Literally a $1,000,000+ machine, at least in Aussie dollars, and watching you just bend it with your fingers is confidence inspiring :D

I feel you on the laminated glass. A way to fix that fear is to have the windows just lightly tinted which laminates them.

Everyone “has x horsepower, x pto, etc etc” Mike: “How durable is the cup holder?!” 😂

Your combine fire was how I discovered your channel.

Nice to see Lee in your video Mike

Flashback to the great Fendt combine experiment!

That narrow waist on that tractor is for row crop work

So are you going to be ordering a big bud when they start production again? And where's the gleaners

I found Mike with his US border shenanigans, but the combine fire was great... Mike even protilled his cap that night :D

Looked at notification at 6.Pm (India) felt disappointed now up with a video Good mood....

Mike best part of the video is the old dudes looking at you while your knocking on the glass in the Massey. LOL

The good old ideal combine came with so much expectation and far from ideal 😆 saying that the x9 is running not far behind it

The new 2023 Ideal Modell has a frigde under the passenger seat and on the right side new shelves.

Your burning combine video was great.

I'm using my Ideal 9 with a Case Terra Flex 41' header right now to harvest Canola. Mike says there the best. I agree. I use nothing but Fendt. Farm Simulator 19. 😁 Houston' Texas

Soooooo!!! Mike and Lee relive some old times and pick holes in everything!!😂🤣👋🍻👋

Massey , nice model👌

Thank you.

JD tractors have a narrowed hood near the cab also.

I think the cup holder in the tractor is more in front so it's like in front of you when you have your seat turned

Thank You

Claas Lexion can't be beat.

The guys at the shows should listen to you because you spend allot of time in these types of machines

"Hi Mike, this is AGCO calling, we are looking for a product developer manager and I'm informing you, that position is yours." 😅

Magnifique vidéo sur le comise agricole et les tracteur et les matériel et les moissonneuse batteuse

I would say the Ideal combine is the cheapest made combine. I saw one demo combine which got totalled by insurance. When harvesting peas they accidentally feeded head sized rock through feederhouse and it stopped at the rear of the rotor.

I just love how mike mocks the the Ideal when the folks who bought one of his 9's have been singing its praises.

Great video Mike

Nice show

Dad bought a new massey lots of def problems and busted the loader in half carrying two silage bales

In Germany everyone calls the „CVT“ Vario. Nobody says „oh you have a CVT case“ everyone says „oh you have a Vario case“😂👍🏻

the 8S you would enjoy for sure. its a really smooth tractor, especially with the DynaVT transmission (Fendt Transmission)

Lol, look at you annoying the other bi-standards by knocking on the window in that Massey, now that was classic Mike!!!!

Will you demo the fendt sprayer?

Mike you keep saying how bad the glare is on your camera but I still can’t see what you’re talking about. Maybe I’m blind 😂

I designed most of the grain handling of the ideal. Ideal had the foldavle auger from the beginning. This option was for Europe only at first. The unloader tubes and auger are modulars, and you can bolt on a straight joint or an hinged joint. I like your comments. I wish the combine was designed to beat deere (reliabilty high resale) and not claas (high perf, but high repair costs like a Ferrari). .

Have you ever tried a gleaner or is it not big enough?

Does Lee get extra insurance to travel with you. Just a question.

It seems you and Lee are getting a little tired as the "Quick & Crisp Back & Forth Banter" has slowed down a bit 🤣😂

I would never buy a tractor based on where the cup holders are or if it had a fridge - reliability, performance, cost and cost to operate are what I would buy on.

Still can’t believe AGCO didn’t sort out gearbox problem with breathers as for handle shutting the shield of concaves that just disappointing. Interesting is most manufacturers have metal covers for concaves but JD did have plastic for S combines but X9 they went with metal. I find it’s easier take plastic covers off been lighter then metal covers.

