Seen in France

[Robt]

While having a beer to recover from cycling the normandie hills, saw this!
Are they popular in France? Folding header?

 

[seedman stains]

Local contractor I use has one and its fitted to a new holland

 

[Stewie]

Common here as well. They have been available for maybe 15 years

 

[Robt]

@seedman stains @Stewie are you in UK?

 

[Robt]

This is punching! #oldskool

 

[Stewie]

@seedman stains @Stewie are you in UK?

Nope, Italy

 

[Beowulf]

I saw several on my travels in Holland last year.

 

[Robt]

This made me chuckle

 

[Exfarmer]

When you have been cutting in 15 0.25 ha fields in one day , you would buy one too

 

[holywell farmer]

Nope, Italy

Don't think could make 30 foot header fold though,

 

[Tractorstant]

Nope, Italy

Now North are you Stew? We are heading to Tuscany in a couple of weeks from here....

 

[Stewie]

Don't think could make 30 foot header fold though,

Cressoni (the one in the video) are up to 7.2 m.

Locally I have never seen headers wider than that. Average farm and field size in the area are relatively small and huge headers would not be worthwhile.

 

[Stewie]

Now North are you Stew? We are heading to Tuscany in a couple of weeks from here....

I live near Parma. It's in the middle of the Po valley.

 

[Al R]

This made me chuckle

I used to put silage bales on top of beet like that for some customers

Laverda and I think Lely too made folding headers in the 80’s? Class advertise them on their website - maybe not claas uk but claas.com will

 

[Muck Spreader]

I used to put silage bales on top of beet like that for some customers

Laverda and I think Lely too made folding headers in the 80’s? Class advertise them on their website - maybe not claas uk but claas.com will

@Selectamatic posted some pics of his Lely with a folding header a few years ago from the 70's
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/who-needs-a-header-trailer.27465/

 

[Tractorstant]

I live near Parma. It's in the middle of the Po valley.

not far in real terms....must come for a combine fix....

 

[holywell farmer]

Cressoni (the one in the video) are up to 7.2 m.

Locally I have never seen headers wider than that. Average farm and field size in the area are relatively small and huge headers would not be worthwhile.

On separate subject for choppers you can get whole crop headers that fold up,

 

[Exfarmer]

I live near Parma. It's in the middle of the Po valley.

Bummer ! Been down there a couple of times, will call in. What do you do?

 

[Nick.]

We lent our old (but new at the time) combine to Rekord to put on a stand with a folding header at the Royal Show.
I can’t remember what make it was though.
It was only a TX62 so couldn’t have been much more than 17’/18’ wide.

 

[Deerefarmer]

On separate subject for choppers you can get whole crop headers that fold up,

Could you put up a link to those?