Summer of 57

rusty6 · Mar 31, 2019

Got an old photo here from the summer of 57 showing a little Case tractor hooked up to a binder cutting oats. They stopped for a photo shoot with some of the local kids.

matthies · Mar 31, 2019

Wonder where they got the rear wheel weight? Big ole gear.

SVcummins · Mar 31, 2019

That?s an interesting wheel weight pretty good idea if you could find a couple big gears like that

larry@stinescorner · Mar 31, 2019

nice picture!

Bruce from Can. · Mar 31, 2019

Looks very much like the VA my dad had. I bet that big gear that was being used for a wheel weight, was a drive gear from a steam tractor

flying belgian · Mar 31, 2019

Still shocking oats in 57? Hmm. Was the date on the picture? or how do you know it was 57? The little VA looks like it was rode hard and put away wet.

rustred · Mar 31, 2019

that's pretty normal, we used the john deere binder and thrashing machine every year till 1972. then dad bought a massey super 92 combine. still have the binder and machine. used it in 2000.

rusty6 · Mar 31, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:19:40 03/31/19) Still shocking oats in 57? Hmm. Was the date on the picture? or how do you know it was 57? The little VA looks like it was rode hard and put away wet.

They had a Case combine for most of the crop but I think they bindered the oats to use as cattle feed. And yes, its 1957. One of those little guys in the picture sent it to me as his mother took the picture and he knows the details. I'll have to ask him where those wheel weights originated. They do look like gears off a big old steamer or early gas tractor.

GreenEnvy · Mar 31, 2019

We were using combines all the way back to the 30s but used a IH binder to put up oat hay all the way up to 1965.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 1, 2019

Real neat photo,I used to help an old fellow near Grottos VA that cut wheat with a binder clear up into the 1980's.

wjytexas · Apr 1, 2019

Great photo.

Goose · Apr 1, 2019

We once ran an Allis Chalmers 5' combine with a VAC. It actually handled it quite well.

Summer of 57

rusty6

Well-known Member

matthies

Well-known Member

SVcummins

Well-known Member

larry@stinescorner

Well-known Member

Bruce from Can.

Well-known Member

flying belgian

Well-known Member

rustred

Well-known Member

rusty6

Well-known Member

GreenEnvy

Well-known Member

Traditional Farmer

Well-known Member

wjytexas

Well-known Member

Goose

Well-known Member

Similar threads