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This really gripes me to no end! I agree with Ranger about the truly useless combines, but smashing them together, against one another, is NOT the way to put down the old, junk combines. Either have them crushed or cut up when they are NOT running and no one is driving them. Yes, I totally agree that not only can we not save them all, but many of what"s still out there, IS BEYOND restoration. Fine. Let those be the parts/salvage for the ones that get restored OR simply haul off for recycling. This whole demolition derby thing is just WRONG!!!! No combine would have ever attacked another of its kind, period! This is NOT why our combines were put here! JD5020, I"m particularly disappointed you said what you did about the 00 Series Deere"s. Those were very fine machines, indeed. maybe some of the earlier models had their debut bugs, but by and large, those 6600"s and 7700"s were the darlings of the custom harvesters throughout the 1970"s! I learned to cut on 6600. So did many others. That Model 7700 was the world"s largest combine when it was introduced in 1970! It"s time we all just stop, sit down and take our time to write, e-mail or even call this RFD-TV station and voice our concerns over this. Just what are we teaching kids, anyway? Are we saying that just because it"s a combine and not some other kind of farming machine, it"s okay to take it out and destroy it--just for sport or "fun?"
In all, this whole da*** thing is just nauseating to say the least!
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