Combines CR s outstanding engineering award

The self leveling sieve has been on the tx combines since 1994 ,I believe.

ASAE selects 50 each year. That would make 800 awards total.

Actually the first units with a self leveling shoe were shipped from Europe to a dealer in Manitoba, Canada in 1990. They were a TX34 and a TX36. In 1994 the TX66 was introduced, however all TX combines were equiped with the self-leveling shoe as standard equipment which is now also standard on the new CR rotary series.

The Massey combine few years back, which I think was actually a Claas, had a self-leveling shoe as an option. Could never understand why NH had it on the TX series for years and didn't put it on the TR's. The ASAE awards are rather bogus IMHO. Everyone submits their latest gadget to ASAE and in it goes. John Deere got mentioned once for their double hitched 750 drills and they don't even make the hitch themselves. Bought the hitch from Houck.

I think NH originally got it from the lavarda (not sure if its spelled right) combine from Europe. This was one of many smaller combine companies that Fiat Agri originally bought up. So they used the design on the European built TX machines. As far as the TR, NH did almost nothing to change its design for years. They could have gained markets in the midwest along time ago if they had just updated the saparator capacity to match the threshing capacity.