John Deere Titan Combines

Today we talk all about the legendary Titan line of John Deere Combines, we break down year specific changes as well as talk about what made these combines so great for farmers. John Deere Titan Combines ran from 1979 to 1984 and brought tons of new features to agriculture combines. Models included would be the John Deere 4420 John Deere 6620 John Deere 7720 John Deere 8820. Thanks for watching I hope you enjoy todays video.

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[valleyviewacres]

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

[jefftheaussie]

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.

[KyleGertner]

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.

[paulknudsvig]

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

[kfordudflight]

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.

[EDBZ]

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 🥰

[chrisanderson]

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.

[randykrochak]

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

[Tienmac]

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.

[robertjoyce]

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.

[qubibc]

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

[jhanlarosh]

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 👍😀

[JimmyShields-zh]

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.

[OldIronFarmToys-egtz]

I like the 8820 That's a cool Combine 😎

[Adam-xb]

8820 were awesome for fall seeding winter wheat

[williamcarlisle]

For the era it was in, best combine ever!

[justinschmitz]

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.

[insk]

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.

[GermanShepherd]

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.

[davidschollenberger]

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