copy

[@buckhorncortez]

@@freebooter247 Is there some sort of rule book or a game with points? What a ridiculous comment. Any manufacturer giving farmers another choice of equipment is a good thing. It's a one-upmanship contest only played by Internet wannabes.

[@get__some]

just dust great editing and thank you

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. Soybeans are a very dusty crop to film.

[@marshalloutdoors1791]

Awesome machines in Indiana love it👍🇺🇸

[@OmahaWayne]

Really great video, Thank you Jason.

[@joeboudreault2226]

Very cool. Thank you.

[@MagnumCamNZ]

Could think of afew local guy's in Canterbury, New Zealand drooling and hoping xmas tree a big 1. Best X series video seen so far and I'm a claas and axle flow combines fan 👍👨‍🔧🚜🇳🇿

[@bigtractorpower]

The X9 can cover the acres. A big new Case IH combine is not too far away. As these machines grow to the size of the CLAAS 8800 50ft drapers will be needed to keep them rolling at peak efficiency.

[@michaelhays2158]

1,000,000 dollars I wonder if it will ever pay for itself considering the recent hikes in seed, fertilizer and chemicals.

[@jackiejordan427]

Big operation, really nice equipment, thanks for the video

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@altestic9436]

Bean crop looks awesome!

[@tctarheelfarmin358]

We grow soybeans here in central Virginia. Have a john Deere 9500 with a 30 foot header. Nothin fancy but it works

[@JD-oh9vz]

good for you bud. 9500 was and is one of the best

[@bendunkelman4853]

How fast do you go? I thought 25 was the limit for a 9500

[@johnwall6304]

Your expense $ 35000 this x9 with head $ 10000000

[@goergewipf8956]

Great video

[@MRSludgedude]

Yea but man they have problems at 25 years old. We are down day after day. Had to have a sts rotary come save us. It was good for it's time and still good for around 1000 acres.

[@macjohn2296]

It’s an impressive machine on dry dirt. Reel speed is a tad fast and low. Don’t particularly care for the beans popping the glass. Let’s see some footage of an X9 on tracks with that head cutting in buckshot gumbo. With a gross weight over 80,000 lbs. that would tell the tale when the going gets tough.

[@dustinlowry9075]

Great videos Jason 👍I was hoping you would put a x9 up Lol I just got me a x9 1/64 Chrome toy combine today. Just work out at the right time Love your videos Thanks Jason

[@bigtractorpower]

Congrats on the chrome X9. Very cool.

[@dustinlowry9075]

@@bigtractorpower Thank You Sir for showing us all this Great Farm Equipment. My Hat is off to You👍

[@DoubleD56]

I want a 1/64 version. But I can't find a header cart big enough for the draper.

[@kenhurley4441]

So the reel speed is slightly faster than the ground speed? I was a wheat whacker back in the late 60's. Gleaner G's with a 20' header. On a good day we could cut 100 acres. We had 4 combines. One day we cut 500 acres. That was an outstanding day!

[@brianfeistcnnsucks9765]

awesome.......reminds me of the ole case 1060 combine

[@bigtractorpower]

The first combine I ever rode on was a 1060.

[@marcusjames3814]

Now our class 10 X9-1000 combine and class 11 X9-1100 combine cutting soybeans I love it

[@richardevans5736]

Keep up the GREAT WORK!

[@ronaldmolinasandoval1849]

💯 Puntos 👏 el video 📹 👍 okey amigos 🇧🇴 Saludos cordiales desde Sudamérica Santa Cruz bolivia 🇧🇴 👍 excelente 💜 👍

[@ulrich2106]

This is awesome!! Thanks for this vid BTP 👍🏻

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@donaldlewis9734]

Great video. Thanks 😊

[@rbnhd1976]

LET'S GO BRANDON! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@johnkenyon2827]

FJB Let's Go Brandon!!!

[@larryhowdeshell8162]

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[@kevinhill5028]

Token political comment on a video about combines…how original

[@rbnhd1976]

@@kevinhill5028 hows the ratio down here boys? Foxtrot Juliet Bravo

[@phineasscott]

@@kevinhill5028 fr i find that anoyying idc abt ur political veiws but keep em to urself

[@joegotz1971]

It’s amazing how dirty soybean harvesting is. i remember combining near houses that backed up to our fields, they would call the police. The police told them, “you live next to a field, what did you expect!”

[@wLBlue]

What part of the world were u...where they call the cops?

[@joegotz1971]

@@wLBlue New Jersey, New Yorkers who moved from the city, aka city slickers!

[@rodneycody8746]

Piss on them

[@Danny_Don1]

This is amazing how's JD improve the combines from the S class to the X class. It's so impressive

[@MRSludgedude]

From the guys I know they say a lex 750 will still slay an x9 and do what 2 s680s will do. What the 8900 lex can do is almost pointless unless your in Nebraska wheat and tough straw. We not a big enough operation to even demo such things.

[@bens8919]

@@MRSludgedude one problem i see, same here in the uk, is that the output of these x9 combines, the 8900 etc have such massive output that the grain augers, drying systems, corn carts etc cannot keep up. I grew up driving a 13foot cut new holland and thought the 20 foot cut a neighbour had was huge at the time, amazing how things have progressed

[@MRSludgedude]

@@bens8919 yea we can't keep up at the elevators wen they run a lex . Nobody has any x9 here. But a few have 740 and 750 lexion and they do the work of 2 deere s680s at much less HP .

[@davidwilson1107]

@@MRSludgedude If that were true everyone would just run a Claas. Period.

