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John Deere #11 combine

1939. What its worth is nobody knows. Putting a value on a rare combine is difficult because when was the last time you saw one sell. I have a couple of somewhat rare combines (55 corn special and 12A with LUH engine) and I've paid $1,750 for one and got the other one for nothing. I suppose if this combine was Expo quality restored and sold at a Mecum auction it would bring several thousand dollars or more. If its just a rusty special I would try to get it for scrap value because were are you getting parts for it. Not like you could rob some off a 12A without modifying and being a right hand cut makes some of those parts special.
 
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Not to sidetrack from the original post, but does anybody know for sure why they went to a left hand cut? Dad used to claim that it was because if you went counter clockwise around a field with a combine, you could go back and cut clockwise with a mower to clip the straw and the cutter bar on the mower would slide under the stubble that was leaning from being driven on. I don't know if that was just his theory, or if they really did make them that way for that reason.
 
The official reason is because dealers in the northern wheat belt were getting swamped with grain binders traded in. The dealers in order to make use of an otherwise obsolete implement were taking the tying mechanism off and converting them to crude windrowers. So in order for a combine to follow a windrow made by a grain binder, the header had to be on the left side.
 
GreenEnvy, I agree and there were some where I grew up (northern ND), but I also saw some old left hand cut binders where the right end of the platform was modified (tin cut away and platform canvas shortened) to let the cut grain fall out without going through the path up and over where the tying mechanism had been removed. Lots more work to do this modification, but made for less loss when opening fields.
 
Enough of people modified enough binders that JD felt the need to introduce a small 8ft or 9ft windrower. The reason I say official in my first response is because unofficially I also believe the reason for the switch is because the AC all crop cut on the left side and they were the top seller back in the day. JD's first small combine, the ill fated No 6 had the cut on the left side so I don't know why JD decided to make the No 12/11 on the right.
 

I don't know this for a fact, but I always suspected that one reason John Deere and Allis Chalmers used a left hand cut was because of the hand clutch on their tractors. It's hard to work a hand clutch with your right hand and look over your right shoulder at the same time! The AC WD's and WD45's were particularly bad, as you were reaching forward and pulling the lever toward you to engage the clutch. Try doing THAT while looking over your shoulder! I ran a WD45 on a baler a few times. Not that much fun!
 
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