machines that never caught on

[Courier]

How about the Opico rolling Harrow designed to throw up a ridge over planted potatoes at speed with cast steel elements reminiscent of small and wide “acrobat” wheels - needed a pass every time the first leaves started to show until a ridge was formed ….

 

[Exfarmer]

How about the Opico rolling Harrow designed to throw up a ridge over planted potatoes at speed with cast steel elements reminiscent of small and wide “acrobat” wheels - needed a pass every time the first leaves started to show until a ridge was formed ….

That was the Lillingston harrow surely

 

[Roy_H]

We had one as a scraper tractor for years, until it rotted out. They were absolutely superb for that job.

The neighbours had one. Perfect for sugar beet drilling, baling, fert spreading etc. For ploughing utterly useless BUT they weren't designed for draft work anyway.

 

[thorpe]

Oh and band sprayers...........
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my brother luved em earnt a fortune (low running costs) and then earnt another fortune intarow cultivating.

 

[thorpe]

So bad it probably won RASE silver medal at The Royal Show

gee who picked those awards!

 

[Deerefarmer]

Iirc they made a hydro in the last of the true internationals which is the same shape as a 52/5488

Yeah that's right.

 

[steveR]

Have you seen the prices on the straw auction thread?

Even the CTF zealots are sniffing the air for the smell of money.

A passing phase... My theory probably will ot hold water, because at present the grower looks at the straw price and turns the chopper on or off at short notice.

 

[steveR]

I used to have a Stripper header on a TF44 on the linseed, cleanest collection of the stuff but it did wear the fingers fairish. We'd leave the stubble over winter and plough or disc in the spring where it would break up like nettle stalks. That was the early 90's

I was desperate for one when I was growing a lot of Linseed, but none in the area to be found...

 

[Roger Perry]

Stripper headers , bet there's plenty in the nettles

Shelbourne sell lots of new stripper headers in western US states, covers the acres fast, very popular with custom cutters, they are based in Goodland, Kansas.
Mention was made of square plows, same story, think John Deere still make them.

 

[ollie989898]

I used to have a Stripper header on a TF44 on the linseed, cleanest collection of the stuff but it did wear the fingers fairish. We'd leave the stubble over winter and plough or disc in the spring where it would break up like nettle stalks. That was the early 90's

I reckon they will come back in fashion big time one day. Worth hiring one for linseed just to avoid the grief of combining it when the weather won't play ball.

 

[trim king]

 

[steveR]

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Why???

 

[whiddy]

Strawgone, just when straw burning was about to be banned. at the time choppers on combines were very rare!

 

[Andrew]

What happened to the two engine Claas sp forage Harvesters

I believe they were dropped in favour of one big engine with different fuel maps, or were on the Krone. One big engine comes under different emissions regs than 2 smaller ones, plus the reduced wearing parts etc

 

[Lowland1]

That was the Lillingston harrow surely

Got one and still use it and like it a lot.

 

[ollie989898]

I thought all the foragers had gone to monster (like 24 litres or something daft) engines but they don't rev up that high. Big displacement but hardly rev'ed up?

 

[Two Tone]

The old international hydrostatic tractors, I have only ever seen 1.

I had one. An IH Hydro 84. Great idea, but it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding when it warmed up.

 

[Lowland1]

I reckon they will come back in fashion big time one day. Worth hiring one for linseed just to avoid the grief of combining it when the weather won't play ball.

My neighbour has one on a Case 2388 he uses it to harvest Teff a very fine grass seed that they grind up to make injera.

 

[ollie989898]

My neighbour has one on a Case 2388 he uses it to harvest Teff a very fine grass seed that they grind up to make injera.

Perfect match- with no straw going through a 2388 you will be able to harvest a lot in a day and they are cheap and about as simple as a combine can possibly be.

If they could just sort the header losses out in wheat and barley I think stripper headers would be ideal for the no-till crew.

 

[Frankzy]

Timberjack's walking harvester!
It was first demoed in 97 and they worked on it for a few years in Filipstad but they never could manage to make it walk fast enough..