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    Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 12:58am
From the English magazine "Farmers Weekly"

Massey set to offer tracks on its combines

Oliver Mark
Friday 03 February 2012 10:19

Massey Ferguson is the latest maker to announce that it will offer tracks on its combines.

This is significant as it now means that all the big combine manufacturers – Claas, New Holland, MF, John Deere, Case IH and Deutz-Fahr – will soon be able to offer in-house tracks as well as tyres on their machines. And some of the makers believe that a high proportion of their bigger models will go out with tracks rather than tyres.

Details of the MF tracks are still sketchy, but the plan is to use the well-tried track technology from Agco stablemate Challenger as the basis for tracks on its larger eight-walker Centora and hybrid Delta combines next year.

Two belt widths are likely to be offered and the fully integrated system will initially allow speeds of 30kph, with 40kph machines possible further down the line.

We haven't seen any pictures of what the tracks will look like but our artist has used his imagination to magic some unfeasibly big Challenger tracks on to an MF combine to whet your appetite.


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Originally posted by JohnCO JohnCO wrote:

From the English magazine "Farmers Weekly"

Massey set to offer tracks on its combines

Oliver Mark
Friday 03 February 2012 10:19

Massey Ferguson is the latest maker to announce that it will offer tracks on its combines.

This is significant as it now means that all the big combine manufacturers – Claas, New Holland, MF, John Deere, Case IH and Deutz-Fahr – will soon be able to offer in-house tracks as well as tyres on their machines. And some of the makers believe that a high proportion of their bigger models will go out with tracks rather than tyres.

Details of the MF tracks are still sketchy, but the plan is to use the well-tried track technology from Agco stablemate Challenger as the basis for tracks on its larger eight-walker Centora and hybrid Delta combines next year.

Two belt widths are likely to be offered and the fully integrated system will initially allow speeds of 30kph, with 40kph machines possible further down the line.

We haven't seen any pictures of what the tracks will look like but our artist has used his imagination to magic some unfeasibly big Challenger tracks on to an MF combine to whet your appetite.


 
 
So AGCO will offer the Challenger to the "professional" farmer, and its clone to the "amatuer" farmer?
If its not an All-Crop, it all crap!
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I have not seen the pictures, but, am i wrong when I remember that the regular metal tracks have been offered on most self propelled.  I believe they were made to work in the rice area.
I have nothing to support this but I seem to remember it being available as an option.
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ps:  If pictures are drawings are available I would love to see them
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I have some pictures somewhere of Gleaners with tracks. Wendel has two picturse, not very good, and Swinford has a good one on page 311. The tracks that they used on the WD 45s would probably wook too.
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The Greene ones had a track option back in the 70's and 80's.Don't know about Gleaner.
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