[AT] Left or right combines?

[charlie hill]

Hi Dana,

That was the same here in SE NC.  Most farms were small.  Typically less 
than 50 acres.  A farmer with 100 acres was a big farmer.  We never owned a 
combine of any sort.  We always paid a big farmer or a custom operator to 
pick our grains.  This was usually on a share basis.  If I remember right 
the combine got 20%.

Charlie

> In the mid to late 50s small grain and beans were commonly bagged in SE 
> Ohio.  The one I remember was a Massey I remeber had a platform, the Y 
> diverter and the bags were tied and slid down a ramp. Picked up later on 
> flat wagon and stack in the barn.  My Uncle and Dad shared one.  The 
> combine was engine driven.  One spent three days fighting the wasps for 
> possession of the thing when oats ripened.  Corn was mosltly single row 
> picked and New Idea was the corn picker of choice. IThey sucessfully 
> shucked 3 out of 4 ears.  These were mostly small farms of less than 200 
> acres tilled.
>
> Dana
>
> SE PA
>
>>From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
>>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Left or right combines?
>>Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:28:54 -0600
>>
>>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-----
>> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of carl gogol
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:57 PM
>> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> > Subject: Re: [AT] Left or right combines?
>> >
>> > 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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