[@MRSludgedude]

@@davidwilson1107 no because they have a bad rap on service and parts. Plus they cost more than a deere. Break down you might wait two weeks for parts. Deere keeps you going in hours . Seldom any down time with deere. The guys in the field next to us run 2 770s and other runs a lex 740 and the 740 gets done at the same time as the two greenies. And a 740 is one of the smallest. Now I can't say who has more loss. Everybody here blows it out the back no matter what color.

[@samueljoejr5191]

Yes Sir,I sure enjoyed this. Thx.

[@amosjsoma]

Great video, thanks for the good work.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@andyhutch8262]

One of best corn harvest I have seen in north America, excellent coverage.....About 1 million $ for a combine, it needs big crops to pay for its self.

[@jackwillie2729]

I was 11 back in 1965 ,,dad had me run a 95JD 16' grain header,,can't imagine looking 16' beyond each side of what I was running,

[@bigtractorpower]

The 95 is one of my all time favorite combines.

[@robertmarino2158]

Interesting info , well done , thank you !

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@jasonwood9349]

Amazing how far combines have come

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@rachelhofer6258]

Looking good looking good

[@jojodancer4947]

Looks like that corn will be ready soon you gonna go back and film that harvest too? Hope so, great video as always too!

[@bigtractorpower]

Already filmed 😁👍👍.

[@ScottPykare]

Wooohooo!!!! Serious harvesting going on!!😁👍

[@ryanjohnson5950]

Hey Big tractor Power! Awesome video hey just wandering what kind of drone do you use? It takes really good video

[@marcuslauver7866]

John Deere 9760 with a 635F . Sure is an awesome bean machine for a couple a Pennsylvania boys...

[@marcusjames3814]

Our new 50ft hinged draper head is awesome

[@noahater5785]

That’s a massive draper head! I wonder if they’re gonna get any bigger than this in the future?

[@bigtractorpower]

There are 60ft drapers in Australia where the ground is flatter and grain yields are lower from the dry climate.

[@williamstentzsr.9568]

That's a beast

[@bigtractorpower]

Monster combine for sure.

[@carlosalbertodreselopesdre775]

Jigante da john deere alta calidad

[@bendunkelman4853]

I used to run one of those heads on my 6620. It was ok, a little small for my combine

[@bigtractorpower]

The 6620 is a great combine.

[@stewiesaidthat]

Use to run a 6620 but got rid of it because it didnt have a fridge or kitchen sink or bathroom.

[@ziauddin7948]

awesome heavy harvesting machine which cut around 340 acres of crop / day #

[@farmerjohnson8121]

Great video! That 50 header and the X9 combine will harvest a field quickly..

[@kevinkroll8479]

Awesome ❤❤❤❤

[@MrBigrobmjca3]

Farming Simulator 2019. Cutting beans with 2 JD S790’s with 45 foot drapers.

[@adamreyling6505]

Wow, thats a huge combine!

[@bigtractorpower]

It is a monster.

[@easylooker]

Don't think I've ever seen a reel going that fast before getting beans out. Wonder if crary makes an air set up for it

[@coupalr1]

He has it going to fast and it is to low and could go ahead a little.

[@douglassellers7528]

That a lot of combine and header.

[@ronaldbrunner2388]

A Harvester with 6 ⚙️, super !

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@tjmcmurtrie5756]

Can you run enough beans/wheat/ corn thru it....to pay for it before it's wore out

[@jdgolf499]

As an Industrial Engineer in the auto industry, I would be curious to understand what the savings is between the old 45 footer and the 50 footer. You obviously cover the same ground faster, but does it require more support to keep up with the combine? If the larger head gets you done with harvest say 2 days sooner, what benefit do those 2 days get you? Does it get you a higher price by getting to rhe elevator 2 days sooner? There needs to be a payback for the additional cost of the equipment.

[@lesterpenner8786]

Looks like the reel is thrashing out the beans

[@agrocopter]

Cool 👍👍👍

[@stearsfamilyfarms6264]

I farm corn a soybeans. Usually run a Allis chalmers allcrop 60 or a oliver number five corn picker but today I upgrade. I’m buying a oliver number 40 combine which is self propelled. I’m in sw Michigan.

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow that’s awesome. Long live Oliver farm machinery.

[@JD-oh9vz]

I am probably looking at with the head a million dollar combine. John Deere i love ya but damn what are you thinking?

[@darrellbobyk6363]

The combine operator looks a lot like Tony `Smoke` Stewart of NASCAR fame.

[@scottiebartz2534]

I love to watch agriculture machines like this one with the 50 foot Draper head that moves alot of beans it's a lot of work to wait for the cart to unload

[@bigtractorpower]

The 50ft Draper is impressive. It eats up the acres.

[@404nitro]

Pretty impressive machines here.

[@bigtractorpower]

They were neat to spend time with.

[@shiestytrey6897]

That combine is nices

[@brittfarms2018]

Could never imagine spending 814,000 on a combine..thats just nuts..much less justify 2 of those things.and 128,000 for a header, wow.

[@scottfeatherstone7156]

excellent idea, great facts and figures too!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@Redmallard]

Nice 👌 looking combines,amazing how many acres they harvest.

[@bigtractorpower]

I am not sure.

[@davidhabler391]

SUPER!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@craigdennis4840]

Jason I was wondering if this was the Boyd Farms that you visited in this video? I heard through the grapevine that they had 2 of these X9 1100 combines this year.

[@codybarber5243]

It is

[@taylor11089]

Is that the same Boyd that Owns the Caterpillar & Western Star Dealerships?

[@codybarber5243]

@@taylor11089 no this is a different bunch

[@clinthochrein888]

Definitely massive hinge frame Draper. Almost as long as a 53 ft semi trailer .