JOHN DEERE 7720 Turbo Combine Harvesting Soybeans

[@362mg]

That was a great machine. We ran 7720s and 8820s on the custom harvest run great memories. Really enjoy your videos. The sound of that hydrostat is still familiar after all these years 😊

[@mrourcanada8964]

Nothing better than seeing a classic deer in the field working and I love seeing those gravity waggons that was awesome

[@bigtractorpower]

This was a neat farm to visit. I just spotted them harvesting and pulled in to ask if I could film. It was to good to pass up.

[@arfarms5711]

Who could actually thumbs this down??? I mean, they gotta be one of those that literally hate everything 🤷‍♂️

[@MrKapeji]

idiots with nothing better to do.

[@MrMeatWad420KC]

Haters on any and all videos on YT.. BTP is the best tractor channel with great information

[@markreetz1001]

Agreed! Most KZbinrs invite dissenters to say why they don't like their videos.

[@hughwhaley3179]

Great old combines 🌽🚜👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you. I am not sure why a video gets dislikes. My video on the IH 1460 got a similar comment about the few dislikes. It may be as simple as the green viewers were thumbs down on the red combine story and now the red fans are thumbs down on the green. I like all the brands and seek them out to share. At least two people just plain don’t like BTP as each video gets two dislikes almost as soon as a video posts. They never comment but those two thumbs down appear before there is even time to watch the video through.

[@arfarms5711]

Cool video! Man I love watching these older machines run.

[@Dirtanddieselphotography]

A&R Farms you got that right

[@bigtractorpower]

Me too. I like getting a chance to film and share the classics.

[@susandailylife]

Your farm looks like a little slice of heaven

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

So cool to watch the older John Deere equipment.

[@bigtractorpower]

I like finding the Titan combines to film. They are solid machines.

[@interman7715]

Always a pleasure to see these classic machines out working.

[@bigtractorpower]

I like be able to catch them out in the field.

[@timhood6970]

Thanks Jason, once again you have brought back some great memories! I could not begin to tell you how mnay hours I spent in one of these in a corn or bean field!

[@mikep7810]

Great video. Good to see the old 7720 out there working

[@bigtractorpower]

They are getting harder to find. I was glad to find this one.

[@Kleman09]

Thanks for the reminder of my youth, and hopefully some day my future. I grew up on the left seat of a Titan 2. They were once common in my area until the 9500's became the norm.

[@clashavenfarms6714]

Awesome video. Thanks for posting. Reminds me of my cousins and Uncle's on the family farm.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@Masseydriver]

I always admired the 7720 combines growing up as a kid, but I settled for a 6620. Lol

[@bigtractorpower]

I hear you. I has a few Mustangs as my early cars. Cool car but I always wanted a GT V8.

[@rgw3629]

Very cool to see the old girl still out in the field. I ran one back in the mid 90’s. It was a great machine.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 7720 is one of my favorites. I hope to get to film one in corn and wheat soon.

[@jerrellphillips4406]

Gravity wagons and cab-less tractor. Brings back memories of my youth. That is way my family did it for years. Today it's grain carts and air conditioned cabs unloading onto 10 wheelers or semis. Times sure have changed. Young farmers today don't know what they missed... Whereabouts in Southeast Ill. was this at.

[@johnwoods7577]

Man, that is one good looking combine.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 7720 is a solid machine.

[@Rheamanoutdoors]

I'm glad to see older machines, my uncle share crops 400 or 500 acres and does beans, this is bringing back memories

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍. Thank you for watching.

[@BigHistoryBuff44]

at 8:09 ish, does anyone else see the grain leaking out of the clean grain auger along the botton of the machine?

[@edniemyjski3303]

after reading your comment i looked at it again you are right ,and a lot of beans

[@lorzon]

They probably have a hole in the back facing side of that elevator. Those are frequent in older equipment like this because it's thin metal that wears through and there is no easy way to repair it since there's only about 6 or 8 inches space between the tube and the belt drives. I've seen them patched with silicone, epoxy, and plain old duct tape. It's just how these old combines are.

[@teecuzbruh4058]

That's where that tractor operator needs to get off his butt and catch things like that.

[@thedonleroy]

Yes it is losing quite a bit the way it looks. I hope they caught it. We always have any other guys in the field check the combine as it goes by them just to try & catch a problem like this.

[@billc3271]

I have always liked the 7720/8820 combines. Dunno why

[@bordstif84]

used to farm with a 8820 titan 2

[@billc3271]

They all pretty much shell the same right? It's just volume and fancy electronics?

