Lexion and Tillage demo

[Chris Taylor]

To make a long story short, a frined of mine runs a few CATs and the Lexion boys at Althoffer wanted to do a lexion demo in wheat in the area so they had it at his farm. Will and his family also are a Krause and every other shortline dealer. I came but Dad didnt weant to leave the sprayer. Althoffer bought all of us lunch in town so it was worth it haha. Not alot of people showed up but it was interesting.

What I wanted to see the most was this new KongsKlide "Verti Till" It did an ok job but I have things wrong with it I wont go into unless you all want to hear it.











I got the chance to run Althoffer's MT855C on Will's Krause strip till. Pulls it 8mph without a sweat.





During the demo.








After the demo Will asked if I wanted to help get the rest of the wheat out. Why not, ya get to drive someonelse's nice yeller equipment haha

I ran the 585R for about 5-6 hours








Pioneer was there to do a testplot during the demo


At the end of the day I snapped a few pics of the equipment.

[70ds]

Cools pics. Sounds like a fun day.

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

I'm bursting with envy of you right now!!!

[Southern]

Nice to go out and try equipment that others run. I don't get to do that often, but have a few times. It gives you an idea how that stuff performs and does. I saw a Lexion out in the northern county of mine running around. It has been on my list to catch in action. I missed him on the grain harvest. But I will see if I can this fall. Nice to see some Challengers out. That name is basically unheard of in my parts. No one knows they exist.

[Chris Taylor]

Yeah it was interesting. I custom worked some ground for him this spring with our Challenger and verticle tillage tool. Challenger is pretty popular here in the tri states, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. We looked into a lexion, even toured the factory but went with the 9670 instead, mainly due to the fact we have ran Deere since the 50s (Model 30A pull type and 227 picker) and knew we liked the job they did and the service. (Not that Altohfer is bad at all but we know how to work on them. Id love to see pics Sam if you get em.

[Southern]

I will do my best to track him down this fall. I usually get my target in after a few times. Just like some of the other combines I had on my list. Including one cotton picker. Just take time to track them down during harvest. That one took me about 2 years to get in action.

[magnum 7240]

what was the number on the side of the head and what was the letters on the mt8*5 and mt7*5 if it was the c's they should sound good to me

[Chris Taylor]

Idk what the head was. It was a 40' head though. MT855C and a MT765 (pre letter series)

[Jordon Ellefson]

I may be a john deere fan, but i wouldnt mind runnin the new lexion 770 combine

[magnum 7240]

Jul 17, 2011 22:30:06 GMT -5 Chris Taylor said:

Idk what the head was. It was a 40' head though. MT855C and a MT765 (pre letter series)

40' head i think that would be a vario 1050 head then

[Chris Taylor]

no the vario heads have a movable sickle bar. This is a flexhead

[treymo]

What do you have against the kongskilde? I'm guessing for the same reasons you don't like the Case version?
Trey

[HuskerGLEANER]

Nice pictures Chris. Do you have any pictures of how the Krause strip till left the ground? Would like to see if that design throws as much dirt as ours because i know the guy we got ours from went to a Krause.