50ft MACDON FD250 Flex Draper

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Big tractor Power is out in the field with the 50ft MacDon FD250 FLEXDRAPER paired with a 538 hp 485 bu FENDT Ideal 8T Combine. In this video viewers will see the new 50ft MacDon FD2 Series of FLEXDRAPERs in action. This monster header offers 20% more capacity, 30% more speed and 70% more flex. This video will take viewers on a ride in the class 8 Ideal 8T combine's cab to see the FD250s triple reel in action and shares the machines specifications and price tag.
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  • @thomasvogelgesang667
    @thomasvogelgesang667 Жыл бұрын

    15:01 Wow, that is impressive-fifty feet at a time, two hundred and fifty acres daily. Significant changes from a John Deere 45 with a ten-foot head and a great day combining twenty acres a day. Great video.

  • @matthewtaliaferro

    @matthewtaliaferro

    Жыл бұрын

    Uh, John Deere makes a 50ft draper as well

  • @beanttumanbeanttuman8197

    @beanttumanbeanttuman8197

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matthewtaliaferro a

  • @billz410
    @billz410 Жыл бұрын

    The length of that unloading auger! Mind-boggling. Something about the placement of the lights at the top of the cab remind me of the original batmobile...I'm probably the only one that thinks that. LOL

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 Жыл бұрын

    A 50ft head is impressive👍 nice to see an ideal combine in the field, thanks for the video😉👍

  • @duanebolen543

    @duanebolen543

    Жыл бұрын

    You'd have to have an awful level field to run 50 ft wide

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Duane these new headers flex allot. rolling Terrain is not an issue.

  • @kygreenskeeper8326
    @kygreenskeeper8326 Жыл бұрын

    Morning Jason! Awesome equipment buddy... Thank you

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Good morning. Thank you for watching.

  • @alfsimmonds1569
    @alfsimmonds1569 Жыл бұрын

    Impressive indeed. Nice machine and excellent harvesting speeds.

  • @garylam6233
    @garylam6233 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible watching such a great piece of equipment. Love it Keep it coming

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching.

  • @jamesjolly7406
    @jamesjolly7406 Жыл бұрын

    👋 hey 👋 from Dexter,Missouri my friend. Super awesome video. Have a super awesome night 🌉 be safe.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching.

  • @1214101
    @1214101 Жыл бұрын

    I’m a little surprised the 50ft would be paired with a 8 class, but it looked like it handled it good.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    I was too. The 8T moved along with ease.

  • @davidschollenberger6871
    @davidschollenberger6871 Жыл бұрын

    Was an awesome combine always loved doing beans

  • @michaelmurray7199
    @michaelmurray7199 Жыл бұрын

    If you can eat it at the dinner table, thank a farmer. If it’s on the shelves at the grocery store, thank a truck driver or a train engineer. If you can eat in peace, thank a veteran.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Very true. 👍👍

  • @NotOnDrugs

    @NotOnDrugs

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigtractorpower don't forget us commercial fisherman.....who work harder than you all😁

  • @peterm6128
    @peterm6128 Жыл бұрын

    Another great video Jason! Peter

  • @joescheller6680
    @joescheller6680 Жыл бұрын

    We've had a 45 ft Macdonald on the old 760tt lexion and purchases a new 8600 and using same head. Works very well.

  • @aidencrawford3487

    @aidencrawford3487

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you like the 8600 for beans, we run a 7500, just wondering if it's any better

  • @ronaldmolinasandoval1849
    @ronaldmolinasandoval1849 Жыл бұрын

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  • @ArchersView
    @ArchersView Жыл бұрын

    Awesome combination to watch!!

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    They just cruise through the acres with ease.

  • @King_Randy
    @King_Randy Жыл бұрын

    That’s humongous! It shows how much agriculture has advanced in the past century!

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    It has advanced tremendously in the past 20 years. The first MacDon I filed was a 36ft model in 2003 on a 9750 STS in wheat and it seemed huge at the time.

  • @King_Randy

    @King_Randy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigtractorpower wow! Do you have a link to it?

  • @heatmoon

    @heatmoon

    Жыл бұрын

    Efficiency in time use especially during harvesting (my own experience on a small grain farm) is so important, time is money, optimal conditions are rarer than one would be think if you want it to go straight into a bin. My dad spent most days on the Gleaner, with a New Holland helping, many nights spent running the dryer. To grab 50' at a time wow, but when does $$$ spent in the name of efficiency become too much? Million dollar combines are real and must be near that limit.

  • @markreetz1001
    @markreetz1001 Жыл бұрын

    Geez Jason!! That is one monster header and combine! That auger is crazy long. Another one of those combines that can unload right to the grain bin!

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    The size and ability of the Ideal combines allow them to cruise right through the acres with ease.

  • @kevinpaul627
    @kevinpaul627 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice Jason!

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching.

