Some old combine pictures

JLG

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I may have posted some of these photos before on Tractor Talk. So sorry if you've seen these before.
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I want to say I heard it was 10', but I could be wrong. These are all from 20 years before I was born.
 
I want to say our super 92 had a 15 foot grain table on it. That one does seem small. It seems like there were three sizes offered if I remember right.
 
I remember those model combines. Also remember the heat, dust and itching. Good to remember though, but would never do it again.
 
Yeah. I think it's one of those examples of "you'll never be able to run bigger than "x size" (header, planter, drill, etc..) around here with our uneven ground and rocks". Grandad said 10' header was big, then 15', then 20' was the max. Now my uncle has a 30 footer running over the same fields the 10 footer was in.
 
Nice old pictures. you have to remember when that combine was new, grain fields alot of times had more weeds in them and you didn't want too big of a head. Nothing worse than unplugging a slugged combine. What a great deal head reversers are now.
 
Ask your uncle about cutting soybeans and finishing up late at night. I was there the next morning and saw the end section of the cutterbar guards pointing the wrong direction. I never seen one wrecked that bad before,he wanted the insurance company to total it but they made him fix it. The rocks always win.LOL Rocks are one thing that I do not miss about farming in MD as we have none on our farm here in WI.Your family had a large operation back in the day,I liked when they filled silo with two choppers and about a dozen Grove forage boxes and lots of 4020's,4320's and 4430's as well. Tom
 
I wonder what he's doing with the stock rack up on both ends of the truck box?
Looks to be quite the hindrance to get the unload auger over the box.

I remember well my Dad hauling our Charolais cattle to pasture in the '57 Chevy
with the Omaha Standard combination grain and stock truck box. I also remember it got used
more than a few times as portable scaffolding when working on the house or barn by throwing
a few 2 X 12s across the top to stand on.

In later years the stock racks were again put up and lined with
1/4 inch plywood to double the capacity for harvesting sunflowers.
Flowers only weighed 30 lbs/bu vs. 60 lbs/bu for wheat.
Always made me nervous about raising the box too far at the auger because with a load on, it
always looked like it was way too top heavy behind the axle when the box was in the air.
 
The header sizes available on a Super 92 were 12,14,16,and 18 ft.....The one pictured had a 12 ft head and sold for scrap near Ft Scott,KS in Sept 2014....It had been in the same family since new..
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I vaguely remember that story about the insurance guy not letting them total a header.

It seems more of a common occurrence now I think. At least once or twice a season anyway they get bashed pretty good, and the combine's down for a while. Haha, maybe the heads are getting too big to watch with all our rocks after all. I'll tell you one quick story-

My father in law runs a combine part time for a local farmer. He's as good an operator as you can find and he's still hit some rocks. He feels terrible about it, and always takes off work from his main job so he can fix the header. The farmer he works for tells him not to beat himself up about it, it's bound to happen in some of these fields. One of the first times it happened, my father in law went back to see what he hit. Here was this little rock sticking up just a few inches, no more. Must be 90% below the surface because it didn't budge, but small enough it was planted over. And it's tapered down on one side. They we're cutting soybeans, and he said if he was just heading the other direction on that pass, the header would have slid harmlessly right on over, instead of hooking it like it did from the other direction.

Well we were in church right after this, and my father in law and another guy were talking farming. "What farm are you guys cutting at now?" the other guy asks my FIL. "Oh yeah? My brother and I rented that farm back 20 years ago. I remember I snagged a rock there one time and really messed up the combine. And the way that rock was, if I would have just been headed the other direction I would have slid right over it!"

"Well it's still there!!" My FIL replies back.
 
Today we are running 40ft headers on ground we thought anything more then 24ft would be too big back in the day.
 

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