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Northampton County, PA | Hi all
I know the uni system can pick corn, harvest grain, harvest different forages, and even blow snow, but are there other uses for this machine? I know thats a lot to ask from a machine that is already universal enough but I have seen multiple mounted with planters, and even the early MM with the baler and manure spreader, from what I gathered, they arent interchangable with the new idea equipment, but if so, is it possible that they can be rigged to do with same? What other ways of using these machines have any of you come across? |
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Strasburg North Dakota | Local CHS coop has a fleet of these for cleaning up grain piles.
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100 miles north of the NYC crapper | They could definitely have been used to aggravate the operator |
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Schlegel Farms, Hagerstown Indiana | New Idea purchased the Minneapolis Moline "Mule" and turned it into the Uni-System.
Same idea but many changes and, no, the units would not interchange.
There was also a combine, and maybe other units also.
A Google search turns up several results on them:
https://www.google.com/search?q=new+idea+uni+system&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS... |
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Chebanse, IL..... | We took a 708 power unit (cold-blooded Perkins diesel, hydrostat), modified it and added a 1000 gal tank and a 45' JD front fold boom. Actually it was a rear fold boom, but we were running it backwards. We ran it for several years until switching to a Hagie. I think we actually built it in '88.
We had to make custom wheel centers for the 18.4 x 38 tires. Had to machine a drive hub that would drive a large diameter v-pulley to spin the spray pump fast enough. Modified the rear axle to fit down 30" rows. Added a hitch to the back so the sprayer could pull it's own nurse tank down the road.
Frank Lessiter wrote an article about it in No-Till Farmer back in '91. The machine in the upper RH & lower RH is ours. 2nd half of the printed article.
Also, a local grain elevator mounted a conveyor on one for loading off of a corn pile.
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West Central Indiana | Several around here clean up ground piles of corn at the co-op elevators. They have a gathering head like a snow blower on the front and bring the corn in and on to a conveyor that's high enough for a semi to pull under. I used to haul for Cargill and have hauled a crap load of grain this way. Could load in about 2-3 minutes. |
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Wolcottville,Indiana | I seen a couple of uni systems with rock pickers made out of them, Rock rake in the lead to a turning drum that cleans the dirt out to a conveyor like ear corn to a hydraulic dump wagon, they could clean a field in no time. |
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Southeast WI | Best use - scrap pile. |
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Manola,Ab, Ca | I’m pretty certain that this peat harvester is based off the unisystem.
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Central Iowa | Many years ago there was a farmer in Iowa that mounted a 4 row John Deere planter on the front of a Uni and planted with it. |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | That’s pretty neat Ron, what happened to it…. I don’t suppose you still have it? |
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Lone Wolf Ok | Had one with home built 2 row cotton stripper - including a basket |
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Pesotum IL | Maybe a self propelled auger cart? |
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Amherst WI | Neighbor had a couple (notice they always have more than one) said if it broke down you might as well drag it into the fence row because you’ll need parts off it next year when your back over there with the other one |
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| What is a peat harvester? Peat moss? Or peat for potting soil? That is something not seen in Wisconsin |
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Central Wi | Not a uni but I remember reading about this when I was a kid. Planting with his combine.
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CWI | You sure that isn’t from a Dr. Suess book? |
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Wisconsin | Yes, peat is dried and used for potting soil, or burned for energy in some places, that's why they want to suck it up, to only get the driest stuff off the top of the deposit. It's basically the same stuff that the Irish dug and dried as "turf".
Historically at least, there was Spagnum peat moss harvested in WI, that was the live plant raked up and dried. Peat moss can be thousands of years old plant matter, of all sorts. |
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| I remember that story well. I thought it was ridiculous to put a bunch of hours on a new combine when a $10,000 tractor at that time would work just as well. The farmer even admitted in the story that NH would most likely not warranty the hydro because he used it for planting. |
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nw/nc iowa on the banks of West Buttrick Creek.. | Local tiler has worn out several pushing a BrownBear? Tile ditch closer, probably did a million miles. |
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Manola,Ab, Ca | Yes it is used to harvest peat for sale. They work the top surface with harrows to loosen it and dry it out and then use vacuums to gather it and then dump in piles. It is then loaded onto walking floor trailers to be transported to plants that bag it and also make garden mix and potting soil. It’s actually a big business up here. |
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KY | farmerkj - 12/5/2024 08:56 Not a uni but I remember reading about this when I was a kid. Planting with his combine.
Cannot for the life of me make any sense out of this one. Maybe someone else can make a case for the advantage here, but I sure can't find one. |
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| Like I said above, I remember the story well. The farmer was bragging about not having to get a planter tractor and that the harvesting portion of the machines always wore out before the drive parts so he was maximizing efficiency. Plus he didn't have to look back to see the planter. I'm sure I remember it so well because I thought too it was the dumbest idea any farmer ever came up with. And yes it was a new or nearly new combine. |
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Central Maryland | Not mine. Saw it at an auction.
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SC WI | I didnt read all the replies, but there was one around the area with a snow blower on it. I heard the original use was to load corn piles into semis. |
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KY | German Shepherd - 12/5/2024 13:04
Like I said above, I remember the story well. The farmer was bragging about not having to get a planter tractor and that the harvesting portion of the machines always wore out before the drive parts so he was maximizing efficiency. Plus he didn't have to look back to see the planter. I'm sure I remember it so well because I thought too it was the dumbest idea any farmer ever came up with. And yes it was a new or nearly new combine.
You happen to recall if he used it for awhile? If he used it one season and then switched to a tractor I’d be satisfied that he wound up thinking it as senseless as the rest of us, but if he used it for a pretty good while, well that’d be downright interesting to me. |
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Morgan Co. Illinois | Interesting that both you and the Hillerman's didn't want to tie up a $25 thousand dollar tractor and look what we spend today. Thanks for the flashback. |
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Chebanse, IL..... | Dave
Thanks!
No, don't have it any longer, we sold it when we replaced it with a Hagie 254 several years ago. But, it served us well for a few years. We gained more ground clearance by going to the 38" tires, and road speed! |
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ND | Our township bought a New one back in the past with the V6 Gas engine a real dog & had a 9' double auger snowblower on it. Pretty slow as she goes outfit. |
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Northampton County, PA | from what it seems like online, there werent too many open station uni-systems? is this sort of a rarity? |
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other new idea uni system uses?
