unleash the beast
“You send a technician to fix the other brands but you send a blacksmith to fix the John Deere,” a contractor, who has run every other brand of forager on the market and come back to a John Deere, said to me recently.
Having test driven the John Deere 7550i self-propelled forage harvester, I can see what he means. It has all the technology you need, offering some of the most high-tech crop assessment technology on the market, yet it feels like a hurricane of power is behind you.
John Deere has been building choppers for 40 years, the past 20 years at its dedicated plant in Zweibrucken, Germany. In total, it has
