The FENDT Combine ??

To Doc,TBRAN,MAC and others,what are YOUR thoughts on this "new" animal?? I've been teasing a good friend of mine that runs 2 older twin rotor N/H to give a local dealer a "shot" at demoing a S-series Gleaner but always get a BIG TIME NEVER SILVER on their farm :-(. Tonight I prodded him in the direction of a Fendt machine out of jest. Sadly, he replied that there were a few farmers that DID demo the FENDT through the local AGCO dealer that were unable to keep/set the machine up to get any type of sample ??
I am in NO way slamming the local dealer at all,they are mainly a Gleaner dealer "up here", a MASSEY dealer down in their "mother country".
My question is what you gentlemen as dealer techs/owners (not sure of you guys'titles) think of the Fendt machine. Thanks

Edited by FREEDGUY - 27 Jan 2020 at 6:01pm

I think our local Massey dealer spent more time tinkering with one they had last fall, than actually doing field work. They may have had no experience with that combine, or any combine for that matter.


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 27 Jan 2020 at 8:00pm

FREEDGUY wrote: Makes a guy wonder why a manufacturer would put out a product that their own dealers aren't schooled in the in's and out's of the new product ??

And they spent 500 million in doing it. Money that could of went for Gleaner advertising and building the dealer network again and giving them better support.

The Ideal unit is Agco's world wide offering and in N. America the offering in size ABOVE the market place size of the Gleaner in general.  It was targeted to replace the Cat dealers products of the Lexion or Claas  for the ones who were Agco dealers. The design  has copied a lot of their machine it is designed to go after in the market.  It is not a replacement for the Gleaner but there is a legit question on replacing the Massey harvester in the future , depending on sales.   Class will not roll over and play dead. As a Fendt product I highly question any dealer fumbling with the product as Agco is dead serious about Fendt quality, service and customer satisfaction with their dealers. In a nation wide dealer survey we received last month questioning the Fendt combine presence from all dealer brands reporting - it is a very low volume unit brought in to be fine tuned during this combine sales slump to be made ready for better times in higher numbers. The unit got respect, but it is under the radar of Deere and Case due to the low number of current Fendt dealers. The combine comes with an unprecedented service package as do all high end Fendt products .  It i$ not a product for the 500 acre producer , ha.  It is a product for the well heeled 5 star top of the line Agco Fendt dealers - my prediction it will do well in these areas of responsibilities of these dealers. You ask for my opinion..... 

In the pictures I have seen, it looks like a Formula 1 race car. A very heavy Formula 1 race car.