jf 850
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A neighbor of mine had a combine the same as that green self propelled. I think it was an Aktiv but he used to say it was a Volvo. God it was painfully slow he used to spend the whole harvest cutting about forty acres. Thats the first one I have seen since back then.
There were Volvo And Activ combines made , but the green combine in my picture is a Lanz . There was a similar combine parked beside it , but it left shortly before i took the.photo .. It was yellow . I think the yellow were the older ones , and they went green after John Deere buying out Lanz . I remember our local digger man's father having a similar pair cutting small bits on hire up to 1972 or 3.
I am fairly sure that the combine in my picture belongs to a club member , Jim Kelly , who is in a picture directing out 2 Lanz tractors onto the road . He definitely owns the Activ trailed combine in the 2nd picture .