[AT] 1949 Case VAC is home.

[carl gogol]

Reminds me of the "Edible Bean" harvesters that I ran for a while before I 
got a real job.  They were a stock Farmall 140 that was run in low gear at 
something like 600-700 RPM.  I don't remember because the tach on the one I 
usually ran was broken and I had to set the speed by ear. I do not have 
"perfect pitch"!  Every once and a while I had to get "calibrated".  The 
calibration procedure was quite simple, the owner would come up and yell at 
me for going too fast and once I set the speed back down to his liking I was 
usually good for week or so.  We ran something like 0.2 MPH when properly 
calibrated, in other words, the other end of the field was a long time away! 
The 140 did not have sufficient power to pull more than a few percent grade 
at that throttle setting and still run the harvester.  In fact, there was a 
2 cylinder Wisconsin engine on the harvester that was for runnning a fan to 
seperate the leaves from the beans.  Lots of time to think on that job, 600 
acres of beans is a lot of tractor time for four 2 row harvesting machines 
at that speed!
Carl Gogol - Manlius, NY
Tasty grazing in the Oran valley of Central NY
AC D14, 914H
JD 5320 MFWD
Kubota F-2400, B7300HST
Simplicity 7116H, 3112H
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