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rusty6

rusty6

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Just another jigsaw puzzle. It is the photo from an old Saskatchewan Wheat Pool calendar featuring three Co-op or CCIL combines harvesting wheat swaths. Some will already know that CCIL and Co-op combines of that time were actually Cockshutt machines with different paint and decals. No connection with Oliver either. I'd guess the date to be around 1960.
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Rusty, thanks for these. Altho I never ran one of this exact type, the old open operator station McCormick-Deering Self-Propelled ( I've forgotten the model but it was the first one with an unloading auger and NO canvas) was one of my early loves. It was fun to put this puzzle together. Beautiful skies. I imagine it was fall and that sky hinted pretty clearly of that to those operators. Regards, kelly P.S. What kind of machine (swather?) and size? was used to cut and windrow?
 
(quoted from post at 14:50:47 03/02/23) Beautiful skies. I imagine it was fall and that sky hinted pretty clearly of that to those operators. Regards, kelly P.S. What kind of machine (swather?) and size? was used to cut and windrow?
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Kelly, they likely used a 15 foot swather as that was about the biggest at the time. And those were some of the biggest combines too. I think model 428 Cockshutts. I'll post a scan of the whole calendar now for those who didn't get to do the puzzle. Those Pool calendars are worth a bit as collector's items now.

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I agree on the 428 models. I grew up on a farm in ND and we had 2 SP112 Co-op/Cockshutts. Nothing
sweeter than the bark of that flathead Chrysler in heavy wheat windrows.
 

Hello Ralph - that's a nice picture. I think I had a puzzle years ago similar to it with the three old Cockshutt/Co-op combines. I think those represent the models of the original Cockshutt sp's - the red and yellow in front is a 428. Behind that is the next earliest SP137 and the back one is the earliest SP112. My dad was a Cockshutt combine man all his life starting with the very first #6 pulltype, then an SP112, followed by an SP428, then a 431. His last one was also the last year the name "Cockshutt" was used - a 1973 7800. Someday I'll have to post the pictures I have of each combine he owned. The #6 pulltype was introduced about the time Cockshutt bought Frost & Woods and was the machine F&W had developed. It was replaced after a year or so by the similar #7 pulltype which was fairly popular.
 
(quoted from post at 19:21:46 03/02/23)
Hello Ralph - that's a nice picture. I think I had a puzzle years ago similar to it with the three old Cockshutt/Co-op combines. I think those represent the models of the original Cockshutt sp's - the red and yellow in front is a 428. Behind that is the next earliest SP137 and the back one is the earliest SP112.
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Hi Jim. Wondered if the back two might be different models or just different paint. I actually have that puzzle you mentioned still in the original box and it has a lot more pieces than the digital one I posted here.
 
Thanks for posting the puzzle. I had shoulder surgery a couple of weeks ago and the puzzles help pass the time in snowed in farm here in central Mn. Larry
 
I have a question about those combines. Swathed the crop layed narrow so why did they have that a wide head on the combine? Lot of extra weight to carry and harder to transport. No swathing was ever done in my area. Only ever saw any pickup heads in junk pile and were for AC 60 or MH 35 pull type machines.
 
(quoted from post at 08:23:35 03/03/23) I have a question about those combines. Swathed the crop layed narrow so why did they have that a wide head on the combine? Lot of extra weight to carry and harder to transport. No swathing was ever done in my area. Only ever saw any pickup heads in junk pile and were for AC 60 or MH 35 pull type machines.
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At the time that photo was taken (1960) I'd guess that a bigger percentage of wheat was swathed than straight cut. Swathing evened out the maturity of wheat and dried the weeds out. Otherwise it could be a long wait. Those headers were made for straight cut. Probably 14 or 16 footers. So changing over to picking up a swath involved a lot of work removing the reel and installing the pickup. That is probably why most went with swathing and picking up as it saved doing the change over. Quick detach headers were still in the future.
 
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