Why? It's reputation is terrible, not dependable with it's V8. I like the idea of it, 300+ HP 1970s JD in this generation, it would have been awesome. With a big straight 6.
I worked for a large farmer back in the 80's , he bought an 8850 with a 60' feild cultivator an believe it was a 335 heavey disc. I remember when we went the field an drop that we 60' field cultivator in the ground , I never seen a tractor wheel hop like that one did , had the cultivator to deep we got the depth set an it really struggled ta pull the cultivator at 370 hp , so out came the wire snippers , wrench an screw driver an about a half turn on the pump an Holly s__t !!! This thing would pull that 60' feild cultivator 9 mph !! We got a rain the next day an decided we better take it in an fing out how far we turned it up an put a exhaust gas temperature gauge on it so we wouldn't melt the motor down , first time I've ever seen a tire flat on a dyno !! 530 .7 hp . The tractor held 240 gallons of fuel an it emptied those tanks every day ! I ran this tractor for five years , about 3200 hours , we had one injector leak , I moved on to different job an that next year as I was told at around 3400 hours the transmission went out which was the biggest down fall for that tractor . It only came with the quad range transmission witch in my opinion was a junk transmission, never heard of anybody getting more than 3500 hrs out of one those . The tractor was a monster for the early 80's , fun ta drive an I had no problem staying ahead of a 24 row planter ! Tractor had dueled 24.5 tires
Carl Bloomquist, I love the looks of that tractor, but even as a John Deere fan I’ve got to say they were shit, motor and trans problems abound and heavy servicing sucked. Stiegers and Versitles were much better. We found out the hard way and still drive stiegers for 4wd and JD for everything else.
Dave Schott The soil looks to be fairly heavy clay, notice how the plow brings up some yellow sub-soil at times. That yellow clay you can make bricks with it. The JD just moves steadily along. I’d love to plow with that set up all day long.
David Schott Yeah, it looks a whole lot like plowing after soybeans have been harvested. It looks like rows of soybean stubble that is being turned over.
Kristaps Ozolins it is grass sod that is being broken out of extremely heavy clay soil. Also there wasn’t any adjustment done to the plow for this clip. It had been pulled out of the trees and hooked up for fun to see the old 8850 plow.
Only one disc on the rear, rest of the furrows don't have uniform edges as the furrow side is being ripped out(not a problem in tillage stubble but a disaster in permanent grassland), plus no skimmers to knock the outside edge of the furrow off as its being turned over to leave trash at the bottom of the furrow. So in conclusion this plough is doing pretty well considering.
False Statement .... The 955 was a great engine - it was the lack of the tractor having frame rails that caused issues ... The 955 V8 was also used in other JD equipment such as wheel loader - it held up great - many exceed 15,000 hours between overhauls .... The 8650 - with the 619 - was a much worse engine that the 955 V8 used in the 8850 .....
The 8850 engine cost Deere a ton of money and a black eye to boot. How they could not have reinforced the frames of the engine mounts in their 4WD tractors cost farmers Millions of dollars in repairs. Kinze manufacturing knew instantly what to do to correct this 20+ year problem. Shame on John Deere for this mistake.
8850 with factory 30.5x32 duals & a 3 point - a rare tractor - pulling two 5x18 - 3200 plows .... Just Awesome! Thanks for the video
Enjoyed it. Great looking soil. Looked like it was pulling pretty hard. I wish we could have heard the tractor :-)
Beautiful 8850 one of my all-time favorite JD's
Why? It's reputation is terrible, not dependable with it's V8. I like the idea of it, 300+ HP 1970s JD in this generation, it would have been awesome. With a big straight 6.
