RE: Mr Big Stuff: Claas Lexion 530 Combine
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Gotta stick my name in this thread...
Had a couple of Claas combines and would never knock them . but currently have the very sexy looking New Holland CX 8060 with a similar 330hp to the article subject. A terrific bit of kit with a slightly superior (to the class version) variable header. If you are going to get a combine the rule of thumb is bright yellow (NH) or light Green (Claas) for European conditions. Some swear by anything dark green (John Deere) being the only way to go but in combines that would be like buying a Merc SLS (very nice) when what you really needed was a 458 Italia (the guvnor!)
Non driven tyres the wrong way round wear more evenly and run fractionally quieter and more stably on the road. Plus if you think about it the ground is driving the tyre rather than the tyre pushing the vehicle so it works better the "wrong" way round picking up less soil in soft conditions thus less likely to slip improving wear and stability.
Can we have some sunshine please then then I can spend my evenings carting corn rather than idling about at the computer
Had a couple of Claas combines and would never knock them . but currently have the very sexy looking New Holland CX 8060 with a similar 330hp to the article subject. A terrific bit of kit with a slightly superior (to the class version) variable header. If you are going to get a combine the rule of thumb is bright yellow (NH) or light Green (Claas) for European conditions. Some swear by anything dark green (John Deere) being the only way to go but in combines that would be like buying a Merc SLS (very nice) when what you really needed was a 458 Italia (the guvnor!)
Non driven tyres the wrong way round wear more evenly and run fractionally quieter and more stably on the road. Plus if you think about it the ground is driving the tyre rather than the tyre pushing the vehicle so it works better the "wrong" way round picking up less soil in soft conditions thus less likely to slip improving wear and stability.
Can we have some sunshine please then then I can spend my evenings carting corn rather than idling about at the computer
central said:
Willy Nilly said:
Toyowner said:
And I used to think the New Holland 8050 I once drove had a big header at 22 feet.
ETA - FMC where's that shot of the 8080?
Edited by central on Friday 26th August 00:42
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Lovely NH/Clayson 8080 at work near Bolnhurst in Beds the other day. One of the oldest machines i've seen working this year easily.
A big old beast back in the mid 70's i gather though!
Guess this would be the modern day equivalent -
New Holland CX8080.
Nice Claas Challenger a few posts ^^ too. Theres a couple of them at work up the road from me at the moment. Saw one cultivating with a big Top Down the other afternoon
Toyowner said:
Willy Nilly said:
Toyowner said:
And I used to think the New Holland 8050 I once drove had a big header at 22 feet.
rhinochopig said:
In between O-Levels and A-Levels I used to work fitting Aga cookers and we fitted one at a huge farm in N-Yorkshire. The farmer had fitted an 8 litre diesel combine engine into his - previously V8 powered - Range-Rover.
He 'claimed' that it was slightly better on fuel than the V8 - although he did admit it was done purely for s
ts and giggles. It went well apparently.
My Dad almost did this... it wasn't so vast, but a straight six from a Massey 100 combine, displacement I forget,.. early 80's this would be.He 'claimed' that it was slightly better on fuel than the V8 - although he did admit it was done purely for s
ts and giggles. It went well apparently.Problem was weight and the front springs, as well as length, I imagine a newer engine would be better all round.
He then had a 760, which had a 22 ft cut, there were a few hills, so he and the local blacksmith fitted hydraulic rams to the rear wheels allowing him to manually level the combine, funny thing was it did bunny hops if you slammed the lever.
c pryor said:
Puddenchucker said:
I can remember when combines were a bit smaller and not quite so sophisticated. Used to spend quite a bit of the school holidays watching & riding on one like this:
Excellent!! Some of my school holidays spent much the same way back in the good old 1980s !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItlNjtpKAVM
Appeared to be high maintenance though, as the driver had to run around and oil bits of it everything the grain tank was emptied.
Duke Thrust said:
How do you form up at the end of the row ready for the next? Does the one on the inside move to the outside and so on?
We didn't normally run 6 combines, the 2nd and 3rd in that picture came to help us for a couple of days.Cutting standing wheat or barley, you pull into the field, put the head down and cut in ever decreasing circles without lifting the head. When you get to the corners, you just turn in the crop leaving little un cut bits. You keep doing this untill you run out of field, when you all break formation in turn to cut out the corners.
There were (and I am sure still are) very few flat square fields like that one. Most of what we cut had terraces in which you cut with the contours of the land. harvesting in the UK is dead easy compared to the US wheat belt.
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