New Holland FR550 FORAGE CRUISER

[@evanfarms4446]

This is my family farm and I’m here to say the chopper is still running strong but the wagons have since been upgraded to a lot bigger Meyer wagons and the bags have been switched to a pile

[@easchit]

Boy that thing really does cruise along!

[@easchit]

Would have liked to hear a bit about the CIH tractors pulling the wagons, especially that old school 2wd beauty

[@bigtractorpower]

The FR550 can really cover some ground.

[@bigtractorpower]

Easchit I am a 2wd fan. I unfortunately there was not enough time in this video to cover each of the tractors.

[@bigmeech1629]

That's one nice looking forage harvester

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@gregsmith3410]

Love watching forage harvesting vids...

[@bigtractorpower]

One of my favorite machines to see in the field.

[@mackowen9337]

BTP on my birthday. Nothing better!

[@ISXCUMMINS565]

Same here, just put the 50 in my back pocket.

[@bigtractorpower]

Happy Birthday Mack Owen.

[@bigtractorpower]

Happy Birthday ISX.

[@mackowen9337]

@@bigtractorpower Thank you!

[@markstengel7680]

I enjoyed this episode seeing the grass possessed for feed. I'd like to watch that bagger system from it's set-up and being filled and the vs silos aspect. Episode went quickly. 🚜👍

[@bigtractorpower]

I will have to try to catch a bag set up sometime. Often because time is limited filming time is focused on the field with the chopper. With a few moments of time left to film unloading.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

New Holland! My favorite!

[@bigtractorpower]

I have wanted to film an FR since they cane out in 2007. They are nice machines.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

@@bigtractorpower yes they are. There are a few in our neighbourhood. Very nice machines

[@bigcountry4503]

gettin it done quick!!!!! Wow thats cool

[@bigtractorpower]

The FR550 moves right along.

[@gonerydin4225]

That's a beautiful farm.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@fab8657]

The best forage harvester!!!! Awesome!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍. I have wanted to feature an FR since they were first released in 2007.

[@Mark-vc7rm]

Man I would love to take that machine crusing this Friday night. Pretty cool 😎!

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@stanleybaker3400]

Boy that machine can move!

[@bigtractorpower]

It sure can.

[@wannabefarm4364]

I’m sure the tractors were managing just fine, but the chopper flying along lends them an appearance of just barely keeping up. It’s quite remarkable to watch.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s always a challenge to keep wagons are trucks caught up with a chopper. Really it is the same in grain. Always looking for the next spot to move the crop off.

[@hturbo1007]

I always find it funny, hurry up and chop a load. Then sit and wait for a wagon. 🤔

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s always a challenge to keep wagons up with a chopper. This FR550 was just fine. I was just showing the clip of a wagon pulling away with the farm in the distance. Wagons were right there to pull up I just did not show that part.

[@josephresch7917]

The choppers chop better with a constant flow that’s why we chop faster

[@valentusslimroast6716]

nice

[@jbmbanter]

This non farmer and in this instance I am learning about dairy operations. The alfalfa is already on the ground in windrows. What machine cut it and got into the way it's seen here. Also, is this harvester cutting it into smaller pieces?

[@bigtractorpower]

It does chop up the alfalfa into smaller pieces. Here is what mows the crop down at m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHfRl5iom9qqjrs

[@augustreil]

Can't believe how fast they're able to collect the Alfalfa.

[@bigtractorpower]

The FR550 moves right along.

[@robertsmith4040]

Hopefully we can see it doing some harvest foraging of the corn

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍. Hopefully.

[@jaythomas4695]

Looks like the head was turning to fast was loosing all the leaves or was it a little to dry

[@johnschomburg5003]

Too bad you weren't there to tell them how to farm better.

[@bigtractorpower]

Probably a bit dry but you have no control on the weather once you cut it’s time to get it up no matter the conditions . There is always going to be a bit of dust.

[@circlesfarms]

That’s my next door neighbor!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@johnschomburg5003]

They have a nice operation.

[@Boodlemania]

it's flying because the windrows are small. Need a merger to make full use of that monster.

[@bwtupper]

Great video Jason. I like the the facts that you list . . . Including the list prices.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍. thank you for watching.

[@braxtonsircy8748]

Nice vid

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@koolman2021]

Kool video

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@jankotze1959]

One very nice video, thanks for sharing

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching so many BTP videos. Watch for a FORD 9700 soon.

[@lwilton]

Boy, that thing is *moving*. And it is on the small end of the product line! I often wonder if those ag-bags can be spliced together to make one really long, or if you have fixed lengths and have to stop the bag when you get to the end. If they can be spliced, that might be an interesting thing to watch.

[@bigtractorpower]

I don’t think there would be any reason to splice an ag bag together. I can’t think of any reason to make a really long one. They are already a 100 ft long or more.

[@pointblankdiesel621]

We are chopping ryegrass soon hopefully if the rain stops soon

[@bigtractorpower]

That’s great. Where do you farm?

