[AT] Left or right combines?

[Dudley Rupert]

Ralph,

I don't think I've ever seen a combine that had a real factory bagging
attachment on it but maybe someday someone will bring one to a show.

The combine I bagged behind in 59 & 60 was a then late model IH self
propelled machine... I have no idea what its' model number was.  I would
guess the head was 12 feet give or take a couple of feet.  It did not have a
cutter bar or reel but a pickup attachment that was probably half as wide as
the head.  The homemade bagging platform was maybe two feet off the ground
and the bottom of the Y inverter was maybe four feet above the platform.
The small homemade grain tank that fed the Y inverter would hold maybe the
equivalent of two or three sacks of beet seed.  I could barely touch the top
of this tank when standing on the platform.  This farmer was a very good
fabricator and his modification/add on could almost pass for factory.  His
design added a horizontal auger which allowed the output grain to by-pass
the combines holding tank and go straight to the small tank on back.  The
only problem we had with this design was when we had the occasional mishap
on back - like a broken needle or a busted bag - which caused us to get
behind and the small holding tank would overflow.

Dudley
Snohomish, Washington


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> 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
> Charlie

My Dad's Case model A had a bagging attachment as I recall. A small pipe
sticking out the bottom of the hopper and a little platform nearby although
I can only guess how it was meant to work as we never used that method here.
Grain was allowed to fill the hopper (25 bushels or so) and then augered out
into the truck box.
Now that I think about it this combine also had the little rotary cleaner up
on the top of the hopper. I wonder if this spout on the outside of the
hopper was to direct the weed seeds into bags?

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/


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