Tom
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I agree with you, Kurt. My class 6 R60 can process beans faster than the sickle can cut them. Combine development will be held up by sickles that havent kept up with modern combines. Tom Russell
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tbran
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..actually that was just a header set up with a special mirror to reflect the image from the compartment in the back that contained my mother in law.... her reflection concentrated into a narrow beam can saw off oak logs at 47 mph....... :-- never went onto production cause 1. couldn't afford to feed her and 2. there are laws against cloning.....
T__langan
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Kurt, you have a good point! BUT, I'm sure that there has been skepticism all throughout the history of mechanized harvesting to the same point and it has been overcome. I was at a Gleaner open house last summer where the guest speaker, a Gleaner engineer, stated that AGCO is experimenting with 54 ft headers. And I see no reason why corn heads couldn't be built to 18 or even 24 rows - the problem would be unloading with that wide of a head sticking out in front of you. Perhaps, with genetic engineering, wider headers won't be needed - imagine a corn plant with 6 ears per stalk or 200 bu wheat or 150 bu beans. Crops like that MIGHT even make the venerable R72 sing a high note and require more harvesting capacity with current sized headers.