From My Kansas Combine Postcard Collection

1206SWMO

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Here are some postcards from my collection
showing the Kansas wheat harvest..
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Thanks for the pics. Some day I should dig out my limited collection of harvest pics. I had to have an actual camera back in those days. LOL Most of mine are pics of the crew members at work, very few of the machines in action. I do have a few pics of three combines stuck at one time in a field in a flat river valley south of Woodward Oklahoma.

When the six Lexions were new Claas had a photographer from Omaha go up in a helicopter and shoot the six combines in action in Idaho. It took two hours to line up all the poses and angles. The photographer hung out the side of the helicopter with one foot on the right runner. He said he took two or three Dramamine and was still a little queasy.
 
Would love to have a picture or postcard of that JD55. It was the first combine I run
 
I think that I have an extra one of that 55 JD...About 4 of these post cards shown here came from a flea market in Coffeyville,KS and they had several of each..
 
Dig those harvest pictures out as we would love to see them.. ...I spent the night several times at Woodward,OK back in
1976..
 
Wonderful pictures!

I have been to Kansas twice and loved it both times. Love the open spaces.

Thanks for posting.
 
That 'p' card could have been me..I started with a 55 rb like that in wheat in '80 in eastern Colorado.Dryland wheat never got tall enough to fall over. Still got it.
 
1206swmo, I was wondering if you headed out on an excursion any time soon to southwest kansas? or if you would be interested in a massey 410? Sorry to barge in like this
Mark
 
Unless an antique tractor auction comes up it doesnt look like I will make it to SW Kansas this year....I havent bought any old combines since 2010 as I purchased all that were on my want list..My sheds are full.
 

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