Guess What The Tools Are For

CrestonM wrote:

Yep! I knew you weren't poking. Many people don't know what a Stillson is, so you're not alone! It's kind of like a Crescent wrench. It's just a brand. Stillson=pipe wrench, Crescent=adjustable wrench.

Even in Oklahoma I've experienced different terms for brushhog. In NW OK, it's a beater. In the SW it's a shredder. In central OK it's a brushhog or a bush hog. Lol

I have a grandpa in the SW, a grandpa in the NW, and all my friends here in the central region. I have to make sure and use the right term for the region I'm in, or no one understands what I'm saying! LOL

Reminds me when Gilbert Vust would refer to the "Oklahoma Ratchet". It was a Crescent wrench. LOL

An open eye is much more observant than an open mouth

littlemarv wrote:

My entire life I was told to "Go get the green handled pump pliers".

I think I was in high school before I heard the brand Channel Locks.

Me too!

littlemarv wrote:

Never having run a combine, exactly what happens when you plug the cylinder on an All Crop? Does the belt smoke, or is there a slip clutch, or snub the tractor?

Sometimes a clutch will slip on the PTO driveline, but usually it stalls the tractor.

and it was a nasty job when it was HOT!

KY poorboy wrote:

I didn't have my stick out doing any pokin. I honestly have never heard that term before. I figured that was what it was, but just wanted to know. It amazes me how many different areas have different names for things. As I was growing up in poor ole KY, they were called monkey wrenches. I just call em pipe wrenches.
When I started farming and looking for equipment, it made me no difference how far I went to get a good deal, so I looked everywhere. It took me a while to figure out what folks way down south called a "harrow". Here we just call it a disk. A harrow to me is a spike tooth drag, or something similar. Sooo,,, I was just curious. LOL

I'd never heard "Stillson wrench" before either. Google / wiki is awesome! lol Monkey wrench is like a pipe wrench, but smooth jaws instead of serrated. At least that's the way it was in Grandpa's workshop in MI.

Harrow, well, we had a bunch of old operator manuals or books on various things we had. The books titled like "disc harrow" "spike harrow" "spring tooth harrow". Seems anything that moves dirt without rolling it all the way must be a harrow....'cept a cultivator? In Canada, they have heavy harrows, light harrows....

This conversation is a harrowing experience

Edited by Tbone95 - 15 Nov 2016 at 6:39am

Is that 2nd pic on an early 66 or a 60? My 60A's don't have any kind of loop for the hook.

I figured that slug bar would be longer! Give you more leverage!

The one I have (In case I ever have to use it) is about 5' long, and and inch in diameter that tapers on the end, to fit in the cylinder shaft hole. Needless to say, it's not Allis! LOL

Edited by CrestonM - 15 Nov 2016 at 5:52pm

DennisA (IL) wrote:

I have yet to plug one so not sure how much pressure is needed to turn backwards.

Ask anybody that ran a pull type at Hutch in 2015! I think I was the only one who never slugged, but I could be wrong.

Creston.......there is a (cough,cough) slip clutch, (cough). Dennis my man, I have been wondering ever since you posted the pictures, and since I am around Allcrops everyday , where were the tools stored on the combine ? Ryan searched the machine shed tonight looking for the slugger bars. The hood hook had to store on the combine as well ? I remembered the slug bar on the "E" being mounted on the side of the elevator .

Dad always said," If you have one boy, you have a man. If you have two boys, you have two boys". "ALLIS EXPRESS"

Long time ago when my grandfather combined with his 66 we used the long rod to poke the bridged oats out of the hopper.

DennisA (IL) wrote:

Was it wet last year?

Yes. I believe there was a half inch of rain one of the nights of the show, but we could still get in the field, so the show went on!

The grain was so soft, it barely had any crunch when you bit it.

Dennis, there is no way in the world that Allis engineers did not devise a storage place for these two metal tools. I can bet the farm that customers were not told to just toss them on top of the cylinder cover and hope that you do not ever hit a ground hog hole or large wash out. Two long pieces of metal riding "loose" so that either one or both would run through the cylinder. Ryan and myself had just enough time tonight to look over the 66 for possible lock downs, nothing. There has to be some info or brochure out there. Saying that, I am surprised that I have never seen either tool on a used Allcrop ????

Dad always said," If you have one boy, you have a man. If you have two boys, you have two boys". "ALLIS EXPRESS"

I just have a very hard time with the dealer or who ever saying "here are some extra tools that you will need, just throw them up there". Maybe that is why no one has ever seen the (mystery tools) again.

Dad always said," If you have one boy, you have a man. If you have two boys, you have two boys". "ALLIS EXPRESS"

Can not believe that any one else would be crazy/foolish enough to sit up there. I did it for several hours filming Ryan's restored 72. Thank god OSHA wasn't around.

Dad always said," If you have one boy, you have a man. If you have two boys, you have two boys". "ALLIS EXPRESS"

Auntwayne wrote:

I just have a very hard time with the dealer or who ever saying "here are some extra tools that you will need, just throw them up there". Maybe that is why no one has ever seen the (mystery tools) again.

They will not fall out. That part of the housing is curved back towards the walker area and there is angle iron on the front side so they can't go forward.

I pulled All-Crops down the road at around 50 mph (when I have a clear line of sight) and a combines will bounce a lot but the tools just ride with the machine. The combine does not bounce as bad when in the field. I can't say that I ever hit a hole in the field yet but I have hit bumps in the road that made the unload auger unhook and swing down and the tools all made it home.

Edited by DennisA (IL) - 16 Nov 2016 at 9:43pm

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

CrestonM wrote:

DennisA (IL) wrote:

but I have hit bumps in the road that made the unload auger unhook and swing down

Yep...that surprised me the first time it happened!

The first thing I do after hitching the combine behind the truck is tie up the auger.

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

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