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

[Gene Dotson]

    Charlie.

    I should be able to handle the files alright.

            Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines,other harvest machinery and 
where it takes us (continued)


> 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"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thoughts on small combines,other harvest machinery and
>> where it takes us (continued)
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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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"
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> 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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