[@bigtractorpower]

Great combines. I have filmed all three but want more field time to do a good feature on an 8820.

[@farmerwes2520]

Sweet combine my dad use to drive one he like it

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Was it a yellow or a green top?

[@farmerwes2520]

@@bigtractorpower yellow top me and him were actually talking about the turbo series combines yesterday when the video came out

[@mikeabresch94]

Love the older and new ones thank you sir

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@leesteele9290]

I thought this was go t be, another half century video but turned out even better to see the old girl still earning her keep for real! They were really popular in their day glad somebody thinks enough of this one to keep it in the field! Thanks for the video!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Most of the combines at Half Century are 1960s and 1950s. They don’t want Big combines gobbling up all the acres. It was neat to get to film this 7720. I have several more 1970’s combines in the way.

[@walterlaubscherjr2011]

Haven’t seen a 7720 in a long while been awhile since I ran one nice to see it

[@bigtractorpower]

They used to be every where but with 40 years of used machines in the market at good prices you can pick up a 15 year old STS reasonably and harvest twice as much.

[@dannyprice1031]

I run a 7720 and a 4420, both are great machines

[@walterlaubscherjr2011]

Nicely done

[@markstengel7680]

Very cool JD 7720 Turbo. Nice condition🚜👍

[@brentreid7031]

Yup we had a 7720 back in the 80's and boy was it ever a good combine.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 7720 is a stand out machine. At one time they were every where. Today they are getting to be a rarer sight as 40 years of bigger and faster used machines are available.

[@clinkerclint]

That old girl has been turned up a little 😁😁😁 Those are great machines. Especially good in beans.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@ronniesorter1888]

Probably the toughest most reliable combine ever built!!

[@RJ1999x]

Not even close

[@louishannotte9090]

Definitely...Had one for 20years...sold it with 4400hours...still see a lot around with 5000 to 7000hrs getting harvest done

[@bigtractorpower]

It is with out a doubt. I filmed a 7720 in Iowa harvesting corn with 15,000 hours.

[@RJ1999x]

@@bigtractorpower the farmer that told you it had 15000 hrs on is full of it. The 00/20 series self destructed from vibration around 5000 hrs, and Titan 2 self destructed even faster. The 6620 lasted the longest followed by the 77 and 88 fell apart even quicker, they were basically a widened out 6620. I owned the whole line including a 4420. Had a 6620 a 7720 a 7720 Titan 2 and an 8820 Titan 2 at around 2000hrs they start to nickel and dime you. The highest we ran was 4000 hrs but by then the cost to operate was getting to be roughly $15000 a year, and do custom work you couldn't afford the down time

[@bubbawubba2307]

@@RJ1999x Your full of it. I can look out my window and see a 8820 titan II that has well over 5000 hours and still going strong. Maybe you mistreated your equipment and they fell apart because of that? Our 8820 has duals and tip top bin extensions not to mention a yield monitor that maps with gps.

[@markreetz1001]

Great video. The 7720 seems kind of "plain Jane"--excuse me--"plain John" compared to the combines we've seen lately. The orange gravity boxes brought back memories too! Loved it!

[@bigtractorpower]

It was advanced 40 years ago. It is amazing how Big combines have grown.

[@codyreynolds4601]

I know right where you're at! Lol I live about 30 minutes southwest of there. Actually got to meet you at Rantoul! Excellent video! I ran a 7720 in Kansas for wheat harvest two years ago. Good machines!

[@bigtractorpower]

I would like to see the Kansas wheat harvest. I hope to get back to Willow Hill. It’s a great area.

[@jankotze1959]

Awesome machine and video, the same era JD tractor complement the combine

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. The grain train was neat to see.

[@randallbyrd1973]

Very nice video TY for sharing

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@piperdoug428]

My first harvest in Canada in 1996 was in a green top 8820 T2 1986 i think. In 97 we did hemp and we bought an anniversary 9600 and i tell ya, the old 8820 walked past the 9600 (both run 30ft HoneyBee) and ran longer after sunset too. But you never wanted to replace the big primary shaft thats behind the cab and runs from one side of the machine to the other (gotta be over 400lbs)

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for for some cool combing history.

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Great to see some black smoke out of the stack! It is workin' ...

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@putrid.p]

We used to run a JD 975 with a 13” foot header, which I’m thinking must have been a smaller class that the combine featured here. I’ve never seen this class of combine before Fantastic tractor pulling the cart too - but no ROPS?!

