[AT] Thoughts on small combines, other harvest machinery and where it takes us (continued)

[Gene Dotson]

    Charlie;
    You may be right on that. Do you know if any pictures are available for 
it? Nothing shows up on a google search older than the model 60 combine.

                Gene



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From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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> Gene,  I've been looking at C.H. Wendell's Allis Chalmers Story and it
> appears your dad's combine would have had to be a model 40.  That was
> apparently the first of the Gleaner combines for AC and before that they 
> had
> the Advance Rumley Prairie models that were pretty large and clumsy 
> looking
> machines.
>
> Charlie
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:08 PM
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>
>>    I remember as a lad, our father bought an old Allis Chalmers combine
>> from the neighbors. Would have been about 1948 or 1949 and the neighbors
>> had
>> used the combine for several years and even doing custom combining for 
>> our
>> dad in the oats. I still don't know the model of the combine, but 
>> preceded
>> the 60 All Crop series by several years. The machine used only 1 grain
>> elevator and when the bin was full, to dump, there was a chute that was
>> raised up and positioned out ovrt the wagon and then a gate in the bottom
>> of
>> the bin was opened allowing the grain to offload into a wagon. The chute
>> could also be used in this position with the bottom gate closed to fill
>> bags. I have only seen one picture of this combine many years ago, so
>> don't
>> recall the model.
>>
>>    As you state, the combine was a left hand cut and dad would run it 
>> with
>> our Allis WC and later with the Farmall H. Our brother-inlaw at the time
>> had
>> a Farmall BN and an International 42 combine. He helped us combine oats
>> one
>> year. International with right hand cut and AC with left hand cut. Took a
>> little timing to try to cross at the corners of the field as going in
>> opposite directions. I remember I was a small boy and spent all day 
>> riding
>> on the left axle housing of the BN. One of those times that are not
>> forgotten.
>>
>>                Gene
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>> where it takes us (continued)
>>
>>
>>> Heres an ad I had posted over on red power showing the All Crop combine
>>> back
>>> in 1949. Notice the pickup attachment. Also these were left hand cut.
>>> http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=87916Ralph
>>> in Sask. ----- Original Message -----From: "Len Rugen"
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>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 6:43
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>>> andwhere it takes us (continued)> Dad's older owners manual had a power
>>> unit (Motor from a C I think) and> the PTO as an option.  I think there
>>> was also a picture of the bagging> platform, but it's been a LONG time.
>>> The wheels aren't duals, there is> a 2nd axle stub just in front or
>>> behind
>>> of the original and the 2nd> wheel tracks offset both to the side and
>>> fore/aft of the main wheel.> Duals would still drop into a ditch or
>>> cultivator ridge, the tandems> were almost like having a 2' track on 
>>> each
>>> side, one would carry the> other over a small gully.  No suspension of
>>> course.>> Remember, the
>>> reel was
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