combine tippin

never done IT ,, and hope I never do ,,, but has anyone lived to tell about it,, lookin at the ihc 403 with hi center of gravity looks like a good candidate to roll on its side on our hills here in southern ind ,, I recall as a kid a fella with a massey 300 refused to go on a slope at dads place,,and another fella on a jd 40 was nervous as can be there ,, there was a hi school coach that would combine that 2 acre slope with a oliver at a safe angle just fine ... all a matter of how you approached it , lots of times I have slip sided into the next row with the 300 massey full , slick on top and froze underneath., that same 300 instantly blew a cab tire in the corn field one nite ,( Best I Can Figure a corn stalk GOTTHE VALVE STEM ),I was on fairly level ground , full grain tank , and was makin a rite turn to unload.. the auger just mist the roof of the truck when all dust cleared .,makes me wonder what woulda happened on one of those steep slopes /// I saw a clip on you tub.when a combine rolled in washinton Palouse area . but in these parts ,.I have never seen or heard of a machine rollin over while harvestin ,,heard of few that missed bridge or went thru and flipped into the creek ,, but, that was over 30yrs ago ,,got a new bridge there now ..,,,now fellas I have stood my massey 300 on its nose going down hill in a field more than once with a empty grain tank,, and in that same area , learned a wild lesson while backing up the gleaner f , with a four row head and nearly full grain tank,. kinda funny ,now ,,nephew was in the cab , I was on the rail ,.. he stopped for a plug,, raised the head , and stabbed reverse to aid it to clear , the gleaner tipped and started to back out from under the load on its nose , , whooahh baby !,, james stomped the clutch and she settled rite back down on all 4 wheels ,,..

Never came close, far's I know but.......we usta have 2 Gleaner 'Fs'; unloading augers were manual fold, so we left 'em "out' after dumping the first bin. There've been times when we'd fill the augers and keep 'em uphill on some steep slopes. Don't know if the added weight actually made a difference, but it made us feel safer.

a local wheat runner siad Ih combines were bad for tipping, he said a Masseys like the 510/50-750/850's ect. were pretty good on a sidehill as 1/2 of the grain was held along side and not on top of the machine

Back in the 70's I lived in southern Indiana and had an IH 303 and I did turn it over shelling corn in a rolling field. Collected insurance money and made a down payment on a new 510 Massey. It was a lot more stable machine. Then went to Gleaners (K, F2 and L2) and now have an IH 1440. All the last three were really good machines.

when I was a boy I use to catch a ride with my BIL dad in his 4400 jd when he was he was cutting close buy the house,never known him to to get in a big rush when cutting steep ground,i've felt the combine lift up quite a few times didn't seem to bother him at all he would just correct it and keep plugging along,BIL was cutting beans with it and rolled it upside down against a brush pile ,penned him in the cab didn't hurt him other than scraps and bruses,engine stalled but he said he could smell fuel leaking all he could do was blow the horn killed the batteries doing that before any one came to find him

Friend of a friend tipped a JD 45 or 55. Didnt see it, but heard of it.

I have one hill get a little nervous on for 2 passes, would take it with the arm on the uphill side. And the tank low. Mostly as you say, if something goes wrong, hit a badger hole or a flat tire.

Paul

When I was a kid, one of our neighbors dumped over a JD 3300 in another neighbor's cornfield. Almost full bin, turning around on a slope, slid into the plow furrow at the edge of the field, and tipped over onto the fence into the cow pasture (which was even steeper.)

Neighbour of mine used IH 915 up until 2 years ago, i know he put at least one of them on it's side... He's now running a JD8820 and CaseIH1688 no problems with either of those

I live in flat country so tipping a combine over is almost unheard of..A neighbor did tip his 55 JD over in the mid 1960's when one wheel fell in a 3 ft deep ditch at the edge of the field..

The closest I came to tipping a combine over was a 1977 715 IH..I was roading it home with an almost full bin when a rivit ran thru the right bull gear..It locked up for a little bit and swung me sideways..There was air under the left drive tire..

IH had bull gears with a rivited in center hub...When plowing mud these rivits would fail..The new bull gear was a one piece one..

