 NEWS 2008-10 |
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The Talk of the Town DATE: 2008-10-30 SOURCE: Lexion Customers Magazine  Kramer Ag customer Rod Edgar of Wolseley, Saskatchewan gives us the straight talk on his LEXION 570R combine. Edgar and his family recently appeared in an issue of LEXION’s The Talk of the Town – Straight from LEXION Customers magazine.
Thanks to Hugh Christiaens, Edgar’s Kramer Ag Sales Consultant, for bringing this story to light. |
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CLAAS LEXION 580 is the new world champion in combine harvesting DATE: 2008-10-28 SOURCE: By Michael Raine – Saskatoon newsroom - The Western Producer October 23, 2008 World harvesting records are falling faster than barley at the cutter bar of a Class 8 combine. 
Earlier this year in England, a New Holland 9090 Elevation combined knocked off 451.2 tonnes of wheat in eight hours, peaking at 78 tonnes per hour.
Not to be outdone, another British farmer, Keith Challen of Lincolnshire, set out to beat that Guinness record with his farm’s 517 horsepower Claas LEXION 580. The record was staged by farmland operator Farmeco.  The big LEXION, running on tracks, put 532 tonnes of grain into the bin in an eight hour shift. The tracks were necessary to accommodate one of the United Kingdom’s wettest ever harvest seasons.
The LEXION used a 35-foot straight cut header and chopped and spread the massive load of straw and chaff. Challen said in an e-mail that the crop tested tough, at 16.2 percent moisture, potentially slowing the machine from what might have been a higher capacity run. Guinness officials monitor a combine’s performance in establishing a record. They set standards for the quality of grain in the tank and require that the machines operate at industry acceptable loss levels and leave a set amount of stubble. The previous eight-hour record was broken after six hours and 45 minutes. The Claas’s hourly capacity peaked below that of the New Holland, at 70 tonnes per hour. Challen said he heard about the New Holland record earlier in the year and felt his machine was capable of beating it. More Info and video at CLAAS.COM |
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