AC All Crop 40

Any body still have any AC All Crop 40 combines on the farm?
Richard in NW SC

I have a couple old ones not in running shape.

Me and a buddy are working together to build a few of them! He has 2, and we know where there are 3 more, and together, we could probably get 2 AWESOME machines and one okay one. The good ish one that he is using has the special grain cleaner attachment on it...

I would like to have one to run with my Farmall C. I think that the AC dudes had a pretty good plan for a great combine!

Don't remember the man's name, but not long ago there was a man (I think in PA) that had a lot of parts for those.

Richard,

I have an AllCrop 40. I had always been interested in one because my dad and uncle ran one with a 'B' A-C tractor for my dad's future father-in-law. This was in 1941-43, in the piedmont area of North Carolina. The whole rig was nearly new then. There were quite a few of them sold around here back then. Almost all were the sacking platform type, instead of the bin and auger.

I bought mine from an older gentlemen around ten years ago. He had enclosed the sacking platform with plywood and made in into a bin. Has a sliding 'door' in the bottom that you hook a sack on when you want to empty the bin. It was once powered by a Model A Ford engine, but was switched back to PTO. Me and my dad cut some fescue seed with it. I have been thinking of selling it. They can be hauled on a rollback or 8 foot wide trailer.

Really neat little combines. I have heard that John Deere bought the design from A-C, enlarged it some, and produced the 12-A. They are very much alike.My dad and uncle bought a 12-A in 1943 and we used it until the mid 1980s. It was also a sacker.

The man I got the 40 from also had a 'Doodlebug' built from a Model A Ford, and he had put a front end loader from an 8N on it. He was a very nice fellow.

I always enjoy your posts, and seeing your 'T' truck, cane mill, etc.
Garry

Bryce,

Are you working on AllCrop 40 or 60s? That is great if you have found that many 40 inchers. They only built around 15,000 of them.
Garry

They were a straight through meant to be sold with the B's weren't they,not one that exited the side? Seems to me they used to be compared to a pair of hair clippers.

My dad says that even with a 40 inch cut, around here they were more productive that a binder and thresher. Most fields around are not very large, at least by what I consider midwest standards. Dad says that my mom's dad had about 60 acres of grain planted in several different fields around here for the 1941 harvest. He bought the tractor and some implements in 1940 and the combine in 1941.They cut for other farmers in the county also.

The AllCrop 40 had rubber coated bars on the cylinder and upper and lower canvas drapers. Straight through design, made to use with B and C tractors. They look like a big toy now! I have always been fascinated with them.

Garry

If you decide to sell it I might be interested in it. I probably am not to far from you. I am just east of Greensboro. Even though Case is my primary interest I have several AC tractors and have been collecting some equipment for them. Had an uncle that he and his son done custom cutting in this area with one in the late 50s and early 60s. They pulled it with an 8n Ford and later with an E-3 Co-op. Lee

They were the best at harvesting grass and clover seed.I've cut 10 acres of oats with one.And its a lot more fun to ride than an AC 60 at the bagger at least with the 40 you have a little break between bags.

We had two of them we used as our first combines in the early 70s. You could still get most of the wear parts for them then. Pulled one with a AC WD and the other with a Fordson Dexta. They were facinating little machines to a teenager. Ours were the bin and auger type. Used ours on beans and oats, I seem to remember it did better with the oats, left the beans a little dirty.

Garry, please send me an email.
Richard

I found mine tucked away in a shed about 15 miles from home. Just good luck on my behalf.

John Deere actually thought they could build their machine and not ask A-C. A-C's lawyers disagreed.

Heres a few shots of mine.
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When I was just a little guy,Dad had an International 42R. That one was a 42 inch cut. It came out with a bagger,but he made a grain tank that unloaded with a slide chute,no auger. He could bag out of it or dump in a tub with an electric auger in it. That was hands down going away the quietest combine I ever heard. All you could hear was the knives cutting the straw. I remember the summer he upgraded to a 52R with a factory grain tank and an unloading auger. I thought we'd really hit the big time.

I found mine in a barn in higginsport oh,its in fair shape,hope to get is up an running this next summer.Want to use uncles c allis to put it.Had it to ovam show a couple yrs ago when they featured allis-chalmers.Oh by the way you could throw a rock into ohio river.

I apoligize! I wasn't to terribly sure when I got to thinking about it!!

I guess, that there are 2 40's and 3 60's, but I am not posative.. I know that the good one is a fine watch for the WD/WD-45...

Sorry!

Bryce,

The 40s are straight through type and shake the straw out the back. The 60s and 72s run it out the side. I don't know if the 40s ever had the ScourKleen option. There were right many of all types around here in NC.

Garry