[AT] Left or right combines?

Greg Whittaker gwhittak at triton.net
Fri Mar 18 06:37:02 PST 2005


The 62 IH combine I've got is right handed.

Greg Whittaker
Wolverine Mi.

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> On 17 Mar 2005 at 15:21, Ralph Goff wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I  learned the hard way almost thirty years ago to use eye protection for
>> grinding. I never knew for sure how it happened but I can still recall 
>> the
>> pain that eventually drove me to a doctor to have a piece of steel 
>> removed
>> from my eye. It was during harvest and I was using a p.t.o. combine 
>> behind
>> the 930 Case. I had to work with one eye for a while as the doc put a 
>> patch
>> over the injured one. Luckily it was the left eye injured. leaving my 
>> right
>> eye still functional for all the over the shoulder work involved in pull
>> type combining.
>> I was lucky. Good vision, like so many things, is often taken for granted
>> until we lose it.
>
>
>
> I seem to recall some combines having the "works" on the left and some on 
> the right but
> can't recall which had them on the right. The Deere 12-A I grew up using 
> had everything
> (cutter, canvas and cylinder) on the left and I'm sure the Allis 60 was on 
> the left. I
> "think" the Case A was on the right but can't picture it in my head. I 
> have the remains
> of one setting in my staging area to be sold as scrap but just can't form 
> a picture. I
> don't recall which way IHC was. Anybody remember?
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100 years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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