[AT] Left or right combines?

Fri Mar 18 15:05:37 PST 2005

Hi Al,

I just can't remember how granddaddy did it.   He lived in Columbus Co 
(about 125 miles from us).  I was down there fairly often but not that often 
when there was actually any work going on.
I do remember being there once when he was picking beans and I remember 
riding on the back of that combine.  It seems to me like I was actually 
helping do the work but if I was it must have been easy because I would have 
only been about 9 years old or so. grins.

That doesn't mean I didn't work and work hard at 9.  I spent many long, sun 
up to sun set, days in a tractor seat when I was 9 or 10, working on my 
dad's farm.  However, I can't imagine granddaddy trusting me with something 
as important as tying up bags full of beans and tossing them on the ground.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
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> Charlie, I think a lot of them were sewed, some might've tied a miller's
> knot.
>
> At the little show that Mike's Farm puts on I had one of my combines
> there and one of the guys that used to work at the mill we bought feed
> from when I was small came by.....he showed me how to tie a miller's
> knot, but I still can't!
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:23 AM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Left or right combines?
>
> 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>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:32 AM
>> Subject: [AT] Left or right combines?
>>
>>
>>> 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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