We were cutting group 5 beans that were planted around the 20th of July, so some of the pods are touching the ground. The CR had a 25' flex and the 9600 had a 30' draper and because of the head the 9600 was able to travel about 1_2 to a full mile_hour faster. I did not get to run the 940 long enough to get comfortable with the machine, the boss came and took over while I went and got the 9600 going but I did cut for about an hour and he got to run it for about 2 hrs. The hardest thing was getting use to the controls after running a 9600 for the last 3 years and before that running R-72's with both auger and draper heads. The controls aren't confusing it's just getting use to hitting the right one. We both hit the o-sh... button on accident more than once while trying to resume auto head control, and the hydro release on the back of the handle takes a little getting use to. One other thing is I was on tracks on the deere and the 940 on tires added a little more pressure. As far as adjusting, I have no idea because that was done while I was loading the first 9600 on the lowboy, but it did look simple enough. NH said they had somethings locked out on the computer because they did not want everyone missing with the settings, one of which I would have like to see was the "headland setting"(IJ). If I understood him right the sieves will open up when you raise the head up to turn around, in order to save the grain that usualy goes sliding out the back. They also had a corn seive in instead of the grain and it still had as good a sample as I was getting with the 9600 with less cracked beans. As far as the MacDon vs. HoneyBee, I have only ran MacDons. But we also run a 25' ridged MD with the flex and I cann't stand the ridged after running the flex. I helped get the 25' going and drove it about 500', crawled out and told the other guy I hope he likes it cause if I never cut beans with it again that will be to soon. That flex is worth every extra penny it cost's. Its like running 3-10' heads through the feild with all of them working together, and in about 2 minutes or less I can lock it into a ridged head. A person just does not relize the amount the land rolls in even 10' until you try to get a 25' head to shave the ground, with the flex one end can be dropping over a hump while the other end can be raising to go along a terrace. If you get a chance to run one do. There is a learning curve to it so it takes a very little time to get spoiled.
