All-Crop Bundle Topper

I've got a bundle topper I need to install on my 60A. Great-granddad used to use it some, so the holes are already drilled in the header sides to mount it there. My question is how do you attach it to the combine's sickle bar? I'm guessing you use small bolts through two sickle sections, after punching out the old rivets, but I just thought I'd see if anyone here has any experience with that. 

yes we need pictures

Here ya'll go my 60 with the bundle topper attachment

EricPA wrote: Ok I give up. What's the purpose of this?

It’s a bundle topper.
It basically turns the combine into a stationary threshing machine. After using your grain binder, you take the bundles to the combine, and holding them horizontally, pass them down over the bundle topper sickle bar. Then the heads go up into the combine to get threshed, and you don’t have to run all the stalks through.

That part I don't really know. Great-grandpa used it on kaffir, which was pretty tall back then, before shorter "combine" varieties were bred. I'm thinking since the header wouldn't raise up near high enough (without the high lift attachment) to take just the heads, they bound it and used the bundle topper. Maybe this was their solution to keep from threshing the whole tall plant?  

By using the topper they could use the straw. No big V rake and bailer to follow the combine.          MACK

Thanks. That’s interesting, I’m missing part 15 and 16, that spring. I guess I better look at my book and see what that’s for

Wow that looks dangerous


Edited by Bill_MN - 29 Apr 2019 at 4:36pm