Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | The biggest bottle-neck with the L was the feeder-beater. It was simply incapable of smoothly feeding enough material to the cylinder. The big edge a 9600 had over an L3 was the wider cylinder that was more smoothly fed. Allis had a wider machine in the proto stage (680 I believe) but it was dropped when they rushed ahead with their rotary. Reason given at the time, was they figured the larger machine would be too hard to move down the highway's and the rotary vastly surpassed it in capacity -- in a smaller package. Never heard anyone say that any machine of the day could come close to keeping up with an N7 in a wheat field, as long as the N7 was running, so they were right on the potential capacity of the rotor. In hindsight, we can all agree that they should have taken a couple more years to iron the kinks out of the Ns before they marketed them. |
L3 gleaner
