[AT] Cub engine on combine

[Ronald L. Cook]

Al,
	That is just neat!!!  I envy you.  I hope to find a Deere 12A with the 
LUC power some day to put in my combine shed.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Al Jones wrote:

> Yep, got two of em.  I've always loved combines.  In my 'dream
> collection' in addition to the tractors I would love to add a Massey
> Harris/Ferguson 35 SP and a Massey Ferguson 300.  Anyway for those who
> don't remember the story....
> 
> The first of my combines is a '44 model and it has the Continental power
> unit, a Y-69.  Sweet little engine.  I bought it from a small farmer in
> Durham NC.  The Cub-equipped 52R is a post-49 model. Between a '49 and a
> '50. Bought it off Ebay, it came out of Iowa. The '44 is a bagger, the
> other is a tanker.  I feel really fortunate to have basically the two
> main variations of 52R combines IH made. (I need to find a PTO driven
> 52R with a round grain bin to make my collection complete, I guess!)
> 
> I have pulled the bagger with a Super A and a 450.  If you look in the
> Farmall Cub Photoarchive book, there's a shot of a 52R being pulled with
> a Cub!  That would work, but I know from personal experience with the
> Super A that the ground had better be firm......
> 
> If all goes well, here are some links to my last two harvests with the
> bagger combine. None of them show the Continental as good as I'd like.
> Hopefully this spring I'll have em both going......
> 
> Al