[AT] Grain Augers--silent flame harvester

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Dec 31 19:57:51 PST 2011


John, trust me, that Roanoke wasn't any hotter than having your head down 
between two rows of sand lugs and your butt stuck in the air for 8 or 9 
hours.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:42 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--silent flame harvester

Al, my grandmother had one of those. It took 7 people to run it--4 primers,
1 driver, and 2 tiers up top. They were a little dangerous to use around
here--too many hills. Ours never got turned over but a neighbors did.

Dad said it came with a duster attachment but they never used it. He did
rig up a 110 gallon barrel and made a sprayer out of it.

It was gone before I could remember it. It was replaced with a Roanoke
Surefoot 4 row primer. That one I remember way too good. Short of shoveling
coal into a boiler furnace, I don't think you get on a hotter piece of
machinery, at least not on an August afternoon!

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers


> Totally forgot the bulk barns!  Yes, there were oodles of them too around
> here.  Never really heard anything much bad about them.  Didn't they sell
> them up until fairly recently?  A "BTO" had a yard full of newer barns
> before he quit tobacco and I just about believe they were Long.
>
> Haven't I read somewhere that Silent Flame was purchased by Long?  Long
> had a series of tobacco harvesters, I want to say 70's vintage, that
> looked a lot like the old Silent Flame harvester with the chain-driven
> front wheel and the tiers/loopers working on the "top story."
>
> For me the ultimate for my collection would be an original Silent Flame
> tobacco harvester but I am afraid they have all gone to the big scrapyard
> in the sky by now.
>
> Al
>
>

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