Combines HOW MANY PUllTYPESIJ

Red_Painter

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Having travelled quite a bit on the plains in the US and Canada, I can say that pull type combines were used mostly in Canada. The only state that had many pull type combines was North Dakota and maybe across the Red River in Minnesota. Montana had almost none that I saw. Once in a while you might see an odd pto rotary out of that area. There was one in eastern Washington where there was alot of grass seed and lower hills. Never saw it working.
 

body

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We have had a pull type since 1988. It is too bad that tractor technology was 10 years behind the combines because if there had been the powershift transmissions and such in the PT years they would still be around. Also pivot tongue Pull types could have made straight cutting with normal headers easier. I personally like the Pull type combine since they can do a lot in a day and can be run by tractors like the NH Genesis MFD tractor. They are so quiet because they run at 1910 engine rpm at 1000 pto rpm. THe tractor is also super fuel efficient. We can harvest 55 bpa Hard red spring wheat in dry conditions at 10 acres per hour, while burning only 5 and a half gallons of fuel per hour. If only they had put the long sive in the 1682's boy that would be dynamite!