My earliest memories involve a Massey Harris self propelled combine with an open operator station and a small cutting platform in soybeans, and a 450 Farmall with a mounted picker for ear corn and a sheller unit for corn. We had a handful of 120 bushel barge boxes and two 220 bushel gravity wagons, all pulled with 55 to 75 horsepower tractors and no cabs. My father was delighted when that Massey Harris combine went down the road and a 545 Oliver self propelled combine with a 15 foot cutting platform for soybeans and a 3 row narrow corn head arrived...................and this combine had a cab with a pressurizer fan and heat, too! The barge boxes went by the wayside as more gravity wagons arrived. The next big step was a 7700 Deere with a 20 foot flexhead and a 6 row narrow corn head. That was the first machine with air conditioning in the cab. Today it is a 9500 Deere and multiple sets of gravity wagons providing a bit over 3000 bushels on wheels, and the tractors have enclosed cabs with heat and air conditioning, just like the combine. The dust and dirt one has to be around and inhale, along with enduring the outside elements of cold, rain, wind, and more often these days of heat are much less than days since past. As others have noted, it takes no time at all to cover a field and remove the crop these days with the machinery that has been built for even the past 20 to 30 years!
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Today's Featured Article - George's Fordson Major - by Anthony West (UK). This is a bit of a technical info to add on to the article about George's Major in the "A Towny Goes Plowing" article. George bought his Major from a an implement sale about 18 years ago for £200.00. There is no known history regarding its origins or what service it had done, but the following work was undertaken by Harold alone to bring it up to show standard. From the engine number, it was found that the major was produced late 19
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