Sep 27, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Join me as I talk to Sam Colebatch of Russells. Russells has been serving the Yorkshire farming community since 1849 when George Russell the son of a blacksmith began designing and manufacturing horse…
Sam ColebatchGuestBevHostYeah.
talking of small bits and big bits, tell me about the CR11.
One of your colleagues referred to it as the world's largest combine.
Yeah, the world's biggest combine.
Have you sold any of them yet?
I haven't, but as a company we have, we've done five before the start of this season, and the machine you were referring to that was at the Yorkshire show, that was our own demonstrate machine.
That's gone up and down the country, and there's a bit of interest to be done over the winter.
sort of scale of operation have you got to have to warrant a beast of that size?
Yeah, there's people with, like, 6,000 acres plus, want to combine with one combine.
But the market of that is it's people that are running two combines at the minute, and the idea is to take both combines out and replace them with one.
Yeah.
Which so yeah, your target market is someone that's got two combines over like four or 5000 acres, for example.
Yeah.
Or four that can have two and seven.
Yeah.
I see these videos on that on social media.
what used to be sort of an Australian or American footage.
Now you see it here with them all lined up and the beautiful drone footage.
Yeah,
Yeah.
talking of small bits and big bits, tell me about the CR11.
One of your colleagues referred to it as the world's largest combine.
Yeah, the world's biggest combine.
Have you sold any of them yet?
I haven't, but as a company we have, we've done five before the start of this season, and the machine you were referring to that was at the Yorkshire show, that was our own demonstrate machine.
That's gone up and down the country, and there's a bit of interest to be done over the winter.
sort of scale of operation have you got to have to warrant a beast of that size?
Yeah, there's people with, like, 6,000 acres plus, want to combine with one combine.
But the market of that is it's people that are running two combines at the minute, and the idea is to take both combines out and replace them with one.
Yeah.
Which so yeah, your target market is someone that's got two combines over like four or 5000 acres, for example.
Yeah.
Or four that can have two and seven.
Yeah.
I see these videos on that on social media.
what used to be sort of an Australian or American footage.
Now you see it here with them all lined up and the beautiful drone footage.
Yeah,
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