2019 Fendt Ideal™ IDEAL 8

2019 Fendt Ideal™ IDEAL 8

A new combine for a new era of farming in North America. Designed to be automated in operation, the IDEAL combine is already setting industry standards for efficiency and output.

The harvest strategy itself is set by an easy-to-use touch-screen tablet, allowing the operator to select preferences for minimizing grain damage, loss and material other than grain (MOG) in the bin. In addition, the IDEALharvest™ system can even compensate for sudden shifts in various factors, such as crop density and field slope, anticipating and correcting problems before they occur.

Offering different options for different-sized operations, the class 8 and 9 models use two rotors—in a dual helix configuration—providing an industry-leading 43.7 square feet of threshing area. The class 7 IDEAL features one of these new revolutionary rotors, also offering best-in-class threshing and separation capabilities to ensure that the IDEAL has a platform available for all operation sizes.

While the rotor is exceptionally efficient, its threshing and separating performance is best-in-class. At nearly 16 feet long, it’s almost two feet longer than the nearest competitor—allowing the material to generate huge centrifugal force at a much lower speed and remain in the rotor longer. As a result, grains are separated gently and reliably, while straw is protected at the same time.

Go where no other combine has ever gone. Styled with rubber tracks up to 36" designed and produced in Jackson, MN, IDEAL allows for quicker, easier, and more comfortable transportation.

The hydraulic suspended rubber tracks have the largest footprint on every belt size, making this combine maneuverable on any terrain while mitigating compaction and protecting your future crops. IDEAL balance has a unique built-in hillside feature that evenly distributes the crop over the pan in a simplified manner providing better capacity and easier cleaning.

Your harvest vision will come to fruition with industry leading data management in a comfortable setting. Setting a new standard for automated machine adjustment, the IDEALharvest system offers unprecedented, real-time visualization of crop flow within the combine via a special grain-quality camera you can monitor using wireless control.

IDEAL is equipped with numerous sensors, including mass acoustic detection sensors (MADS) that measure the differences in acoustic qualities. The sensors determine what is grain and what is not, and direct the IDEALharvest system to change the concave clearance and the height of chaffer and sieve, as well as ground, rotor and fan speeds—all to maintain the operator’s harvest strategy.

AGCO and your dealer are working closely to make sure you are operating at all times in any situation or condition. IDEAL comes with Fendt Gold Customer Care, an industry-leading commercial service uptime assurance package with a 3 year warranty (2 year standard, 1 year extended service coverage), along with dealers that specialize in harvesting expertise and top of the line service.

IDEAL is engineered to be low maintenance with a drive center that replaces the complex 3 belt system, which limits inefficiency and cost of maintaining other combine platforms.