Helped a neighbor finish his corn

I had a rare moment of deja vu on Sunday as I got to watch my old combine, and drag around my old gravity boxes with his tractor to help him get his corn out.




It's like the sound of a long lost friend when you hear one of your old combines or tractors fire up. There is something strange about how you never forget the exhaust note, or the smell of the cab. I spent the day in his John Deere 6715 mfwd pulling gravity boxes up to the auger while he finished. The back box (J&M ladderless pain) I sold to him also, so it was like it never left, pulling it around.





Even with this strange misty fog weather and all the mud, it sure did feel good to get out and touch and smell some shelled corn again. My legs are sore and bruised from sliding a 60 foot auger under wagons all day, but the cab of the tractor was a lot more comfortable than that old New Holland 975 ever was so I didn't mind too much.

Sad to say the New Holland broke a belt at the end of the day and shelled corn filled the shoe and fan housing so it's going to be a quite a mess for later. He figures on just picking the last 8 rows with a 323 picker. Bittersweet end to a fun day!

A mouse died in the cab of my 1586 apparently and a bit of water got in thru a window seal. It will be a LONG time before I forget the smell of THAT cab. Spent about a half hour in there with all the windows open and I still couldn't lose it.

That is a nice combine. Don't see a lot of the New Holland's around here. Just occasionally. Lots of hay equipment, just not combines.

Yea, I ran our old combine this fall that a neighbor bought 13 years ago. Brought back a lot of memories. From the way the door closed to the feel of the steering to the sound of the combine. Everything was just as I remember.
Dave, thanks for the memories.

try putting charcoal in there for a few days or week , cat peed on my work shoes , couldn't get anything to knock the smell , filled them up with charcoal and put them in a bag for a week , took them out and blew out with air gun , no smell at all now , wore them today. Probably won't grill any steaks with that charcoal.....

I got some stuff from a fire restoration company years ago to get the smell out of a car interior. When you put it in, it stinks like a biological smell, not like a chemical smell. Then in a few days, you can't smell anything at all. I'll try to find the name of it.

I used to like the New Holland combine for some things, like running corn, but, I knew it was going to fall apart. Neighbor wanted it for some reason and he has kept it running for a lot longer than I ever imagined. On top of that, he keeps it outside all year long. I guess it's something about one man's trash, other man's combine?

I almost felt bad, because even though I haven't owned it for quite a while, I still had to show him how to adjust a few things. I guess it is something you never forget. I guess they should change the old saying from, "like riding a bicycle" to "like running a combine"

Looks like the old girl puts out a clean sample.

The double strength "Fabreeze" does a decent job on mouse smell provided the dead mouse & any nest have been cleaned up and provided you can spray it directly on the surface the smell is coming from and not just in the air (it's no more effective than air freshener then). Fabreeze seems to get rid of the smell much more than most smell good stuff that just covers it up & smells like a mix of the two smells.

Don't really care for the Fabreeze perfume smell when first used in heavy doses but it's much better than mouse.

That was the only saving grace of that machine. It put the best corn out. It does horrible in small grains, but it sure can put some nice corn in the bin.