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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of combine harvesters.
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…
June 21, 1996
Driving impression: During last year’s oilseed rape harvest we took a seat in the new Case Axial-Flow 2188 combine to find out what is like to operate. We can say that in the new cab…
June 21, 1996
USED MACHINERY: Even the hardest of worked combines can be made to look pretty respectable after a quick clean, a point many used combine buyers have discovered to their subsequent cost. You have to delve…