[@alor39]

in 2001-02 we worked in corn harvest with a 965, using a 444 corn head, having a very clean grain sample, guys with 7720 got amazed about grain quality, corn head was too heavy for that machine, but they work good, a long ago no see videos with those little combines

[@joedoak3478]

Have you ever been out recording when they broke down seems everything is always working well when you show up to film

[@bigtractorpower]

Oh you would not believe what I encounter. More often than not on brand new and classics I am standing around waiting on repairs. I often feel like I am bad luck when I show up. The reason this combine got filmed was I drove 4 hours to this town to film another combine. Five minutes from the field the farmer calls me saying hey bad news the combine just broke a belt. I have to run an hour and half to the dealer. We are done until tomorrow. As I took that call I spotted the this 7720 and thought well I mine as well see if they will let me film. From this farmer I met another and another and another in the area and got 4 more combines slimed and then the one I came to see the next day. Maybe I should put this story in a video.

[@curtweatherbee2523]

I did enjoy that big tractor thank you so much🇺🇸

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@joshloomis1388]

The 7720 turbos are my favorite combines

[@bigtractorpower]

It is one of my all time favorites as well.

[@GreenMosin93]

My Dad had a Turbo 7720, and a 2nd John Deere combine from the late 70s before they changed body styles. Finally retired the old one a few years ago after it wouldn't start, and they couldn't diagnose the problem.

[@eddiebalentine7938]

That machine was running great for its age. Thanks for another great video.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 7720 is a solid machine.

[@robwright3064]

I remember as a kid riding in the 7720. At the time it was the cats meow!!

[@bigtractorpower]

I agree. I remember a farm on the road I grew up on went from a 7700 to a new 7720. I thought wow because the 7700 was huge at the time. Here was this modem cab and black reel in the grain table instead of the yellow one on the 7700. The farm bough the 7720 in 1979 and kept it all the way through 2003. It was built to last.

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[@joescheller6680]

awesome video put a few hours in one of them machines,they were john deeres comeback machine,after the old 95 and105 they fell behind in combine market when massey had the 750 and 760 they led the field in custom harvesting till massey sold out their combine basically. the 7720 afer we stucklizd it with a different concave and sieve turned into a dam good combine.

[@ToddFamilyFarm]

you need to find a hog confinement and get some video when they use 11000 gallon tankers to inject the manure. many years we will have 3 tankers going at once

[@bigtractorpower]

I have seen those big spreaders in action near LaMount, IA. Hopefully sometime I will get a chance to feature them.

[@bubbawubba2307]

strawwalkers were different on those combines. We bought an 8820 titan II and it had the rice straw walkers in it. Had to buy more straw walkers and replace em. Spent a lot of hours in those 20 series combines. from the 66-88 models. the 8820 II would run circles around the 6620. Also big difference in the rear end of the 2 wheel drive 6620 and the mudhog. We replaced the rearend in one 66 several times until we upgraded to a mudhog. we also ran a 20' head on the 66 and a 6 row corn head. on the 88's they need a 30' foot head and depending on yield 8 row or 12 row head.

[@JussiValkila]

Cool machine.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@BRPFan]

Thanks for the video! I ran a 7720 Titan 2 for a season! Maybe explain why the rear tires treads face backwards. I didn’t know anyone still used those gravity box wagon! Neat!

[@dwightl5863]

He did address that in the video.

[@joemeehan5185]

Great machines we still run one 7500 plus hours. It does a great job next to our 9650 just a little slower lol

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice combines. Is your 9650 a walker or rotor? The 7720 was built to last.

[@joemeehan5185]

@@bigtractorpower the 9650 is a walker machine. We have a large straw market and I need all the straw I can get lol. And I've never been around a rotor. Lol scared that they will make sawdust out of my straw lol

[@SK-FarmAndRanch]

Awesome video!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@hatemaltahir3868]

Very informative video, thanks much I'm interested to learn how to drive these combine and other farming machines, any advise?

[@dougschmitii6165]

Nice looking older equipment! I'm guessing the Posi torque drive is a variable speed belt set up? I just assumed all manufacturers had gone to hydrostats by the 80's. Maybe it was a option still? Also, are they going to bale the trash?

[@bigtractorpower]

I did too on the drive. I have to think for $3,000 most people spent the money for Hydro. I don’t know if they baked the straw. There was plenty out there. This was a random find that I stopped to film after spotting it from the road.

[@200WD45]

7720 was a good machine. Excellent in corn.

[@bigtractorpower]

They were a stand out in their day. Still a solid machine.

[@jeremyswindell7460]

Nice combine!

[@bigtractorpower]

The 7720 is a stand out.

