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

[charlie hill]

Gene can you handle large files in your e-mail?

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From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines,other harvest machinery and 
where it takes us (continued)

>    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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:31 PM
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> where it takes us (continued)
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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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>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines,other harvest machinery and
>> where it takes us (continued)
>>
>>>    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>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 2:05 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines, other harvest machinery 
>>> and
>>> 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"
>>>> <rugenl at yahoo.com>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 6:43
>>>> AMSubject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines, other harvest machinery
>>>> 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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