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Best combine from 1950s

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Philip Croff

07-04-2000 08:08:24




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What's the best combine from the 1950s?




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Alex

08-05-2000 14:50:27




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
The Allis-Chalmers All-Crop Combine Series were superior to all other designs. Allis-Chalmers had a commitment to testing there designs until they had everything in perfect working order. Maybe that is why they never held less than half the pull type combine market the entire time they produced the All-Crops.



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Brian

07-07-2000 12:49:54




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
For the smaller operator, either a 66 Big Bin or a 72 All Crop combine. A-C made so many of these combines that La Porte Indiana became known as the Combine Capitol of the World. You don't get a reputation like that by accident. Brian



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Danny

07-06-2000 12:08:47




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
The Best Combine of the early fifty's was the M-H 80-90 series. Their use by the hundred's of custom combine operators in the west and mid-west would support this. The front beater, open concave and shaker shoe combination gave the cleanest sample with the least kernal damage of any of the combine then available. The low mount Engine gave a stable platform and short drive belts for the systems with the heavy loads. The operator had a full view of the header and could turn to see the Grain as it flowed into the tank.

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Mike Aylward

07-05-2000 14:38:04




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
Probably the most copied combine from that era was the John Deere 55. The basic layout was used by several other machines. It has been said that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". They were a well built combine that would do a good job, and keep doing it for a long time. My humble opinion. Mike



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Randall Barnard

07-04-2000 22:31:00




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
I would say probably the Gleaner-Baldwin A Combine. We used to have a 1957 AND 1958 models and these would flat out cut wheat. Later sold both these as we bought a 1980 Gleaner N6. Sometimes I think we should have kept both A's. Randall Barnard



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highboyford

07-04-2000 09:19:19




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 Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Philip Croff, 07-04-2000 08:08:24  
I am not a big A.C fan so I really dont when they came out but from what i have been told the all-crop A.C was a good little combine.
But my own taste leans to the Oliver model 18.They were made for ever and parts are not too hard to dig up.
They had a finger auger as a option.And also had a finger reel.Or you could go with a Hart model pickup(but I assume you could get this on other makes also).
The larger header and over all machine size was another plus,you could really get alot done.
With history datting back to the Nichols and Shepard these combines could really handel the tough fields that plugged the other guys up.
The machine was good enough to be painted another color and sold in another country.This fact is what I think sets machines apart.When you make a product that is so good that another company buys yours instead of making one I think that says it all.

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Freddy

07-07-2000 08:07:52




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 Re: Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to highboyford, 07-04-2000 09:19:19  
Was the Oliver you're talking about sold as a Cockshutt in Canada? Flathead Chysler engine, mounted low? Just wondering.



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highboyford

07-07-2000 21:21:51




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 Re: Re: Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to Freddy, 07-07-2000 08:07:52  
Yes that is it,dont know about the engine though mine is P.T.O. and so is the parts one.Although both the old book and newer book list parts for a Wisconsin Engine(vf4d and VH4D) but do not say anything about a Chysler.



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humm

07-04-2000 12:59:16




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 Re: Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to highboyford, 07-04-2000 09:19:19  
Or its the cheapest you could get.



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GLEANER

07-04-2000 14:36:42




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 Re: Re: Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to humm, 07-04-2000 12:59:16  



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jakee

07-11-2000 16:05:18




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Best combine from 1950s in reply to GLEANER, 07-04-2000 14:36:42  
well lot,s of difrent coment,s but by far massy haris was the choice of the farmers world wide . use to stand along the dirt road in central north dakota and watch the massy,s go by the line was forever,we were a harvester family and had a 12-A john deere and the AC 60 all crop did around 500 acer,s with those machines only used one at a time because we had only one tractor farmall m.but once in a while wen relitives came to help it was a joy to watch those big massy,s work and that flat head chrysler with the strait pipe just crackled all day,we windrowed every thing even flax.later wen we moved to michigan my older brother worked at a dual dealer massy and harvester,one year they sold 3 harvester,s and 35 massy,s out of it.have a couzin in n.dakota has 2 92 super,s and does around a thousand acer,s with them.

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