  • @bobtripp6224
    @bobtripp6224 Жыл бұрын

    That's an impressive machine

  • @matthewtaliaferro

    @matthewtaliaferro

    Жыл бұрын

    The John Deere X9 1100 is more impressive

  • @matthewtaliaferro

    @matthewtaliaferro

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Thebigtipper101 no it isn’t. The X9 can hold more, and do more acres to the hour

  • @josephsenegal7387
    @josephsenegal7387 Жыл бұрын

    That's a whole lot of machinery

  • @GravyHucker
    @GravyHucker Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for keeping up new vids, even through the dust storm that is the yearly Soybean Harvest. I know you were getting dusted out during filming.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching. Soybean harvest is my least favorite season to film. The dust is tough.

  • @justinbradley193
    @justinbradley193 Жыл бұрын

    Next year we will have a gleaner s97 with an fd235 macdon.

  • @DM6Harvesting
    @DM6Harvesting11 ай бұрын

    I just bought a fd250 to run on a 8250! Hopefully I don’t have to much header! Worries me if it’ll have enough power when cutting 130 bushel wheat to the ground to windrow straw out in California next summer

  • @piperdoug428
    @piperdoug428 Жыл бұрын

    and to think in australia theyre up past 60ft headers

  • @davemurphy2774
    @davemurphy2774 Жыл бұрын

    Is planting after this harvest going on or is the two crops per year every second year!

  • @JacobDoffing42
    @JacobDoffing42 Жыл бұрын

    I've used a John Deere 635D 35' rigid draper head to harvest wheat and milo on my bosses farm in Sumner County Kansas near Conway Springs. The combine I used was a John Deere 9660 STS Bullet Rotor combine.

  • @nolanmarginet3601
    @nolanmarginet3601 Жыл бұрын

    Yessir 😂

  • @John-nc4bl
    @John-nc4bl Жыл бұрын

    Impressive and thanks for another video. A 60 footer Honeybee head would even be more impressive looking and I wonder why none are running here in America. There are a fair number of Midwest 60 foot heads running in Auz land and a few 60 foot Honeys running up in Canada.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    It would be great to see the Honey Bee in the US. It may depend on terrain and yields. Here in KY wheat yields 100 bu an acre. A Deere S790 with a 45ft head will run 2.5 mph in wheat. The power and capacity of the combine is maxed in good wheat at 45ft.

  • @kentuckyfarmer2192
    @kentuckyfarmer2192 Жыл бұрын

    I thank this maybe my neighbors down in the Fulton county river bottoms?

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    That is where it was filmed. Go Kentucky 👍👍

  • @jamesjolly7406
    @jamesjolly7406 Жыл бұрын

    👍 👍

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    😁👍

  • @farmboy5622
    @farmboy5622 Жыл бұрын

    Would like to know what kind of losses they experience with that head, and also the combine. Does that type of head eliminate the need for a wind system like the Crary Wind System?

  • @charlesmetherd9136

    @charlesmetherd9136

    Жыл бұрын

    Looks like it was doing a pretty good job as is.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    I did not observe very much loss at all in the field. The Ideal and MacDon made an effective harvesting team. I do not no sny farms in WKY running a Draper with an air reel. The Draper handles the crop well

  • @alanellis9158
    @alanellis9158 Жыл бұрын

    The unloading auger is one heck of a length but the header is huge,surely they wont be able to make them any wider will they? Great video though!

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    I think 60ft drapers and 24 row corn heads are the next step. Thank you for watching.

  • @2020Tundra
    @2020Tundra Жыл бұрын

    Question - what’s the hp range for a Class 8 combine rating? You mentioned this Fendt is a Class 8 rated at 538 engine hp, but the JD S790 (543 hp) and CaseIH 9250 (550 hp) are rated as Class 9 combines.

  • @ihtomi

    @ihtomi

    Жыл бұрын

    The rated horsepower of the Ideal 8 is 470 hp. The maximum is 538 hp. So it is a class 8 combine. The class 8 category is starting on 430 hp and it going to 500 hp.

  • @2020Tundra

    @2020Tundra

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ihtomi Then he should have stayed it that way so not to cause confusion.

  • @simondvries3836
    @simondvries3836 Жыл бұрын

    Morning form michgin

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Good morning. Thank you for watching.

  • @jeremyswindell2330
    @jeremyswindell2330 Жыл бұрын

    He is a moving along fast, gosh

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    This harvesting team eats up the acres quickly.

  • @user-snowman5
    @user-snowman5 Жыл бұрын

    Not sure if huge describes that head

  • @zanekiley8483
    @zanekiley8483 Жыл бұрын

    I run a john deere x9 1000 with a john deere 50ft hinged draper front

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Very nice harvesting team.

  • @otodompo
    @otodompo Жыл бұрын

    wowww gede banget traktornya seperti mainannya aku

  • @NielsvdBoom
    @NielsvdBoom Жыл бұрын

    Interesting video and conversation. What are the US laws on towing lengths, is this not a problem with 50ft headers?

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching. Good question. There are no laws restricting the length of farm equipment. At 50ft this header on a transport wagon is as long as typical semi truck.

