john deere 7720 titan ll , the good and the bad

[Jerry]

i have found a very nice 7720 titan ll combine with 3000 hrs, mudhog, planetary final drives, chopper, and chaff spreader that i am highly interested in. it has been a while since i have been around these older combines and just wanted the feedback on them. i want you guys to tell me the good and the bad on them. thanks

[Zach Robinson]

I dont want any hard feelings from the green crowd cause im as green as they come except on combines. i started out with that exact thing... 3200 hrs factory jd 4wd chopper. chaff spreader probably a litter mate to that one. If you like to work on combines itll give you experience like you never dreamed.. The cabs are very dirty,loud and small. we had alot of trouble with bearings, Hydraulic pump drive belts, and every thing you could think of.. If its a titan 2 make sure it has a slow down kit or itll literally shake itself to pieces and cause metal fatige and cracks all over. we found that out to late, straw walkers waded up it wasnt pretty. we were running a 8row narrow head and busted rims and finally a final drive. I ran the 7720 in the same field with a 1460 ih and couldnt hold a candle to it. I sold mine and was very glad to get rid of it.. I m very red on combines now.My first year with red, my parts bill difference more than made the payment on my ih machine.Now I run a pair of 2188s with AFX rotors and would recommend Case to anyone looking for a combine thats very productive and easy to work on.

[Kim Van Plew]

Okay, so would you basically recommend this to someone that cannot afford to get anything else?  I will admit I am relaying messages over the phone as I know nothing and I am the one that has the computer and is doing the investigating on this John Deere 7720.  Any help would be greatly appreciated believe me.

Kim

[Jerry]

I have been back and forth between 7720 and 8820 titanll's , new holland tr-96, case 1680 1660, i think new holland smokes all the competition but the parts availability here is not as great as deere or case. i just cant decide, im not a brand basher. i just think different things work for different folks.

[Jerry]

in all honesty i have run 9760's for the last several years. the operation i was on had 13,000 acres and i finally decided to go it alone. ive been around the 7720's but its been a while , maybe 10 years. my philospy is exactly like u said id rather have a good 7720 then a wore out 9610 or 9600. trust me i dont like junk very well

[COOK]

a good 7720 is a great machine, any machine with age on it is gonna be loud, dirty and small cabbed. We had two different 7720s and wore out the first one but it toke several thousands hours to do it, second one was mint condition with wide tires and reinforced rims, it was a cherry and made harvest quick and easy at the time.

[Matt Folsom]

We ran a 7720 for 10 years with a 843 30" corn head and 925 platform. The machine held up ok but it took $3000 to $5000 a year to keep it up and that was 15 to 20 years ago. We traded it for a 9500 after dad ran a steel post around the cylinder. About half a hour after running a skunk thru the machine. John Deere would not touch it they gave us the 9500 to run and we traded. The salesman for john deere that sold us the 9500. Bought our tradein and is still running it today.

[Adam]

You all keep sayin the 20 series had a loud cab?. Try a JD 6600 with a 329 rapped out to 2600 rpm. I do believe thats why my grandpas right ear does not work. They're all good machines if they were treated right, they're all crap if they weren't.
Probably 10 years ago we were looking into a 9500 and they wanted around 60,000 for it. Well we found a 20 series with 1000 hrs on it. Bought it for half the price of the 9500. Granted looking back the 9500 is still worth 50-60,000.

[Joe Miller]

Sounds like a pretty good machine. We ran a tremendous amount of acres through our 7720 and finally replaced it with the 7720 titan II. The improvements on the titan II are common sense type improvements, beefier braces around the drives, better rear-end, improved controls and electronics. 7720's do the job and do it well, you just got to remember you aren't in a 9600 or 9850 so you got to slow down. the are fairly easy to work on but then again I grew up around the thing and know it inside and out.

[Jerry]

thanks joe, i called the salesman back today and he says it was run through their dealer shop every year for servicing. he says its probably one of the nicest 7720's in the country and is definitly the nicest one he has seen in many many years. for the same price i can get a wore out 9600 with 5700 hours and needs this and that to get going. i think its coming home with me

[Adam]

well it sounds like a good one. Take a pic if you get it

[Shane]

I have been running a 7720 titan II with 5000 hours on it and have gotten along pretty well...........like someone said before, I spend about $3000-$5000 every winter on the machine, overall I think it is a good machine. I am looking foward to trading the machine for a newer and quieter machine though.

[Jeremiah Jones]

No matter what you get they all breakdown and all require going through before the season. I still run a 78' model 7700 with close to 6000hrs. I love that combine Its been a good one but i have to turn a wrench every now and then. I pick close to 700 acres a year with it but try to go over it pretty good. The biggest thing is get what you are used to running or being around. Most of the time I know what is wrong before I step out of the cab.