Combining soybeans with old machinery. Older John Deeres & an Oliver. Taped at the Geneseo , Ill. Steam Show. Sept. 2011 #oliver#minneapolismoline3jeep
After WWII, my Dad started farming on his own here in Ohio. He first bought a couple good work horses, but sold them within a year after discovering how much faster and cheaper it was to run a tractor, rather than feeding all that good hay to the horses. A few years later, he purchased a Massy Harris pull-type combine. Before that, all the neighbors got together with a shared threshing machine for harvesting the wheat. Dad said that many of the older neighbors were mad at him for quite a few years because of his combine purchase. Their reason was that it "broke up the neighborhood". In a way, this was quite true, but progress moves along and you have to keep up if you do it for a living. My Dad will be 92 in a few weeks.
Same here. When I was about eight, the farmer down the road used to combine our back field with a pull-behind JD and Case SC. I watched him every time he came to work our field!
You did a great job with this video. I love seeing the older harvesters, especially the pull-type. You would see more small farmers still in business if pull-type combines and small self propelled combines could be purchased. I also thought a lot about our little farm when I was growing up. The John Deere 720 brought lack a lot of memories. My father had two of those tractors and they were excellent machines. .
I kept waiting to see an old one and finally the last one was just a tad newer than what I remember seeing as a kid. Not too long after they came up with a PTO drive and flywheel arrangement. Great video. It won't be long before we're back to mules and threshers.
I love this vids. Thanks. When I was a kid on the farm in western Okla. in the early 60's, my dad and uncle harvested wheat. Dad drove a 1948 Moline self propelled combine & my uncle drove a Massey Harris model 55 tractor pulling a Baldwin pull type combine. I don't know what year it was but it had 6 cylinder mounted engine on it, and had all rubber tires with a 14 ft. header. It may have been from early 40's. I don't know when they went from steel wheels to rubber tires on those machines.
Seeing this video took me back to 1970 when I was 5 years old. Thought it was my Dad on that 720 pulling the 65. Only difference was he had the belt pickup for swaths of wheat or oats instead of the straight cut reel/cutter bar. Still remember the awesome sound of the 720 starting with the "little" engine!
Something tells me you have a soft spot for Deere, Mr. Pete! I like the Red ones myself, if you couldn't tell... I like me an Oliver as well, though. I seem to gravitate towards brands that no longer exist. Your Minnie-Mo is beautiful, by the way. Nice job on that axle bearing.
Dad use to have an old pull type harvester but it was slightly different then the 1's in the video, it was red, can't remember the brand, behind the sickle bar was a wide convayer belt that the paddle would knock the bean stocks onto and they would be convade to a thrasher that you could actually see and the grain would be augered into a hopper on the left side. He used it on his 22 acres along time ago and I remember it would take him a week or more to get done. lol
My Grandfather would not like farming today. He retired at age 60 in 1950. He had a massed 600 acres of farmground, set up four sons into farming and built them all new homes and put my Mother through college, bought her a new car and then built him and my Grandma a new home. You cannot do that today with all the expenses, government regulations, taxes, GMO crap--no he would not like that part. He would like Ron Paul, though! For sure. And he'd be intrigued by the new machines.
My grandfather would drink a half bottle, cap it, and put it in the refrigerator for later. My dad just drank water. Both lived to age 85. I probably won't make it that long. I got drafted, sent to Vietnam, and blown up. At least I wasn't like my neighbor, government killed him at the 'Battle of the Slopes'. Regards...
@@fastsetinthewest the first three gulps after riding a fresh air combine all day were the best! Thank you for your service and I hope you’re wrong about your longevity.
My dad had a J D 12A combine and a McDeering. The 12A would choke-up as soon as a little humidity moved in and that was much to early in the day for my dad to stop the work for the day.
You have any idea what one might be worth? I used it in2005, it's been in the shed since so with a few repairs could go to work. I'd definitely sell it to make room.
In some cases it was the manufacturer that chose the style. The bat type reels tended to wrap less than the tine reels. Later on a company called Hume developed their own tine reel adaptable to any combine, so then it was a farmer's preference. Hume also created other combine accessories as well and so did Hesston in its early days.
