[AT] Harvest photo

[Herbert Metz]

Gene
You are quite a comic this morning, "the sweat assured the dust didn't
escape".    I like that.
Herb


> [Original Message]
> From: Gene Dotson <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 3/23/2007 5:14:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Harvest photo
>
>     Ralph;
>
>     Thanks for the pictures. My present combine is a White 7300, which is 
> the follow on to the 542 which was sold here as the Oliver 545. Have
spent 
> some time driving the Oliver 525 and 545 here. Have never operated a Case 
> combine, but have heard the small cylinder diameter was a bad point on
them. 
> The bigger 1000 and 1600 series remedied this.
>     My first combine when I started farming in 1972 was the John Deere
42. 
> That year was a total washout for harvest and had to wait for the ground
to 
> freeze to get the soybeans combined. The 42 was traded on an IH 303 with
a 
> cab. This machine was a total disaster and throughly worn out. I kept it
a 
> couple of years then traded it on a 1 year old IH 715 and was really in 
> heaven with this machine.
>     Have run oats with a Deere 55 open station combine. The dust was
awful 
> and seemed to head straight from the header to the operators platform. 
> Normal harvest temperature is 90 to 95 degrees here so the sweat assured
the 
> dust didn't escape.
>
>     Spring weather here, 50 to 60 degrees. The soil is totally saturated.
2 
> inches predicted for today. Flood warnings already posted. Looks like the 
> oat crop here will be late again, mostly Amish for their horses.
>
>                 Gene
>
>
>
> > Gene, forgot to mention that the crop being harvested in the photo was
> > spring wheat. It could have easily been straight cut if the combine had
> > a working attachment but all it had was the Sund pickup as far as I
know.
> > Heres a picture I have had up at the red power forum for a while now
> > showing my late model 930 Case hitched to the 460 pull type Case back in
> > 1977. I started out with a 730 which had adequate power but it was
> > traded on the 930 which worked even better having more weight and power,
> > power steering too. I learned a lot about combines on that 460. Such as
> > the popular belief that cylinder width equals combine capacity. This
> > machine had a 40 inch wide cylinder but I doubt it had as much capacity
> > as a good 36 inch machine. It had a small diameter cylinder which did
> > not have the "flywheel effect" of increased inertia that heavier
> > cylinders had. That combined with a dried up slipping beater drive belt
> > that would stop at the slightest load caused a lot of plugged cylinders,
> > bent crowbars and frustration.
> > The 460 was the same capacity as the 600 or 660 self propelled.
> >
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> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> >
> >
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