[AT] California Combine history was Saskatchewan

Al Jones farmallsupera at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 5 14:19:51 PDT 2011


I bet it was.  The 42R and 52R had a "slide" for the sacks to fall to the ground.

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 5, 2011 7:48 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] California Combine history was Saskatchewan
>
>Al,  that 52R might be the same machine that my grandfather had.  I don't 
>remember much about it but I do remember it was an IH and a bagger.  I can 
>remember as a small boy standing on the platform with my father or maybe it 
>was one of my uncles.   "We"  would take the full sack and somehow tie or 
>sew it shut  (I can't remember which now) and then shove it off on the 
>ground before the next one was full.  I remember it being a very dusty job.
>
>Charlie
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Al Jones
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:25 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] California Combine history was Saskatchewan
>
>I am fascinated by combines.  The pictures of the giants from the 1800's and 
>early 1900's pulled by dozens of horses, are a sight to see!
>
>I have two IH pull types, 52R's.  The earlier one is a sacker with a 
>Continental Y69 engine, the later one is a bagger with a Farmall Cub engine. 
>I need to find a good home for the sacker.  My "dream" is to have a nice 
>70's model Massey Ferguson 300 from out of the mid-west in my collection, 
>and maybe even 25 acres of my own to run through it!  This was my dad's 
>first combine he bought used in the late 70's. I was a LITTLE kid but I can 
>remember how B-I-G it looked!  Rode over a lot of acres in the cab with my 
>grandaddy, I heard him say that he never expected to be a "big enough 
>farmer" to operate a combine.  Back then a Deere 4400 was a big combine 
>here, Massey 510 was MASSIVE.  The 300 ended up catching fire and burning 
>up, it was replaced by a later, diesel 300 with quick-attach headers. It was 
>worn out when it left us.
>
>Al
>
>>
>>On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Gene's Wowway e-mail wrote:
>>
>>> Why would they set this up as a PTO machine?  Back in "my day" even many
>>> small 6-7 foot combines were run by a Wisconsin or whatever.  Is it 
>>> simply
>>> because larger tractors that can handle the PTO & pulling chores
>>available?
>>> I remember my granddad 'graduating' from a 5 ft Oliver combine to a 6 ft
>>> IH - How puny by today's standards!!!  They were both PTO, pulled by
>>> (initially) an old JD unstyled G and later, in the more modern age, a 
>>> 1954
>>> M.
>>>
>>> GeneW
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: charlie hill
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 6:29 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Harvesting in Sask.
>>>
>>> It's a heck of a machine to be running on PTO.   I guess the reason we
>>never
>>> see those around here is their size compared to our fields and roads and
>>the
>>> fact that they'd be hard to pull on our soil types.
>>> We have some big self propelled machines here but they take up the whole
>>> highway and cause a lot of grief for folks when they move.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ralph Goff
>>> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 9:18 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Harvesting in Sask.
>>>
>>> On 10/3/2011 4:01 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>>> Nice rig Ralph and good looking oats too.   How much PTO HP does it take
>>>> to
>>>> pull that combine?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks Charlie. The oats turned out way better than last year. I'm
>>> running 170 horsepower Case IH and it seems quite adequate. I think JD
>>> recommends 150 hp minimum horsepower for the 7721. It needs a heavy
>>> tractor especially in hilly land as there is a lot of weight back there.
>>> Especially when the grain tank is getting over half full.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>
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