Howard H.

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Hi Fellows -

Thought I'd post a couple of pics of a super nice old 45 I picked up today. It has hardly been used and runs like a top.

The family said it didn't even need air in the tires when getting it out of the barn for the first time in 20 some years.

I've been looking for a nice old JD or MH for a long time, so I was really glad to find this little jewel! Hopefully, I can grow some wheat this winter and test it out next spring!

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Howard
 
The angled steering column indicates a late model. My uncle had 3 Model 55's of that vintage.
 
They had the angled steering wheel from the start. That is a pre 1960 model. Production started in 1954.
 
The first 55 that my uncle bought had a vertical steering column - and a flat head Hercules engine. Next 3 that he bought had the angle steering column and a JD overhead valve engine.
 
I'm guessing very late 50's... unless it was repainted at some point. The decal font matches the late 50's tractors, (30 series), while the older ones had the number 45 in a font like on the side of a 60 or 620.
 

I appreciate the offer, but it came with the original manual and the original predelivery setup instruction booklet that came with it when new.


Howard
 
I was referring to the 45 with the angled steering wheel. 45s were made all the way till the spring of 1969. To be a late production, it has to be at least a square back.
 
I agree too on the year. Notice it has the later style header which according to my original JD brochures came out around 1958.
 
According to my original JD Modern farming magazines, the pan seat lasted until the square back series which would be around 1964.
 
Howard,very nice looking 45 JD....Probably about a 1958-59 model...Do you have the serial number for us..
 

I'm gonna say '60-'63, as the font used for the 45 is the same as used on the New Gen 30/4010, agree pan seats were used up til the '64 squarebacks.
 

Hi Blaine - hope you've been doing fine!

The serial number is 17282. What year would that make it? I've not seen a serial number breakdown on them anywhere...

Dad traded an old Massey Harris 92 for a 105 JD - and we ran that a lot when I was a kid. You sure don't see the 105s for sale much, so I'd always wondered how many/few 105s they made. Seems like a lot of old 55s & 95s around on fence rows over the past years - but that's just my impression...


Howard
 

Out here on the high plains of the Texas panhandle! Yep, lots of elbow room from here to Canada... ha...

The story from a family friend was that they bought/or were given the combine years ago from a fellow that bought it to harvest grass seed. That didn't pan out, so he wound up not using it at all... The family I bought it from only cut a few bins of wheat with it - just to try it out - and other than that, kept it in the barn the rest of the time.

It was originally bought by a fellow in the tiny town of Higgins TX. Higgins might be most famous for a giant tornado that rolled through and flattened it years ago... (link below for anyone interested... ha)


Howard
Tornado Story
 

Thanks, Mike. I was a little worried about how tough it would be to take the clean grain elevator off to transport it - until an old timer pointed out that's what the front bolt in the bin was for on the side! To hold it after leaning it forward, so it was just a one minute operation to drop it forward.

It was sure good I did, too - I didn't think I'd have any overhead issues getting it home, until I turned in Pampa and remembered that overpass - with the sign saying it was only 14 ft 6 inches! I cleared it very slowly with less than a foot.



Howard
 
Howard,its a 1959 model...They started at #16401 that year...In my area a 55 was a big combine with no 95's or 105's....There were lots of 40's and 45's around here..
 
First of all nice combine. If you wanted to see 105s just come to Montana. They were all over the place and some even had 2 of them. Big farms needed big combines. During that era we were running one MF 510 and hiring cutters. Later one we bought a 2nd 510 to go with the first one before trading both off for a 760.
 

Out here on the high plains of the Texas panhandle! Yep, lots of elbow room from here to Canada... ha...

The story from a family friend was that they bought/or were given the combine years ago from a fellow that bought it to harvest grass seed. That didn't pan out, so he wound up not using it at all... The family I bought it from only cut a few bins of wheat with it - just to try it out - and other than that, kept it in the barn the rest of the time.

It was originally bought by a fellow in the tiny town of Higgins TX. Higgins might be most famous for a giant tornado that rolled through and flattened it years ago... (link below for anyone interested... ha)


Howard
Tornado Story
 

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