Combines Mcleod Harvest system

Being from western canada, I've been hearing about this new idea for quite some time. I think it definitely has potential for a grain and livestock producer whose land base is within a small radius of the cleaner. But for others without livestock, or whose landbase is scattered all over the place, the logistical problems associated with hauling all of that material home to the yard would likely make the costs far outweigh the benefits. Innovative idea though.

We used a system like this 60yrs ago in the uk called the reaperand thresher,then some smart alec put it together, called it a combine harvesterIJIJ

sounds like a good idea. I like the idea of being able to market the grain and feeding the rest to cattle. I think if you had the use and money go for it.

i did the electricial hook up on the prototype a few years back.the engineer was going on about the stationary conbine,i told him to invent a ststionary truck to go with it.he was not as amused as the rest of my crew.

It may work for some people, I don't know about you, but the corn and soybean guys I know already have trouble keeping the grain away from their combine. Add cost of more trucking, slower harvest, more help, you need people at separator site too I think, not to mention I wouldn't feed soy chaff to any animal of mine and it is faster, cheaper for us to get the corn stalks with stacker, since you would only get the cobs with this setup and our animals won't eat cobs. This was designed for small grain because trucking is not as big a problem but weed reseading is. By taking the chaff home, you take the weed seads home too and get them out of the field. It might work for you but I am in no hurry to try it.

I believe the Ag College in Winnepeg did a study and found that if you had to haul the graff more than about five miles your feed value was diminished. The volume of material would need two tandem trucks running full time with no dump time. I would study it very closely as to cost efficiency.

I am from manitoba where this machine was designed and have heard about it as it has been developed. In manitoba there is mainly just small grains grown and that is what it is designed for. I was talking to a rep one time and they said they had tried it in peas and it worked good in peas but I didn't think to ask about corn or beans as we do not grow them. I like their idea of being pull type to save cost but I think it will have to become self propelled to be a big hit just like the way combines have gone to being self propelled. For us we would be more interested in it if we had livestock so we have nowhere to feed the millings. As far as I know the mill is automated so that no operator is needed once it has been set. I also know that the harvestor uses the same cylinder as a JD 9600.

Seems like a poor use of HP if you can only go 4.5 mph with 160 hp. how wide a swath or header is that runningIJ Thanks