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Denmark | Crude is a perfect description of a Claas until the model Senator appeared in the late 60´ies!
Dealership means a lot in deciding brand, but also NH is holding an edge over other brands in harvesting Bluegrass. Due to its very short pan.
Varieties of Bluegrass can be very wooly and a long "washboard" pan will roll the material into lumps that will roll over the sieve and thus be lost. Unless you move at extremely low capacity.
To have satisfactory capacity a Claas and other brands with long pans must have a device to collect this material and blow it up front for another run through the thresher. Such an extra comes at a cost.
On the contrary a long pan is ideal for crops with big heavy seeds like peas, beans, corn and small grains as it makes a pre separation of material. Like a gold diggers wash pan. But in small and light seeded crops size of the sieve is what matters.
The bagging platform was made to order. We had to bag all crops as no buyer could handle bulk in those days. We did haul barley and wheat bulk from the combine and then bagged it in the barn on rainy days.
I believe 890 and US 90 were identical. A model 780 (US 80) was also available. It was built in Kilmarnoch, Scotland.
MH 890 was really the name of the game in those days when it came to capacity, reliability, sturdiness and ease of operation, -and also design.
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60+ years of combining-
