A new prototype for farmers fuses a commercially available combine with a custom-made grain tank, creating an articulated harvester that can carry grain in bulk. The mission and design of the ...

NEWTON, Kan. - The combine got its name by combining three separate harvest functions - reaping, threshing and winnowing - in one machine. Now, a Newton, Kan.-based company has introduced the Tribine ...

Just two years ago, an Indiana farmer hand-picked a team of engineers from far and wide to set about his off-the-wall ambitions to build a colossal-capacity, bend-in-the-middle combine. We meet the ...

When the conditions are ripe for harvest, there’s no time to stop. Tackling 1-mile stretches with a 12-row header, the articulated Tribine designed by Indiana farmer Ben Dillon couples a commercially ...

Greg Terjesen, Tribine’s vice president of sales and marketing, said there was a plan to make the articulated machine, which has been developed over 20 years, available overseas. “Australia is ...

NEWTON – Ben Dillon tried to keep his fledgling innovation under wraps. But when you have a harvester like his, it’s not easy. Maybe it was the fact it was an orange – not red, green or silver – ...

Implements of all kinds lined the parking lot on the edge of Gottschalk Park at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Friday, and at the far end stood an orange combine with a 1,000 bushel hopper. The Tribine ...