When I bought it it had been sitting in a lean-to on the side of a barn. It looked pretty good, except for the left side where the lean-to leaked. A Hume pickup reel, a set of pickup guards (for down beans), a straw spreader and a Scour Clean came along wth it, and it has a straw chopper.

 

 

When I pulled it home it eventually ended up in the shed I just pulled it out of. The right tire was still up, but the left was flat and wouldn't take air. It must have went flat a long time ago and the tube has rotted. I backed it in with the WD45 and pulled it out with the D17. The last few feet I had to unhook and put a chain on it to get out at the right angle not to hit the door.

 

 

The shoe looked straight and square. I started spraying hinges with lube, oiling moving parts and finding grease zerks... lots and lots of grease zerks! I started opening doors and looking over my "treasure".

 

 

Ouch! The cylinder bars have threshed something more than just oats and soybeans. The beater has a few dings too. The feeder house chain is straight & looking good.

 

I think I found all the zerks, they all took grease and no more than 2 or 3 pumps before grease was coming out of the bearing.

 

The belts were all good, except the chopper drive has some cracks.

 

Moving under the machine I was surprised to find a lot of rust. My shed was dry but the dirt floor in the lean-to must have turned to mud when it rained and took a long time to dry out. No structural damage but its pretty ugly under there.

 

I finally felt I was ready so I put the D17's pto in gear and the combine in gear and hit the starter. Everything moved!

 

So I cranked her up and let it idle, went around and oiled all the chains. There is a slight ticking at idle, a cylinder bar is hitting something? Revved it up a little and the noise goes away. Go back to idle and it still ticks. Any ideas?

 

I can't find the "door" for the unloading auger, I know it came with the combine I just don't know where I put it... dontcha hate when that happens?

 

 

Well I knew things were going too good. The clean grain elevator clean out door kinda disintergrated as I let the machine run, there's a pile of rust & moldy oats and mouse nest under it. YAZ!??!

 

The reason I finally decided to get this out, is a combination of finishing harvest early and having some small replant soybean patches that won't be ready for I while, so I thought now is the time.

 

So far I need a tire repaired, to find or get an unloading auger door and to get a clean grain elevator door. I also don't have an operator manual for a 72 but I have a nice set of manuals for a 90, will the settings be much different? I was also wondering how much effort it should take to turn the crank for the cylinder speed. Mine appears stuck but I haven't really tried too hard yet. I still have Dads hand tach, so I should be good for setting cylinder speed.

 

What gear should I have the D17 in while I'm combining?

 

Any general suggestions for running a 72 in beans?

 

Whew thats a long post! Looking forward to your input.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTW if you want cylinder bars, now is the time. I hope to be placing the order soon. I only do it once a year.

 

 

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I am a bit envious.

If you happen to need an AC Dealer Service Manual, I have reprints available. PM me if ever interested.  

 

Sorry I don't know my serial # off hand. I'll check it and post it later.

 

So today we went to the field after installing the new clean grain elevator door.

 

It took some duct tape to seal the edges. Then we pulled the top board off of a wagon so we had something we could load, and we were off. I'm the guinea pig. Couldn't stop grinning! Every thing works!

 

 

 

Brian Sherman used his M to pull the wagon. A couple more members of the harvest crew, Luke Wilken (standing) and Nick Hert (in the truck)

 

 

Andrew Johnston getting ready to unload

 

 

 

 

Everybody got to run it for awhile, even Brian swapped "Emma" for the D17

 

 

So the old 72 was doing good, we got 10 - 15 acres done. Hard to believe only 3, 30 inch rows at a pass, although the replant was drilled so the head was full most of the time. We ran the D17 in 1rst high range except where the grass was then we pulled it back to low. I think that she could handle at least 2nd, low range but we didn't want to push it with the old belts. The grain sample was great, even when we were finishing up where there was more foxtail and velvet leaf than beans. We had one glitch, we forgot to tighten the seperator drive belt when we started and after a half acre or so it started to slip and plugged her up. Cleaned it, out tightened the belt and off she went. We finished up and moved to the next field, I was opening it up when the boys stopped me. The corrosion under the machine had taken it's toll, probabley because of the weed stems as we were finishing up the previous field there were now holes in the concave and we were losing beans in a big way. The good news is Yaz Allcrop has the parts to patch or replace the concave. I know I had a great time and so did the the guys. My daughter took some video and when she gets it on U tube I'll post a link.

 

Next up a plow day!

 

Meanwhile why we were having fun with the combine Andrew went and got the 8050 to finish chisle plowing

Now keep that big-old 8050 away from that grand old 72. lol

I love them!!!! Thanks for bringing some cool All Crop pics to my living room!!

Do you have any more pics to share?