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The Lexion range of combines has been overhauled with the range-topping 8900 the biggest available for harvest 2020. CPM travels to its launch in France. What we launch today is a truly new machine. By Tom Allen-Stevens By any stretch of the imagination, it’s an impressive sight. At first there are just four blobs of light between the blue, cloudless evening sky and the ripe, golden wheat. The hum of the harvest draws ever closer, joined as it does by the buzz of drones, launched to capture the moment, while around 100 of the world’s press jostle in to claim prime position for the working shot at Nourray, near Le Mans in north-west France. The four new ranges of Lexion represent the biggest overhaul in the combine’s 25-year history. This is the launch of what Claas is calling the second generation of its Lexion combine. There are four new ranges, two of which are hybrids, coming to the UK for harvest 2020, with the smaller straw-walker versions due to arrive in the following year. These include three models in a new 8000 series. The 8900 now tops the fleet with a 790hp engine and grain tank of 18,000 litres.…
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