[@pointblankdiesel621]

bigtractorpower Grubbs Farms EST.1973 Hillsboro Indiana

[@pointblankdiesel621]

bigtractorpower on my channel I have a video of us chopping if you want to see what we run

[@pompy65]

Hi, the FR550 is powered by a FPT C13 i believe, the bigger model FR650 have a C16 engine.

[@bigtractorpower]

I messed up. I looked at the 650 and not 550 for the engine. Normally I look at the paper brochure for specs and I used the online pdf and just looked at the wrong line on the screen.

[@pompy65]

No Problem. It is still a shame that the big Cat C18 isn't available anymore

[@generationll]

Remember 40 years ago when New Holland 2100 was introduced at 325hp which was the largest on the market at the time

[@bigtractorpower]

The 2100 was a beast in its day. It’s high on my wish list to film a Whopper Chopper.

[@danieltorrens4954]

What is done with the used agbag after they use the alfalfa out of it?

[@bigtractorpower]

It is put in the trash. The bag gets pulled apart.

[@danieltorrens4954]

@@bigtractorpower Thanks for getting back to me, I guess that I was just concerned about the environment, now if it was made out of the a corn product and was environmentally friendly then I wouldn't have a problem with that.

[@wulffy54914]

@@danieltorrens4954 Plastic is recycled on most farms now days.

[@bluefleet1655]

is it just me or the more modern forage harvesters look very similar in shape

[@bigtractorpower]

They are so have a similar rounded design.

[@noelhohberger1188]

I've been told they make a red one in a case number. Do you know if there is one I can't find it.?

[@andrewp1173]

Noel Hohberger They do not to my knowledge

[@marlauesc]

In the early 2000 Case sold forage Harvesters in Europe, they had nothing to do with the Newholland Harvesters. It was a Mengle Mamut painted in Red.

[@mesh1248]

Yes they make a pull type harvester

[@mesh1248]

country guy actually its the other way the fx harvester series is a case design and built and new holland took it over when they merged in the early 2000s same goes for the forage blower

[@bigtractorpower]

Back when the New Holland FX60 was made in the early 2000’s there was a Case IH CHX620. This CHX620 was only sold in Germany and England. It would have been neat to see it sold in the United States. When the FR Chopper was introduced in 2007 CNH went back to only New Holland sp choppers. Before the CNH merger Case IH offered the 8790 Mammut which they acquired from Mengele. I believe the Mammut became the Krone Big X after the CNH merger. Again the Mammut was not offfred in the United States although I heard a few were delivered in California for use.

[@piperdoug428]

Yeah custom guys get cranky when the rows are thin like that and they get paid by the ton so just as well it's the farms own chopper.

[@AaricHale]

They were sure moving fast in that field ! Why don't they pull two wagons at time ?

[@johnschomburg5003]

Larger single ones possibly, but two in tandem don't work when it takes the PTO to unload them. Not to mention 2 in tow would handle poorly.

[@AaricHale]

@@johnschomburg5003 Thank you so much ! I was not thinking about the pto hook ups .

[@bigtractorpower]

John summed up the reasons for one wagon well.

[@AaricHale]

@@bigtractorpower Thank you so much !

[@vanilakung7563]

This was the first time you said AdBlue, hope its not the last

[@bigtractorpower]

I use the marketing terms of the production era. Up until now the newest New Holland Machines I have covered are the CR8090, T9.450 and T8.390 which were last produced in 2014 before Ad Blue was a marketing term. So yes as I cover machines from the Ad Blue era I will make sure to include it.

[@vanilakung7563]

@@bigtractorpower What i ment was that you have always said DEF earlier, this was the first time you said AdBlue, more like a joke. Here in Sweden AdBlue is common and no one says DEF.

[@jolenekostuch9143]

Go to birnamwood wi to see matsche farms at work

[@saibot8916]

I think this is the first time I see a Puma on your Channel , are they that rare in America ?

[@bigtractorpower]

The Puma and Optum are not common. I would like to feature both tractors. Case IH pushes the mini Magnum here more.

[@saibot8916]

@@bigtractorpower the Puma is the most sold Case in Germany, it is a amazing Tractor. The smallest magnum that we can buy is I think the 250

[@2cylinderfarmer]

Its amazing how these choppers just eat 5 windrows like nothing

[@bigtractorpower]

The chopper collects the hay fast.

[@wulffy54914]

5? We run a fr700. Merg 90 ft of field. 10 row corn head

[@randykov]

How many tractors and wagons did it take to keep up to that harvester?

[@johnschomburg5003]

All depends on the distance from field to farm. Typically several though.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you John.

[@grahamsobieski2507]

It’s a belt pickup

[@bigtractorpower]

The 380FP uses tines and an auger to gather the alfafa.

[@yesno3274]

First

[@bigtractorpower]

I appreciate your enthusiasm.

[@johnr4596]

First

[@bigtractorpower]

I appreciate your enthusiasm.