First seen as a pre-production unit at the 2016 Farm Progress Show, the revolutionary Tribine combine harvester was back again at this year’s event, this time as a commercial model

Today’s combines are at legal road transport height and width limits, and any further increase in capacity and performance must come from inside the box. Not true, says North American inventor and retired farmer Ben Dillon, who has spent the best part of 20 years working on an out-of-the-box concept that sees the combine bend in the middle and the grain tank re-located behind the articulation point.