To give you an idea of how efficient these things are, our combine - a 35 year old John Deere 6620 - can produce (that is take in rough dry stalks and give you clean kernels of corn) about 15,000 lbs in an hour. Try doing that by hand.
Monday, October 17, 2016
How a Combine Works
It's an amazing machine. I'm cutting and pasting this diagram from Wikipedia. Click on the image to make it bigger/clearer.
To give you an idea of how efficient these things are, our combine - a 35 year old John Deere 6620 - can produce (that is take in rough dry stalks and give you clean kernels of corn) about 15,000 lbs in an hour. Try doing that by hand.
To give you an idea of how efficient these things are, our combine - a 35 year old John Deere 6620 - can produce (that is take in rough dry stalks and give you clean kernels of corn) about 15,000 lbs in an hour. Try doing that by hand.
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