machines that never caught on

[tr250]

What happened to the Krone big baler that tied individual bales in one big one?

Always thought that was a good idea,must be 20years since we had small bales here.

Multibale! We have one don’t do many multibales though

 

[tr250]

Tried the small one last year 80x70 and sent it back due to chronic reliability issues. I believe the bigger one is better but in all honesty 30cm of a 120x90 bale is still along way from man portable. Much better with these modern conventional bale packers. Arcusin,Bale Baron and Bale Bandit.

They only do 80x70 and 120x70 ours is a 120x70 from same dealer as yours and it’s been grand so far

 

[Roger Perry]

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.

In big (4 ton plus) irrigated crops of malt barley its' been my observation that header losses are less than a conventional header.

 

[Scrapjockey]

Romadomes?

Those big round things to bolt on your front wheels of your two wheel drive tractor which you used for buckraking back in the 70's. Supposed to stop the front wheels sinking into your double chop.

Anyone remember? I'm sure I've got an old brochure here somewhere.

 

[nick...]

I’m amazed people obviously bought this crap.was a local chap who built a 4/5ft wide set of discs to go on front linkage to mix chopped straw into soil before plough on the rear turned it in.was a 4 furrow plough which was a big plough at the time,probably in the 80s.I think he won an award at the norfolk show for the idea .seemed like a cure for a problem that did not exist.also remember another that appeared at the start of the straw burning ban.concave discs that replaced skimmers on ploughs to turn in straw.called the strawbury I think.
nick…

 

[tw15]

Anyone remember a Delta subsoiler about 2 ft to 3 ft wide wings on a subsoiler leg ? . Haven't seen one come up for sale or in the usual nettle machinery stores so couldn't of sold many .

 

[Lowland1]

Anyone remember a Delta subsoiler about 2 ft to 3 ft wide wings on a subsoiler leg ? . Haven't seen one come up for sale or in the usual nettle machinery stores so couldn't of sold many .

The Elk Delta Plow? They were made by Welbourn farms i think. I bought a Ford 7610 from them and there was one in the yard three five foot blades on three legs. I waa offered it but declined i think it was supposed to work like a rod weeder just skimming along under the surface.

 

[tw15]

That would be the thing imagine the smearing it could cause if used in the wet .

 

[JD6920s]

Once saw a subsoiler in a dealers yard with walking legs, as in there was a crankshaft idea making the legs pivot back and forth as it was being pulled, as only pulling the legs that were being thrust forward at the time before they went back and the others came forward, dealer said the idea was to make it easier to pull, think it was a 4 leg, it was brand new, cannot remember the make and never seen one since.

 

[holywell farmer]

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..
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Advanced for 1997 that design shame it never caught on.

 

[Roy_H]

Bob Farmer (of lamb adopter fame) invented a double digger plough to bury couch grass . (A similar idea to the old twitch plough I guess) and then some bright spark invented Roundup. I only ever saw one working, at a ploughing match where the land was very stony underneath. (Probably no couch grass either) It should never have let been near that type land to be honest with you

 

[CPF]

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.

Why have they got gain losses

I know a man who has lots of experience with grain strippers and if he set it up you would have no losses .

 

[Still Farming]

 

[JWL]

Severn Trent used to run some of those with Murex slurry tankers spreading waste from the sewage beds on the ground next door to where I had my first job.
I used to like to think that I could allmost keep up with them on the road with the MF148 with Multi-Power with the land drive like spreader hooked on. But I was young and foolish back then

 

[Still Farming]

 

[Still Farming]

 

[Lowland1]

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I used one of these on an International 956 when i worked for Vitacress. I don’t remember if it was any good or not.