[AT] massey combines at portland

[charlie hill]

While searching for hillside combines I found this video.  I doesn't mention 
hillside and I don't know if AGCO makes one in any of it's lines but it sure 
shows how far combines have come.

http://farmindustrynews.com/tv/1022_agco_combines/

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From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:37 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland

> Ralph
> Are hillside models being mfged by Gleaner, JD, etc?  If so, where are 
> they
> in use?
> Herb
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 9/2/2010 2:30:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
>>
>> Its not just the header Charlie. The entire body of the combine is
> levelled
>> by hydraulics. You can see it a bit in this photo from the modern day
>> Palouse harvest.
>> http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22765&st=8340
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
>>
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------
>> > From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:58 AM
>> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> > 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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