[AT] massey combines at portland

[charlie hill]

It seems to me that I read or saw where some of the new combines not only 
tilt the head but also tilt the cab to keep it straight up for operator 
comfort.  If not maybe I just gave some of them a good idea.   grins

Charlie

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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland

> I'd never even heard of hillside or sidehill combines until the early 70s
> when there was a presentation in the local town hall by a fertilizer 
> company
> showing farming practices in various parts of the world . For some reason
> they were showing harvesting in the Palouse area. What an amazing contrast
> to Sask. Now we are not your typical flat land farming country where I 
> live
> but in no way do we have the extreme hills that those farmers work with
> there. I actually have nightmares about trying to operate farm equipment 
> on
> hills like those.
> The fellow that put that video on youtube has several other very 
> interesting
> old videos there under the name 908harris.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
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>
> 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
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>> 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.
>>
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