JOHN DEERE 8820 Turbo Combine Harvesting Soybeans
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- In this video Big Tractor Power spends time out in the field with a 225 hp 222 bu. bushel JOHN DEERE 8820 Turbo Combine equipped with 20ft JOHN DEERE 920 Grain Head. Viewers spend time in the field seeing this classic combine harvesting and learn about this big machines production history, specifications and original price tag. Watch for a JOHN DEERE 7700 Turbo combine and JOHN DEERE 8820 Titan II combine in this video.
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Growing up in an area where it's popular to allow a nickel to hold up a dime, I never saw one of these until they were older. Had the titan two catalog and looked at it so much that it eventually fell apart. Nothing bigger than a 6620 turbo ever hit our farm until the farm went up to rent, and I remember the depression era farmers around then (retiring at that time) marveling at anything that could move down the field with a 15 or 20 foot header.
6620 turbo sat fairly often when the trucks were full. Some things never change.
Love watching the old equipment still getting out and harvesting the big crops.
Me too. 😁👍👍
I appreciate the research you put into describing the machines you record.
Thank you.
Always loved the 8820. Such a beast for it's day.
It was a monster machine in it’s a day.
It sure was :)
When I was in high school my parents had 3 of these 8820 turbos here in southeast Nebraska.
We ran them all past 5000 hours, put alot of new parts in them every year, they are good combines. I spent alot of hours in one of those.
Very cool. Thank you for sharing.
My Grandpa still runs a 7720
Great video! Love seeing this old farming equipment working! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!
@9:30 legend moment. When we bought the farm after immigrating an 86 8820 T2 came with the deal, we updated the header from 25ft to 30ft HoneyBee, handled it like a pro (except it liked to pick it's ass up at the headland) once my family sell out their shares of the farm ill be looking for that exact model for my cattle farm.
The 8820 was a monster machine in its day. It’s one of the top 10 cool factor combines in my book. Probably number 1. I have experienced that ripping feeling in a 9610 running a 1293 corn head.
Gotta love old classic equipment it’s a testament to have far engineering has come great video
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Good to see those classic machines still getting it done!
Definitely remember the farm having one during my childhood. Good to see them still in use
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I’ll say it again, Jason you are a legend for standing in soybean dust and other dust and chaff to get videos for us guys and gals
Great video! I'm still running a 1982 8820 here in south central Pennsylvania on a 300 acre beef and grain farm for barley, wheat, corn and beans, we run a 218 flex head and a 643 corn head, nice to see others still out in use
Those are some very good looking beans!! 70+ bu good. Great video. You didn’t see many of them back in the day.Thanks.
Thank you for watching.
Another great video! Enjoy watching classic combines out in the field getting the job done
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I have a 1982 Sidehill 6620 Titan that we are still using to take out corn and soybeans, still a good machine.
Very cool. I have a feature on a 6600 Side Hill on the way.
We bought a good used 8820 Titan II (with big single front tires & not duals) & 925F head from a friend a few years back to replace a used L2 Gleaner. We used our R-52 in corn but ran both combines when doing beans. Now the R-52 gets used solely in corn (or beans if we ever get desperate lol) & the 8820 is solely used in beans. They both have been fitted with cameras & LED lights to improve them. Was just combining beans today in a muddy field with the 8820.
Great info. Thank you for this video.
Harvest action is always great👍😉 this combine is still going strong😁👍
We’ve got a 7720 turbo combine on our farm in southern Ontario we harvest everything with it (wheat, oats and peas mix, beans and corn for the first time in 20 years) can’t beat these old machine s
There’s nothing like seeing an older John Deere combine still in the field working away who’s my favourite years of combined for John Deere
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Ninja combine!
Ultra cool machine! :)
I ran a 7720 back in the early 80's, back then they were a pretty big combine. Now look whats out there, crazy how times have changed. I still prefer the old stuff.
I just filmed a 7720 Turbo harvesting corn this weekend. 😁👍
Those and the 90 series where the best combines Deere ever made.
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Man that 8820 has a long auger
able to handle a 30 foot flex head or 12 /30 corn head thats why
This one has some custom extensions.
I noticed that’
@@bigtractorpower our 8820 T2 has extensions and duals, 4wd, long auger option, along with a yield monitor with mapping. Just wished the clean grain elevator had more capacity. That is its limiting capacity, thats the bottleneck of the design.
OMG, this is amazing the power the jhon deere nice tractor.
