The concept was good.  The engineering left something to be desired.  We had them in the mid 1960's until 2002.  Anything before the 800 series had to small of drive or steering tires.  No ground clearance.  Small rear tires would slide in the mud instead of roll.  

Dad had a good idea of putting a 4 x 6 horiz. across the back of the barge wagon and then build a medal frame on the front end of our 3010 with a wooden bride plank going vertical.   The 3010 followed the picker and when he turned on the flashers it was time to push.  The 3010 was traveling just 3-4 feet in back of the wagon and would speed up and keep pushing until the end of the row.  Took seed corn out that way in many a muddy field.  Then low and behold someone wanted to buy my 708.  Gone it went and I bought a 800C with rear wheel assist.  Thought I was in heaven.  Big front drive tires and plenty of ground clearance.  I had it the last 10 years of seed corn and every single fall was dry. I did not need that rear wheel assist once.  lol.  so she goes. 

Things really got going when we found out about Byron.  It is  a stripper with no husking beds and it fit on the 800 C.   Everybody was using New Idea and it seem like in 2 years nobody I know of was running a New Idea husking bed or their stripper.  I saw a stripper sit on a dealer lot for over 3 years before it went who knows where. 

My 800 C and 501 Byron went to South America.  You could travel quite fast with a stripper as compared to a husking bed.  I mean like 3 to 4 times faster travel speed.