[AT] Oil dry / Rural King / And even more O.T. stuff

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

We always tried to demo at capacity. It quickly became work! I had an uncle 
that even in his mid 60's could pitch a big fork full of hay into a baler on 
every stroke. You better have you act together tying wires!

I always loved demonstrating my Papec silage cutter. We pulled it with my 
12-20 Case. We only had 2 joints of pipe and had cut the curved discharge 
chute so that it blew out at 90 degrees--we could blow the silage into the 
woods that way. Me and a buddy were chucking bundles of corn into the 
machine about as hard as we could go. That Case was barking like it was 
having almost as much fun as we were.

Dad's thresher, I think it is about a 22 inch cylinder, doesn’t have a 
blower, it has a conveyor (PO used to drop the straw into a New Holland 
baler). I love pitching bundles hard with the heads riding on the tails of 
the previous one, makes my Titan shout.

Its amazing that what you can run through this old equipment in a matter of 
a few minutes took you well over an hour to load!

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 2:17 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Oil dry / Rural King / And even more O.T. stuff

When we used to do demo's of the fair sized corn sheller (that was much
higher capacity than anything we owned in the 1950's) hooked to my MM-R we
only had a very smallish quantity of ear corn provided by the living
history museum to run through it. It would have been far more impressive if
they could have seen it running at full capacity... As it was I could only
run it for a few minutes at a time, throwing in a scoop of corn then
hesitate then toss another scoop in the drag feed and do that about 6 times
then shut it down and wait for those visitors to move on and another group
to form. That sheller would have kept ahead of two men scooping as fast as
they could but nobody ever saw it running at even a normal light load.
I did always try to explain that but I doubt that many understood just how
fast that old sheller was at full feed.