On Wednesday morning we visited the Case/New Holland header manufacturing plant in Grand Island. They make 23 headers a day or about 5000 a year. 85% of which are Case, as NH has other factories in Belgium and Poland.
They also make 400 bale wagons a year - amazing I didn't think they still made these things. Who buys them and how the hell do they afford them? I don't think they have changed the cabs on them since the 70s either.
Windrowers and sickle bar fronts are also produced here. They were great hosts, giving the two of us a personal tour. We were encouraged to talk to the employees and got to do the final
test on one of the machines. Not many of these joints let you take photos either.
We drove around the yard to see the finished product. I reckon that there would have been over 200 red ones and 6 New Hollands (I think that they had sold them all!). Do you think they would notice if one went missing? Lets call it product testing maybe?
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