The three-wheeled Korvan sitting in front of our barn.
The front of the harvesting arch as it enters a row. The hydraulically driven horizontal loops beat the grapes off of the vines, they drop to the plates under the row and roll into the boxed elevator, dropping onto the over-row conveyor.
The rear of the machine showing the fish-scale-like plates that gather the falling grapes and seal around posts and plant trunks.
The harvester and chase tractor exiting a row, the chase tractors pull trailers with two ~1-ton bulk boxes.
Loader tractor pulling full boxes off the chase tractor trailer and replacing with empty.
The loader tractor placing full boxes on the semi and pulling off the empties. Twenty-two boxes per trailer load, about 25 tons net, each box tested on farm for sugar content, and again at processing plant 40 miles away for sugar content, pH, and other undesirable contents.
The neighbors that harvest for us also run two other harvesters, built in New Zealand, running Deere engines and Sound Guard cabs- I can't seem to find any pictures on file, but the design is very similar.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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