Driver’s view: Steve Bushell rates his New Holland CH7.70 combine
For a long time the large arguements for and against combine proprietors, operators and engineers came lower on 1 of 2 sides - straw walkers or rotors.
But through the 1990s water had muddied with the appearance of various “hybrid” machines, mixing both a threshing drum and pairs of separation rotors. Claas’ Lexion 480 kicked things off, then John Deere’s CTS and, more lately, Agco’s MF Delta models.
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These weren’t the first one to pair conventional threshing with rotary separation.
During the 1980s, New Holland had also dabbled using its own undertake the crossbred combine.
Its “Twin-Flow” TF models used a conventional Texas-style drum and concave in advance, adopted with a large-diameter transversely mounted rotor t...