[AT] Left or right combines?

[Ralph Goff]

Gene
I've never heard of anybody using a bagging attachment for grain on the
combine. Even in my grandfather's day they hauled their grain to town in
winter with horses and sleighs with a sixty bushel wagon box. This would all
be loaded from the bin by hand using a metal scoop (sometimes known as a
"manitoba scoop"). I still have a couple of those old antiques around here
but was fortunate to have missed out on the days when they were actually
used to load grain. Farmers really earned their money growing wheat in those
days.
Gravity wagons were a great improvement that also appeared just about the
time I started helping with harvest. 150 bushels of wheat on the wagon
behind the Cockshutt 40 or 50 was a good load. Luckily in those days the
farm was only about 400 acres and there was at most a mile of hauling.
Otherwise the 4 ply car tires on the hopper wagon might have been stressed
to the breaking point. That wagon held 4 dumps from the Massey combine and
if we did 4 wagon loads in a day we were well satisfied.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Waugh <gwaugh at wowway.com>
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:20 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Left or right combines?


> This discussion of older combines begs a question from me...
>
> I grew up around pull-behind combines, pto driven, but they were not
> baggers; they simply dumped into a hopper which was augered into a wagon
> when needed.
>
> My question is:  Was the bagging - bulk thing a local/regional thing, or
> were there other reasons for the two methods?
>
> Yes, we were "big time".  We would put sides about 12" high on the hay
racks
> for grain transportation---had what??---maybe 125 bushels??  Of codurse,
as
> soon as the cousins and I headed out into the world, stupendous things
like
> gravity boxes started showing up.   WHAT???  You don't have to shovel alla
> that stuff??
>
> I do remember bagging and miller's knots (granddad tied em) --but that was
> when grinding feed with the belt-driven hammermill...
>
> Gene
> Gene Waugh
> Elgin, Illinois USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of carl gogol
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:57 PM
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>
> Where I grew up, in central NY, there were almost certainly combines from
> the factory with bagging platforms and chutes that held the full bags.
maybe
>
> as many as 6 bags.  All of the bags were jettisoned at once with a trip
> lever at some convenient point for manual pickup onto a flat wagon for
> transport to the grainery.  Usually the dump was on a corner of the field
> closest to the barn.
>
> Remember the weed seed separator?  I pro bably kept the mustard seed in
> check a little
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY
> (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> Kubota F-2400
>
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