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VIDEO: Vintage Roto Thresh combine hits the field to harvest wheat

Published: October 2, 2024

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This fall a vintage Roto Thresh combine returned to a Saskatchewan field to do something it had not done in a very long time: harvest wheat. This is likely the only Roto Thresh to actually be put to work harvesting a crop in decades. In this video, Glacier FarmMedia’s senior machinery editor Scott Garvey was there to record the event and speak with the two men who restored the combine back to working condition.

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Scott Garvey

Scott Garvey

Machinery editor

Scott Garvey is senior editor for machinery and equipment at Glacier FarmMedia.

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