[AT] massey combines at portland

[toma at risingnet.net]

When I was in high school my grandfather and I returned to the old  
family ranch that had been leased out for pasture for a generation. It  
was then leased to a local farmer but we reserved a few acres with the  
old buildings. This was my first exposure to farming. This was in the  
mid fifties.

He had a Massey Harris Model 25. It was a prairie machine that had  
been converted to sidehill. I think it was 12' cut. The story was that  
when it was built, hillside machines had not been invented yet and  
when parts became available someone had converted it. I never saw it  
in action but I climbed all over it and checked it out thoroughly  
because he parked it in our barn for the winter. He had a Cat D2 too.

In later years I had a Massey Harris 90 hillside and later a Super 92.  
The salt air got to them before I found a market for grain and they  
went for scrap. I wish I could go back and give that 90 another shot.

Tom