Cold and Damp

rusty6 · Sep 14, 2022

Getting up into the 50s now but its kind of miserable with strong SE winds and now some fine rain. Shut down combining although I haven't moved since Monday night. Distributor and 2 speed axle problem took up all yesterday on the IH Loadstar. Prior to that we were making pretty good progress with the JD 7721 pull type combine in wheat. My nephew either swathing ahead of me or else trucking the grain. A couple of problems on the combine held me up most of a day but we got it fixed. Managed to shoot a bit of video from the tractor seat while combining.

Wheat harvest in Sask

Tgrasher · Sep 14, 2022

Good video, enjoyed it very much. How close to frost are you? Here, 600 miles south, it usually hits mid October.

rusty6 · Sep 14, 2022

(quoted from post at 17:36:30 09/14/22) Good video, enjoyed it very much. How close to frost are you? Here, 600 miles south, it usually hits mid October.

We have had several frost advisory warnings recently but never got that cold. High 30s. We can get quite the extremes here. A few days ago it was so stifling hot that if the ac had shut down in the combine or swather we'd have had a real problem. Today I'd turn on the heat. In fact I turned my furnace on in the house late this afternoon. Got tired of shivering at 61 degrees in the house.

55 50 Ron · Sep 14, 2022

The sight of those wheat swaths on the combine pickup is music to my eyes or a sight for sore eyes. Reminds me so much of running the JD 55 self-propelled as a young fella on my parent's farm. Back then (1960s) everything was swathed in small grain country of North Dakota. Here's a picture of my dad running that combine in windrowed durum wheat in the mid 1960s. It's a 1948 model before the folding unloading auger came out. It has an Innes Northwest Special belt pickup.

coonie minnie · Sep 14, 2022

Great picture!

rusty6 · Sep 14, 2022

(quoted from post at 18:36:10 09/14/22) Here's a picture of my dad running that combine in windrowed durum wheat in the mid 1960s. It's a 1948 model before the folding unloading auger came out. It has an Innes Northwest Special belt pickup>

Ron, great photo. And those 55 and 95 combines were everywhere here back then as well. Also the pull type versions, 65 and 96. I think I have shown the video of my uncle picking up wheat swaths in the fall of 1987 with his old "squareback' 95.

Kelly in tx · Sep 14, 2022

Rusty6, I have a John Deere 42 pull type combine with a pickup head, BUT it has the belts. Would the mechanical header of your JD 7721 combine possibly fit a model 42? kelly

rusty6 · Sep 14, 2022

(quoted from post at 19:53:16 09/14/22) Rusty6, I have a John Deere 42 pull type combine with a pickup head, BUT it has the belts. Would the mechanical header of your JD 7721 combine possibly fit a model 42? kelly

The header on my 7721 is the same detachable header as what was used on the self propelled 7720 combines. The model 212. I expect quite different from what the model 42 had.

BillinCentralMO · Sep 15, 2022

Steve on ADMs morning grain comments , says Canadians are having a record yield on your wheat and canola. Hope it is a good year for you up North.

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