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JimIA 
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 Topic: Ran the A-C elevator today.
Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 10:03pm |
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 10:22pm |
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so, that is an allis chalmers elevator, I assume? Sweet. Nice pictures. That sounds like something I would do; the part about work for hours for 10 minutes worth of fun.I have an idea that you may be using it alot more in the future, though. Good luck with it, Darrel
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Kenny L.
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 10:28pm |
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Boy it must be tuff trying to know which toy you should use. Hay I though you were going to just look at that new toy. LOL Take care and may the Allis god keep finding you. Kenny L,
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JimIA
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 10:40pm |
Thanks Kenny. You know me, I like to use my toys! lol This is an Allis Chalmers Flight Line elevator, most do not have decals on them, just this identification tag. 
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Rfdeere
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 11:12pm |
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That is a good looking elevator Jim ! Looks like somone had a engine mounted on it ?
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JimIA
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011 at 11:18pm |
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Yup, it has the mounts for an engine or electric motor. It had the pto when I got it. It looks nice in the pictures but in reality it has seen alot of use, lots of wear on the sprockets.
Jim
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 4:26am |
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they were made for AC by "stanhoist", i have one just like it!
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Brampton 02 gt
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 6:20am |
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We used that elevator for taking square bales into our old bank barn for years. It worked great except for when the chain slipped off the roller - if you loaded too many bales on. Lots of good (hot and dusty) memories putting hay into our old barn.
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Don M SEIA
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 7:13am |
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Is it a 17 or 22 inch mine is 17.
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Butch(OH)
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 7:48am |
As a child dad had a very similar looking building that was called "the grainery" Like yours, upstairs in the middle was a bin with three compartments. The sides were cribs. A couple wires ran from side to side and at each end there was a old full sized hub cap that the wire ran trough to keep the mice from running the wire. On that wire hung feed sacks and other things you wanted to keep the dang mice out of. Every other Saturday AM was feed grinding day and after shoveling corn into the pick up he would back up under the bin and by simply pulling the slide we loaded oats or barely on top of the ear corn to be ground for feed. On a farm that everything it seemd was manual labor it was kinda cool for have something acomplished while simply watching! LOL.
Thanks for posting that
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 9:12am |
It was my job, on those Saturdays, to hold the bags while dad scooped/shoveled the oats into the bags. With every shovel full came a whole lot of oat dust in my face.
Dusty
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WC7610
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 6:52pm |
Jim, Nice elevator. Almost makes me sneeze looking at the pictures. LOL
You are assemblying a very nice AC line!
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 7:14pm |
Nice looking unit you have there Jim, I like to see them being used.
My old AC elevator get's a work out at fall harvest too.
Don
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3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.
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Auntwayne
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 7:39pm |
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Those are some great pictures, thanks for sharing. When we were young and used our elevator to put ear corn in the cribs, the old man made us climb the elevator to the top, then drop into the crib and level the corn out by hand while he ran more ear corn up the elevator to get them "full". We were always afraid that he would over fill . and that we would be dead really soon, (you can not be seen up under the sloped metal roof.think claustrophobic) We would be yelling STOP,STOP ITS FULL just as soon as he start the elevator again !!! The good old days
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Steve M C/IL
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 10:32pm |
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Uncle's had 9hp Briggs.Great memories from that era.We called it "the corn dump" not an elevator.
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JimIA
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 10:40pm |
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I believe this is a 17 inch if I remember correctly. As far as I was known this was made by another manufacturer and the later 22s were built at the Gleaner Independence plant. If that is the case than why does the tag say Indepedence? Normally outsourced machines would say Allis-Chalmers such and such mfg by so and so.
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Rfdeere
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 11:16pm |
Norm's book says there were 500 built by the Mt. Hawley Company in Peoria, IL. in 1955. They were 17" wide. There were 500 more made at Independence in 1957 and they were 20 1/2" wide. Check your width and it will tell you which one, Jim.
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