Gavin Phillips
Well-Known Member
Well I'm not unfamiliar with farm machinery as it goes, my garden backs onto farm fields so you see the usual tractors, combines and various other machinery floating around - but a crawler combine is a first for me!
And apparently, its not alone either. The manufacturer, Claas, makes a small range of these combines. It appears the 600 which I observed today is the largest of the current range. We've had very heavy rainfall at times over the last couple of weeks. Some farms down south have had 40%+ of their crops yield lost due to flooding. The crawler combine idea was designed to reduce ground compaction but I guess it has other uses as well when the ground is still very muddy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25517093@N06/2867880499/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25517093@N06/2867873959/
And apparently, its not alone either. The manufacturer, Claas, makes a small range of these combines. It appears the 600 which I observed today is the largest of the current range. We've had very heavy rainfall at times over the last couple of weeks. Some farms down south have had 40%+ of their crops yield lost due to flooding. The crawler combine idea was designed to reduce ground compaction but I guess it has other uses as well when the ground is still very muddy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25517093@N06/2867880499/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25517093@N06/2867873959/