I worked for a large farmer back in the 80's , he bought an 8850 with a 60' feild cultivator an believe it was a 335 heavey disc. I remember when we went the field an drop that we 60' field cultivator in the ground , I never seen a tractor wheel hop like that one did , had the cultivator to deep we got the depth set an it really struggled ta pull the cultivator at 370 hp , so out came the wire snippers , wrench an screw driver an about a half turn on the pump an Holly s__t !!! This thing would pull that 60' feild cultivator 9 mph !! We got a rain the next day an decided we better take it in an fing out how far we turned it up an put a exhaust gas temperature gauge on it so we wouldn't melt the motor down , first time I've ever seen a tire flat on a dyno !! 530 .7 hp . The tractor held 240 gallons of fuel an it emptied those tanks every day ! I ran this tractor for five years , about 3200 hours , we had one injector leak , I moved on to different job an that next year as I was told at around 3400 hours the transmission went out which was the biggest down fall for that tractor . It only came with the quad range transmission witch in my opinion was a junk transmission, never heard of anybody getting more than 3500 hrs out of one those . The tractor was a monster for the early 80's , fun ta drive an I had no problem staying ahead of a 24 row planter ! Tractor had dueled 24.5 tires
Good video, great looking tractor but would have loved to hear that V8 working 😎
Great looking set up!
nice ground
Excellent video guys but most folks would have loved to hear the big 955 cubic inch bruiser growling, some music ok but just saying bro, cheers
Some good looking soil.
That 8850 is a boss!
Carl Bloomquist, I love the looks of that tractor, but even as a John Deere fan I’ve got to say they were shit, motor and trans problems abound and heavy servicing sucked. Stiegers and Versitles were much better. We found out the hard way and still drive stiegers for 4wd and JD for everything else.
That is some awesome looking ground
Dave Schott The soil looks to be fairly heavy clay, notice how the plow brings up some yellow sub-soil at times.
That yellow clay you can make bricks with it. The JD just moves steadily along. I’d love to plow with that set up all day long.
@@Russ4704 lol watch the video again, towards the end. the yellow you mention is the grass. that's some dang nice looking black dirt
David Schott
Yeah, it looks a whole lot like plowing after soybeans have been harvested. It looks like rows of soybean stubble that is being turned over.
Great video would of loved too of heard the tractor instead of music oh well maybe next time
Good video but music was a terrible choice.
Imagine a day and time when you can drive a 10 bottom reversible plow(?)! That would be insane.
Waste of money
They make them, but they pull much harder because of all the extra weight
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Seams like wide set boards, a long way to fold over without coulters, good video tho
For some reason there was music playing instead of the sound of the tractor?
That’s how it is with drone footage. The only good option is to film sound at ground level and overlay it with video footage
Why do you need such huge tractors and implements for such small fields?
Who says that all the fields are that small?
...thumbs down for the music...
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What is wrong with american plows? Field looks terrible. :(
Kristaps Ozolins it is grass sod that is being broken out of extremely heavy clay soil. Also there wasn’t any adjustment done to the plow for this clip. It had been pulled out of the trees and hooked up for fun to see the old 8850 plow.
@@AdamGaj I'm not suprised that You put it away.
Only one disc on the rear, rest of the furrows don't have uniform edges as the furrow side is being ripped out(not a problem in tillage stubble but a disaster in permanent grassland), plus no skimmers to knock the outside edge of the furrow off as its being turned over to leave trash at the bottom of the furrow.
So in conclusion this plough is doing pretty well considering.
Great video without that stupid music
Another potentially great video completely ruined by BULLSHIT BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!!
Not everybody wants the damn music,geez!!!!!!!
Junky plow junky tractor.
Too bad they put a lousy V8 in this beast instead of a straight 6. It was so bad it hardly counted as a tractor.
False Statement .... The 955 was a great engine - it was the lack of the tractor having frame rails that caused issues ... The 955 V8 was also used in other JD equipment such as wheel loader - it held up great - many exceed 15,000 hours between overhauls .... The 8650 - with the 619 - was a much worse engine that the 955 V8 used in the 8850 .....
The 8850 engine cost Deere a ton of money and a black eye to boot. How they could not have reinforced the frames of the engine mounts in their 4WD tractors cost farmers Millions of dollars in repairs.
Kinze manufacturing knew instantly what to do to correct this 20+ year problem. Shame on John Deere for this mistake.