Castle Harvester bought and use a lot of the chassis to run them backwards as cabbage harvesters . Seneca Castle N.Y. is where they were built , they were great machines in my estimation . Mike , the Uni-System was also a great set up for its time . Keep up the good work Mike !!!!!
Pretty neat...a farm down the road from me has two of these for picking sweet corn. He supplies the local stores with sweet corn here in Oconomowoc, WI.
Mike thanks for a nother great video .My Dad and had a 2 row pull type picker we picked corn up till 1989 had 2 1500bu corncrib . I always like to pick corn we fed cattle makes the best cattle feed .thanks .
Great video Mike. I always wanted a Uni when we were doing ear corn, just like this farmer for cattle feed. It was the "cats-ass" for ear corn picking.
Hi Mike, the M-M mule was just the power unit of their Uni Farmor system system which included a Combine, Huskor, Chopper with a Corn Head or a Pick up, a self propelled sheller, used the Huskor corn head and a pick up baler, the Uni Balor
Back when you were in high school that dealership sold farm machinery, now I don't think they do anything since cat bought them out and they quit selling Versatile! Nice video Mike
There are a few salvage yards that still have use parts and a at least one place that has a few new parts for the power unit shafts that go from the transmission to the final drive. Dad had the first Uni sold by Dinkel Implement in Norfolk Nebraska in 1965. It had a corn sheller attachment with a 2 row 40 inch head and a combine attachment with a 13' grain head. After that we did custom work and in '67 Dad traded the old Uni and bought two more. One with the combine, and both with shellers. Still a 13' grain head, one 4 row 40" corn head and one 32 row 30" corn head. In 1984 through 1986 the man who started Producers Hybrids [now AgReliant], Roger Herrick, hired us to pick seed corn with his 737 shucking bed and a 4 row 30" corn head. I got tired of swapping attachments and bought a TR85 New Holland combine in 1994 and used New Holland combines until I retired from farming in 2018.
Great machines but major fire traps if you did not STOP and clean the engine screens now and than. We never had trouble but we sold one to guy and he did not listen to us and tried to run it like his big combine and it burned up a couple weeks into the fall. Engine mounted under a fuel tank that sat behind the cab was not the safest design. If the screens were not keep clear the engine compartment overheated and the grain dust caught fire.
