Sweetfeet-cabless combines

greygoat · Oct 2, 2012

Hey "Sweetfeet", how young are you..to not know
that they made "cabless combines".
I never saw a Combine, until I was a Teenager!
Thrashing Machines were the only way to go!, and
I"ve "Shocked" plenty of grain and corn!

glennster · Oct 2, 2012

hrers a pic from the manual on the old allis all crop. i got to ride up by the grain tank when i was little. wow it was dusty.

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Old Bob · Oct 2, 2012

My Dad had the first self propelled combine in our area. Case 150. 14 foot header. No cab. Late 50's early 60's. That old combine did a lot of cheap honest work.

SweetFeet · Oct 2, 2012

Greygoat,
I am 48. I do remember that my dad had some type of pull-type combine or swather that I would play on and turn the reels... and get yelled at for it. Also would climb to the top of his parked elevator and make it tip like a teeter-totter, then run back down it...got yelled at for that too.*Now as a parent, I understand WHY.

But I really cannot recall a self-propelled combine without a cab. But then I did not pay a whole lot of attention to farming or tractors back then - I had older brothers, so I never helped with actual planting or harvest. I chased piglets, puppies and kittens. Then my brothers were in a car train accident when I was 9. One brother died, the other nearly died and had a long recovery (also my oldest sister's husband died in that accident too)... all this less than 30 days after my dad's father died. With three deaths in our family, I think dad became depressed for awhile. At that time dad stopped farming and rented the 80 acres out (he kept his factory job). So after 9 years old... no more farming, no more livestock, no more farmlife memories. Sad, because I loved it.
SweetFeet

SweetFeet · Oct 2, 2012

repeat post was here...oops

SweetFeet · Oct 2, 2012

Greygoat,
Oops, sorry for the double reply below. My computer froze up - thought it did not go through.

TominKy · Oct 2, 2012

I owned one of those model 100s, but it was a soybean special. It had an auger head which worked great in heavy beans. Sometimes it was a beast to keep it adjusted in varying beans, but the variable speed transmission made it easy to adjust speed as the crop went from light to heavy. You could choke on the dust from the separator if the wind was right, but a dust mask took care of that. If I remember right they used six cylinder Chrysler engines that took a real beating and kept on running. the worst problem with the machine is that the separator bed was the same as the pull type, which worked great in small grains, but didn't hold up well in heavy stemmed crops such as beans.

MisterT · Oct 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 15:39:35 10/02/12) Greygoat,
Oops, sorry for the double reply below. My computer froze up - thought it did not go through.

SweetFeet, it probably was not YOUR computer that locked up. It is a YT issue. I have learned that the "work around" when your message doesn't go through is to just hit the back button, then click on a different posting, and then go back to the posting you replied to, and like magic, your message will be there.

1206SWMO · Oct 2, 2012

On Sept 21st I attended an estate auction near Madison,KS..On it were two combines with no cabs..

E Gleaner that ran great and had been used very little-$550 and went for scrap..

CII Gleaner that ran great-$750 and went for scrap..

Our first combine with a cab was a new 1966 Gleaner E that had a cab added to it before fall harvest 1967..In 1971 we traded it for a used 403 IH with no cab..In 1972 it got a cab...

By 1970 most combines came with a factory cab..

Janicholson · Oct 2, 2012

My dad purchased a 1948 SP-125 IH self propelled. 12' grain head 127 zerks and 4 hours to service weekly, 1 hour each day. Nasty-- but made money and was pretty clean out the straw walkers. Jim

JMOR · Oct 2, 2012

My IH101 has a cab, but was available with or without cab. A little shade was about all good for, had to run with door & window open or burn up!

Traditional Farmer · Oct 2, 2012

I've run a Gleaner A with no cab but if you want to really eat dust the A-C Super 100 was the machine just about couldn't breath sometimes on that one.

rusty6 · Oct 2, 2012

I have combined on open machines with all the wind, dust, cold, heat. Don't ever want to do it again. My Uncle had two 95 John Deeres, both open machines where you were at the mercy of whatever the weather threw at you. Itchy eyes and skin from the dust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4F7Sm-lKQ

Paul from MI · Oct 2, 2012

If you really like dust try running an Allis 60 combine with a John Deere D. The seat is about 3' from the cutter bar, nice and low where you can get intimately acquainted with whatever you'rs combining.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 2, 2012

glennster,
Interesting pic. Got me to thinking, when was the term combine invented? I remember when a pull behind corn picker that also shelled the corn was called a picker/sheller. Then came the term self propelled picker/sheller. In your ad it's self propelled all crop harvester. SO, when did the term combine show up?
George

Anonymous-0 · Oct 2, 2012

Me about 1968 or so...

SweetFeet · Oct 2, 2012

Mister T,

Thanks, will have to remember that tip. I don't remember ever having it happen before.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · Oct 2, 2012

Dad had an 82 massey ferguson for one year and did alot of small grain at the end of the day he was black.I had a 45 Deere without a cab that I bought in the early fall and shelled a fair amount of corn without a cab and it was not to bad till one very cold day when I was working in the same field as dad with his 3300 and every time he passed he would wipe his forhead like he was sweating.It had a cab till small grain came around the next year.Most of the Deere 45's in PA and MD were sold without cabs.

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