Combining oats with a JD 40 once. Was on a steep gravely section and all of a sudden it started hopping up and down. It was loosing traction on the up hill side and the downhill side just kept digging. Got a little hairy for awhile, cranked the steering wheels downhill and backed up slowly. Took awhile before it would turn downhill. Did that section going uphill only.

i would be very careful on those hillsides something you may never live to tell about when it starts sliding as you mentioned you are close to the point of no return if it slides enough and when it grabs is when you have a good chance of a rollover not saying it cant happen other ways but that is a good way to do it my dad was plowing a steep hillside and plow hit a rock and flipped luckily did not take tractor with he slowed down after that which is what i would recommend go as SLOW as possible on hillsides good luck

(quoted from post at 20:35:11 01/09/14) a local wheat runner siad Ih combines were bad for tipping, he said a Masseys like the 510/50-750/850's ect. were pretty good on a sidehill as 1/2 of the grain was held along side and not on top of the machine

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I have a couple spots where I adjust the doors so it only fills one saddle tank at first, and drive the field so I only have grain in the bottom of the uphill tank when I am at the bad spot(550 MF).

I ran a NH 975 with a 4RW head that made it very nose heavy even with weights. It straddled two rows so side hills were interesting. Some of the farms we ran backed to the river so there were lots of hills. On one farm where we custom picked I came to a spot on a side hill where the planter had slid sideways about 8-10". Always had the door open andto the uphill side in case I wanted to leave quick.
Near where I live now there is some hilly farms and on one the farmers leave the unloading augers full and swung out to the high side in places. Not for me!

We ran Cockshutt SP combines with a very low center of gravity (meaning the operator sat down in the dirt & dust) on flat land in the Red River Valley (north), so never even thought of tipping one over. The bottom of the hopper was about 10" above the ground; it would have taken a lot to tip over one of those.

I have two strips that are steep and I make sure the unloading auger on my Deere 95 is uphill and full of corn as well.So far so good.

I bought a Deere 45 years ago at a sale that had been rolled.My local Deere dealer knew the driver and said he had quite the story to tell.I bought it for the cab as my 45 did not have one.

Years ago the neighbor had a Deere 45. On some of his hilly fields he would run a chain from the combine to his IH 706 that he drove along side to keep it from tipping. My dad had a 4435 that would sometimes spin the up hill tire on some of our fields. Very scary! I have a 6620 with axle spacers, very stable.

Cousin was teaching me to run combine when he had the 6620. "Hopper full, go to the truck, wide open!" When I turned toward the truck on the side of a hill to dump he said "uh, you can slow down a little!"

My Dad and Uncle had a case 660 together and really only had one bad hill on the farm I have now they always picked with the cab door facing up but that combine always seemed top heavy to but never rolled it.

Yes (sorry to say) I did lay a combine over on its side. It was a White 7300 with the Perkins Diesel. I was opening up a terrace and when I came to the end I turned to the right down into a gently sloping road ditch and the combine went over on its left side. As soon as it started to go I knew I shouldn't have done it but it was too late. On a 7300 the unloading auger is at a fixed angle and it was unfolded. The grain tank is always heavy on the left side as the first part to fill is the sump that the auger comes out of. It seemed like every thing was in slow motion as it tipped. Once it was laid over my biggest concern was rather I could get out of the window on the right side of the cab. The engine (which is right behind the cab) was still running. After shutting it off, I squeezed thru the window and got out. There was very little damage except to the unloading auger, grain bin and sheet metal on the left side. It dumped some of the beans in the road. I went home and got my 2-105, hooked a chain on the right front axle and tipped it back up. Got back in the cab and started it up and drove it home. Didn't really hurt the 13' bean head except for the tin on the left side which was still usable. Scooped up the beans in the road before the neighbors saw them, got a good insurance settlement from the insurance company, and bought an 8700 White to finish harvest. God was definitely watching over me that day!!!!

Did not do it in a field, but I did roll a IH 403 on its side in 1966,
Was raining, header was off, crossing railroad tracks. Rolled kit on its side in the road.
I was 17 years old and spent my 18th birthday in the hospital in Minot ND

In the mid 60's shelling corn with a JD 55 on my Uncles place. Was on the back side of a terrace with bin about full, come to a place where the water went over. When the machine rocked the up hill tire spin about a quarter turn. Stopped wiped the sweat from my forehead, turned the rear wheels down hill right through the unpicked corn. I don't remember finishing the back side of that terrace.

Used to be a fellow (NIF) that posted on here about farming in the Palouse region of Idaho using crawlers because the hills were so steep. He had a number of harvest photos posted on www.heavy equipment forum (ag operations) of harvest using the combines with heads that angled up to 45 degrees (hillside? or sidehill?) side to side, and some that the wheels could be raised/lowered side to side to try to keep the combine level. There were even a few pix of old time harvesters that were "anchored" to a crawler on the uphill side. A search for his name on that site should be very interesting to some of you.

403 was, is a tippy machine, but I dont know of a worse one than a 101 ih. A miniature skyscraper. We had one when I was a kid. We went to a C2 & a G Gleaner. Much more stable.