Oct 22, 2026 · 13 min · 9 segments
What’s it like putting a John Deere X9 1000 to work for the first season? In this episode of Leap Forward with Riesterer & Schnell, Mark Bacon of Bacon Farms in Hancock, Wisconsin joins Tim Duel from…
So what's some differences inside the cab, what you noticed from the S7 to the X9?
setups and stuff so the cab is pretty much exactly the same as the S7800 and a little bit bigger than the S780 but layout is pretty much the same.
A couple of the things about it are just the way the buttons are set up for the most part.
The Gen 5 screen is a little bit different from the Gen 4 but I've run it long enough that I've kind of gotten used to it and gotten the design of it figured out so it's easier to lay out the screen the way I want it.
So what's some differences you feel from the S7, S780 series to the X9 around the outside of the combine, the combine as a whole?
What do you like? The combine as a whole, you know, it's still in the same platform, it still straddles six rows and the width of the combine is no different, but obviously the cleaning shoes are significantly larger and the whole combine just seems wider and much more significant.
belt drives and pretty much everything instead of a chain drive on the unload and such but very burly belts on stuff and it seems like it's laid out very very nicely and very easy to to maintain and manage.
It's just laid out very, very nice and very, very easy to set up for a certain crops.
So what's some differences inside the cab, what you noticed from the S7 to the X9?
setups and stuff so the cab is pretty much exactly the same as the S7800 and a little bit bigger than the S780 but layout is pretty much the same.
A couple of the things about it are just the way the buttons are set up for the most part.
The Gen 5 screen is a little bit different from the Gen 4 but I've run it long enough that I've kind of gotten used to it and gotten the design of it figured out so it's easier to lay out the screen the way I want it.
So what's some differences you feel from the S7, S780 series to the X9 around the outside of the combine, the combine as a whole?
What do you like? The combine as a whole, you know, it's still in the same platform, it still straddles six rows and the width of the combine is no different, but obviously the cleaning shoes are significantly larger and the whole combine just seems wider and much more significant.
belt drives and pretty much everything instead of a chain drive on the unload and such but very burly belts on stuff and it seems like it's laid out very very nicely and very easy to to maintain and manage.
It's just laid out very, very nice and very, very easy to set up for a certain crops.
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