New Idea Uni System Ear Corn Harvesters

New Idea VHS from around 1991 showing new ear corn harvesters in action.

[@trinitydairy]

Great video, we still run an 839 husking bed.

[@robertnymand9889]

A great.add! They were a great machine. I can't believe they couldn't have a place in the market today.

[@stiegerstx500]

Hopefully you have more videos on the unis there fascinating but so little footage of them

[@dickkeesey8889]

Unfortunately that's my only Uni VHS. Would love to find more.

[@bustersmith5569]

What happened to the new idea uni system 🤔 kinda sad always thought they were really good machines,,,,,,, 👍

[@edreisinger5757]

@@bustersmith5569 The '80 recession weakened a lot of companies. New Idea made it into the '90s but then got bought up by agco. By the 90s there weren't that many people still picking corn outside of seed companies and sweet corn. The price of new machines was high. At the same time, the size of combines and self propelled forage harvesters grew a lot faster than uni could keep up with. I was always told that uni combines were excellent machines and were preferred by seed farms.

[@bustersmith5569]

@@edreisinger5757 thank you very much for the reply...... I always liked the new idea systems.... .

[@stephenlloydott]

My dad and uncle had Uni system for their Midwestern beef fattening farm. They were good machines. One problem with them they weren't good in muddy conditions due to unbalance weight from the power unit. Bigger drive tires would have helped. Their market was small to midsize dairy and beef cattle farms that wanted self propelled forage harvester and a combine. Unfortunately for New Idea such farms greatly declined in the 80's and 90's. The bigger machine in the video came out about 10 years too late. Of course they would have had to gotten even bigger to keep up with ever larger dairies.