Combines NHDon IJIJ

If you promise not to tell, I'll give the inside scoop on how they move the CR'sIJ Okay, as a very special option from the factory here's what happens, with the push of a secret button there on the "deck" labeled...."secret button", how coy!, a series of events takes place......the tires fill with helium(from that onboard compressor),a large helo rotor is released out of bubbleup auger, that new "oversized" chopper conforms into the tail rotor, also a flight helmet drops from the ceiling of the cab and presto! your off and gone to her next location! sources devulge the price for this option at 750,000.00, making the cost of a complete CR just over an even mil! shhhhhhh,,,,don't tell everyone cause the price might go up if it catches on to quick! JD

JD, JD, JD, What can I say......!!! I always wanted to know what that red button didIJ What option is that in the bookIJ Maybe it's only a custom harvester optionIJ Can't find it in the corn and soybean combine option list. Is that jet pack to hover around the combine in with that option. Should be for that price. ) Enough, now you got me doing it to the CR's and I still like them. Ilnh

I got one more. My neighbor told me that the new CR's look like a spaceship. So maybe New Holland was testing the CR's at night with your option and if they turn on the flashing beacons, well maybe that will explain those UFO's people have been seeing. Enough, enough, Ilnh

Thanks for cheering me up guys! I'm gettin cabin fever having been away from the harvest since July 4th. However I don't miss the 107 temps this week.The TR was leased to a guy at lincoln Ks. until a couple of days ago. I have really fallen in love with the mountains. Can you imagine your self combining in a half circle with the 14,000 ft peaks in all 4 directions, and every day driving along the Rio Grande river, or on rainy days 4 wheeling up in the mountains and maybe over the continental divide a few times I am hauling the CR on a 5th wheel homemade trailer that the 5th wheel end lays down on the ground and the combine is driven on so the front of the combine is in the back.The wheel base on the CR is the same as a JD or CIH 148" The TR is about 2' shorter.The 30.5 x 32 tires can be set in to straddle 4 30"s. the outside width is 12'. We have CR wheels dished out so the tires are 14' like most JD's. No problem out west for custom harvesters, but commercial haulers would have to get under 12'. You can't get thru Mo. w_o a permit and if you are over 12' you need a lead car etc. We have not had any trouble hauling the CR. The combine weighs 33750n and is 12'11" high so you have to watch underpasses. We go on the turnpikes whenever we can, but they have a 14' height restriction so the TR goes, but not the CR. Commercial haulers haul the CR on detachables by driving the combine on backwards straddling a 102" trailer then blocking the frame and taking the wheels and tires off.You see all kinds of trailers during harvest.There are getting to be lots of double combine trailers hauling 2 JDs even.Most of them air rides and axles. As for pictures we have lots of them, but probably will have to wait. We have lots of visitors especially in the San luis valley.You have to experience it to believe it. So you are very welcome to come join us. lots of things to do and see in addition to seeing the harvesting and potato farming, even "the great Sandunes" to climb. I'm going back out to start moving combines on the 27-8th. We'll have to make two trips. I'd go sooner, but the grandsons are off to a church retreat till the 27th.It's 600 miles to Monte Vista. looks like they'll be windrowing shortly after Aug. 1st.We have jobs that are NH specific because of the NH choppers and chaff spreaders. It saves them several trips over the field with a batwing bushhog by us chopping up the straw. They want the straw and stubble down so the volunteer barley sprouts in the fall ao they can plant potatoes the next spring.

Ilnh you are right the rotating flashing lites are awesome. The first weekend we were harvesting with the CR about 20 miles NW of Okl. City on a Sat. night along a fairly well traveled road. We had countless cars turn around to observe and even a couple of county mounties checkin us out. Those 3 lites come on when the bin gets 3_4 full. What a commotion! After it gets dark and you can't see the combine the lites are intimidating. Great fun! Some people wouldn't believe us.

Thanks Don, would love to go see you combine someday but got to many irons in the fire here in Il. I like JD's way of moving the combine's better, maybe you didn't find that button yetIJ Take care, Ilnh