Mike is little but a powerhouse of strength lol

Videos like this make me think if newer machines are actually better than the ones that are like 10-15 years old now considering they went up in price about 50% or more and deliver way worse fabricating quality and quite often use way to weak materials. I mean, there are like hundreds of people designing and developing a machine and I dont understand how it happens that some designs are just bad and not practical at all. Dont they have experts who know what the farmers are complaining about? for excample the cupholder on the 8.265 s tractor, why didnt they just integrate an cupholder to the armrest, it costs like 10$ to put one there. why would anyone buy a 200k machine if the cab where you spend many hours is crap. It shouldn't be that expensive to make a good cab with some nice features like well placed cupholders or a fridge that would add max. 1000$ to the price of the machine but would make the work way more enjoyable.

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We own and operate one, beats the 700 fendts in my opinion

Have been drivning a 10T in Sweden 3 years now Never had those problem u r talking about

Mike, Your thoughts on NEXAT & that type of farming? Any future there. Seems using the same engine, computers, hydraulics, etc would make farming more cost effective but I dunno. Interested in what you think.

You can’t beat being product/manufacture biased 😂

Lee will be bringing you a claas 8800 this fall

The cab floats with cab suspension so that's why the exhaust looks off.

New Massey is a lot different than ole Ernie

I didn't see link for the Combine fire?

I don't know who and why made these things so cheap and easy to bend. Where are the factory workers who ask farmers like "Hey dude.. I saw you bought some machines worth more than $1M. Do you have any idea how we can improve your comfort and performance?" It's that easy to make something better.

You need to demo a Claas 8900

Did the 2020 fendts perform better for mike than the 2019. Also have you see the guy that bought one your combine on KZfaq?

New Ernie 😅

Hey Mike, by any chance did you ever go to FFA?

Hopefully MF up graded there clutches. I owned one with loader and put 2 clutches in it. The first under warranty.

A John Deere 7810 with 6500 hrs will outlive the Massey by two lifetimes IMO

Have Fendt rang you and thanked you for the positive comprehensive review ? 😀😀

For me an Ideal has not much to do with Fendt or MF for me these are Laverdas from Breganze Italy, their combines have formerly been sold via Fiatagri, before the Fiat, Case New Holland merger…

That new MF tractor looks like it has a lot of nice features. Are you thinking of trading your old 1100 MF for one?

how they still allow you to come close to one on those ideals.... hahahaha

Yeah Mike that tractor too narrow its like you sitting at the back of a Bus 🚌

mf tractors to good for you mike

I was in this building a few weeks after crop show fucking wasted at mok wedding

“Really poor hitch” That’s because these harvesters are built in Germany and Europe! If Europe the header trailers are lighter than the ones here in the states! Have you ever heard of hauling the header with a pickup truck? Everyone does it in the states!

Ideal 9 bent this bent that. What is it plastic toy?

get some cows ~ and stay home

I'm just gonna go ahead and say it ....... I MISS LEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn with all the complaining you do anyone would think your name is Mike Bitchell lol

this guy seems to whine alot because he is one of the extremely few you tubers who is not a paid shill or shill wannabe

I'll take my MF 9540 over that ideal any day.

8000 john deere has same style hood......

Fendte sent a dirty combine to the show???!!!??? 😢

It's just so hard to fathom all the money that these manufacturing companies spend designing things. I don't know if it is their egos or they're laziness or just the bean counters stopping the engineers and designers from listening to the operators of this machines and not making common sense improvements. Just drives me nuts. My favorite saying is every engineer should be kicked in the nuts if they knew how frustrating and miserable they were making the lives for the operators of their machinery.

omfg this guy is really complaining about the noise of the fucking sun shades?

The Fendt combine is the worst I’ve ever seen and my opinion is based off of your videos Mike. After seeing your farm use one and if I was a farmer I wouldn’t buy anything Fendt. Great video Mike.

Quality issues while you bang stuff around like a kid 🙄

Those sunshades are cheap as

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Second like always boo...hi Mike

A John Deere 7810 with 6500 hrs will outlive the Massey by two lifetimes imo