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CKain(MI) · Jul 19, 2015

Will see if I can load pictures from a local Tractor Show, this weekend.
Kalamazoo county, MI, Scotts Millpark. It is small but all we have, locally..
Once again, weather was off & on !!

old popper · Jul 19, 2015

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Frank41 · Jul 19, 2015

Very good pictures! This weather is a challenge for the shows. I hope we will have better luck at Rantoul and harvest this fall.

rrlund · Jul 19, 2015

That's interesting. That's a show I've never heard of.

WIZZO · Jul 19, 2015

Nice to see some more tractors that were never imported in Britain.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 19, 2015

It looks like that MM combine is setting on a New Idea power unit. Must be they were compatible?

CKain(MI) · Jul 19, 2015

next one here is Oct 3 & 4, called Olde Tyme Harvest Festival

Bob Harvey · Jul 19, 2015

Wish I had the space and $$ to get an Oliver like those !!

JMS/.MN · Jul 19, 2015

Would that be the Uni-Farmer from Moline, precursor to the New Idea? I don"t know them that well. I guess I pictured the Uni to have a single steering wheel in the rear. Been a long time since seeing any.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 19, 2015

The New Idea Uni-Systems which were popular around here were enough newer than the MM Uni-System that I assumed they were incompatible. But I suppose it would make sense that the last MM, and the first NI, were much the same.

Ron Muhlenkamp · Jul 19, 2015

New Idea bought the Uni system line from MM

lotsofwork · Jul 20, 2015

thanks for the effort, but more fun than work. happy to see that my dads tractors are still around!

Leroy · Jul 20, 2015

The first Moline Uni-Systems did have a single rear wheel, Later ones did have a wide axle with 2 wheels and took a seperator unit that could handle 10 or 12' heads unlike the 9' head on the early units. When New Idea bought out the uni-System the first New Ideas were actually Moline units just meing started to get the New Ideas color. These units all required the hoist to lift the harvesting unit off to change from combine to picker. They did make a spreader also but hardly any were ever built. The first 9" combins could not take a corn head and there was a cage type sheller for them. The second stule that took up to a 12' head could take a corn head. When New Idea got around to redesigning the uni system they came up with a system that the combine-picker-forage harvestor would pick itself up and off without the hoist. They also were quite a bit larger. The one at that show according to pictures is second generation and the earlier harvesting units would fit that tractor but not the other way around.

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