Thanks again BTP. I remember when this combine was the top dog here in the MO Bootheel. I remember the biggest crop harvest crew (Small Bros of Senath MO) had a complete new set of these.
Very cool.
Thanks Jason, BTP👍👍
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I owned a 6620 side-hill yellow top to harvest my corn and soybeans. Your video brings back memories. Biggest weakness with my combine was the final drives. They went out more times than I care to remember, from things like drive chain breaks, to bull gear tooth failures, either could cause the case to break also, which caused an expensive fix. Not one of Deere's better design.
Great video love watching the classic stuff getting it done
Thank you for watching.
Great video!! I miss seeing the yellow tops at work, though there are still some out there doing their thing. Hard to believe they debuted over 40 years ago. Speaking of said era, I was thinking it would be really neat if you could arrange things so a video could be made of the JD, IH & AC combines, from that same era ('77-'79) all going head-to-head in the same crop in the same field. See how much ground they can cover & what's getting thrown over the sieves. That would make for some awesome content. Especially with the knowledge everybody has on how these machines have performed throughout the years. I don't imagine it would be easy to arrange last minute, at the end of the season. Maybe next year?
Hello! A Green Oldie doing the job...
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Wow! The price jumped from the 60s/70s era combine to the turbo yellow top combine was huge! Under $34,000 up to over $100,000! It sounds like the improvements made going to the turbo yellow top combines were the largest jump in improvement and I’m not sure that the improvements made in the titan to justified buying a new combine
These JD 4400/6600/7700/8800 series combines are awesome. If you keep them maintained properly they will last many years. I rebuilt and ran a 4400 series and it had ZERO grain coming out the back. Great machines. Relatively easy to work on.
Very nice.
We see these 500 horse 500 bushel hopper combines with 45’-50’ tables makes it look like we were using Farmall F 20s and IH 80 pull-type combines..........and my last crop was just in 2005‼️
I ran a 7720 turbo and I loved it
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We run a 8820 still to this day. We run a jd643 corn head on it and 925 bean we run a couple hundred acre's of corn through it every year primarily high moisture corn because we are a dairy and we grind all of it for feed. Soybeans we store on farm and have them roasted for feed as well.. we farm in the northeast part of ohio valley. The ol 8820 may be old but she does a very good job for what we want it to do and are fairly easy to work on. Around use there are alot of 7720s still in the fields running and a few 6620s but I don't know of anyone else around running a 8820 but us.
We are currently running an 82 6620 on 320 acres. It’s a very good machine. It has about 4700 hrs on it, but it’s in really good condition. Previous owners kept it well maintained and so do we. As long as someone keeps making parts for it we’ll keep running it . The machines that did the best job were the 4400/4420’s. You could get a really clean sample in corn and beans. You just couldn’t get the acres/hr out of them. If you had the time they were the machine to run
Thank you for sharing. The 6620 is a popular combine. I featured a 4420 last year. Nice combine but with out a reversible feeder house it struggled in tough wheat.
In the early 80s Johndeere had a corn picker style head that harvested soy beans.
Yes the 53A All Crop. It was available in 4 to 12 rows. I hope to film on some day. A 1253A on an 8820 would be a cool combo to film.
Great drone video,
man I'd like to go at that unit with some wax for a few days get rid of that oxidized paint, they clean up nice. I Always liked those models.
Very satisfying video👌
Thank you for watching.
Didn't own the real thing,but did have a 1/16 scale turbo and titanII and a 1/80 scale turbo as a kid😆. Actually still have them. Love seeing these combines!
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My family used one of these beast for 15 years ours was 4 wheel drive an run a 30 foot head though up graded in 2000
Very cool.
Good 👍✌
Thank you for watching.
Tried an evaluation Titan 2 here in the uk did not fit uk conditions but a great memory
Awesome Video!!
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Great Vlog, Great Machine
Thank you for watching.
Very nice
Thank you for watching.
Had 4 titan2 8820 Jd when I started custom cutting wheat beans and corn
What a line up. What size headers did you run on them ?
Muito bom
Be interesting to see the amount of reel shatter loss, caused with the reel set very low. I normally set reel height up to the point it can feed the beans with good flow over the sickle bar to the auger.
Never lacked for power
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Still RUNNING a 79 6620 with 5500 hrs in central Indiana ...
