[AT] engine and tractor auction

[Greg Whittaker]

I've got a 12A and it is wrong handed ;-)  The IH machine I've got is right 
handed

Greg Whittaker
Wolverine Mi.

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From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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> Somewhere in the deep recesses of my "former" mind, I seem to remember
> discussion about the fact that John Deere (and maybe some other brands)
> built their combines "left-handed".  The model 12 was one such design.
> If I remember right, this discussion was from a group that was talking
> about the old Ertl and other brand farm toys.
>
> Larry
>
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> Ralph Goff wrote:
>> Gene, your right that it is an engine powered combine. They list it as
>
>> an "LUC" engine. I didn't think much about it being right or left
> handed
>> but in the photo it does appear to be left hand cut which is opposite
>> from most pull type combines that I am familiar with.
>> Of course there is the possibility of the picture being reversed too
> as
>> I have seen that happen before.
>> Interesting you mention an M to pull your combine because thats what a
>
>> local fellow also used on his similar combine. I'd think it would be a
>
>> little under powered (and tractioned) in hilly country.
>> And of course live pto would not be a big benefit on one of these
>> combines as they had their own source of power. Definitely an
> advantage
>> in the days of tractors with non-live pto.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>
> Yes, I too wondered if the negative might not have been reversed---I
> don't even know if they were available in both versions (right and
> left).  The first combine of my recollection was an Oliver with a 5'
> swath, but Grandad upgraded to an IH combine in, I supose, the mid 50's.
>
>  My strongest memory of harvest time is that of filling the grease guns
>
> each day---no cartridges, and man, that thing would empty 2-3 grease
> guns every day of use!!!  Of course, many of the bearings were simple
> bushings, etc., and lube was essential.  My grandfather and Uncle had
> very few mechanical problems that I recall, and all that damned grease
> must have been part of the reason!!!
>
> Our fields were pretty flat, and the M handled things just fine---mebbe
> sometimes you just went a little slower!!  Same thing with the
> baler---PTO; my aunt usually drove then, as we needed everyone of us to
> get the hay up in the barn.  Oh, what misery that was, high up in the
> haymow, right under those tin roofs, in an Indiana summer of heat and
> humidity!!!  Good ol days???  Not always!!!  ;-)
> -- 
> Gene
>
> Gene Waugh
> Elgin, Illinois 60123 USA
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