[AT] massey combines at portland

[Larry Goss]

Those hillside combines used to be featured photos in US geography textbooks when I was a kid -- late 40's.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 0:46
Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> A internet friend has some good vintage video of hillside 
> combining in the 
> Palouse country back in the 1940s here.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qq0ou-4u5Y
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
> 
> 
> > Interesting, my lesson for the day, thanks
> > Paul-46555
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <toma at risingnet.net>
> > To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> 
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