Interesting Combine Picture From 1952 Plus More

1206SWMO

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I recently won this picture on ebay and it arrived in the mail today..This press release picture was taken in Lindsborg,KS on June 15,1952..It shows (5) 21-A Massey Harris combines heading to Sumner County Kansas for the second best wheat harvest in history with an average of 19.5 bushels per acre.We've sure came a long ways since then..

This picture has special meaning to me as my Mother grew up 4 miles east of Lindsborg..My Dad grew up 10 miles NW of Lindsborg..Moms side had their family reunions in Lindsborg and I spent lots of time there when we visited my Aunt Eleanor.

Pictured is the old Mt Hope one room school my Mother and her 8 brothers attended many years ago...Its located 4 miles SE of Lindsborg and it still stands today..

The farm house where my Dad was born in 1908 and today still stands proudly 4 miles SW of Falun,KS..

The old Smokey Valley Roller Mill and Museum on the Smoky Hill River in Lindsborg ...Its in operating condition and is well worth the visit..Back in the 1950's-60's I and my cousins played there before it was restored..One of the old record books shows my Grandpa having flour made there in the early 1900's..
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I went on custom wheat harvest in 1955. We had trailers for the combines. Put the 14 ft. heads on the truck bed. Started in N. TX to Montana. Had MH 27A, 80 & 82. One Ford,Chevy & Dodge trucks, Dodge school bus with bunks for sleeping. The boss had a new Chevy V8 station wagon, pulled a camper for his family. Had a 54 Chevy 1/2 ton PU, pulled a fuel trailer. Lots of fun for a 18 yr old.
 

Thanks for the pictures. We farm some land along U.S. highway 12 and its interesting to see how the custom harvesters have changed over the years. Back when I first start helping with field work in the early 80's, it was mostly tandem trucks with a straight header in the box pulling a 7720 with a pickup head on it on one of those A frame type trailers. Usually two truck/ combine set ups, and then a pickup with a camper of some such. Once in a while there would be some 6600 or 7700 go by. Always a hand full of gleaner N6's or similar and sometimes a pair or two of Massey 850s going by behind a set of tandem trucks.
Glad to see your dads home house and your mothers school house still stand.
 
(quoted from post at 01:06:32 12/25/14) Nice pictures, we have toured the old mill. Have a good friend in Lindsborg.
When you tour the old mill and see the 30-60 E Rumely Oil Pull it was owned by a blacksmith there in Lindsborg named Lundstrum who at one time had 3 of them. During the war the war board made him scrap one. Then in 1964 he sold one to John Hall of Cape Gireardu Mo who I then bought it from in 1988.
 

It would scare the bejeebies out of me driving one of those combines up on a truck that high. The truck would be squishing down and rocking on its springs a little. Whew! I'll betcha they took the curves kind of slow.

One of the years I was on the harvest, maybe ten years ago there was a fella with a restored Massey Harris combine following the harvest. We saw him at Garden City at the old Massey dealer. He wasn't combining with it, just showing it. He hauled it on the back of an old straight truck from the forties or fifties. Anyone remember anything about him?
 
Nice pictures as usual, Blaine. I like the one of the farm where your Dad was born - is it still in your family? Very attractive farmstead. I had a quick look on Google Streetview and found it, in case you haven't seen it there.
 
That was Len Holo back in 2004 that followed a harvest run
that he had done years ago...The combine and truck are now
in Illinois.....I saw them in 2011 and 2013 at the Half Century
Of Progress Show at Rantoul,Illinois.

Heres a link to a 2004 video of Len Holo's 21 Massey...It
shows the combine in operation..
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Custom Harvest Tribute
 
That place was in our family from the late 1800's until the
mid 1940's....After coming back from WW2 Dad sold the
320 acres and moved to Missouri in 1947....Its been in the
Dauer family since then..

Dads new 1931 Chevy in the yard..Theres 2 more cars in
the shed pictured plus a 1929 model 22-36 McCormick
tractor..

Dads sale bill when he got drafted at age 34..

Another picture of the house where Dad was born.They
keep the place in great shape..

Some of the farm ground in the Dry Creek bottom that Dad
used to farm..

An old post card of the HS Dad graduated from in
1926...The school was torn down in the 1950's..
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Ed,I was in that museum about 25 years ago and saw the
30-60E Oil Pull..It wasnt open on the day I took this
picture..I need to go again and grab some pictures..

I remember my parents talking about a blacksmith known
as "Dirty Face Jack" whom I think was the owner of the Oil
Pulls..My cousins cousin had a small collection of tractors
in the Lindsborg area and had a 12-20K Oil Pull..

In the early 1980's John Hall came by my place and we had
a nice visit..He was on the way home from Harold
Ottaway..I didnt know that you had Johns 30-60E..
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Blaine: Didn't mean to derail your thread, but yes I bought John's 30-60E. Somewhere I have a picture of Lundstrum standing with John beside the tractor after it was loaded for the trip to Cape.
 
Ed,thanks for the picture of your 30-60E....Would love to see
the picture of John when he bought it..
 
Back in the '60's when the guys went custom harvesting they would hook up to the Super 92's and tow them backwards down the highway. These had 14' headers.
 
we hauled 4 super 92's on the trucks like that back in 1965, I was 18 and had the job of driving a New 65 Ford snub nosed truck with a 292 v-8, had one super 92 on bed and pulled another on trailer behind it. The truck couldn't keep up with the 56 chevy in front of me. I still have the truck, (Ford) and it is still gutless. Really enjoy reading about the Harvest Brigade with the 21's after the war.
 
Love them pictures. Brings memories when I was 18 and left on the wheat harvest. The boss had bought two new Super 92's in Rossville, KS. Loaded them on 56 and 57 Chev. trucks. With 14 ft. headers up over the cab, back wheels hanging off back. Yes that truck was top heavy. Had to drive on the very edge of the highway and if a dip, seemed like it took that truck for ever to level out again. Headed to Billings, OK., never hugged a steering wheel so tight in my life. Had sweat dripping off both elbows.
 
I really like Lindsborg, KS. After my Dad come home from Korea in 1954, he was stationed at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Salina. He talked about Lindsborg and eating the Scandinavian food there. He was stationed in Salina 2 years and worked for a local grain company in the summer when not on duty. I took Dad back to Salina about 12 years ago and we went to Lindsborg as he wanted to see it again. The mill was closed that day. So next year he and Mom made a trip out there and stop by the mill and looked it over. We also enjoyed Coronado Heights as well. Great Pics...Thanks!
 

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