Take me home!

I've had a 'thing' about Claas combine harvesters ever since I was a lad - so here is a few pages given over to my 'obsession'...

 

NEW - Claas retake the World Record for harvesting wheat

NEW Claas Lexion 780 (?) and V1350 header

My scratch built and converted Claas combine models

NEW - Norev Claas Lexion 750 Helmut Claas Edition

Universal Hobbies Claas Tucano model...

Claas Combine Harvester scale models...

Half way between a static model and the real thing...?

Claas Combine Harvesters - the real things...

My 'Claas' lawn mower...!

 

My photos of Claas combines in action....

 

Harvest 2011

 

 

July 2011 - Start of the Suffolk harvest 2011

 

 

Harvest 2010

 

 

Sept 2010 - Last of the harvest stuff from around Suffolk

Late August 2010 - Harvest action from around Suffolk

Early August 2010 - More harvest photos, including Lexion Live 2011

July 2010 - Harvest photos

 

 

Harvest 2009

 

 

22nd August 2009 - Mid August stuff; Case 9120, NH 9090, MF 850, Claas Lexions, Dominators & a Senator plus the Claas 40ft header demo

6th August 2009 - A round up of early August stuff; Lexion 560, 570+ & 600, a Dominator 98SL & a CX880

31st July - Night time fun with a Lexion 560 in Little Glenham

30th July 2009 - Sunset-type stuff near Sibton

29th July 2009 - A Lexion 580+ TT with V1050, a 560 and a 580 in adjacent feilds and a 580 and a JD thing together in OSR

28th July - Lexion 58 TT near Earl Soham plus others

22nd July 2009 - Lexion 570 near Diss

20th July 2009 - Lexion 600 at Ramsholt

16th July 2009 Various combines, Lexions, a Dominator etc in Norfolk

16th July 20909 - Lexion 600 TT near Massinghall, Norfolk

16th July 20909 - Lexion 570+ TT near Wymondham

 

 

Harvest 2008

 

 

10th September 2008 - Round up of the end of the 2008 harvest in East Suffolk

29th August 2008 - A day helping out with the harvest in Aldeby

27th August 2008 - Night time harvesting with a Lexion 560 in Blaxhall

23rd August 2008 - Night time harvesting with a Lexion 600

16th August 2008 - Dominator 85 and Lexion 600

15th August 2008 - Night time harvesting with a Lexion 560

15th August 2008 - Lexion 600 at Ramsholt

15th August 2008 - 2x Lexion

4th August 2008 - Lexion 600 in Wantisden

1st August 2008 - Lexi 570+ in Campsea Ashe

30th July 2008 - Lexion 560 and 580 in Blaxhall and Easton

24th July 2008 - Lexi 580 and 9780 CTS near Kelsale

23rd July 2008 - Lexion 580, 570+ and 480 in East Suffolk

22nd July 2008 - Dennington Hall Farm's new toy... plus some photos from 2002

 

 

Claas Company logos...

Circa 1913 1930s onward note the reversed knotter legs... 1950s onward 1960s until the 1980s
This logo first appeared in the 1960s on the Senator combine and survives to this day

 

Model name logos/fonts...

(more to follow...)

 

 

Some Claasy Links

First up, the obvious one - www.claas.com

Loads of technical data for many many Claas combines - http://www.konedata.net/claas.htm

More Claas model combines - including some custom builds - http://www.gta-schmiede.de/drescher.htm