spent a lot of hours in dads 7720...., neighbour still runs two of the 6620's they were a helluva combine in their day.

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.

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.

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.

I like the 8820 That's a cool Combine 😎

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 🥰

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

Awesome video! Started as a mechanic for John Deere in 1986. Worked on these combines a lot.

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.

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.

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 👍😀

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.

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.

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.

We own a 8820 pretty good for its time then the case harvester back then.

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

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.

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

Very good video...brings back alot of memories

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.

Could you please do a video about experimental john deere tractors? It would make an interesting video

Wait for the next video

I still run a 6620 yellow cap!👍

1st! Great video

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

Our 7720 was the quietest combine ever. You had to be close to hear it. So well balanced…

My dad had to 8820 titan2 and he says it was the beast combine ever

I like steel tracks on them meaning I like 1980 combines

Ima need more of these please 😂

It would be great to see a video on the Specialty tractors, I.e Orchard/Vineyard, High crop, Mudders, or LP tractors.

Never had that harvesttrak gig work

Great video! Thank you for posting! Suscribed

cant wait for the maximizers

Im running a 1988 8820 Titan 2

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.

Titan Combines❤❤❤

Dial omactic best header control a big improvement 😊

Please don't make us wait a month

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.

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.

The 8820 had a 12 row corn header

I loved our 7720 but we just ran to many bushels through it and had to trade. sad day

My grandpa is a 6620

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