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wijim · May 1, 2016

Just me and my dads rig.

Du Farmsabit · May 1, 2016

Thanks, looks great! I hope to be there this summer

Old Scovy · May 1, 2016

Where is this at ? What a nice picture. I would love to watch one of those combines running again. The old man bought a JD 12A new in 1949 and a new JD A to pull it with. It had a LUC gas engine to run it and it was right under the seat. as this machine had a bagger on it. It was a miserable job so hot setting on top of that engine to ride that thing and sack the grain and when we quit at night we had to go around with the old truck and pick up all the bags then go up in the barn and unload them. Oh how I hated that thing. Used to just pray for rain or a big break down, Any thing to get off that combine. Well today I would love to ride around the field a few more times just to feel it again. Remember trying to crank that #$%@&% motor on it. We always let it idle when we went to dinner. Just didn't want to start. We had different mechanics tell us there was nothing wrong with it. It was easy for them to say, They didn't have to crank that thing. ..Thanks .Jack

Old Scovy · May 1, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:57:24 05/01/16) Just me and my dads rig.

:wink: Please let me know where this is at. If possible I would like to visit some time when you have it out. Do you take it to a show near you ? If so what show. .Thanks .. Jack

brutus49DC · May 1, 2016

Why did you bag it to put in a grainery? I always thought bagging was for selling in town. Wouldn't it have been easier to dump into a wagon if you were storing it on the farm. Not trying to be a smart a$$, just wondering.

Dick2 · May 2, 2016

Weren't those style of combines called "Turtlebacks"?

1206SWMO · May 2, 2016

Nice looking combine..

Old Scovy · May 2, 2016

Well that's what you would think, But the old man wasn't the smartest man ever. Most likely the ben cost a few bucks more and we had the old truck and a ben wagon would cost a little more and then we would have had to buy a grain elevator, Plus you see he already had me , so the best way to do things on the farm was the hardest way. We were not done when we emptied the sacks in the granary, The following winter we had to bag it all up by hand so we could take it to town to sell it. So you see sir that is why I was a Teamster all my working life, At least I could sit on my hind end and push pedals and look out the windshield and watch the world go by and not have to ever ride that JD 12 A combine again. ...Jack

brutus49DC · May 3, 2016

you didn't see old combines around here with a bagger but the old wagons had shoveling boards so they could scoop the grain and earcorn into a grainery or corn crib

Larry EC-OH · May 3, 2016

LOL I think your Dad and my Dad were brothers!
I remember riding around on that miserable thing also.
Our engine would not start either.
Oh, and then we got to hand milk all the cows....

Larry

Old Scovy · May 3, 2016

Thanks for the come back. Yes today I would like to ride around the field a couple times just for old times. We always let the darn thing idle when we went to the house for dinner. as you would have to crank your a$% off if you stopped the miserable thing. God how I hated that thing. Yes we also had to milk cows. We had Surge milkers for the main barn but the old man would keep about 9 head of screws that you couldn't get a milkier on and we had to milk them by hand. He thought that it helped the milk check, He could go to the sale barn and buy these old screws for a little of nothing and that is really what they were worth. .. Jack

wijim · May 3, 2016

Thanks, it's one of the first ones bilt ser # 1793, it does a nice job in beans and wheat.

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