This video shows the use of an Allis-Chalmers All-Crop Harvester with a windrow pickup attachment combining organic oats. The harvester is being powered by an Allis-Chalmers "CA" tractor.
My grandfather had one of these,we pulled it with a WD. He used it on his organic wheat and oats. It was really interesting machine to use. He had tons of spare parts for it . Wish I would've had the money to buy some of the equipment when he retired.
A lot of green grass/weeds bogging it down. Ground speed is a bit fast and why isn't the scourclean weed seed separator working? They were a great feature that no modern combine to my knowledge has, they just dump them back on the ground to grow again.
My Dad had the 66 all-crop. We never used the reel with the pickup attachment though. Never seen that before. He would take the pulley off the reel and pull out the reel. It appears there is an added section to the unloading auger as well.
Did you use your 80R sickle mower to cut the oats? Is there a particular reason the All-Crop has dual wheels? Thanks for another great video..I'll be sure to rewatch it in January to remind me of these fine, late summer days.
I did use the 80R mower. The duel wheels help in soft ground. Also if there are any rabbit holes the harvester rolls right over them instead of dropping in. Thanks for watching!
I am dumbfounded as to why th3 oats were wind rowed? Unless the cutter bar was not on the combine. However, nice to see the older equipment is still getting it done when ran as designed.
Very good question! Last season a cover crop of Sudan grass was planted and left go to seed. This season the oats were planted and since it’s organic no herbicide’s could be used. So the Sudan grass took over the oats to the point one couldn’t hardly see the oats. The only way to combine was to cut everything down and let the Sudan grass dry so it could flow through the combine and get separated out easily. I will be getting a video together to show the whole process from cutting to bailing the straw. I hope I answered your question thoroughly.
Please do watch the whole video and please keep commenting. This video was intended to show the use of the pick up attachment, which you don’t see very often.
I think I have too small a pulley on my pick up attachment, yours looks fifteen inch I think I am running eleven. Reminds me to take it off the taper before it sticks because it has to pass thru the side. Broke one casting with a puller awhile ago, won’t make that mistake again. I also want to fabricate a wigwag spreader from the images in the parts catalog.
