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[joehardy at epix.net]

Ralph, THANK YOU so much for this harvesting film! Enjoyed looking at all the older trucks and older equipment in operation. I have a Massy Harris 55 combine that I have used on our farm. Haven't used it in about 15 years but hope to use it again some day before I have to give it up. It used a canvas conveyor that fed into the machine which I liked because it allowed me to harvest most of my buckwheat. Whenever I combined oats that also contained weed seed, I'd spread the oats /weed seed mixture about 8" thick on the barn floor and turned it over with a shovel every few days for about a week. Then I would run it thru a Clipper seed cleaner before it was stored in our granary. I'd hire the neighbor boys to help. In fact, not long ago, one of those "boys" who is now grown up asked me that he would like to do that again in the future. I don't know it that will ever happen again. Memories! I often thought what positive impact I made on all those neighbor kids as they worked with me around the farm. To my knowledge, all turned out to be hard working good American citizens.  GOD bless America!    Joe Hardisky Ryman Farm, Dallas, PA  

    On Sunday, January 8, 2017 7:25 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
 
 

 My first combine was a Massey Harris 90.  The early model that did not 
have a clutch, but a hydraulic cylinder connected to the variable drive 
that was controlled by a foot pedal.  There was a 5 second delay from 
run to stop!!  It was really fun when loading and unloading on a truck 
or trailer.  It also had been converted to the Bomber tires that were 
about 5 ft tall and 3 ft wide.  It was great in wet ground until it went 
down.....  It had no traction due to the nearly slick diamond tread...

Cecil in OKla


On 1/8/2017 4:47 PM, Jason wrote:
> There's a video by this group tray shows the operation of a grain elevator.
> Very cool
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017, 3:26 PM Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
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>> On 1/8/2017 2:51 PM, John Hall wrote:
>>> https://www.nfb.ca/film/country_threshing/
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>> That one led me to another film more familiar to my part of the country.
>> A couple of farmers from Alberta decided to head South in June of 49 to
>> do some custom harvesting in the U.S. Very interesting. The Massey combine
>> reminded me a bit of the model 60 that my dad had in the 1960s.
>> https://www.nfb.ca/film/harvests_on_the_march/
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>> Ralph in Sask.
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