[AT] Left or right combines?

Sat Mar 19 07:23:56 PST 2005

Gosh Dudley,  that sounds very familiar.  I think you hit it on the head.  I 
had forgotten about that y deverter valve but now I can picture it in my 
mind and earlier I had thought about using a sack needle in that spiral 
pattern.  However, it wasn't uncommon to sow something up that way with a 
sack needle around our place so I wasn't sure I was remembering it from my 
grand fathers place or not.  Now I think that is exactly what was being done 
and I was probably the one kicking the bags off.  By the way my experience 
would have been about the same time, 58, 59 or 60.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dudley Rupert" <drupert at premier1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:09 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Left or right combines?

> Charlie -
>
> This thread on riding the back of a combine sacking grain brings back hot,
> sweaty and "dirty" memories!!
>
> I spent the summers of 59 & 60 working on a farm in the Willamette Valley
> roughly 75 miles south of Portland, Oregon.  One of the last jobs I did in
> early September before heading back to school was riding the back of a
> combine for a couple of weeks sacking sugar beat seed.  The beat seed had
> been swathed in windrows a couple of weeks before we started combining.
>
> The beat seed from the combine was routed into a homemade hopper that 
> looked
> something like a hammer mill with an inverted Y at the bottom of the 
> output
> pipe.  My job was to continually "lift and drop" the sack while it was
> filling from one side of the inverted Y.  The object of this was to get 
> all
> the sacks as close to 90 pounds as possible - why the Elevator made such a
> big deal out of all the sacks being uniform I don't recall.  Anyhow, while 
> I
> was doing this lift and drop routine the owner's wife was tying off the 
> full
> sack on the other side of the inverted Y.  She used a needle maybe six to
> eight inches long which pulled a burlap string.  Her stitching looked like
> the "spiral" on a spiral notebook.  As I recall it when she got to the end
> she would run the needle back about half way going over and under the
> "spiral threads" and then pull it tight.  I don't know what you call this
> stitch and knot routine she did but I don't remember ever having a problem
> with any sack and she did hundreds of them.
>
> Once she had finished the stitching I would stop the lift and drop routine
> long enough to pick up the full sack and sit it to the back of the 
> platform.
> I would then go back to my routine and she would attach an empty bag back 
> on
> the inverted Y and when my sack was full we would trade places.  At the 
> end
> of the row I would drop/kick the bags off.  Combining sugar beat seed was
> the "dirtiest" farm job I ever did ... nothing else was even close.  And, 
> of
> course, it had to be hot and sweaty too!
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
>
> -----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 7:23 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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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"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> 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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