Awesome from oklahoma
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We had a 7720 yellow top always wanted a 8820 Titan ll
Must have been a 7720 turbo
@@jdlawless_fuel1416 yes it was
That's the first 8820 I seen with those style wheels on the back
It is a 2wd model with just regular tires. Ertl made a 1/28 scale model just like this one in the late 70’s.
Could you do a video on all the upgrades from from a titan to a titanll
Yes. I did mention the big upgrades in this video.
6:20 They really need to check the engine. It's not running too well. I could hear it coughing a bit.
That’s me caught in the dust. I tried to hold my breath as long as I could but the combine was not moving past fast enough
@@bigtractorpower Haha!
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Thank you for watching.
Had a 6620 green cab 4x4 was a good combine. In-laws custom cut with 7720’s years until the 9000 series came out.
Very cool.
There's a farm near me that uses a couple 8820s, I didn't get to see them combine this fall
That’s cool they are using 8820s.
Love old combines in Wisconsin but didnt get why grain carts were sitting still
What’s the biggest improvement in combining in the last 15 years?
I think it has to be the headers.
Capacity, Flex Draper Headers Becoming Reliable and Better Yield and Moisture sensors for us. Imagine everyone has different opinions on that matter though
Automated harvesting. The newest combines can auto adjust to the crop as it gets heavier and lighter. There are cameras inside the machines that watch the crop and the quality.
needs a 25 ft head at least !!! ran many 8820
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😁👍👍. Today’s video follows right up with a 9600.
@@bigtractorpower I have been having a hard time making comments lately but, always give a 👍
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We have a yellow top 7720 turbo and thrash barley, oats and some peas
I wonder what the spacing on those beans are.
7 inch.
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Do these older machines process the crops going through them as efficiently as latest technology machines? How do they compare when it comes to loss being shot out the back of the machine? Thanks
The newest ones are the best because they are automated to adjust to the crop as it gets heavier and lighter. These Titans were and are good but harvest tech gets better each generation.
That’s a wide question. Will they both do a good job? Depends on Operator, Speed and Conditions. I know guys with older 2188’s that can pull off a sample so clean it drives you nuts, and I know the newest combines can do the same exact job, probably going faster, with the right guy and Field conditions.
As for out the back, same applies. The advancements are more in speed and ease of use, letting less experienced operators doing better jobs than they could have without the tech and whatnot that is not in the older machines.
From data I’ve seen from the canola council on their drop pan checks it indicates combines travelling at higher speed have the highest losses. Now that maybe doesn’t mean newer but remember rotor and cleaning area probably haven’t increased as much as horse power in later model combines. Grain loss always increases in tougher conditions and more hp means you can jam it through especially nowadays with a push button cylinder reverser instead of a long handled wrench 🤬. And for all the modernization of grain loss monitors they don’t mean dick if they aren’t calibrated. Some of the canola councils data shows massive losses ( several bu/acre) and operators had no idea. 🤷♂️
Shut the door! That has to have ac.
So if the Titan II could have factory duals, was the 8820 Turbo limited to single main wheels?
Yea the 7720 turbo had singles and the 7720 Titan II had duals, I wonder if it's the same with these
John Deere offered a clamp on dual for the 8820 Turbo. It was not a common option used.
@@bigtractorpower we had custom duals made so the tires would run down the 30" rows without getting any stalk damage.
I run a 1981 6620 turbo.
Very nice.
7720 green top corn and beans
Very nice. One of the combine greats. 👍👍
and not one mention of the 7721
That is because this video is on the 8820. My 7721 video is posted at ua-cam.com/video/xHWIaDtZJKQ/v-deo.html
@@bigtractorpower um ~ you said you were mentioning all the titan models and you missed that one
@@bigtractorpower did you record it that long ago that you forget what you said
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Yes indeed. Thank you for your enthusiasm to watch the video first
@@bigtractorpower It`s always a pleasure.
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Gotta be miserable cutting beans with the cab door open no A/C
Sometimes you just have to power through to get the job done.
I’ve been there when the a/c goes out while combining corn
We got our first John Deere 5 years ago. An 8820 Titan II with a spike tooth cylinder and a locally made bucket elevator and belt unload. It is all set for beans only. Mostly dry edible beans, but does soy fine. Here’s a link. ua-cam.com/video/gKaCS6x-MEk/v-deo.html
Very cool. Nice to see.
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beans look nasty.like lentils
Very dusty. Hard crop to film in harvest.
OMG, this is amazing the power the jhon deere nice tractor.
Very nice 👍
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