There is a lot of rye in this field, and thus the sample is pretty dirty. However, the combine is saving all the grain and getting all the chaff out, which is great! Not bad for a machine that was grown up in a fence row 3 years ago. 

Here are two videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O88b2IMxwrY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O88b2IMxwrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h6Fb-LztVU&t=8s" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h6Fb-LztVU&t=8s

 

Love the Jeep tires on the front of the 8!

Yes, those tires are nice. Great for mowing, but they don't give a whole lot of turning power when doing other field work. They were on there when I got it, so I just left them there. It's something different. My great-great-uncle bought the tractor new, and I think he picked those tires up when he was in the service. 

Sure must have felt good to get started with combining your grain. it's usually the hot August days when we combined our oats... and baled the straw. Love to hear the grain sizzle through the bars and come pouring down out of the SkourKleen. and we used a D17 on our combines... or the old WD45... shucks now thinking about it, I remember my dad running with the old WC on his old combine.  A D15 would work really great on that flat land you have.

Here's your link a few rounds in

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and this one is next to the fence and a look in the bin.

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I'm going to cut as much as I can! 

It's a 40 acre field, and I got about 10 acres done yesterday, from 4:00 until about 8:30.  3rd gear on the tractor really makes it go fast. The agreement is I cut as much as I want until the farmer gets his combines there, then I let them finish, so I'm always trying to hurry and get as much done as I can. I didn't cut today, though...sprinkled a bit last night and was overcast with little to no wind today, so it was a bit damp. Sun came out about an hour ago and there is a bit of a breeze, so I'll be in the field tomorrow. 

Nice looking unit.  You know, the 60 was the best combining unit we sold.  State of the art at that time.  Cleaned the grain and could do so many different types of grain.   The WC was made for the 60.  However, the unit we LOVED to pull the 60 was an F-20 Farmall.  Had enough power but moved slow.  Just right for outstanding harvesting. 

When the live PTO tractors with more power came out made the harvesting so much easier

I really have trouble when I realize that today the "state of the art" is a 45 foot self propelled combine.  Quite a change.

Thank you for showing me what a 60 looks like again.

Good Luck!

Bill Long

Wish I was closer, I'd come over and help you out! Doesn't look like my uncles' L3 isn't going to make it out of the barn this year, unfortunately. How many acres you got to cut? 

Thanks! Yes it does! It's a 1951 6400 with a 235 babbit pounder. A friend of my grandpa's bought it new in '52 and used it for custom cutting. Went to ND and back a few times, then my great-granddad (not the same one who owned the All-Crop) bought it in 1957 I believe. Has 90,407 original miles. Original paint, too. Did a "bandaid overhaul" over the winter...rings, new head, valves, pull shims out of the rods, carb, seals, etc. It smoked pretty bad and used/leaked a quart of oil every 10-ish miles. Lacked power. Couldn't hardly start it without flooding. Turned out the head was cracked on 4 cylinders. Finally found a new one in Oregon (1950-52 heads are different from all other years). Now it's running great! So glad I did it! The carb rebuild helped it a lot...generally when I start it I just barely hear the starter turn over and it roars to life. 

It's slow going with such low gearing, but the buzzin' half dozen has tons of low-end torque. I about stalled the last V-8 Chevy grain truck I drove (1973 model), because I was so used to this one. Really had to wind the V-8 up to get going with a load on. 

I have that on my other 60A. Just wanted to leave this one stock, because that's how my great-grandpa used it. More of a sentimental reason than anything. Leave it how he remembered it. Of course, he only had a pickup with side board extensions...

In fact, that's the whole reason I use this particular grain truck...it's the only one with short enough side boards!

See Shameless, you don't need a fancy digital camera to put pics on the forum! Now where's that Chev-Allis? Lol

Love to see the older equipment out there still working.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for taking the time to snap the pictures (color) and the black and white too! Great shots that take me back to my childhood, when dad did custom harvesting with the 66 and WD45's! (late 50's to mid 60's).  My dad loved those old AC combines! They did such a good job of harvesting grains!

Glad that little Ford did the job for you on the combine.

Was very surprised you were harvesting already also!

Regards,

 Chris

 

I gotta say, I'm shocked by the ground speed!  Dang, that's cruising right along!

Ted, I cut about 15 acres, yielding about 300 bushels. The field was 40 acres, so I almost finished half of it! The farmer and his two Case rotaries (model 2188) moved in about 5:00 this evening and finished the remaining 25 acres in about 30 minutes. Ha! 

If I had both All-Crops running this year, I probably could've cut the whole 40. Maybe next year. 

It was really fun to start with, but by the end of today I was kinda glad to stop. The combining is great fun, don't get me wrong, but that field is rougher than a cob! I think they must've sown the wheat when it was a bit damp and left a bunch of ruts. Bouncing and shaking around on that steel seat, combined with my lack of "cushioning" on my backside ended up with me having a pretty sore butt, but other than that, I was ready to keep going! That field is just notoriously rough, and apparently has been for the last 80 years or so. I plowed a bit with the owner there last summer after harvest, and it was like plowing asphalt. The plows just ripping up huge chunks of dirt, you'd think we were ripping up a road from the noises the ground made as it was ripped and torn apart. 

All 3 days the machines all performed flawlessly (not bad for a worn-out, tree row combine!). The only "issue" I had was the combine lost a cylinder bar. Oops! Heard a funny noise in the cylinder, then watched a rubber bar come shaking out the side! Still threshed great with no downtime and no cylinder vibration, so I won't consider that a breakdown, just "weight reduction for reduced compaction" maybe. Lol! I guess I'll just leave it. All of the bars are shot anyway. Come to think of it...all 3 of our combines' cylinder bars are shot.  But they all do the job in wheat and milo fine without good bars. 

Talking about the early harvest times...my grandpa told me the other day there have been times they were finished with harvest and machines cleaned and back in the barn by May 25! Not very often, though. 

I'm always curious as to why we people run equipment at less then full throttle. It would seem to me, especially on a PTO driven combine, that you would want to take full advantage of the momentum/flywheel effect by operating at full speed. Like I said, I'm just curious as to the reasoning for not doing so.