Minneapolis Moline starts with the yellow, then bronze colored mules (power and chassis) units. new idea made them red and improved the power unit but still a tad weak, the heads never were all that much. Then as White merged in they turned silver, and were kinda starting to be something with a good diesel and rear wheel assist and some beef to them, but the farm economy and the switch to shell corn put then under. They lasted a long time as sweet corn specialty machines at the end.
Neat idea, but they don't handle mud well with the offset weight and the rear wheels not tracking behind the front wheels.
The early power units just weren't durable or powerful, and the corn headers were less than other companies had.
It just never quite came together.
The cage sheller unit that harvested shell corn was actually the best unit they made, no one really knew, but those dedicated corn shelling units were the bees knees. Couldn't combine other crops with it, and the poor headers and power units still left them behind. But the cage sheller could really separate out a nice sample of shell corn in a hurry.
Actually around here they were used into the 2000s for silage cutting, and you sometimes see the snowblower option on them too.
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