7720s and 8820s were considered the toughest machine you could buy here in Australia. They would go and go and go. Many did huge hours. It is a shame to see them abandoned under a tree now, worn out and forgotten. They were a very good thing.
Grandpa bought a used 4400 in 79. Dad used it after grandpa died in 82. Dad died Sept 2021 & I was using it and it broke. Summer of 2022 I went to a farm auction & got a turbo 6620. Last year I got a 6 row head. Wow. I greatly enjoy it. I have had minimal problems with it. I did figure out what is broken on the 4400, & will fix it this summer. As I farm alone, it's handy to have a working spare machine ready to go.
We got one in 83. The first 4wheel drive anywhere in our area in any brand. It was like a hover craft in wet corn ground. Such a good machine. Just a few structural weak points after years of hard labour.
Our family ran a 7720 Turbo for about 16 years. It was a major upgrade from an old 6600 diesel, and just a couple years later we switched from 38 inch four row corn to a 30 inch 6 row planter and corn head to match. I never learned to run the combine since I was busy pulling wagons and filling the grain bin, but I did spend time riding along with my father and grandfather in the combine. When I rode along I got to swing the unloading auger out and turn it on since I was sitting on that side anyway. It sure was neat seeing that big auger swing out compared to the manual auger on the 6600. My dad had one of the seats from either a combine or a sound guard cab tractor mounted on office chair wheels in his office (I really wish I could find one of those). Near the end the 7720 was taking a lot of repair time, and when it broke down during soybean harvest we rented a John Deere 9500. Dad liked the 9500 so much we bought it as the replacement and the 7720 went down the road. Thanks for the video and I am looking forward to one on the Maximizer combines.
Love this video...I've been looking forward to it. Never understood the odd row number heads...like the 5 row corn and 7 row bean heads?? I was born in 1979 and growing up through the 80's, absolutely LOVED all the Titan combines...a nice conditioned one still gets me excited to this day. A movie to mention from 1987 is Race Against the Harvest that featured 3 beautiful John Deere 8820 Titan ll combines. Whoever Deere had for design engineers in the mid 1970s when they developed this combine were brilliant, IMO. They were such a sleek design...I was always disappointed they kept the ugly box cab on the 4420. My father owned a 1979 4400, then we got a 6620 Turbo 🥰
Odd row heads seem to have been targeted for cotton growers or bedders which is why primarily wide row spacings (36, 38, sometimes 40") were available, and few examples exist. Massey Ferguson even had a 7 row corn head alongside their 6 and 8 row heads, but it didn't last too long. I've read that there have been guys who would operate a 546 5 row 36/38" corn head on a 4420 with zero axle adjustments to make it row crop capable before it was popular. Keep in mind that these "bean heads" were also used to harvest sorghum (milo), sunflowers, and millet, so there was definitely harvesting opportunities a row crop head opened up; especially when growing bedded crops.
Aquí en México el maíz se siembra a 30... Entonces, por ejemplo en un cabezal 444 de 4 hileras a 40 se podían juntar a 30, de este modo podías meter un surco más y era así como tenías un cabezal de 5 hileras. Lo mismo pasaba en los de 6 surcos... Los juntabas a 30 y podías meter un surco extra y tenias un cabezal de 7 surcos... Respecto a la película yo también la vi cuando era niño y me encantaba verla también por ver las 8820
In 1979, when the first Titan's came out, they were still cylinder machines while New Holland and IH were embracing the future by building rotary combines. The world had passed JD by and yet JD stubbornly stuck to the idea of cylinders when it was obvious this was obsolete technology.
Great grandpa had 3 7720 combines for rice. According to grandpa they would eat and not need a break unless they were stuck. Before that they ran 3 105r combines
Enjoying JD combine series as only seen 1100, Titan n 9500 n 9600 in our district, at the time in 79 many Aussie whest farmers were still using pull type combines following tough years not much had change until 2000. Pa had brought MF SP 3342 it was first combine with cab in district it had 18ft header.
Really excellent video, one thing I noticed you didn't go over was the experimental bean head that John Deere was doing testing on in the early 80s. My Grandpa participated in the program, I always thought it was cool seeing a corn head harvest beans.
Yea he has his years wrong on the 4400-4420. They made the 4400 one extra year. A true 4420 didn’t come out until 1980. The 79 was a mixed machine it had some features of the 20 series but not all. We used to have one. In fact a lot of the part numbers were 20 series part numbers, but most parts were identical to the 00 series.
Outstanding informative vid! I have to correct you on the feederhouse reverser being standard. I had a 7720 Titan2 that didn't have it. Got a jobber thing that clamped around the auger and you manually unplugged feederhouse with a bar.
