BIG sheds I mean really big

55 50 Ron · Mar 23, 2018

I was thinking of the big machine storage buildings seen on many farms today. Wonder if any farms had sheds big enough to store the huge pull type combines of many years ago, say the 1930s and 1940s, without taking the headers off. Was thinking of the John Deere 17 in particular with a 16 ft header. The clean grain elevator on that was way "up there" over the hopper. It would have needed about a 30 to 32 ft wide door and I don't know what the door height would have had to be.

olgentdc · Mar 23, 2018

they left them outside . dust bowl covered them

Loren in Iowa · Mar 23, 2018

Recently read through the operating manual for a 1930's Case threshing machine. They recommended storing them inside, and said that if they were maintained and lubricated correctly, they should last 10 or 12 years. Doesn't seem like a real long useful life, to me, but probably very few of them were stored inside.

paul · Mar 23, 2018

Shed door height was the big thing, as they moved from horse and human power to engines and self propelled.

Early on widths weren't so bad, but the height was.

Still that way I guess, in mn it's not legal to have a load over 13.5 feet on the road; but we are supposed to have 16 foot and some want 18 foot high doors on their sheds..... we just followed a fella pulling a field cultivator with a pickup, folded vertically, we saw it bounce on some ice under the 14' 2" bridge and the harrow teeth vibrated off the bottom of the rail bridge beam.....

Paul

quefan · Mar 24, 2018

Threshing machines sometimes had the folding bagger feature. Clean grain elevator folded/pivotted sideways to reduce height.

BIG sheds I mean really big

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