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Pre-production models of the Claas Lexion 8000 series hybrid combines, due to go on sale for 2020, have been working in a number of countries this harvest. CPM visited the owner and operator of one of the two flagship 8900 machines here in the UK. It’s the internal upgrades that aren’t so visible that have made the biggest difference. By Martin Rickatson There’s a relaxed look on Andrew Tetlow’s face as he watches the new, thinly-disguised Lexion 8900 open up a new field of oats. This is in spite of the fact that summer 2019 has been giving him a particularly catchy harvest, and he and his business partners have chosen this harvest to commit to a machine as yet unproven in the marketplace. But the potential for risks as well as rewards in taking on a manufacturer’s pre-series machine, built for final testing and tweaking before production commences, doesn’t seem to faze Essex multi-farm partnership AWT Farm Services. The reward outweighs the risk when agreeing to take on a pre-production combine offering greater performance, reckons Andrew Tetlow. That’s perhaps because this isn’t the first time Andrew and his co-directors have agreed to help Claas with the final pre-production…
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