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SW Sask | That is correct. Rem Manufacturing from Swift Current, SK used to sell chaff harvesting equipment as well, even before Redekopp started.
Grandpa and dad used to save chaff behind our pull-type combines, which made a bit of a train through the field... 4wd tractor plus combine plus a small dump trailer on the end of a looooong hitch member (to be far enough behind the combine).
We dumped the piles of chaff in the field, then went back after harvest and picked them up. Rem used to sell a vacuum system where you could 'suck up' the piles and blow them into a wagon. By the time I remember, dad had taken some parts from that machine and adapted it to a McKee forage harvester. So he could pick up three chaff piles in the wagon. Then he would come back to the yard, and blow the chaff into a Quonset. He had built a full-width feed gate which he could keep shuffling back into the pile with the front-end loader.
It worked pretty well for the operation we had - right number of grain acres and the right size of herd.... Relatively inexpensive, much less labour than small square bales. And, further to some of the discussion above, once we stopped collecting the chaff in that way (sold the cows), we did notice a lot more weed pressure...
danr
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anybody hear of Niva combines?
