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I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

You take a self-propelling machine and put a hydraulic arm on its side that can be adjusted to be very close to the ground.
Mount a chainsaw at the end horizontally. Then experiment with blade lengths and different methods to keep it level over uneven ground.