JF Combine Harvester

[Two Tone]

That would be the "New Idea Uni System". Imported from the USA. I think that Elveden Farms ran one for a year or two as a combine and forage harvester, I remember seeing it in the yard at Manns of Saxham after it had been traded in.

new idea uni system - Google Search

 

[Half Pint]

Thank you @glasshouse, @Suffolk Serf and @Two Tone my memory is ok just!

 

[glasshouse]

Thank you @glasshouse, @Suffolk Serf and @Two Tone my memory is ok just!

New idea probably went bust in the early eighties as many ag machinery guys did
I saw a new idea base unit for sale on a nz website not long ago

 

[Lazy Sod]

When I was a nipper in the 50's a local farmer had a trailed Mineapolis Moline. Had a Meadows petrol engine which was a pig to start with a kick like mule. The whole thing pivoted around the axle and it had a platform where a man rode with a wheel to wind the thing up and down to adjust cutting height. A bagger so at the end of the day all the spare staff - pigman, dairy man etc would come to field and load the sacks onto 4 wheel trailers to take back to the farm where they would normally be put onto the drier, 50 sacks at a time.
The MM had 2 reels, either a sort of pick up reel or a bat reel which had to be removed to fold the cutter bar to transport the combine to another field. It wouldn't handle oats so the old binder came into use.

@Oliveau, in the early 1950s when I too was a nipper, my father bought an old MM bagger combine. It was pulled by a Fordson Standard. I seem to remember that it was 12 foot cut with a bat reel and needed a man to operate the controls plus 1 or 2 bagging off. I always thought that it had a Ford V8 engine. I rode on it when it was being used to cut some spring barley that was full of chickweed, it was hopeless, 2 steps forward and 1 step back. My father sold it and used a contractor after that.

We too had an in sack drier, initially 40 holes and later increased to 60

 

[marco]

whatever about the wrap around combines you would think the trailed ones would have been more of a success. I think John deere made some as well

 

[glasshouse]

View attachment 1047034whatever about the wrap around combines you would think the trailed ones would have been more of a success. I think John deere made some as well

Far better for the drivers health and hearing before cabs

 

[Lazy Sod]

The driver's view might be better, couldn't be any worse I'd have thought. These days, cameras in the right places should really help, if the lenses could be kept dust free.

 

[shumungus]

Last year I acquired a JF ms 910 combine harvester. Took a fair while getting it setup on the tractor but once in the field it ran an absolute treat. Perfect little machine for our small acreage.
It would be great to hear from others operating one, who else will be combining with a JF this year? Also i'm keen to pick up a manual for if anyone has one?

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How do you transport it down the road?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

New idea probably went bust in the early eighties as many ag machinery guys did
I saw a new idea base unit for sale on a nz website not long ago

Went into the early 90s and I think agco acquired them. Plant closed in 99. New idea bought the patents from Minneapolis moline originally. Think 63 or 65 was first year.

No experience of the later combine units but the early ones were shitty. They were best known for the corn picking unit then silage chopper unit.

 

[P500Falcon]

That is a very clean machine how does it attach to the tractor

Rear clevis hitch, then on the front it has a bar that swings out and attaches to the front towing pin

 

[P500Falcon]

How do you transport it down the road?

fortunately we don't have to. But I guess you could, its just under 12ft wide

 

[Amateur]

Last year I acquired a JF ms 910 combine harvester. Took a fair while getting it setup on the tractor but once in the field it ran an absolute treat. Perfect little machine for our small acreage.
It would be great to hear from others operating one, who else will be combining with a JF this year? Also i'm keen to pick up a manual for if anyone has one?

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How well is the grain cleaned in comparison to a more modern combine ?

 

[Avffarm1]

Last year I acquired a JF ms 910 combine harvester. Took a fair while getting it setup on the tractor but once in the field it ran an absolute treat. Perfect little machine for our small acreage.
It would be great to hear from others operating one, who else will be combining with a JF this year? Also i'm keen to pick up a manual for if anyone has one?

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Have a 1974 JF MS90 combine for sale
Ran with a Nuffield 65 tractor
Stored inside and lots of spare belts/knives
Only issue machine is in Canada currently

 

[Avffarm1]

Have a 1974 JF MS90 combine for sale
Ran with a Nuffield 65 tractor
Stored inside and lots of spare belts/knives
Only issue machine is in Canada currently

Have a 1974 JF MS90 combine for sale
Ran with a Nuffield 65 tractor
Stored inside and lots of spare belts/knives
Only issue machine is in Canada currently

Sorry it is 1970 imported and purchased new by my father

 

[glasshouse]

Sorry it is 1970 imported and purchased new by my father

Any pics?
Where in canada?

 

[Avffarm1]

Any pics?
Where in canada?

JF MS90 Combine bought 1970, field ready, spare set of belts, Misc. NOS parts manuals included
To be sold with/without Nuffield 465. Asking $9500 CAN for pair.
Tractor- 465 Nuffield bought in 1968, Excellent condition, good rubber, 5500 hrs. Complete with ft end weights, 3 point hitch arms and some spare parts & manuals
Located near London, Ontario, Canada

 

[Will 1594]

Come on then, who had one of these years ago ?
I thinks this is the only time I’ve seen a JF combine.View attachment 1045667View attachment 1045668View attachment 1045669

still got one

 

[glasshouse]

Would be better towed

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Would be better towed

Why

How would you open a field out, no one would cut whit a scythe like they did for a binder
and you would run on every swath of straw, making it hard to get straw of a wet time.

Could of been improved on today, by adding a reverse drive tractor with the front pto at the back to drive it, and plugging in hydraulics to tractor spools rather than the long cables to a spool block on machine, grain tank could of been bigger and mounted on tractor loader frame above the engine bonnet, visibility of header would of been similar to a MF625,
Soil compaction would of been less, and maybe be able to work better on steep ground,

 

[glasshouse]

Why

How would you open a field out, no one would cut whit a scythe like they did for a binder
and you would run on every swath of straw, making it hard to get straw of a wet time.

Could of been improved on today, by adding a reverse drive tractor with the front pto at the back to drive it, and plugging in hydraulics to tractor spools rather than the long cables to a spool block on machine, grain tank could of been bigger and mounted on tractor loader frame above the engine bonnet, visibility of header would of been similar to a MF625,
Soil compaction would of been less, and maybe be able to work better on steep ground,

Reverse drive and front pto cost ££££
the jf is too wide for the road and many gateways esp on bigger tractor.
Too long to put on and off
A towed combine is quick to attach, you can see cutterbar, you open up field round the tramline and the tractor straddles the straw.
Plus you can get there at 50 k
And leave it at night to go home or do other jobs with tractor
Loads in canada