Neat Harvest Video

From the 40's. There are 4 Gleaner pull types, an Allis WC, a Farmall, Moline, and another. Pretty neat I thought. The variety of tractors reminds me (As does Lonnie's thread about the Model T tractor) that farmers then weren't too partial to equipment brands, they just used what was available and worked for them. (But Gleaner always ruled the plains here)  

Edited by CrestonM - 06 May 2017 at 12:51pm

Neat. What were they pulling at the end

Oh was hard to see

Wow, how equipment and technology has changed. Thank you for letting us look at history!

when we motorhome'ing to CA one year, after going thru the desert (we went the southern routes) we stopped at Yuma AZ to get a motel for a good shower and air conditioning. while outside doing a smoke, another fella was out there doing the same. he noticed my NE plates and asked the normal questions when people meet the first time. on his side, he also farmed in CA (don't remember the name of the town), but they did specialty farming of small grains and grass seed, and other different specialty crops. he showed me pics he had of their harvest machines doing grass seed at the time. all I saw was a LONG line of AC 60/66 combines harvesting. when I asked him, he said they were still the best machines for that type of work and he said they had 30 combines they used. looked king of funny with cabbed tractors prolly with the a/c on pulling the older combines!   this wasn't a very long time ago.

Bill Long wrote: First Creston,  Thanks for sharing.  Great pictures of a bygone era.   Shameless, You know the 60 type combines were absolutely the best and almost only for crops like clover seed.  In fact we were pleased to demonstrate in our local clover seed farms.  Other makes tried - in fact they almost rebuilt another unit to "adapt" it for clover seed - but no one could do what the 60 did. From what you say it looks like they - even in the 21st Century - they do not have a substitute. Good Luck! Bill Long

Rayhowling wrote: Back about 10 years ago I went through British Columbia and went down through Idaho to my Daughter and family in Boise Idaho. In the Coeur d'Alene area we stopped at a farm garage sale and they had been a wheat farmer most of his life. He had a John Deere pull type combine from the early 1940's with an Alis Chalmers engine to run the combine. It had good canvases in the grain head which was about 18 feet wide. He couldn't find anybody to buy the combine and he said it would end up in the scrape yard. It was in good shape and it didn't have straw walkers, instead it had a chain on each side with 1 inch wooden cross pieces with about 1/2 inch between them and the chain went over oblong gears to shake the grain out of the straw.

Rayhowling wrote: Back about 10 years ago I went through British Columbia and went down through Idaho to my Daughter and family in Boise Idaho. In the Coeur d'Alene area we stopped at a farm garage sale and they had been a wheat farmer most of his life. He had a John Deere pull type combine from the early 1940's with an Alis Chalmers engine to run the combine. It had good canvases in the grain head which was about 18 feet wide. He couldn't find anybody to buy the combine and he said it would end up in the scrape yard. It was in good shape and it didn't have straw walkers, instead it had a chain on each side with 1 inch wooden cross pieces with about 1/2 inch between them and the chain went over oblong gears to shake the grain out of the straw.

shameless dude wrote: Creston....I know it would be DANGED hot inside that MM cab if that gal was in there with! LOL ....that guy I was talking to in YUma said there were other combines they could buy or use, but then they would have to buy a lot of support equipment to go with them such as extra cleaning machines and such. and then hire more people to run them. he said with the low costs of the Allis combines, and the good job they did, it was far more less expensive to harvest with them even taking a smaller swath, it was still faster and cheaper.

Not sure why they were dumping it all, John. Seems my great-aunt said her dad and his brothers used to do that on occasion when she was a little girl.