Can you haul a 706 uni on a gooseneck?

rockyridgefarm · Sep 30, 2020

Yup.

SVcummins · Sep 30, 2020

I hope not to scrap

bmack95hd · Sep 30, 2020

Looks like someone is going to give it a go!

NY 986 · Sep 30, 2020

Getting to be fewer and fewer of those Uni-systems around.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 30, 2020

He will wish it was scrap before he is finished. I tried to warn him.LOL Tom

Case Nutty 1660 · Sep 30, 2020

I have one of those not sure what model now it has 4x4 hydrostatic drive and a turbo'ed Perkins in it,, sure wish i could sell it for even half what I got stuck with in it they are Dang heavy on the engine side I hauled mine back home when a old friend I loaned the money to to buy it never paid a dime on it and I had to repo it, I used my 14K rated trailer it was 150 miles one way I think to get it home

NY 986 · Sep 30, 2020

About the only ones that stuck around were the ones outfitted for harvesting sweet corn. In theory an interesting concept but the forage harvester and combine were no more than adequate compared to about anything else around that you could buy.

SVcummins · Sep 30, 2020

Well i guess he’ll figure out

SVcummins · Sep 30, 2020

Uni system
Video

Bob Bancroft · Sep 30, 2020

Even with all the wheel weights they hung on the right wheel, they were still so left side heavy they did not do well harvesting corn here in the mud.

db4600 · Sep 30, 2020

I logged a couple hours in a 702 w/ a V6 Gimmy. We had a chopper, cob picker, and combine. Dad did a lot of custom work with that outfit. It put a bit more crooked in his smile when he ran it. The video has it weighted up pretty good which I can attest to. Some of our farm hills we had to approach empty or we were fixing fence shortly after the heavy box spun you through one.

rockyridgefarm · Sep 30, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:41:30 09/30/20) He will wish it was scrap before he is finished. I tried to warn him.LOL Tom

Tom, where are ya? How am I gonna get this thing off without your help?

Mark-Mi · Sep 30, 2020

Ran my old 708 today. I am pretty proud of "Ole Ruff" the name that has stuck with the old Uni. Still getting the job done.

SVcummins · Sep 30, 2020

I always thought they were quite the interesting contraption never see anything like that here

caterpillar guy · Oct 1, 2020

FOr a chopper in their day you couldn't match them for power and speed with a pull chopper. We have an old 708 with the pukins in it. Smoked like a freight train working or not. I had a 705 diesel till it burned. Just had washed it all up before putting the sheller on to pick corn was the first field. Replaced it with the 708. 709 had the Allis engine in it.
Yup it can be hauled on that trailer and will be about 14 feet high depending on tires with the cab.

INCase · Oct 1, 2020

always thought they were an interesting concept basically a specialty tractor.

i've seen some converted to other purposes like having a contraption that would pick up large hay bales off the ground and run them back on a conveyor and could carry maybe 5 or so and i presume would unload them where you wanted.

seen some with snow blowers mounted as well. didn't think NewIdea made a blower for them but they might have.

i think i've seen pictures where someone modified and mounted a square baler on one.

basically a specialty tractor.

quite a few in this part of the country as they were used a lot in the seed corn harvesting. THen Pixall/Byron took over that business.

rockyridgefarm · Oct 1, 2020

I ran 709s with Byron seed corn picker units on them at Kaltenberg seed farms for a few falls. Those did not have husking beds,and had 6 row 30" heads, but pulled in 4 rows because seed corn.

This 706 is definitely more crude than they were. Maybe I'll look for a newer tractor to put the 737 husking bed on. But this year I got 12 acres to pick, and it needs to be done now for high moisture earlage.

Mark,

New idea did make a factory blower for the uni. I only ever saw one, and now I wish I had bought it.

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 2, 2020

the one I have was used by green giant canneries for picking sweet corn, have no clue what you would call the bed it has but it is massive and lots of fans on it, it will be removed and scrapped one of these days,, like th epower unit I am guessing no one close to me raises corn

rockyridgefarm · Oct 2, 2020

(quoted from post at 05:38:35 10/02/20) the one I have was used by green giant canneries for picking sweet corn, have no clue what you would call the bed it has but it is massive and lots of fans on it, it will be removed and scrapped one of these days,, like th epower unit I am guessing no one close to me raises corn

Hi casenutty,

I assume yours is a Byron unit, sweet corn pickers used them as well. They dont have husking beds and the elevator swings side to side. Can you post pics? Beings you are quite a ways away, I doubt I could justify freight.

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 2, 2020

I will get some and post,,

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