What is this thing?

4320Scott

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This has been sitting in a local junk yard for many years. It says it is a model 007. Anybody know what this is?
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My guess is a peanut harvester, being from
Pa, I don't ever see anything like that around
here... I think I'd like to make a Round bale
launcher out of it.....
 
Don't know what it is, but it is not a peanut picker...
I remember the old 111 peanut combine... Deere's early attempt at mechanized peanut harvesting. It was a bust. It had a reel pick-up just like a baler, which was standard on all brands, but it utilized a canvas similar to a 12A combine which was it's downfall. Try gulping down a full-season crabgrass or fall panicum full of dirt with a canvas... Deere quietly exited the peanut picker business. Still see a few parked in the woods next to the last field it tried to pick.
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No, it's not a hay cuber either.
I'm curious as to what the mechanism is in the upper right. The hydraulic cylinder and such.

4320 can you email the photo to me at [email protected]? Perhaps I will publish it and see if anyone has some info on it.
 
To me, it looks kind of like some kind of veggie picker or beet topper... the conveyor(?) out the back has me kind of intrigued.


I'm guessing JD powered, but not assembled there.

All of the above are sort of WAGs. Where is this? That may help.
 
I'm about 90% sure its a green pea /green bean stripper , If its in WI. probably retired by a canning co. The head look similar to stripper heads on modern stripper pea combines, Looks like this thing was someone's shop built prototype / looks like a all hyd. (nightmare)
 
Big discussion on that topic on John Deere Two-Cylinder Club of Facebook. Got to be vegatable harvestor of sorts. Located in Wi.
 
Not sure as to what the machine related to this topic is, however, it sure is looking like an off brand (Green Bean) picker with a John Deere dupont overhaul.

In regards to the JD 111 Self Propelled Peanut Combine that has been mentioned - Jethro Lilly, while I'm here I've got to defend the 111 JD Peanut combine that you spoke on. John Deere in fact produced a well engineered and constructed piece of machinery when they produced the 111 Self Propelled peanut combine. The problem that the farmer ran into was the technology that revolved around this machine. Back in the mid sixties when this machine was produced there was not a chemical developed that helped much with the weed control and there had yet been designed a machine that dup up and inverted the peanuts. Without the weed control there was always problems. Some folks that operated this machine said when the morning glories were so bad that you could pull up to the end of the row, lock the brakes, engage the pto and watch the row come to you. They would go on to say that this is when you needed a sharp knife to clean the vines out and unplug the machine. Thats when I laughed back at them. I didn't laugh at the picture I was seeing, I laughed at them actually telling me how stupid they were to allow the machine to do this to begin with. Anyway, by inverting the peanuts two things were accomplished, it sped up the drying process and it positioned the peanut in better way to be recieved and stripped by the combine. So, you needed (1)weed control, (2)a true inverter and (3)an operator that knew what they were doing. The folks that operated the tractor powered combines had the same issues.

I've got a 111, and with all three of the above items, it picks just fine along side a 6 row KMC and 6 Row Amadas in good peanut land.

I hope this clears up any misconceptions of the 111 peanut combine that ya'll may have.

Ya'll have a Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year!
 
Hi Richard, I sent you two photos. My brother also posted this question on facebook and after many replies someone posted that it is a Chilsom-ryder bean harvester. This machine is located in a SE WI junk yard so that may make sense as there used to be many vegetable farms in this area at one time.
 
You are spot-on with all three issues. The one I spoke of was the weed control issue. The 111 ran well in clean peanuts as you stated, but back in the mid 60's weed control was Enide-Dinitro at cracking, then cold steel. Those who allowed June grass to make it into July paid for it in October. There were a lot of canvas failures due to the 25 lb or more grass/peanut/dirt rootballs. I am happy that you have had good service from your 111 and I do not doubt that it is an efficient machine that picked a clean sample, but after a couple of years the 111 disappeared from this area.

The inverter digger was developed right here in 1966 and went into full production in 1967 by the Ferguson Mfg. Co. of Suffolk, Va. It was a 2-row Furguson digger that had a coulter added to cut the vines between the 2 rows, a roller added to pack the dug ground and the familiar inverter rods added to the back. That first digger had a 90% inversion rate. By '68 all manufacturers had some sort of inverter-digger.
I enclosed a few pics from 1966 of Dad and that first digger, which is still in my barn, with John Mason on the 2010 . Dad, the inventor, died in 2012 at the age of 92 and I'm sitting here reading his deposition in the patent-infringement case of Ferguson vs. Kelley Mfg. from 1973. Seems Ferguson didn't cotton to Kelley using inverter rods on the back of their digger. Ironically, I bought a Kelley 4-row in 1976 not because of the inverter, but because it was a chain digger, not a star-shaker type like Ferguson. The Kelley got out a lot more dirt with a lot less plugging. We used a Lilliston 7500 and had 2 Long 393's on 175 acres of Va type bunch peanuts. The Lilliston on the 4430 was faster, but the 393's picked a cleaner sample. Seemed every year the 393 behind the JD 730 was the only machine that did not break down.
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