95 combine with AC ?

tomstractorsandtoys

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Check out the Deere 95 combine on South east Kansas craiglist. It has a window mount house air conditioner mounted in the cab. They must have used a power inverter to run it. What do you fellows think? Is it workable? I sure did wish for AC cutting rye last summer with my 105 and I have even more acres to cut this year. It looks a little redneck but on a hot day I might not care.LOL Tom
 
AC was an option on JD combines starting in the late 50s. However, it seems like 99% of the JD combines around here had just a blower or few with swamp coolers.
 
It's hard to imagine a machine that age having enough electrical capacity to run something, all electrical, like that.

I have wondered, if in a situation like that, if you couldn't find a 120V alternator, and find room to mount it, so as not to compromise the original electrical system?
 
I am curious on the swamp cooler? Never seen one in a combine or any vehicle. My old 7700 just had a fan and was like setting in front of a hair drier.
 
We had a swamp cooler on our super 92 Massey. Worthless. We tried it one year and gave up.

It had a cylinder on the roof (I don't recall ever having it apart to see what was in there) and two hoses running down the wall inside the cab. Those hoses ran to an orange jug (it was shaped and sized just like those army gas cans on the backs of jeeps). Every day you were supposed to fill that jug with cold well water. It pumped water up to the evaporator and returned it to that tank. I don't recall where that tank sat but I want to say by the door. It couldn't have been to the right of the seat because that was where the seperater drive kick in was.

When I was in the charter bus service business there was one hot mess of a company that tried to run one air conditioning unit from a huge (expensive) inverter. As I recall the 110 amp alternator couldn't keep up with the demand at night when lights were needed. I recall getting a phone call at two in the morning to go pick up their passengers who were stranded.

The only way that would get powered on a combine would be if there was a generator on the combine. I know you can get fridges that run on 12 volt or lp for campers. I wonder if they make window units for 12 volt. With a better alternator it could keep up with that. An inverter just takes too many amps.
 
I knew a guy who used to add AC to combines. He would go to the wholesale distributors and buy up their excess add-on auto air units at the end of the season. He would trade to compressors for larger compressors and mount the auto AC units in the combine cab. The only problem that he had was draining off 7HP if the combine engine was already under-powered or marginal.
 
If I ever get that far, I was thinking of locating a used add-on unit for the top of the cab. I have seen some mounted on gleaners and other old combines. That would probably be the easiest. If not that, then I would build my own unit from scratch using parts from a 40 series cab. Just build a box to house the evaporator and blowers. Should be room in front of the radiator for a small condensor. I think mounting the compressor would be the hardest part though. Might have to put it below the alternator somehow.
 
I had a great uncle who built a cab for an Oliver 25 out of plywood, with plexi-glass windows. He used a small window unit thru the side, and ran it off of a generator mounted over the straw walkers. Had to do this because dust aggravated his emphysema, and it was too hot in the cab without the A/C. Combine originally had NO cab.
 
That large red unit to the right of the window mount is a fairly large inverter, as well as some hefty cables going in to run it. "bring your own battery" not surprising, I bet it needs a big one of those. I bet the unit works fair, just run it for a few minutes tocool yourself off, then shut off for a while.
 
How much and where is it at? How many hours,gas or diesel and what heads? Mine was a gas that we changed over to a diesel last summer just before we started cutting rye. I am also working at changing my one 95 to a diesel as well.I think my wife will have a fit if I buy another combine and at current corn and bean prices she is right. Tom
 
I am 1800 miles from home now, on vacation, but it is one of the last one made, a 68 or 69. Its a gas, Its got a John Deere 5 belt pick up head, been stored inside but hasnt been started for 10 years, Tires are up! Call me 612 747 0455.
 
The pick up head tells me you are a long ways from WI. The last one I bought the trucking was as much as the combine so I better pass for now.Corn and bean price does not support any extras now,but maybe I can finish the projects I have instead of buying more. Thanks Tom
 
I remember my dad having a swamp cooler on our old Gleaner F. It needed water dumped in it every day. Some people claim they didn't cool much but I still remember getting into the cab after picking up straw bales and thinking that cab was the coolest thing in the world after working in 100 degree plus heat. Then again the only time I experienced AC growing up was in the family car. We didn't have ac in the house or any pickup or truck.
 
Not positive if the roof mount units from campers are able to work on 12 volts or not but that would be easiest way to mount something.
 
The old swamp coolers on the 95/105s and 6600s worked to the degree that it was a little cooler, but the main advantage i always saw was the positive pressure in the cab, did a LOT more to keep dust out more than keep me cold.

Every day, dump 5 gallons of water in it, then forget that its up there, cross a terrace or ditch wrong and that black, stinkin, goo type water comes splashing out the cooler, if your going uphill it splashes your back, going downhill, your face. Then the end of the year, try to drain and wash that horrid crap out...ahhhh...the good old days....
 

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