Top 10 Classic Combine Harvesters of 2021 

Yeah I like them too as the most troubles in SP havesters is in the drive trains.

Titán series my favorite too

Great harvesting history some really nice harvesting teams

@@bigtractorpower - My Dad just passed away at 97+ years old! He was a great influence in the community and the farmers that lived around him, and most importantly, to his wife and children! 🙏🏻 👍 And we still have the International 150 combine! 😎

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You learned fast as an operater of open station combine to have your shirt tails pulled out at all times

I also made sure that my collar was buttoned tight.

What size of tires does that 1566 have - it looks like it is really running uphill. I am much more of a fan of keeping them level. But what a great tractor and combine.

There is some of those Deere cubers in Riverton Wyoming

I am in South Australia and remember a cuber working on our neibours farm in the 1970s. they had trouble with moisture. Needing some moisture to form the cube but too much and the stack would heat up. I think they were planning to export to racing stables in Japan.

Very cool. I filmed a 4400 this fall that will be in a future video. Very solid combine.

@@bigtractorpower Yeah, it's just the right size for my operation. I don't need one of the bohemoth's that they make today. I'll look forward to the video.

Thank you. I can work on that. I just posted a John Deere 8820 combine and 8850 tractor working on harvest and tillage a few days ago.

The pull types were neat finds this past year. They were strong sellers for IH and JD in the northern wheat belt at one time. It allowed farms to use a tractor to plant and harvest. Very cool about the thresher and Ford tractors.

What tractor did you run your 82 with?

@@bigtractorpower We ran an International 82 combine for about ten years. We pulled it with international 504. about 50hp on a good day.

@@bigtractorpower Pulled ours with a John Deere 5500 which I sometimes thought was too much power for the old 82, they weren't exactly built with the heaviest steel.

@@davidstrauss6755 How did you like your 82? My issue was that where I live in the northeast if it was wet in the fall at all the combine would plug up. I wonder if a pickup head would have worked better for here. With the scour kleen it sure did make some clean grain and straw though.

The hay cuber was a big seller in the south west. John Deere made the only self propelled but Massey Ferguson, Farmhand and Lundell made pull types.

They are pretty cool. As a kid I had a book on farming that included one. I have always wanted to see one run. I was surprised it was powered by Detriot Diesel and how loud it was.

@@bigtractorpower Judging by all the comments here you're going to have to do a dedicated video on cubers. They are definitely not a thing here in the UK.

The 95 on tracks was a great sighting this past year. It was at the half century progress show and it was a one pass and done and I’m glad I was able to catch it.

It was a fun year of filming. It was surprised to film so many pull types. People have requested pull types for many years but they are harder to find.

Thank you for watching.

Thank you for watching. It is fun getting to feature all this farm equipment history.

It is unfortunate that after decades of leading sales Massey Ferguson’s 50 series saw the companies market share slip away. The Massey Ferguson combine in North America saw production end in 2019 and replaced by the Fendt Ideal.

The N7 is on my wishlist to film. It was the biggest combine on the market in the early 1980s. Hopefully one will turn up.

The pull types are harder to find these days. It was great several turned up this year.

Very very cool.

Thank you for watching. Steel tracks were introduced early on for rice harvest. Northern corn farmers found the steel tracks were helpful in snowy muddy corn harvests. The steel tracks were an option for the 5 series, 00 series and 20 series combines through the 80’s. The 9000 combines introduced rubber tracks made by Waltana in the 90s. The pull types are neat machines. The tractor can seed and harvest in the farm. The draw back is they are mainly limited to swathed wheat. You can direct cut and harvest corn with them but the tractor has to run crop down to start the field. Seeing and hearing the 400 working is cool. I have three different sakes brochures on the 400 and it’s loud sound was a surprise to me. Was that book you read as a kid Tractors Plows and Harvesters? It is a black and white book from the mid 1970s. I grew up reading that book and still have a copy.

@@bigtractorpower That is exactly the book I was thinking of. I believe I may have a copy of it somewhere too.

I bet you hear just what you need to

So true! 😂

The 1566 is a stand out for sure.

The 1482 combine is an impressive harvester. That is neat you ran a 135.

That was a great and similar time in farming. I always like to see swathing and pull type combines.

What is the benefit of feeding cubes as opposed to baled hay? More hay per cubic foot?

Yes that’s true and the cubing process also breaks down the stem wall for added feed value.

IH built some very strong machines that were built to last a life time. I hope you can get your 64 up and fully running.

@@bigtractorpower when I do I'll let you know. Maybe you can make a video!

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It is a neat machine. I have three variations of the literature on the 400. I was surprised at how loud in the field but a Detriot engine will do that.

JD Also manufactured a model 425 witch I think was the last model.

Thank you for watching.

Thank you for watching the 8820 was a great find this year this farm has three of them. I hope to catch all three working together and wheat. I featured their other two harvesting corn in a video with a John Deere 8850 earlier this week.

Very nice. I saw a Deutz Allis F3 at an AGCO dealer on the trade in lot in 2017.

Oh yes. The Trans Axial 2000 Versatile pull type combine is awesome. I hope to get to film one some time.

I hope to find a 1682 to match the 1482 some time.

@@bigtractorpower well if you are anywhere near ND next fall look me, up we normally run 2 1682's with 25' draper heads in wheat and barley.

ya there was a lot of 1682 around also everybody had pull types. A lot of guys ran Johnny’s on the front some ran international on front.

😁👍👍. I am always searching for Massey Ferguson Combine’s in this year it was great to get several in the filming archives

Thank you for watching.