JD offered as an option live hydraulics and IPTO on the R in 1949. I know tractor data says live but it was in fact an IPTO with a clutch pack to kick it in and out. My dad had one. I helped rebuild the clutch pack. The plates would warp and the PTO would run constant.
AH! I found it! The model 30 in 1946! It says live not IPTO? Which one was it? The JD R had an IPTO although tractordata say live. It had a clutch pack for engaging it. Dada had one and I helped him rebuild it while I was home on leave.
I'm talking about the big gun combiners who started harvest in the south and worked north. I worked that circuit in 73. The guy I worked for had taken over from his dad who still helped out. Mostly running back and forth into town to get us pops and bring us meals. He ran 3 new combines every year and had 3 grain trucks too. The crew was his dad, him, 3 operators and 3 truck drivers. Everything was JD and GMC.
We did have a few local guys who did some custom harvesting with Gleaners. But out on the circuit I only saw JD and MF. His dad claimed that with the 7700's and whatever the MF guys were running that they were the only to combines worth having.
So I'm most likely out of whack here because I don't think of custom work as doing you neighbors place. I think of it as a 6 month endurance run! I guess doing the local area is custom work too.
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