Threshing 1940s? Old pictures

Moline_guy · Jan 11, 2021

I have a few pictures from my paternal grandparents I will try to post. I don't have any information on the machinery or what year these were taken. The last six pictures are from my maternal grandparents album. He was a case man, so most of the equipment is case.

Richard G. · Jan 12, 2021

A combine with a straw elevator.
Never saw that before.

casecollectorsc · Jan 12, 2021

More good photos! I have never seen the unique combine set-up before either. And we are only about 125-150 miles apart.

Bob Bancroft · Jan 12, 2021

That's quite a load! So are they pulling along that wagon on the other side also? Or maybe it's hitched to an unseen tractor? It looks like they have a Scour-Kleen on the combine. These guys are way ahead of their time.

David from Kansas · Jan 12, 2021

Kinda pointless to have a combine if you are using it like a threshing machine. We never threshed loose grain, always cut with a binder and hauled to the thresher. I was a little two young to pitch bundles but got lots of time on the tractor pulling a wagon to pick up the shocks and then on to the thresher. No pics but there have been some in the local paper over the years from around the county. Thanks for the pics, brings back pleasant memories.

Moline_guy · Jan 12, 2021

I don't have the pictures in order, the threshing pictures are older and the picture with LA, they are picking up windrows and saving the straw. Grandpa ran quite a few beef cows, so they saved anything that was palletable for the long winters.

Moline_guy · Jan 12, 2021

If I remember right, the combine is a John Deere, but I don't know the model of it. The story was combines were hard to get after the war and Grandpa found this one for sale down in Nebraska. Went down to get it and the block had a crack in from not being drained. Didn't want to come back empty handed, so cut a deal on it, hauled it back somehow or another, patched up the block, cobbled up a header of some sort on it and went combining. I think it was only used one or two harvests but it gave them quite a bit of grief. I think the john deere 65 pull type came out in 49 so he bought that and sent this unit down the road. I only have one Uncle left that would have more details of it, but he is having some health problems.

Moline_guy · Jan 12, 2021

I don't know for sure, I don't think I have any other pictures of this machine, they only used it for one or two harvests, I remember my Uncle telling it was not a good machine and they had quite a bit of trouble with it.

55 50 Ron · Jan 12, 2021

The combine has the shape of a John Deere 5A or 17. Dad had a 5A as late as 1956.

John Deere D · Jan 12, 2021

Great photos Sir.......
Thanks
Bob...

fastfarmall · Jan 20, 2021

I agree, they wanted that straw also, if they just had a hoist to dump it off and save thet chaff !!

tractorguy2 · Jan 21, 2021

Interesting to see a John Deere H doing something besides pulling a float through a parade! My dad planted 13 acres or milo with an H and two row planter. He said he would never do that again.

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