This harvester costs more than your house 😳

[SaidAlSeveres]

To give an idea of costs: I work for a company that supplies parts for these things. There can be anywhere from $5-50k of parts from my company and all we make is the CONNECTORS…JUST WIRE CONNECTORS

[SO-xuur]

The simple potato has such an amazing journey.

[filibusteros.]

A 100 year old family farm sounds beautiful! I started 5 years ago... 1st generation.

[PatrickShivers]

A new JD cotton picker cost $1.4 million and they are common place in the southeast US. New grain combines are $1 million+ also. New 300 hp John Deere tractors (just the tractor) are over $400, 000. So, comparatively this is an average priced new agricultural machine.

[thejediknight]

It doesn’t actually cost that much. It is just greedy companies and greedy parts suppliers that gouge the prices.

[pdxbound]

Family farms are what keeps our country going. Thank you for all you do! We appreciate you so much!!

[heartattackjack]

If it works, you don't need to replace it, especially if you own it free and clear. Upgrading can leave you in debt up to your ears, and you don't want to push your family into a debt that lasts forever.

[kmarks]

This is one of the reasons farmers are struggling. A massive machine that costs a fortune and when it breaks down down it will cost a fortune because the company that made it will require a specialist to fix it and prohibit the farm to do it.

[bobbyjoethemanshow]

The saddest part is it don’t cost more than most houses here in the lower mainland 😭

[bvalt]

Growing up I worked on a potato farm that my friend's dad owned, Now he owns it, his dad was an engineer, Graduated from Harvard in 1938, he designed and built all 3 of their potato harvesters from parts readily available at any hardware store. He still uses them every year, and still keeps up on the maintenance with those same, off the shelf parts. They were built in the late 50's, and are still going today. He grows the Blue potatoes for Terra Chips now since Lays abandoned him and almost every family farmer, over a decade ago.

[royhans]

Farmers and architectural is undervalued, thank you for sharing! Without you guys we won't survive, cheers!

[ARockRaider]

Keep your old and payed off equipment, especially if you can maintain it yourself and fix it in the field.

The first thing i would ask a dealer is "what's the worst part to have break, how long will it take me to fix in the field and how much will it cost"

[edwarddrost]

Here in the state of Maine, and we were talking about harvesters the other day. The technology built into them is amazing. I worked on a conventional harvester as a kid, and now there is no crew except the tractor operator.

[DrivingCrooner]

This machine replaces an entire pesant village potato production😂

[rocketfire]

Smacks roof of harvester: you can harvest so many potatoes with this bad boy.

[joloboy]

You can also buy a 2 row avr with a hopper for 150-200 k in
Belgium

[rixxroxxk]

Your channel is AWESOME! I never knew how potatoes were grown and harvested!

[terencejay]

I had a photo processing machine here in the UK, a One Hour mini-lab. You could only get parts from the UK distributors and the prices were extortionate. £300/$400 for a 9" wide circular flat belt. Little plastic cogs, £5. It's a crime that companies can do this.

[notnull]

How is it three times more efficient? Did your old harvester harvest 1.33 rows?

[badazz]

A brand new s780 john deere goes for 750k dollars and thats without a grain head included. I know because i work on them. They have every blind spot you can think of but they're worth it if your doing 1k plus acres during harvest. Me myself id personally buy an old 9770 sts. Damn good pre emission combine but theyre getting wore out mechanically due to age. Hard to find one with only 2k hours anymore.