[AT] massey combines at portland

[Paul Waugh]

Interesting, my lesson for the day, thanks
Paul-46555
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From: <toma at risingnet.net>
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> Quoting Paul Waugh <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>:
>
>> OK, what is a hillside vs. prairie  ..... shorter legs on one side :)) 
>> or
>> maybe it is longer legs on one side :))
>
> Both actually, one side goes up and the other side down. Hydraulically
> controlled with racks on each side geared to a pinion shaft so as one
> side goes up, the other goes down.
>
> The old 25 had a manual control valve but the later ones had a mercury
> filled level sensor with a switch on each end and electro-hydraulic
> control valves.
>
> I have watched guys come across a steep sidehill, get to the end,
> stomp on the downhill brake and spin it around. The duck would level
> out as it came around. I never had the nerve to do that. They had a
> habit of breaking spindles on the drive wheels. Brakes were an issue
> too.
>
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>> Paul-46555
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>> From: <toma at risingnet.net>
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>> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
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>>> 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
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