PRACTICAL TEST: But that’s all we can say about the Case IH Axial-Flow 7140’s performance in cereals, as it arrived too late last season to use it in anything else. Still, this we do know …
The AF 7140 featured here sits at the top of Case IH’s smaller, 140-series rotary combine line-up. ‘Smaller’ is a relative term, as the three models pack engine powers from 312hp up to 449hp and grain tank capacities from 8,800 litres to 10,570 litres. The bigger 240-series harvesters bring more power, higher capacities and a different rotor set-up — but that’s for another day.
Stage IV emission compliance and threshing/straw management changes mark out the current machines from their 130-series predecessors. The 7140’s six-cyl, 8.7-litre, FPT Cursor 9 engine puts out a maximum of 449hp at 2,000rpm (ECE R120/ISO TR14396) with its exhaust gas sanitised by SCR and AdBlue. And headers? These run from 4.9m up to the 9.1m version supplied with the test model, and come in various configurations to suit different applications