Yeah they were standard on Corn/Soybean combines plus rice combines. Not available on Grain combines. Seems he missed that note. It become an option on the SideHill 6620 and Grain combines for 1984.
@matthewkabanuk443 As somebody that has manualy unplugged many feederhouses it should have been standard on everything. At least Massey suppled a wrench for manual unplugging.
@@379insk Ok thanks for the insight into the feeder house. Seems you had a Grain model; (reverser optional) with the Posi-Torq drive package of 145 hp. Somebody went bares bones lol. In that case it must have been the 9000 Maximizers which brought reversers across the whole board regardless of harvesting spec.
Using a 7720 Turbo in FS22 right now. Planning on a Sidehill for the next one, whenever Sitzer gets released. I love the ones on steel tracks. Those are so much more badass than modern rubber tracks.
just found you channel and really enjoying the combine history stuff. don't know if your strictly a green guy buy if not would love to see similar series for Allis Chalmers/Gleaner, Oliver/White ,New Holland and Case. keep up the good work
Appreciate that! pretty much just green because its all I've ever been around. I wouldn't be against checking out some other brands though and making some videos in the future. Thanks for watching
great video as always any plans on doing videos of the 650 750 850 950 900hc 1050 1250 and 1450 tractors we had a 1050 when i was a kid and when the recession hit we had to sell it and i was gonna buy it back in 2018 but it was lost in a barn fire a few months before i was gonna get it
We had a 8820! I miss it! We had a company put the straw chopper blades with a crank handle in cab to flip it up or down, used it for canola, grain. I know it had the grain loss monitor, but i wonder if it was the final year model or not, also the later JD titans should've been a green cab cap, not yellow? Ours was yellow.
We run John Deere 7722 titan 2, we have two of them and I keep getting told that John Deere didn't make then like that, Is that true? I was told that there was a place in Washington that retrofitted 7720's to hill side unites and painted a 2 on the number. Be cool if you have info on them, Thanks for your time.
We had the 6620 and it was garbage. No reverser and was terribly underpowered. The engine noise left you deaf in the left ear and the lights were inadequate for night corn threshing. Couldn't be happier with the 9500 that replaced it.
7720s and 8820s were considered the toughest machine you could buy here in Australia. They would go and go and go. Many did huge hours. It is a shame to see them abandoned under a tree now, worn out and forgotten. They were a very good thing.
Grandpa bought a used 4400 in 79. Dad used it after grandpa died in 82. Dad died Sept 2021 & I was using it and it broke. Summer of 2022 I went to a farm auction & got a turbo 6620. Last year I got a 6 row head. Wow. I greatly enjoy it. I have had minimal problems with it. I did figure out what is broken on the 4400, & will fix it this summer. As I farm alone, it's handy to have a working spare machine ready to go.
That'd be cool to get the 4400 up and going this summer. So cool that it has been passed down to you. Thanks for watching
spent a lot of hours in dads 7720...., neighbour still runs two of the 6620's they were a helluva combine in their day.
Very true! Thanks for watching
We got one in 83. The first 4wheel drive anywhere in our area in any brand. It was like a hover craft in wet corn ground. Such a good machine. Just a few structural weak points after years of hard labour.
Our family ran a 7720 Turbo for about 16 years. It was a major upgrade from an old 6600 diesel, and just a couple years later we switched from 38 inch four row corn to a 30 inch 6 row planter and corn head to match. I never learned to run the combine since I was busy pulling wagons and filling the grain bin, but I did spend time riding along with my father and grandfather in the combine. When I rode along I got to swing the unloading auger out and turn it on since I was sitting on that side anyway. It sure was neat seeing that big auger swing out compared to the manual auger on the 6600. My dad had one of the seats from either a combine or a sound guard cab tractor mounted on office chair wheels in his office (I really wish I could find one of those). Near the end the 7720 was taking a lot of repair time, and when it broke down during soybean harvest we rented a John Deere 9500. Dad liked the 9500 so much we bought it as the replacement and the 7720 went down the road. Thanks for the video and I am looking forward to one on the Maximizer combines.
Sounds like good memories in those combines. Thanks for watching!
I started my JD career in 1985 with the Titan and Titan II combines at a dealership in Saskatchewan. The picture at 11:45 is a dealer in Saskatchewan.
That’s awesome! Cool to learn where the picture was taken at. Thanks for watching
Awesome video! Started as a mechanic for John Deere in 1986. Worked on these combines a lot.
Very cool! Which combine was your favorite to work on?
