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Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle.

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Bob G

05-16-2003 17:56:54




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I took this picture off of my deck in 2000. The neighbor had broken an axle on his combine. The bottom picture is one that I took after I walked up there. The hill is so steep that I had trouble getting up there with the straw. The top picture is them repairing it. The front tire is off and they have the JD tractor and old cat cabled to the combine to keep it on the hill side. This isn't even some of the steepest ground that they farm in this area.

Bob

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Wes

05-18-2003 17:26:13




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
That is a cool pic. I live in Spangle just south of spokane. We don't have hills like that but some come close. The guy I work for now uses a level land combine.



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okla/kans Bill

05-18-2003 13:34:14




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  

Yup, ive had experiences on hill ground. The Missouri River foothills around Wathena Kans. The ground was so steep that when we farmed with As & B JDs, that came out with the azzrest on the sides, I would get a bruse on my right side, intil they bought a cushin you clipped onto the rod. I had ground so steep, a F-30 Farmall could not pull a MH combine upto the top of the field. In all of that tho, I only knew of 1 row crop tractor tipping over.

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okla/kans Bill

05-18-2003 13:33:00




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  

Yup, ive had experiences on hill ground. The Missouri River foothills around Wathena Kans. The ground was so steep that when we farmed with As & B JDs, that came out with the azzrest on the sides, I would get a bruse on my right side, intil they bought a cushin you clipped onto the rod. I had ground so steep, a F-30 Farmall could not pull a MH combine upto the top of the field. In all of that tho, I only knew of 1 row crop tractor tipping over.

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okla/kans Bill

05-18-2003 13:31:48




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  

Yup, ive had experiences on hill ground. The Missouri River foothills around Wathena Kans. The ground was so steep that when we farmed with As & B JDs, that came out with the azzrest on the sides, I would get a bruse on my right side, intil they bought a cushin you clipped onto the rod. I had ground so steep, a F-30 Farmall could not pull a MH combine upto the top of the field. In all of that tho, I only knew of 1 row crop tractor tipping over.

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Hal/WA

05-16-2003 20:42:20




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
The wonders of the Palouse! I agree that some areas farmed are even steeper. It is NOT a good feeling to find your bosses' $150K hillside combine sliding sideways downslope..... Hope your neighbors got it fixed OK. It was a great idea to anchor the combine in place with the other machines.

I understand that the Palouse hills are actually sand and dust dunes left over from the ice ages and from volcanic ash fall. I live a couple of miles North of what can be called the Palouse. Apparently water from the Spokane Floods went over my property during the ice age, or maybe I would have some of that great Palouse dirt instead of all these rocks! Where are you located? I have seen ground like that around Rosalia, but it could be just about anywhere in the Palouse.

Arent those automatic leveling hillside combines neat? I have met the inventor, Raymond Hanson, who developed the system many years ago. His company still does a bunch of the hillside conversions for combine manufacturers. I don't know how a lot of the Palouse could be farmed as it is without the hillside combines.

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ShepFL

05-21-2003 05:33:56




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 Re: Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Hal/WA, 05-16-2003 20:42:20  
Y'all are making me home-sick. I am originally from N. Idaho (Bonners Ferry / Sandpoint). Those pics remind me of my uncles place in Worley, ID.
I left in 1980 for USN. Rest of the family is still out there scattered from Post Falls to Lewiston/Clarkston.

As kids it was highlight at the end of summer to go into CD'A or better yet to Spokane to get school clothes at the White Elephant. Spokane was always our choice because they had an Arby's! Wishing I was back in that part of the country. Thanks for the pics and the memory trip back home.

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Bob G

05-16-2003 22:14:35




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 Re: Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Hal/WA, 05-16-2003 20:42:20  
Hal, I located between Colfax and Dusty. They got the combine fixed alright. When they work that hillside with a tractor and toolbar they start at the top and work it at an angle until the get to the bottom and then lift the toolbar out of the ground.

The topsoil is silt loam that was blown in. Some places they have over 20 feet of topsoil. They can raise 100 bushel wheat around where I live, but over by Pullman yield can go to 120 bushel.

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RayP(MI)

05-16-2003 19:28:06




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
Yeah, got some experience farming hills - get to grow crops on both sides of the soil - double the yield! But watch out for the roots protruding from the backside!



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Sid

05-16-2003 19:06:49




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
I remember the first time I saw some of those hills when I first moved to Spokane I could not believe those hills could be farmed.



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here, try this

05-16-2003 18:48:49




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
ground at that angle would just wash away here. yikes!



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James

05-16-2003 18:12:32




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 Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to Bob G, 05-16-2003 17:56:54  
Would not want to talk to those guys about soil erosion.



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Bob G

05-16-2003 20:06:45




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 Re: Re: Picture of sidehill combine in E. Wash with broken axle. in reply to James, 05-16-2003 18:12:32  
I've heard that at one time when they moldboard plowed everything that they were losing up to a bushel of soil for every bushel of wheat they harvested. Very few farmers use moldboard plows anymore and a lot of them no-till.

Bob



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