The past 50 years has witnessed great strides in combine design. What’s ahead? Perhaps completely robotic, remote-controlled combines
by RALPH WINFIELD
Some of us older folk can remember when the objective of the combine manufacturers was to have a combine on every 100-acre farm in Ontario. These were the self-propelled units such as the Massey-Ferguson “35” and the International Harvester “91.”
They were replacing the Massey Harris “Clipper” and the Allis-Chalmers “All-Crop” series. These pull-type units crushed some crop and tied up the main farm tractor, which was usually about 35 to 50 h.p.