8820
Love this video...I've been looking forward to it. Never understood the odd row number heads...like the 5 row corn and 7 row bean heads?? I was born in 1979 and growing up through the 80's, absolutely LOVED all the Titan combines...a nice conditioned one still gets me excited to this day. A movie to mention from 1987 is Race Against the Harvest that featured 3 beautiful John Deere 8820 Titan ll combines. Whoever Deere had for design engineers in the mid 1970s when they developed this combine were brilliant, IMO. They were such a sleek design...I was always disappointed they kept the ugly box cab on the 4420. My father owned a 1979 4400, then we got a 6620 Turbo 🥰
Odd row heads seem to have been targeted for cotton growers or bedders which is why primarily wide row spacings (36, 38, sometimes 40") were available, and few examples exist. Massey Ferguson even had a 7 row corn head alongside their 6 and 8 row heads, but it didn't last too long. I've read that there have been guys who would operate a 546 5 row 36/38" corn head on a 4420 with zero axle adjustments to make it row crop capable before it was popular. Keep in mind that these "bean heads" were also used to harvest sorghum (milo), sunflowers, and millet, so there was definitely harvesting opportunities a row crop head opened up; especially when growing bedded crops.
@@matthewkabanuk443thanks for your explanation!
Aquí en México el maíz se siembra a 30... Entonces, por ejemplo en un cabezal 444 de 4 hileras a 40 se podían juntar a 30, de este modo podías meter un surco más y era así como tenías un cabezal de 5 hileras.
Lo mismo pasaba en los de 6 surcos... Los juntabas a 30 y podías meter un surco extra y tenias un cabezal de 7 surcos... Respecto a la película yo también la vi cuando era niño y me encantaba verla también por ver las 8820
I like the 8820 That's a cool Combine 😎
Sweet machines!😎
On, FIL Farm, we had a 95,6601,6620 ll, and now a 9600 all great machines. Also I worked at Jd dealership started in 81
We ran a 6620 for several years. It was a really good combine. It was kinda of hard to work on but other than that, a very solid combine.
We had one for years. A 4400 and a 6600 also.
For the era it was in, best combine ever!
My first diesel combine was the 7720 it was awesome way better than my gasoline 95 ended up running two 7720 before getting the 9610’s great video 👍😀
Definitely a big step up from the model 95. Thanks for watching😎👍🏻
Our 7720 was the quietest combine ever. You had to be close to hear it. So well balanced…
In 1979, when the first Titan's came out, they were still cylinder machines while New Holland and IH were embracing the future by building rotary combines. The world had passed JD by and yet JD stubbornly stuck to the idea of cylinders when it was obvious this was obsolete technology.
The only nice thing about a walker combine is it doesn't beat the hell out of the straw if you want to bale it. Otherwise rotary is far better.
They were waiting to steal a design
@@RJ1999x That is very true. John Deere doesn't have a design department, they just have a copy of Roget's Thesaurus.
@@GermanShepherd1983 They're a great marketing company, they know how to sell sub par really well
Deere had problems with wet/damp crops like rice when developing their rotary….kept with the rasp bar and spike until they figured it out.
Great grandpa had 3 7720 combines for rice. According to grandpa they would eat and not need a break unless they were stuck. Before that they ran 3 105r combines
Enjoying JD combine series as only seen 1100, Titan n 9500 n 9600 in our district, at the time in 79 many Aussie whest farmers were still using pull type combines following tough years not much had change until 2000. Pa had brought MF SP 3342 it was first combine with cab in district it had 18ft header.
Thanks for watching!
Really excellent video, one thing I noticed you didn't go over was the experimental bean head that John Deere was doing testing on in the early 80s. My Grandpa participated in the program, I always thought it was cool seeing a corn head harvest beans.
We own a 8820 pretty good for its time then the case harvester back then.
Awesome... I waiting for it, i have a 7720 turbo and i love my combine actually all the titan series are my favorite... i really enjoyed this video
7720s are awesome combines! Appreciate you watching😎👍🏻
Very good video...brings back alot of memories
Glad you enjoyed it, Thanks for watching!
Interesting video I have a 79 4400 Only ever saw 1 8820 several counties away we have a neighbor with a 6620 keep up the good work
I don’t see to many 8820s around where I’m at either, not sure if there where to pricey or to big, or a combo of both. Thanks for watching👍🏻
Yea he has his years wrong on the 4400-4420. They made the 4400 one extra year. A true 4420 didn’t come out until 1980. The 79 was a mixed machine it had some features of the 20 series but not all. We used to have one. In fact a lot of the part numbers were 20 series part numbers, but most parts were identical to the 00 series.
