Posted by Majorman on November 29, 2023 at 06:23:21 from (86.186.139.122):
In Reply to: Re: Wednesday Harvester posted by Absent Minded Farmer on November 29, 2023 at 05:32:01:
The IH Axial Flow has been the best and most successful but not until they redesigned the rotor. I was with the IH demo team, the first year they brought it in, not as part of the team but because I was working with Claas at the time and IH was trying to turn IH/Claas dealers away and onto the new combine. We were all staying at the same hotels and so we all got together in the evenings to discuss how the day had gone. No rivalry, just a group of interested service people talking about how our respected days had gone. If the crop was dry and the day warm, our Claas machine could not live with the Axial flow, (Dominator 96 and 106), but as soon as the dew came down or the crop was a higher moisture, roles were reversed.
The other problem the Axial Flow had was a poor header rather than a cutter bar, to cope with the crop. The Claas has its feed auger further back behind a hump whereas the Axial Flow had the feed auger close to the knife, this meant that the auger was grabbing laid crops before it was cut and pulling it up by the roots.
For one of my friends, I drove an old Claas Dominator 85 against a new Axial Flow combining grass seed and the IH boys gave up and went home.
The following year IH had modified the rotor, grates and header and it was a different story. I went to Doncaster on a course and became a free lance instructor on the Axial Flow combines doing courses and problem solving for farmers all over Eastern England.
New Holland, Massey Ferguson and John Deere all tried rotor machines in England but all gave up, none were sold until they had had further development. They all now perform happily over here but crops have changed a bit too in that we do not have the same straw height that we had in the past and a spray with Roundup helps mature it.
Beater bar drums have performed well on combines since they were first used, Claas, New Holland and Ransomes pioneered the 'Rotary Separator' or 'Twin Drum' type design and these have been, and still are, highly popular. Massey lost a lot of ground until they went in with Drononberg (sp) and produced a more European style of combine with stepped straw walkers, rather than the relatively flat ones in the original Canadian designed big combines.
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