Combines plant tour

I have never toured a combine plant before but

Guy: How can you take the time to go south, shouldn't you be cleaning up a stormIJ

I went quite awhile back. First inside plant tour I have ever took in my life. The problem is, you do not have enough time to see everything as well as you would like. The next is the tour guide don't speak very loud and you can't hear them over all the machines working in alot of places. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it and am glad I went I don't think you will be the least dissappointed. Impressed the heck out of me that both red and silver combines run down the same line. When you look at how fast they can get them together it makes you wonder why it takes so long to repair when something goes wrong at harvest *laugh* I enjoyed the tour Guy. I think you will too.

I am guessing you are talking about the Hesston plant rightIJ I was out there two years ago and was very impressed with it. The plant was on summer shutdown when I was there so there wasn't too many people working in the shops. None of the assembly lines were moving. But this wasn't all a bad thing. We could walk right up to the combines and other machinery and look it over as close as we wanted. They were building the Massey and Gleaner conventionals at the time. They went down the line in no certain order. One would be red while the next two would be silver or vise versa. I was most impressed by the overall size of the plant. This place is HUGE! There are several machine shops that produce combine, planter, and baler parts side by side. I would like to go there again when they are making the Massey rotaries.

I got to go when they came out with the 9000 combines you will be impressed.

When this aussie boy lived in Canada, St Brieux was where i worked. Still should be still cool there at this time of year. It was a good place to live and yes I did go through the factory .

MW, I worked at the Hesston plant my first winter out of High School, 1964_65, putting fingers in the swather augers. At that time there were two buildings and an office if I remember correctly. I worked in buiding 2, assembly. Building 1 was where they did the fabrication. Now there is close to 1_4 section under cover. The place sure has grown. K.A.