1stfarmboy, it is true that lexion harvesting products are precision built. It is also true that they are built to withstand some of the toughest harvesting conditions known. The lexion combine is a worldwide product, much like Deere and CNH are attempting to achieve, whose neccessity is to able to harvest in all conditions with minimal reconfiguration of threshing and separating elements and cleaning sieves. I agree with your comments related to combine performance being relative to the quality of of the operator. Today's modern farm machinery operator has far more machine control that was available to them just ten years ago. Example, custom application equipment. With GPS guidance_steering, VRT, fly-by-wire_full system fingertip control (most of which are systems and controls becoming standard equipment on combines and tractors - "the mule vs. steam engine"),the operator must always be ready to make necessary changes on the fly, making the machinery the most productive possible, pending the operator's capability. Now, you are finding more and more custom application grade equipment "on farm." lexion combines are the only combines constructed with the strength to ensure long-term ownership and up to very agressive operation. Belt life isn't a modern day problem for combine harvesters and like machinery, as much as it is fatigue. Thus, lexion's total use of heavy duty cast drive and and variator pulleys and single-piece steel idlers to always ensure long belt life. Every machine experiences mechanical failure now and again, but at a low rate. Excessive rates are due to the lack of proper operator operation and sevice and maintenance.
