Harvest Travels 2023 and Others

[The Tractor Twitcher]

What a contrast this year's harvest has been to last year's heatwave. It's true what they say, you never end up with two years the same. Although I've not photographed anywhere near as many combine harvesters as what I normally do due to the amount of writing i'm completing these days, here's a few that I have managed to visit.

My harvest travels began this year on July 7th with this 2013 Massey Ferguson 7370 Beta Para-Level, and 2006 Claas Lexion 580 Terra-Trac.

[The Tractor Twitcher]

My next trip out took place on July 29th after the rain relented to see a couple of the larger farms local to me harvesting winter barley and oil seed rape. The first of these were running a 2023 Claas Lexion 8900 and also had a latest generation 8800 on demonstration too. The second farm were running their recently acquired Claas Lexion 8800.

 

[The Tractor Twitcher]

A day later I ventured out to spend a afternoon with this Fendt IDEAL 9T on a good friend's farm, followed by a lovely 1985 Massey Ferguson 860, and lastly a 2022 New Holland CR8.80.

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On August 8th I visited this New Holland CX5090 whilst baling close behind was a John Deere 6300 and New Holland BC5070 small square baler.

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Deutz-Fahr C7206 TSB and C9206 TSB combines at work on neighbouring farms on August 10th.

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New Holland TF78 Elektra and CX7.80 combines also at work on August 10th.

[CX820Joe]

22 minutes ago, The Tractor Twitcher said:

Deutz-Fahr C7206 TSB and C9206 TSB combines at work on neighbouring farms on August 10th.

Always love to see Deutzs at work, very rare around my way now though.  Did see a 5690 a few years ago though 

[The Tractor Twitcher]

6 minutes ago, CX820Joe said:

Always love to see Deutzs at work, very rare around my way now though.  Did see a 5690 a few years ago though 

Where these two are located I reckon there will be at least another dozen or more......although nothing much older than a few 6060HTS/6090HTS models these days.

[The Tractor Twitcher]

11 minutes ago, CX820Joe said:

Always love to see Deutzs at work, very rare around my way now though.  Did see a 5690 a few years ago though 

Photographed these five working on farms all within less than five miles of each other back in 2012.

[CX820Joe]

Judging by this snip from Google Street View of Hardwicks place, they are selling a few!

[The Tractor Twitcher]

16 minutes ago, CX820Joe said:

Judging by this snip from Google Street View of Hardwicks place, they are selling a few!

Correct mate, there's been quite a few C9306s and C7000 series combines leave their yard in recent times. 

[The Tractor Twitcher]

Back on August 10th I was able to catch up with Birdsall Estate's new John Deere X9 1100 and 45ft header. This combine replaced a three year old New Holland CR10.90.