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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of combine harvesters.
December 21, 2001
Driving impression: Claas has announced its combine fleet for the 2002 harvest, including the launch of a smaller rotary model, the Lexion 470, complete with 1.42m wide threshing system. Here we tuck the Lexion 470…
October 7, 2001
PROFI USED MACHINERY: There is nothing wrong with setting out to buy a specific make and model of used combine. But keeping an open mind can be the key to securing the most cost-effective used…
March 21, 2001
USED MACHINERY: Although it always pays to spend time looking over any item of used equipment before making a purchase, care and attention is never better rewarded than when appraising a second-hand combine. The difference…
September 21, 2000
The Fendt combine may only be on sale in Germany and France, yet we should still be interested in what our continental counterparts are up to. We are, as we're constantly being told, part of…
March 21, 2000
Automatic combine steering in cereals is a vision that has finally become a reality in the form of the Claas Laser Pilot. This unique system scans the line of a standing crop in front of…
January 21, 2000
Driving impression: Cross-Flow is the name given to a new range of combines from Case which, in a departure from the firm's usual Axial-Flow technique, uses a combination of drums and straw walkers. This past…
November 21, 1999
Fendt has a reputation for building premiumquality, premium-priced tractors – but combines? No. Not in recent history, anyway. Yet, from this harvest, that much-envied reputation may well stretch to combines with the launch of a…
October 8, 1999
PROFI TEST: Glossy combine brochures have page upon page of great pictures, cutaway drawings and text about performance-enhancing features extolling the virtue of the machines. But are they an accurate description?
March 21, 1998
PRACTICAL TEST: During harvest ‘97 a number of farmers trialled Claas’s new Vario header, which enables the operator to steplessly extend/retract the cutterbar on the move. profi reviews the technology involved
March 21, 1997
Practical test: Depending on the model specification all the operating settings on the new Claas straw walker combines are done from the cab – except for loss control, which still involves the driver getting off…
October 21, 1996
Driving impression: The Claas Lexion 480 introduced last year, was the first machine from the company to use a rotary threshing system. So do the smaller Lexions use the same technology? They don’t use rotors…
