Found My Dad's Combine

We were at the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show this past week. Among the many exhibits there is a Antique tractor Organization.
Among the items on display was this combine. I began to examine it and am 99.9% sure it was my dad's combine.

I found four instances which pretty much nails it down.

The inside header hinge broke. We had no means to raise and remove the entire header to replace the hinge. I jacked up and blocked the header in place.
I removed the conveyor canvas and Sycle drive pulley and pulled the canvas drive shaft back. I could not get wrenches in to remove the hinge bolts.
I used a cold chisel to cut a hole to access the bolts. The hole is still there.

Daddy replaced the right tire with an ordinary truck tire. The tire is still there.

The drive chain for the seed elevator kept getting knocked off by the grain stubble. I put a board in front of the chain. It is still there.



The wooden hinge blocks for the separator broke and I made replacements from mesquite wood. Those blocks are still there.
My wife is still a bit unsure. She maintains these could be normal ways for farmers to make repairs in the field during harvest time.

That is a lot of coincidences to not be it. Maybe if it was just one or two but you are probably right.

That looks like a DNA match to me. What are the odds? Only combine dad ever had was a new AC 60. I still have the hand held tachometer he used to set the cylinder speed for different grains. As a youngster I would climb past all those moving parts to sit on top of the straw walker and kick at stalk plugs heading into the cylinder. Crazy dangerous today was a lot of fun then. Hope you were able to talk to the restorer about your connection.

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I'd say its a match for sure.

Did you get to talk to the guy that owns it now? He'd probably love knowing about the history.

No one was around to talk to.

I rode on top of the separator and kept dad informed of the seed level in the hopper so he could turn around and dump.
I was also his grease monkey.

Neat find. Too many things to call it anything other than your Dad's. Especially when you were the cold chisel man/woodworker. What are the chances?
I still have my Dad's second owner Massey Ferguson 410 combine next door in a shed.

Southern Ray
I was at the show Thursday. I looked at that combine as well as the other machinery being displayed. It sure looks like all tell tale signs that would make it hard to duplicate. Gerald