[@jeremyswindell7460]

Its pretty sweet

[@curtweatherbee2523]

Great footage big tractor🤠👍🏻🇺🇸

[@bigtractorpower]

Curt 🐝 thank you for watching so many BTP videos.

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Another great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@therealctorre8068]

I loved operating one of these. They eat grain better than a 9500

[@ih1206]

Those were great combines, we run a 6620, and it’s a much better machine than the 4400 it replaced. I’ll be getting it prepped this week for soybean harvest.

[@bigtractorpower]

I have a 6620 video on the way soon. I have filmed a 3300, 6600 and 7700. I hope to find a 4400 sometime.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you Alex.

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

Had a 6620 sidehill years ago it was a great combine but I’ll stick with my S series 😁

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I have filmed a 6600 Side Hill and hope to find a 6620 SH sometime. They are neat combines to see working. Do you have a HillCo kit on your S series?

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

bigtractorpower no I have the side hill divider kit in the seives and that seems to work well but it was always neat to always sit level on our side hills with the 6620

[@noelhohberger1188]

Spent alot of time sitting on a tool box on one of these

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Great harvest memories.

[@mclaynmusick9753]

I’ve got a combine that I think u guys would like on your show! Case international 1680. We are thinking about shelling corn in western Illinois next weekend! We also have a John Deere 4450 that we will also use!

[@bigtractorpower]

Great line up. I wish I could make it out your way. Western, IL is about 6 hours from my home. I do get out that way to film sometime. I filmed a Case 4894 4wd out that way this Spring. I wish I could travel more to film more machines.

[@cb7815]

Named mine Lafawnda... big, green, wide on the front tires, best view is from the rear, but lorde it eats anything put in front of her, especially corn!!

[@langer4602]

Why do the reverse the back wheels when its 2wd? Save wear? Thanks fantastic work as per usual.

[@bigtractorpower]

It is to point the tread for grip in a wet spot. With a 4wd model the rear wheel assist will pull with the front tires to pull through. With a 2wd the combine will have to back out so have the tread turned gives the combine extra tread and grip going back wards.

[@langer4602]

@@bigtractorpower Thanks for the reply always good to learn something new!

[@franksimpson9521]

Yes u turn the rear tires around on a 2wd combine to save on wear.

[@BornRandy62]

We ran a 30 foot bean header on the 7720Titan II. We also ran a 30 foot header on the 6640

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow that is a huge head for a 7720 and a 6620.

[@spencersand2754]

My neighbor has a 7720 John Deere just like this one. It got parked when he quit farming and that was at least 20 years ago it’s sad seeing it sit there but he probably won’t sell it. I would love to hear that thing run again

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s sad to see good iron fade and rust away. The first combine I ever took a ride in as a kid was a Case 1060 combine. My neighbor retired in 1991 and parked the combine in his yard. He would not sell it. It sat and sat and rusted away until a tree fell on it. It was a shame to see a classic machine end up that way.

[@BakersLawnCare]

I want to buy a combine like that and restore it

[@colepeterson2276]

We still just a John Deere 7722 combine, it’s cool to see what the flat land version looks like

[@bigtractorpower]

Awesome. Wow the 7722 is rare. It was only offered about a year and a half before the 9500 came out. I would love to film a 7722.

[@colepeterson2276]

bigtractorpower it would be Neat if you could make it up to the Palouse area in Washington and see what it’s like to farm on the hillsides.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is on my wish list to do. Hopefully I can make the trip some time. Are there many 7722s out there yet? If you don’t mind send me an email at [e-mail]. I would like to stay in touch. If I get out to the Palouse a 7722 would be number one on my list to film. I have the 6622 and 7722 sales literature.

[@colepeterson2276]

bigtractorpower there’s a few of them but a lot of people have upgraded to the newer combines but we run a 6622 and a 7722 still

[@4840MAN]

We had 3 7720’s 2wd in rice country Very dependable machines. Traded one for a titan2 in 90. Traded one for turbo 8820 round the same time. Needed combines with mudhog. The last 7720 Ran till 95 traded for a 9600

[@bigtractorpower]

Great history. Thank you for sharing. Did you 7720 Titan II have duals? The brochure showed the Rice Special 7720 dualed up.

[@nickkercheval2704]

Bought a new 6620 hydro turbo corn soybean combine in November 1981 when my 6600 burned up. Guess I got a good deal because I remember paying just shy of 60 K for it. Should have gotten a 7720 at that time. Did buy a 7720 later. 7720 was a lot more combine. Good video!

