uni-systems, anyone have one or used to?

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   There are a few of the New Idea models around here. Most just have it set up for one thing and leave it there. 

They are just about like anything else. You can get a machine to do a lot of different things but it won't do any of them as well as a purpose built machine.

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m16ty Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Location: TN Points: 1463	Post Options Post Reply Quote m16ty Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 9:42pm
	There are a few of the New Idea models around here. Most just have it set up for one thing and leave it there. They are just about like anything else. You can get a machine to do a lot of different things but it won't do any of them as well as a purpose built machine.

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Stateliner1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Bronze Level Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Points: 29	Post Options Post Reply Quote Stateliner1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 12:06am
	I have 3 Uni's. A MM brown mule L uni-tractor with 2 row picker (around a '62 model), a 1965 NI 701 (lot #2-this was the first batch year that NI produced after buying the concept from MM) with a 727 husking bed and a 3-30" 725 corn head,and has a Continental engine, and a 1968 701 with 292 GM engine, 737 husking bed and 3-30" 735 corn head. I pick corn for cattle feed normally with one of the NI units each year. Here is a picture of the '65 701. I am about 35 miles from where the old New Idea factory is at Coldwater, Ohio. Here is a old NI Uni ad from about 1966, with my friend Carl B. in it. He had several Uni's tested at his place, as his farm was about 2 miles south of the factory, and it helped that his brother worked in the Field Service Department. NI tested a lot of equipment on local farms.

JohnCO Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Niwot Colo Points: 8992	Post Options Post Reply Quote JohnCO Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 12:07am
	There was a dealer just west of Greeley, Co that sold them until the '80's. I bought a Perkins 6-354 engine at their going out of business sale, was going to put it in my New Holland 1049 bale wagon but still haven't gotten around to it. Was talking to a woman from central Ill, who was visiting a mutual friend here. They had just lost their Uni system combine in a fire this fall. I believe she said they had found a replacement but not sure. She said they liked the clean sample it produced. Edited by JohnCO - 27 Nov 2011 at 12:09am
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GARY(OH/IN) Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 19 May 2010 Location: Findlay,Ohio Points: 917	Post Options Post Reply Quote GARY(OH/IN) Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 3:51pm
	I am reasonably sure Avco bought New Idea in 1947. That the same Avco as Avco Broadcasting that owned 700 WLW radio 50,000 watt in Cincinnatti and lots of other stuff. Avco sold NI to Allied in 1984 and I worked for them 1 day, froze my retirement and never looked back. Allied sold to Agco sometime later but I was gone by that time.