Tracking Down The Kinze Combine Rumor

Tracking Down The Kinze Combine Rumor COMBINES Miscellaneous 27-2-17 Starting late last summer, FARM SHOW started hearing rumors about a new combine made from two Case-IH Axial Flows and a variety of other parts. One guy told us he "knew a guy who saw it in the field" and said that the "Siamese" combine had been built by Caterpillar. We checked it out but no one at the Cat dealership involved had any idea what we were talking about. Then another fellow called up and told us Kinze Manufacturing was working on a new combine that would be unlike anything we'd ever seen. Another reader told us that Jon Kinzenbaw has a "big pile of combine parts" in his shop that he is assembling into an all-new machine. Another fellow told us Kinzenbaw has two stripped-down Case-IH 2388's sitting side-by-side in his shop. We caught up with Jon Kinzenbaw at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville last month and asked him about it. He admitted that he had always wanted to build a combine. "But if I say I'm going to make a combine, people will expect it, and start hounding me about it," he says. "What I'm working on is a personal project, not a company one, and I don't know when or even if I will ever get it done." He asked us to ask readers not to call him about it. When the time comes, if everything works out the way he plans, he might make the story public. So whatever you do, if you run into Jon at a show, don't tell him you read about his combine in FARM SHOW.

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