Beautiful machine. Here's the problem - it's virtually worthless when it has 3,000 separator hours on it. That is a ton of depreciation and a huge cost per acre. If it does 25 acres per hour x 3,000 hours = 75,000 acres, that is over $10/acre in depreciation alone. Before financing cost, insurance, fuel, maintenance, operator, etc. The newer the equipment the more expensive it is to operate. Forget how many bushels/hour it does or all the features it has.
A new machine like the X9 will depreciate at $500/hour the first few years and that is just the depreciation aspect of it. Instead of driving down farmer's costs, these new machines are driving up costs. The profit margin in grain farming is pretty slim. Smart farmers are buying pre owned equipment and keeping it running to lower their cost per acre.
Hey TractorSpotter, you're back with a vengeance! I had to look twice when I got your notification and I clicked on the link straight away. This John Deere is HUUUUUGGGGEEE! I wonder when I will see one in the yard of the John Deere warehouse that I drive past every day? Moving that thing around on the roads is going to be a show by itself!
