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John Achmann

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Spent sometime on it the other day. Got tires under it, soaked all pivot points, even got the header to lift off the ground.
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The bar across the back of the engine is attached to the clutch pedal. It?s just a big belt tightener. It also pushes a lever with a wood block into the pulley on the transmission.
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You can see the chain off the back of the transmission that goes to the drive shaft to the rear gear box then a large chain to the rear wheel. The belt pulley in the middle is the cycle drive. Another belt tightener.
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The drive for the reel is incorporated with the drive of the machine. So as long as the machine is moving so does the reel. You can not take it out of gear. The wheels on the header end looks bent but they?re not. I?m guessing they?re like that to dig in for when you turn the rear wheel all the way to spin around. The rear wheel will turn 90 degrees from the frame. It?s a very interesting matching. If there?s something you would like to see more of just let me know.
 
That is an interesting machine. 40 years ago a neighbor used an early international to swath grain. Keep us posted on the restoration process.
 
Things that would be nice to see close-up details of: Sickle drive, platform lift (assume it's hydraulic?), steering, battery (assume it's electric start?)

Do you have any plans to display it at a show somewhere??

Thanks for posting some great photos. Got to be some very interesting history to that machine!
 
John,

When you posted about this earlier, Bob had commented about "Rube Goldberg Death Swathers". I had never heard that description before and I lived and worked around self propelled swathers as a young farmhand.
 
I?m guessing he was getting at that it is an elaborate contraption that if not careful you will get caught up in something and not survive! Very few guards over belts and shafts on this. Safety was not to much of a concern on this in the fifties. More pictures to come!!
 
(quoted from post at 12:25:17 07/06/19) I?m guessing he was getting at that it is an elaborate contraption that if not careful you will get caught up in something and not survive! Very few guards over belts and shafts on this. Safety was not to much of a concern on this in the fifties. More pictures to come!!
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YEP!
 
I grew up on and still have an early Owatonna swather. What?s a guard? :)

Anyhow, I?ve never heard of that brand, I didn?t know they made farm equipment, and I?m 30 minutes from the company.

So, you had to swath counter clockwise, if I?m looking at it right, it places the swath all to the left, not down the middle? When turning, the rear wheel will swing to the right. If you swathed clockwise, the rear wheel would always be running over the previous swath on the corners.

Paul
 
The rear wheel tramping the swath on a right turn with this unit would be much better (but obviously not ideal) than FOUR tractor wheels and probably some wheels of a swather running down the swath when cutting with a pull type swather. Also think of how hard it would be to keep the right hand end of this platform away from the previous swath if you were turning to the left. I would definitely prefer the right turn option!
 
John,

I have a good farmer-friend between Mankato and Good Thunder, MN. I asked him about this implement. He was not aware of it and is very interested in corresponding with you but has lost his Yesterday's Tractors passwords. If you have an email address, I can pass it to him and he can contact you. I also noted your phone and will forward that to him. He and I (and I can think of several others, some on YT who) are going to be super interested in your restoration. I'm a Board of Directors member at Farmamerica near Waseca and it would be a real "Coo" if we could get you to bring it to our Festival for display some time. This year our Fall Festival is Sat, Sept 14. Another option would be that you would allow some of our Agri Hall committee to visit you and see the implement. Thanks, Ron
 
That is an interesting design of self propelled swather that reminds me of this one on the front cover of this 1947 Farmcraft magazine. I will have to dig it out and see what they had to say about it

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