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Corn picken time

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Anyone remember when combines didn't have cabs?

Pic was taken sometime between 1952-56. It's my dad on his new self-propelled picker/sheller, that's what he called a combine back then.

Sorry for the poor quality of the old black and white.
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Yeah, the good old days of breeze/wind in you face and fresh air....cough, cough, cough!! :twisted:
 
George,

Much better quality.

Really neat photo. I guess I did not even know there were cabless combines. I suppose they were better than a tractor and picker though.
 
rrlund,
Did you notice the corn head has a JD 10? Don't see any # on the combine. Not sure when the combines first came out do you? From the looks of the paint on the corn head, I think my dad had just purchased the unit. George
 
Man those things were tall, no one had a shed to fit them in.

Dad's 45 hi-lo would at least fit in a shed. I combined with it for several seasons, no cab.

That and the MM Uni system, dad ran that a couple years too, I think I ran it a little bit, but not much at all.

--->Paul
 
I can't remember all the dates, but I ran a JD 55 in 61-62 and the steering wheel was straight up and down. Same time our JD 95's that were newer had the wheel at an angle like this one. I'm guessing the 95's were around 1960 models. Ours were wheat heads.
 
Dad tells a story about their JD combine-not sure of model! He and Grandpa would buy new equipment, then do custom work to help pay for it. This particular fall it was wet enough, they could not run during the day, but if they waited till dark it would freeze over and they could run. NO CAB, and it was miserable! They ordered an after market cab-not sure of brand-but am quite sure it was out of Kansas. They had never built one for this model combine, so, when the tech came to the farm to install it, he was constantly calling the shop to tell them about hole placement-problems. I get a real kick out of this story, not sure why, just thinking of my Dad and Granddad being on the 'cutting edge' I guess!
 
omahagreg,
My dad the same thing, lot of custom work. Combine ran 24/7. Also have pics of dad's grain drying operation.
George
 
Somebody can correct me,but I THINK the model 55 was Deeres first one and it just sticks in my head that it came out in 1955. Pretty sure the Gleaner by Baldwin and Massey Harris self propelled came out quite a while before Deere had one.

I know Ford was within about an hour or two of buying Gleaner from the Baldwin Brothers before AC did.
 
I remember wife"s Uncle Paul returning from a diastant field on his open cab MF combine in a freezing rain/sleet storm. He was wet, cold and miserable, to say the least!
 
rrlund,
No place like tractor data on combines. So I started guessing at the numbers and there were pics to choose from. The JD 40 showed a straight shaft for the stearing and no back ladder. There was a pic of a JD 45, 1952, that looked like my Dad's, enclosed bent stearing column and back ladder. This fits in the correct time frame for when my pic was taken. So I'm going to guess it was a 45.
George
 
I ran one for a few hours in wheat, in August. 100 degrees and lots of dust. Not a very pleasant experience, needless to say. It did have a big tarp over the operator area, so you weren't sitting the direct sun.
 
greenmech,
WOW, The old girl is still picken. Comparing the paint on your corn head to my dad's, your's has picked a lot of corn. Your's has 45 on the corn ben, wonder why the numbers are missing on mine?

For some reason, I always thought my dad's combine was a 45.
George
 
The first combine I run was a 1954 JD 55. Went on the wheat harvest, had 92's and Super 92's Masseys. The cab was my straw hat.
 
That might explain why the corn looks bad. Flood of 54. Wonder if the corn was under water? However, I did find a pic of a 45 dated 52.
 
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