[AT] California Combine history was Saskatchewan

[charlie hill]

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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