A New Holland concept combine tested in Canada has won the top Agritechnicaaward that will be officially announced next month.
It’s the largest combine ever.
Geert Nerinckx, New Holland combine global product manager, said “our goal with this new combine was to bring down the total cost of harvesting for the customer, especially with regard to grain loss.
“I am just back from Canada where we had one of our machines running. This is a very important machine for farmers there because they are very interested in reducing loss from combines, particularly in higher value crops like canola, for example.
This combine will be fully automated, will have increased productivity and is 95 percent new, he said.
To increase threshing capacity without making machines wider because of road-width restrictions New Holland engineers have come up with this new CR twin axial rotor combine, that the company says can reduce crop loss to near zero.
The core element of the new CR combine harvester is the drive technology with an engine mounted lengthwise so that it spins in the same direction as the rotors.
The centrally located split-power gearbox drives rotors and harvesting headers with an intake chain in a straight line or via a propeller shaft. The left rotor serves as a counter shaft for the feed dru
This combine’s propeller shaft is located on the right-hand side of the chassis, above the level of the rotor housing. There are no drives on either side of the chassis, and this space was used to increase the chassis and threshing channel.
The cleaning system has been made 13 percent wider, while pressure-sensor-supported control technology measures the ram pressure that crop distribution on the front and rear upper sieve.
To eliminate blockages, an automatic system performs the usual back and forth movements to loosen the blockage and slews the belt tensioner to the respective tensioning side of the feed drum belt, which leads to precise transfer of the rotary movement.
The system not only ensures consistent distribution of the material on the upper sieves on the flat and also on lateral slopes, but is also able, for the first time, to solve the basic lateral distribution problem typical of axial rotor combine harvesters.
The straw chopping and distribution system is equipped with camera-based control technology, which increases the combine’s energy efficiency while the machine’s weight has remained virtually unchanged.
