[AT] Left or right combines?

[charlie hill]

My grandfather had an old combine that he pulled with a Big M Farmall.  I 
don't remember much about it except that it was an I-H (it was red) and 
there was a platform on the back and a bagger.  The man on the back filled 
burlap bags (with soybeans the day I remember being there when it was 
running) and threw them off on the ground to be picked up and loaded on a 
truck.

I can't remember how they closed the bags but it seemed like it was easy to 
do.  Maybe the bags had already been sowed closed except for one corner that 
was tied with a wire or a string.  Does anyone know or remember how that was 
done?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Whittaker" <gwhittak at triton.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Left or right combines?


> The 62 IH combine I've got is right handed.
>
> Greg Whittaker
> Wolverine Mi.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:32 AM
> Subject: [AT] Left or right combines?
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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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