In order to get it home I would have to get the spoke wheels off and have new tires put on, and drag it ~100 miles home. The guy wanted me to come pull any parts I wanted off of it before he scraps it, but now I'm wondering if I should try to save the whole combine. It has the rounded sheet metal, elevator inside the bin, and a whole bunch of other little things unique to the earlier harvesters.

My limit in the past has been about 20 miles for dragging them home.

I'm not sure how unique these are other than I have only ever seen the one in person at Hutchinson. I found a few other posts on the forum where guys had a handful. Is it worth the trouble of dragging the whole thing home to save it?

I did not want to refer to it as an All-Crop because I am not sure of the serial number, but more or less, yes. They didn't start calling them "All-Crop Harvesters" until 1936 or so from what I have read on here and seen in literature. The earlier ones were called "High Speed Combines."

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Made in '38, '39, and '40, 15,000 or more of them...

No sir, not a 40. This combine is one of the earlier ones that eventually became called the 60.

It's like what is shown at this timestamp here:

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Mike, would you drag it home? I'm not big on having stuff around that I wouldn't use, but I may have to bend the rules on this one. Did drag an okay looking 63 plow home today.

Lon, I didn't take any good pics of it while I was there (sure wish I had now!) but I did find some neat ones on the internet. Here's one of them.

I don't think it did. From what I was able to find, that was something they did a recall on, or changed very early on in production?

Towing it at 20-25 MPH will make for a long afternoon if it can make the trip.

I remember your post on those! Too bad they're not closer... those are exactly the sort of combines that combined (pun intended?) with mine might have enough decent parts to make a good one.

On the plus side I did get 1/12" (red/white clovers and turnips) and 3/8" (soybean) screens with it, which I didn't have yet.

Priority wise, this thing will probably sit until I find another. I'd rather get my newer 60 functioning first anyhow.

Beginning in 1932, Allis Chalmers replaced wire brushes with rubber-covered angle bars that provided a resilient flailing action on the grain without chewing up the straw. Further adaption involved replacing link chain with rubber V-belts.  The Model 60, debuting in 1932, weighed 2800 lbs, cut 5.5 ft. swath, and was mounted on pneumatic tires. The Model 60 could be pulled & powered with ease from the pto of a 2-plow tractor. In 1936, 8,000 Model 60's were sold for $595. each. In comparison, the Model 40 sold for $345. when it first appeared on the market in 1938"

I'm not sure of the origine of this item but might be able to find out. It's parked alongside of a cutaway Gleaner self-propelled donated by Gleaner back in the glory days.

The number you found by the cylinder, if that were a serial number, would place it as a mid-1936, which doesn't seem right, and the 7 in front throws me off as well. I'll check my machine again and see if it's got a number stamped in that location, but I don't recall seeing one there on the machines I've looked at. 

I'll try to remember to get some next time I'm out there, but they look just like any others. There are some decent screen pictures if you look through the images in this auction listing:  https://www.auctiontime.com/listing/auction-results/233571437/allis-chalmers-60-combines-harvesters" rel="nofollow - https://www.auctiontime.com/listing/auction-results/233571437/allis-chalmers-60-combines-harvesters

Dennis, thanks! I had no idea that museum existed. I haven't been up to the KC area in several years but I will have to check that out next time I get up that way.

I was hoping you'd have time to get on the forum at some point! Yeah, we think the guy's uncle probably cut some angle iron out of it to use for some project 50 years ago. That's unfortunate about the serial number probably being lost.

I looked again the other day and the stamped number I took a picture of was actually forward of the cylinder, down on the angle iron that is the bottom LH side of the header. It was maybe 2' or so rearward from the tip of the header.

Yours is way nicer than mine. I need to find one like that and use mine for parts. Then I need a good old unstyled WC to match it.

Slightly off-topic, but it occured to me that it's great that there's an All-Crop and a Gleaner in the museum as exhibits, but in the "Hall of Fame" you have McCormick, Deere and Case – but no-one from Allis-Chalmers.  Would it be worth putting Harry Merritt forward, or maybe Curtis Baldwin?