  • @NielsvdBoom

    @NielsvdBoom

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigtractorpower thank you, that is handy! What a blessing for farmers to be able to move around freely with large machinery.

  • @derrickzenner9300
    @derrickzenner9300 Жыл бұрын

    Wow in 1998 you bought a new combine with 2 heads for the price of an fd250. That machine is eating it up.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    It is amazing how prices have changed. The equipment has grown up size and ability too. In 1998 30ft on the header and 250 bu. on the combine we’re as big as it went.

  • @douglassellers7528

    @douglassellers7528

    3 ай бұрын

    What about the class 7 combines with 330 or 350 bu. tanks.​@@bigtractorpower

  • @danareynolds1976
    @danareynolds1976 Жыл бұрын

    We run a 35ft john deere Draper head

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Very nice.

  • @russellwischmeyer1013
    @russellwischmeyer1013 Жыл бұрын

    We run 2 FD 75s

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Very nice.

  • @bobnistler
    @bobnistler Жыл бұрын

    FD75/35

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @scottpykare801
    @scottpykare801 Жыл бұрын

    It seems like whatever class the Fendt is in its almost too big for that class. I wonder when someone will come out with a folding grain platform? Who'll be first? I like the 1050 Kinze Harvest Commander too. Kinze is my favorite grain cart especially the 1050 on tracks. Thanks Jason 👍🏻.

  • @matthewtaliaferro

    @matthewtaliaferro

    Жыл бұрын

    You can’t really fold a platform like that

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Geringoff makes a folding grain head for Europe. You can see it at m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpmGrq-InJOdc9I.html

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    Matthew both Geringoff and Capello offer folding grain heads in Europe. You can see the Geringoff fold up in this short video m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpmGrq-InJOdc9I.html

  • @Zero01k

    @Zero01k

    Жыл бұрын

    Lexions too don't really fit in the class system for combines, you got class 7 Claas Lexion combines staying with or beating Deeres and Case machines one or two classes higher

  • @burtbrooks7731
    @burtbrooks7731 Жыл бұрын

    That’s not even the big fendt lol they got one more bigger than that lol, but the head the same. Pretty rad lookin combines I like the gray

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    The 8T is the midsized model. The 10T at 790 Hp is the top end Fendt. I have a video on the 10T with joy stick steering in wheat harvest posted at kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3Z6rNekgrDIhto.html

  • @dedrakuhn6103
    @dedrakuhn6103 Жыл бұрын

    The reel looks like it's going too slow and pushing the plants over. It doesn't look like a clean cut. Where is the air reel?

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    I did not observe any issues filming. The header had a nice clean cut. There were allot of soybean leaves on the ground prior to harvest from a recent harvest. I do not know anyone in WKY who requires an air reel for their Draper. I saw little grain loss and there were not any beans hitting the combine windshield from shatter.

  • @dedrakuhn6103

    @dedrakuhn6103

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigtractorpower it was fun to learn from Cole the cornstar how much the air reel saves the dry soybeans. I think it was decieving the silver part of the reel you could see vs the extra circumference where the teeth were. I had to watch it twice to see my error. Great video, thanks bigtractorpower for all the great content & I look forward to the next ont.

  • @dedrakuhn6103

    @dedrakuhn6103

    Жыл бұрын

    The next video

  • @armchairgeneral7557
    @armchairgeneral7557 Жыл бұрын

    I think fendt took a class 9 and labeled it a class 8.

  • @jimcox6687
    @jimcox6687 Жыл бұрын

    How can a farmer ever pay for that combine.

  • @bigtractorpower

    @bigtractorpower

    Жыл бұрын

    The performance of harvesting the crop quickly and well is big plus. This farm raises winter winter wheat and double crop soybeans. Soybeans are planted right behind the combine as its harvesting wheat. Two crops from one field in one year is a big help.

  • @stever411

    @stever411

    Жыл бұрын

    Most farmers run a lease program through their local dealership. Lease a unit for 2-3 years and when it ends they lease another (possibly newer) machine. I doubt most farmers are writing a check for the full cost of the combine and head.

  • @stever411

    @stever411

    Жыл бұрын

    I should clarify. Most large scale farmers might do this. Smaller guys may not, but nothing wrong with that.

  • @kevinkolling1562
    @kevinkolling1562 Жыл бұрын

    He needs too talk too the Mitchels in Canada about that Arendt. If thy did not fix the gearbox problem he regret the day he was bragging about that combine

  • @farmerjohnson8121

    @farmerjohnson8121

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, Mike Mitchell had alot of trouble with the Fendt Ideal combines.

  • @joescheller6680

    @joescheller6680

    Жыл бұрын

    @@farmerjohnson8121 know another farmer in south Dakota has three of the bigger fends and they are very unhappy with them to lightly built bearings on out repairing all the time

  • @dennyr6248
    @dennyr6248 Жыл бұрын

    Is it hinged like the new JD 50 foot?

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