[AT] massey combines at portland

Paul Waugh pwaugh at embarqmail.com
Sat Sep 4 19:06:15 PDT 2010


shucks, I did not look under potbellied stove
Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland


> Added to Dave's interesting hillside pictures I have posted a few pictures
> of pages from the instruction book from the circa 1940 Model 61 IH 
> McCormick
> Deering  machine we used to use.  Go to the l;link below if you wish to 
> take
> a look.
>
> Charlie V. in WNY
>
> http://www.atis.net/forums/showthread.php?247-Hillside-Harvesters
>
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Dave Ernst <shop at cccomm.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys I posted a couple of pictures of hillside combines on the forum.
>> I've never seen one that will level for and aft, as we always went around
>> the hillsides and avoided going uphill and down hill as much as we could.
>> The first one has no date, but I feel sorry for the horses..
>> Dave
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>> >
>> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
>>
>>
>> Yes, from what I have seen the hillside combines can level fore and aft 
>> as
>> well as side to side. You might not believe it but I used to own a piece 
>> of
>> land with a hill so steep that my 1660 Case IH combine spun out trying to
>> climb it, and this was in relatively dry conditions. Just that steep. 
>> Most
>> of the time I would combine it downhill but even that was scary as I felt
>> like the back wheels were going to lift and drive the pickup into the
>> ground. Eventually I seeded that land to grass and later sold it. Just 
>> too
>> hard to crop land that steep. Guess I'd never make it in the Palouse. :-)
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >
>> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 7:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] massey combines at portland
>>
>>
>> > Charlie,  I'd like to see one in operation myself. I imagine they are
>> > self-leveling but can't help but wonder if some of the first ones were
>> > not.
>> > I wonder if they can level  any for going straight up or down hills? 
>> > I've
>> > got a couple fields that you have to deal with going up or down a steep
>> > incline for a few rounds. I always slow the ground speed down since I
>> know
>> > the straw is having more trouble exiting the machine when headed
>> downhill.
>> > Nothing like having an almost full bin and heading downhill only to 
>> > have
>> > the
>> > bin start running over.
>> >
>> > Dave, I was up around North Wilksboro last summer and saw a field that
>> had
>> > been cut for silage. It was undoubtedly the hilliest field I have ever
>> > seen
>> > cultivated. There is no way I'd have guts enough to to tow a chopper 
>> > and
>> a
>> > silage wagon on those hills. I've been involved in a couple situations
>> > where
>> > a way wagon behind a baler caused a runaway.
>> >
>> > John Hall
>> >
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