EquipmentJunkie Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 This NeXaT machine is mind-blowing. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Holy buckets, that is space age cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes806 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 For sure big. Hate to see the price tag and the upkeep on one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob01230 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Wow !!! Somebody was thinking out of the box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Wow! That is truelly incredible. I wonder if this concept will catch on over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeper61 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 How long till mother Deere copies it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 It’s not a new concept. A traction unit used for spraying, planting, harvesting. Sounds similar to the MM and later New Idea uni harvester. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, Big Bud guy said: It’s not a new concept. A traction unit used for spraying, planting, harvesting. Sounds similar to the MM and later New Idea uni harvester. My grandpa as a blacksmith was a New Idea dealer in his later years. Retired in the early sixties, I still remember the advertising posters on his shop wall. If only I'd a been old enough to know to keep them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 5 minutes ago, sandhiller said: My grandpa as a blacksmith was a New Idea dealer in his later years. Retired in the early sixties, I still remember the advertising posters on his shop wall. If only I'd a been old enough to know to keep them. When were the last ones made? I thought they were made into the 80s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just now, Big Bud guy said: When were the last ones made? I thought they were made into the 80s. I do not know. My neighbor has a UNI that he uses to pick ear corn. It looks fairly modern. Sure could have been made in the 70's or 80's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I have no personal experience with a UNI harvester but from people who have been around them they all say the same thing. They work good for a small farm with small acreage but if you wanted high production then you would be better suited with a dedicated machine designed for the task. this machine seems to have that issue solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Dad bought a new uni in mid 70s. Had a Perkins diesel. Sounded good. We had a picker, chopper, and combine unit for ours. I don't think any of those were new when we bought them, just the power unit as far as I can recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob01230 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 2 hours ago, jeeper61 said: How long till mother Deere copies it? Or buys them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2+2love Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I like the idea of controlled traffic patterns but hate all this huge farm equipment. Putting the little guys out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dale560 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Love the video of the farmland in the Ukraine. Have seen pictures of it before. Our great grandparents and their parents on all sides immigrated here from that region of the Ukraine. The political turmoil and the opportunity of free land brought them to the north central USA. Their ancestors had moved from France German border area in the 1700 to Russia controlled Ukraine with the promise of free land and freedom of religion , military service and non interference of Russian government, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 There was just a thread on here a month or so about how large combines really can't get much bigger and still be able to transport down the roads. I guess nobody thought about driving the machine sideways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Just got Ageless Iron magazine, the back page was the history of the JD rotary combine. With the title of The Green Combine with a Red Heart. The head JD engineer said he copied the IH 1460. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 1 hour ago, ray54 said: Just got Ageless Iron magazine, the back page was the history of the JD rotary combine. With the title of The Green Combine with a Red Heart. The head JD engineer said he copied the IH 1460. Sounds like an interesting article considering this is what JD had in the late 50s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 7 minutes ago, Art From Coleman said: Didn't New Holland's twin rotor combines come out several years before IH released the Axial Flo? About 2 years. Course now that design is what everybody is copying or going to copy in the bigger classes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eason Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Does anyone remember the futuristic drawings IH had in the late 60's or early 70's of combines? Seems like this is similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Beale Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 In the 1960's an agricultural college got a (much smaller) "machine for everything " from Germany to trial - I forget the brand. The literature was also in German but the engineer in charge reckoned he knew the purpose of the "dungerstrewer" (sp?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.EVIL Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 On 12/11/2021 at 8:18 PM, ray54 said: Just got Ageless Iron magazine, the back page was the history of the JD rotary combine. With the title of The Green Combine with a Red Heart. The head JD engineer said he copied the IH 1460. My Father-In-Law was head of the Manufacturing Engineering Dept at Deere Harvester Works. He said the first train load of IH Axial Flow combines supposedly spent the weekend at the Harvester Works, engineers crawling all over the outside and Inside of the machines. Somebody at the railroad called Somebody at Deere and a hundred people's weekends got changed. Took a long time for farmers to accept the Axial Flow combine, lots of farmers still raised small grains more for straw for bedding for livestock than the actual grain itself and the axial flow machines chopped the straw up more like chaff, there's still old farmers that refuse to use a red combine for this reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 11 hours ago, Art From Coleman said: "Sounds like an interesting article considering this is what JD had in the late 50s." You do realize that totally, and I do mean totally, contradicts, what "head JD engineer" said about "copying an IH 1460". No kidding. That’s why I posted it. I question the accuracy of the article. JD was about 6-8 years ahead of IH when it came to rotary development. Not only that. IH sued NH over the TR combine and JD got involved too even though they didn’t even have a rotary combine on the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 19 minutes ago, Art From Coleman said: John Deere must have had Lionel Hutz in charge of their legal department, and relied on Madam ZooDoo and her crystal ball (from the SHOE comic strip) to see into the future. Hopefully, the judge laughed both IH and JD out of his court. The basis for the lawsuit was the fact the head engineer for the NH combine was hired away from IH in the late 60s and might have took a few patents that didn’t belong to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Art From Coleman said: " Sounds like this Ageless Iron magazine (and I mean NO disrespect to those who subscribe to it), employs the same fact checking process as does the mainstream MEDIA)(Which is NONE) I think it’s fact. I can’t remember the engineers name right now but you could probably look up the patents and lawsuits if you want. Besides I got the info out of this book. https://octanepress.com/book/red-combines-1915-2020?gclid=CjwKCAiA-9uNBhBTEiwAN3IlNFdbLs-G5EKIC8Wz0g4mP8Mnef6rSKOLqTZ36oHHSeWMxVvRfGM2yxoCXtMQAvD_BwE If I’m not mistaken, some of the authors of this book frequent this website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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