oat harvest pics

billonthefarm · Jul 26, 2008

Got started on oat harvest this afternoon. They tested 14 and seemed to be yielding pretty well.

This could be my favorite toy.

There is that darn 403 IH that is always following me around.

The hauling crew. A 53 studebaker and a 51 ford.

It was nice looking little field of oats.

This picture will make you itch just looking at it.

The oats looked good going into the hopper.

The looked good in the trucks too.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2008

Thanks for putting them on here, that's nostalgia from the good old days. I remember when a JD 45 was a "big" combine (compared to the pull type Massey Clipper).

Tom43 · Jul 27, 2008

I have a much different memory of the 45 combine. We traded a 7 foot clipper for a "big" 12 foot Deere 45. We were terribly disappointed to find we could cut heavy down wheat faster with the Clipper and Super M Farmall. Finally we bought a 69 Deere 95 with a 13 foot header and it was pure heaven. I feel that a 45 combine along with the Farmall F-12 are two of the most worthless machines ever devised by the mind of man.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2008

Great looking eq Bill love your pics. Love them old trucks.

T_Bone · Jul 27, 2008

Great pics Bill.

I'm currious of how much grain you figure you loose on harvest? I've never done a harvest so I have no idea but I'm pretty sure you don't get a 100% of a crop.

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Dave_Id · Jul 27, 2008

Thanks for the pictures. The last time I helped harvest oats I was still a kid up in Minnesota. Hauled the bundeled shocks to the thresh machine, and fed them thru. The McCormick thresher was belted to a newer Oliver (early 60"s). By the end of the day, you knew you put in a days work.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2008

You harvest the rest by cutting it again later for hay, silage or getting cows out there to graze the volunteer off or drill more grazing mix in it for winter grazing.

billonthefarm · Jul 27, 2008

You can never get 100% that is correct. I think acceptable loss would be 3-5%. I will say this in my opinion, the old combines dont loose any more grain and do just as good a job cleaning as the newer combines, they are just alot slower and smaller and require more adjustment. The biggest difference is in the ablity to constantly monitor and makes changes right from the seat of the newer combines. The old machines take constant observation and some adjustments are hard to make.
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