When Bill Aulie and his son Keith purchased a new Case IH 8120 two years ago for their 3,500 acre (1420 hectare) durum, canola and lentil farm near Rouleau, Saskatchewan, the salesmen at his dealership (Young’s Equipment of Regina) strongly urged him to purchase a MacDon FD70 FlexDraper® for the front of it.
“They called it the ultimate harvesting machine,” recalls Aulie, “but I said no thank you, I love the other brand.”
WORKING WITH THIS HEADER IS LIKE FISHING – YOU WORK RELAXED. THE HEADER DOES NOT GIVE YOU ANY TROUBLE…
WE CAN ALWAYS START A GOOD HALF HOUR TO AN HOUR EARLIER IN THE MORNING BECAUSE IT FEEDS IN EVEN…
Shawn Johnson is fairly particular about his harvesting machinery. After all, as head of Johnson Harvesting, a family owned custom harvesting operation that has been in business for more than five decades, Shawn has learned a thing or two about what works – and what doesn’t – with each aspect of a combine.
WE WANTED TO HAVE THE LATEST AND GREATEST OF ANY BRAND TO STAY AHEAD OF THE FIELD.
When you operate one of New Zealand’s top contract windrowing companies and you’re looking for a competitive edge, one of the best places to start is with technology. Thus it was a search for the best windrowers on the market that brought Donald Love, owner of Donald Love Windrowing, to first become enamored with MacDon M Series Windrowers.
WE HAD NEIGHBORS SHAKING THEIR HEADS WONDERING HOW WE DID IT.
WHEN WE SHOWED UP WITH IT, OUR CUSTOMERS THOUGHT WE WERE NUTS. THEY WOULD SAY ‘KID WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?’
The year is 1988. Ronald Reagan is entering his last year in the White House and the first Die Hard movie is filling the theaters. Every custom cutter in America is also taking on the year’s harvesting work with auger platforms mounted on their combines, just like they have for the last several decades; that is, every custom cutter except one.