I am a BTO.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jul 22, 2020

We started combining rye today. I had my Deere 105 out cutting and a friend that helps me brought both of his 6620's. So this afternoon we had three machines cutting. Started about 3 pm and to 6:30 we knocked out about 25 acres.Had a 16ft head,a 15ft and and a 13ft. Never had all three in the same field but with three machines I sure felt like a Big Time Operator. Wife has some pics so maybe when it rains again I can post some. Tom

muleman51 · Jul 22, 2020

sounds like fun to me. Wish I had friends with old junk like to help each other.

JDIH · Jul 22, 2020

Please do post some pics!

flying belgian · Jul 22, 2020

There was a time when a 105 was the preferred machine for the BTO. Back in the 60s our neighborhood BTO had a 105 running about 1500 acres. Pretty impressive watching him move across the field with a 6 row corn head. Hauling the corn away with 3 tandem trucks. Mean while across the fence we were plugging along with the 2 row New Idea corn picker. But you know what? We got done every fall too.

fastfarmall · Jul 22, 2020

One man junk is another mans treasure! I got a 105 gas, the only thing that was junk on it was the straw chopper, it was out of balance!

J. Schwiebert · Jul 22, 2020

There used to be a machine shop near here that would have an add in the paper that said let us balance you straw chopper.

GreenEnvy · Jul 22, 2020

Back in the day 105s and MF 510s were BTO status around here. We had the 510, cousins had the 105. We thought we had the better combine at the time. 20 years later they had the better combine.

fastfarmall · Jul 22, 2020

Yeah, i wore put my pick-up out, taking it to the shops to get it balanced, a short time fix !!!!

tomstractorsandtoys · Jul 23, 2020

My 105 was a gas. I bought it from a combine collector and it only ever had a pick up attachment on it. Neighbor had a very early 7700 in the fence row with the correct diesel engine. So we changed it over a few years ago. Nice to know their are some other people still running them. Tom

big tee · Jul 23, 2020

Back in the early 70's my Dad had a 105 EB. Gas motor with a hydro--635 corn head and 15 ft. platform with a Hiniker floating sickle bar we added. It liked gas but was a vast improvement over the 45 it replaced!---Tee

Dad and myself

Doing corn

formerly ny bill · Jul 23, 2020

About 20 years ago, I had bought a 15 acre field of corn, right along a state highway. At the time, I had Massey 510 and 410 combines, both with 4 row heads, and help enough to get them both in that field. One passerby apparently got so distracted by 2 combines working that he ran into another car going the opposite way. Nothing serious. Good times.

Goose · Jul 23, 2020

I had a 105 gasser once.

One time it kept vapor locking on my while cutting wheat on a 100 degree day. There aren't too many things yuckier than a vapor locked combine in the middle of a wheat field.

I solve the problem by installing an electric fuel pump under the gas tank. The electric pump pushed gasoline through the mechanical pump whether it was trying to vapor lock or not.

fixerupper · Jul 23, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:07:18 07/22/20) One man junk is another mans treasure! I got a 105 gas, the only thing that was junk on it was the straw chopper, it was out of balance!

The good thing about an oit of balance chopper is you know something is wrong when it stops. In 19 years of running a 105 I had that happen only once. The machine suddenly was running smooth as satin and right away I knew the chopper had stopped. In 140 bushel corn taking in six rows with that gargantuan 635 head it would average a twitch over 500 bushels per hour. That 4020 gas engine had its tongue hanging out all day long.

SVcummins · Jul 23, 2020

If it were 1967 I’d be the biggest farmer around

fixerupper · Jul 23, 2020

Tee my 105 was identical to yours only mine was belt drive. 635 corn head, 15 foot bean head but with a Love bar. The last year I used it I found a 20 foot head for it. The 20 footer was a better match. I tended to over drive the sickle with the 15 foot head but that was partly because the Love bar did not cut as fast as a Hart Carter.

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

That is a neat picture

I am a BTO.

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