[@edniemyjski3303]

in 1986 i bought a 860 massey,in1987 i traded it for 6620 sh that would eat that mf up

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool history. I thought I had made a history on the 6620 Turbo but it looks like have not posted that video so I will produce that soon. According to my price book the 6620’s list price was $67,000 to $72,000’depending on how it was equipped.

[@manuelpulido691]

Hola, hablan español por aquí ? Tengo un problema con una trilladora

[@bradconway5611]

I might be dating myself, but this takes me back to my childhood!

[@bigtractorpower]

Me too. I remember when a farm near me replaced their 7700 Turbo in ‘79 for a 7720 Turbo. It seemed so modern at the time.

[@4gauge10]

Those old 7720's will be here after the earth turns into dust B.T.P.."

[@bigtractorpower]

They are solid machines. Remember I told you on the IH 1460 video that John Deere had matching grain configurations on their combines 😁

[@4gauge10]

@@bigtractorpower Yes I did.😎👍

[@billcarver6539]

Got that right, they are good machines. I still have my old 7720 to help out with beans and wheat, or if the 9670 breaks down.

[@tristensmith2771]

We had a 7720 and a 9500 combine on our form until about 2012 when we upgraded to 9670 and a 9770

[@bigtractorpower]

All nice combines. It seems many people I knew that ran 7720s either made the jump to a 9500 in the 90s or waited and made a bigger jump to a 9660STS in the 2000’s. Three farm’s I know in different states all went to 9660STS combines. You have a nice line up. The 9770STS is one of my all time favorite combines.

[@wilsonandrade6246]

✌️✌️✌️

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@dawnwittgreve399]

I had a 8820, Then 8820 titan 2 were awesome machines now I have a 9500

[@interman7715]

Dawn Wittgreve Were the cabs noisy and hot with the engine so close?

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. An 8820 is top my combine filming wish list.

[@farmboydavid7596]

bigtractorpower wish I’d known this last fall, we had two 8820s that were traded in to our used equipment lot, we ran one in wheat and ran both in corn last year. We’ve since sold them...

[@farmboydavid7596]

I cut my teeth running a 7720 green topper!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@anthonybanda8192]

we ran the same machine on our farm for years them we upgraded to a 9500series then to a 9870sts now we run the 9870sts and a s660 combine.

[@bigtractorpower]

All very nice combines. My neighbor growing up had similar up grades. When I was a kid he had a 95EB, then a 6600 then a 6620 Titan II, then a 9500, then a 9570 STS and since 2012 an S660. It always interested me every combine he has had was a 95 or a 66. It will be interesting to see what follows the S660. How do you think you think your 9870STS preforms compared to the S660? Does the 9870 harvest more with its extra power or does the S660 do better with its upgrades?

[@ksufarmer5319]

It seems like this guy is in a hurry.

[@bigtractorpower]

It seemed like a normal clip across the field while I was filming it.

[@ksufarmer5319]

@@bigtractorpower Probably was, may be just my eyes or everyone around us that had them run them slow. Good video though. Love seeing the older stuff.

[@wannabefarm4364]

File this firmly under “Easy For Me To Say,” but it would be neat if someone took one of these old combines and somehow tricked it out with all the latest technology. Could you even imagine such a thing? 😆

[@bigtractorpower]

It would be interesting to see.

[@landaroon7793]

Reply to Brad not Landa Man, you watch the dust and you realize my 1970s idea was brilliant. HEPA filters for all the cab air. The reason here is obvious, but I wanted it even for cars that go past, or drive through dust storms, or worse - going through Ag spraying.

[@mickoostingh5777]

when are there more video’s coming of your own tractor

[@bigtractorpower]

Very soon. I just filmed the corn harvest in the field it helped prepare ground in. It will be a two part planting and harvest video.

[@mickoostingh5777]

bigtractorpower i am looking forward to it i live in the Nederlands and here they don’t have big 4wd articulated tractors

[@DAVIDKHAINE]

I guess we know want Santa Claus does on his time off, he drives gravity wagons through the field...///

[@Rheamanoutdoors]

And he uses a 9400 johndeere and s 15 foot header

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. I have video of a 9400 in oats I plan to share.

[@jeffpaggett7274]

Sounds and runs like one angry machine.

[@rodcody7278]

When u had to operate one

[@falcon9158]

That’s funny, a brand new head for 10,000 grand lol. Simpler times

[@bigtractorpower]

Just ten years before a 200 series head was $5,000. Today a big header is over $130,000 more than a entire combine and header 40 years ago.

[@mmiv1259]

Second comment

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching and I appreciate your enthusiasm.

[@Rheamanoutdoors]

A