It’s clean enough to meet European Tier 4b diesel emissions regulations. It’ll cut a swath of wheat up to 45′ wide, or maw through eighteen rows of corn stalks at a time, all while the operator is sitting on a leather chair, in air-conditioned comfort, with a fridge keeping his drinks cool. It has tracks up front to maximize weight distribution and keep from digging in, and with the 653hp on tap, it’ll hit 25 miles an hour. If this thing doesn’t make Lohnes salivate, I’m not sure what will.
Meet the CR10.90, the newest out of a large family of combines from the New Holland family. That engine, the clean and powerful Cursor 16L, was rated Diesel of the Year by Diesel Magazine, maybe because it uses 20% less fuel than the prior generation combine while meeting a higher emissions standard and pushing all of that power. All of this works so well that the only thing stopping you from mowing your acres of wheat down is how fast you can unload every 410 bushels of wheat you cut. It’s even gentle on the wheat, with a cracking rate of less than 0.01%.
Farm equipment has a cost, and the CR10.90 is no exception, starting at $745,000. But earning that payment back in bushels means…roughly about 100,000 bushels of wheat. At a typical yield of about 75 bushels per acre, that’s about 1,000 acres of wheat needed to get this thing paid off. Better go get to cutting…
Source: Gizmodo
