Friday, November 18, 2022

Harvest

 


13 comments:

  1. Never had the pleasure of running a silage machine, but am intimately familiar with a two row cotton stripper. Two rows at a time is like eating ice cream with a toothpick.

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  2. That is waaay back in the day harvesting.

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  3. 2 rows, open station, mechanical controls instead of electric over hydraulic. Whatever could this guy have been thinking? New forage cutters may cut 16 rows at a time with a cab you could live in and controls that use buttons or switches. This pic is really old school, but for the time, very up to date.

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  4. Pic has to be from early 60's.

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  5. The corn appears mature and dried out. Too late for quality corn silage.

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  6. i remember a 1 row snapper mounted to john deere 2010 back in 1971. all it did was pick the ear from the stalk and convey it to the wagon. took forever to harvest the corn.

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  7. With all the new and improved (massive, industrial) methods of harvest, it's nice to see things being done on a smaller scale. Not exactly horse and buggy, but it's certainly being done with substantially less investment in monstrous machinery!

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  8. Back in the ‘80s I harvested clover seed with a John Deere 105 with, if memory serves, a 14’ header. Open cab. Dusty as all get out. The 105 was old in the ‘80s, and the thing had to be jump started. Good times.

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  9. Crap I'm old enough to remember when that WAS the state of the art. I an tell you right now that pic is from the early 70's haircut, style of cloths and no hearing protection ! I'm telling you that thing had either a Detroit 2 cycle diesel, (known for processing diesel fuel into noise) and the cutterhead on all those New Holland choppers just plain howled. You could hear the neighbors clearly a mile and a half away

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  10. forgot to say the other engine option was a straight piped v8 or 6 cyl gasser

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  11. I've done that. Yes, the corn was over-mature but we stuck a hose in the silo filler to dampen it up and it worked fine. Most of the harvest machines at that time had 4 cylinder gas engines but I don't know about that New Holland. I have a 1959 Massie Harris combine out in my tractor barn I bought from my buddy that bought it new that I haven't run in over 20 years that has a gas engine. Maybe someday...... ---ken

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  12. Before the days of ethanol and burning corn in your infernal combustion engine. What a lamebrained idea.

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