8820 were awesome for fall seeding winter wheat
I started with 7700’s then a couple 6620’s an 8820 . Now I have a 9400 .
Could you please do a video about experimental john deere tractors? It would make an interesting video
Definitely would be an awesome video👍🏻 I’ll see what I can dig up for info. Thanks for watching
@@LocustMotorWorks thank you
Outstanding informative vid! I have to correct you on the feederhouse reverser being standard. I had a 7720 Titan2 that didn't have it. Got a jobber thing that clamped around the auger and you manually unplugged feederhouse with a bar.
Yeah they were standard on Corn/Soybean combines plus rice combines. Not available on Grain combines. Seems he missed that note. It become an option on the SideHill 6620 and Grain combines for 1984.
@matthewkabanuk443 As somebody that has manualy unplugged many feederhouses it should have been standard on everything. At least Massey suppled a wrench for manual unplugging.
@@379insk A Titan II without one? Seems odd as I'm reading it became standard on all self-propelled models when the Titan II's were released.
@matthewkabanuk443 yup.... Mine was a 1987 Titan2
No hydro as well which was weird. When i traded it on a 9600 it sat onthe lot a long time!! Lol
@@379insk Ok thanks for the insight into the feeder house. Seems you had a Grain model; (reverser optional) with the Posi-Torq drive package of 145 hp. Somebody went bares bones lol. In that case it must have been the 9000 Maximizers which brought reversers across the whole board regardless of harvesting spec.
My dad had to 8820 titan2 and he says it was the beast combine ever
Yup... last combine I had...it was the beast... always felt privileged running it...
😎👍🏻thanks for watching
cant wait for the maximizers
I like steel tracks on them meaning I like 1980 combines
Using a 7720 Turbo in FS22 right now. Planning on a Sidehill for the next one, whenever Sitzer gets released. I love the ones on steel tracks. Those are so much more badass than modern rubber tracks.
I agree! the steel tracks just look alot better. Thanks for watching
1st! Great video
It would be great to see a video on the Specialty tractors, I.e Orchard/Vineyard, High crop, Mudders, or LP tractors.
Hopefully sometime soon! Been working on getting some info together. Thanks for watching
just found you channel and really enjoying the combine history stuff. don't know if your strictly a green guy buy if not would love to see similar series for Allis Chalmers/Gleaner, Oliver/White ,New Holland and Case. keep up the good work
Appreciate that! pretty much just green because its all I've ever been around. I wouldn't be against checking out some other brands though and making some videos in the future. Thanks for watching
great video as always any plans on doing videos of the 650 750 850 950 900hc 1050 1250 and 1450 tractors we had a 1050 when i was a kid and when the recession hit we had to sell it and i was gonna buy it back in 2018 but it was lost in a barn fire a few months before i was gonna get it
Back when John Deere cared about the family farm
Wait for the next video
Titan Combines❤❤❤
Awesome combines! Thanks for watching
Never had that harvesttrak gig work
6600 was my favorite, good fuel economy compared to the 7700 turbo
Ima need more of these please 😂
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Great video! Thank you for posting! Suscribed
Thanks for watching!😎👍🏻
Dial omactic best header control a big improvement 😊
😎👍🏻 thanks for watching
😎👍🏻 thanks for watching
Im running a 1988 8820 Titan 2
The 8820 had a 12 row corn header
Please don't make us wait a month
Or 3
We had a 8820! I miss it! We had a company put the straw chopper blades with a crank handle in cab to flip it up or down, used it for canola, grain. I know it had the grain loss monitor, but i wonder if it was the final year model or not, also the later JD titans should've been a green cab cap, not yellow? Ours was yellow.
I believe they went to green top cabs on the Titan 2s
@@LocustMotorWorks thats what we had, it was yellow top
I loved our 7720 but we just ran to many bushels through it and had to trade. sad day
What did you end up trading for?
I hate to say it but a 2366. I will say our 7720 had more capacity than the 2366 does even though it was supposed to be smaller
We run John Deere 7722 titan 2, we have two of them and I keep getting told that John Deere didn't make then like that, Is that true? I was told that there was a place in Washington that retrofitted 7720's to hill side unites and painted a 2 on the number. Be cool if you have info on them, Thanks for your time.
We had the 6620 and it was garbage. No reverser and was terribly underpowered. The engine noise left you deaf in the left ear and the lights were inadequate for night corn threshing. Couldn't be happier with the 9500 that replaced it.
My grandpa is a 6620
They drove like crap on the roas
CTS & CTSll
Might I ask why you end your sentences like you’re asking a question??