This takes me back - when I was a kid, we rented part of our place to our neighbor who rotated corn, wheat, and oats. Their combine had an eight foot cut and it was a thrill to ride it.They also had a small straight-line square-baler for hay. This was to run a small beef and dairy operation, with some hogs and sheep. In hindsight, it was idyllic. It's all garden apartments now,
I might also say that my grandfather grew up on a farm in Nova Scotia, and could MOW HIS LAWN EVENLY with a scythe.
Great video. I grew up on an Indiana farm in the 50's. We raised oats every year for the dairy cow feed and hog feed. Nothing is more uncomfortable than the oat chaff sticking to your sweaty body on a 90 degree day in July, while combining and unloading oats with a scoop shovel into a grain bin in a closed barn. We had a Massey Harris Clipper combine. It had about a 6 or 7 foot cut, and a canvas belt with wooden slats pulled the cut grain up into the beater bars.
I have an 82 - it still does 20 acres of Oats every year. I bought an old model 80 for spare parts only to realize that it worked too. I can combine oats at a rate of 1.2 gallons of fuel per ton of oats using a Massey-Ferguson 265 and this combine. Something to think about...
and a 30 foot platform wouldn't have any problems in that field. The comment he makes about spending all their time turning around is a myth. If you do 2 end cuts to shorten up the field, you could easily walk across that field so much quicker.
Great video. My neighbour still uses an old Cockshutt self propelled combine. You didn't mention that most of the old combines had scour cleaners to get rid of a lot of the weed seed, thereby reducing the need for so much pesticides.
I really like the way you took a little time to explain just how the combine works. All conventional combines, regardless of size, have the same principle. The name of the machine you are looking for, is combined harvester-thresher, which is how the monnicker, "combine" evolved. Older IH machines were actually labeled correctly, "harvester-thresher," which I always liked. It's historical.
This takes me back - when I was a kid, we rented part of our place to our neighbor who rotated corn, wheat, and oats. Their combine had an eight foot cut and it was a thrill to ride it.They also had a small straight-line square-baler for hay. This was to run a small beef and dairy operation, with some hogs and sheep. In hindsight, it was idyllic. It's all garden apartments now,
I might also say that my grandfather grew up on a farm in Nova Scotia, and could MOW HIS LAWN EVENLY with a scythe.
farthereast54 1 month ago
Great video. I grew up on an Indiana farm in the 50's. We raised oats every year for the dairy cow feed and hog feed. Nothing is more uncomfortable than the oat chaff sticking to your sweaty body on a 90 degree day in July, while combining and unloading oats with a scoop shovel into a grain bin in a closed barn. We had a Massey Harris Clipper combine. It had about a 6 or 7 foot cut, and a canvas belt with wooden slats pulled the cut grain up into the beater bars.
hayfork100 7 months ago
Thanks for posting this instructive video.
vmdairy 1 year ago
what tractor is??
sebakyuubi 1 year ago
that thing is sweet
EnvelopeofDeath 2 years ago
I have an 82 - it still does 20 acres of Oats every year. I bought an old model 80 for spare parts only to realize that it worked too. I can combine oats at a rate of 1.2 gallons of fuel per ton of oats using a Massey-Ferguson 265 and this combine. Something to think about...
vtlpluyr 2 years ago
great , i love all about the harvest, modern harvesting or harvesting the old way, you name it! :-)
klootzak37 2 years ago
now days we see quite a faw 30 ft heads
MasterofPuppets6787 3 years ago
and a 30 foot platform wouldn't have any problems in that field. The comment he makes about spending all their time turning around is a myth. If you do 2 end cuts to shorten up the field, you could easily walk across that field so much quicker.
dmbfan1912 3 years ago
Great video. My neighbour still uses an old Cockshutt self propelled combine. You didn't mention that most of the old combines had scour cleaners to get rid of a lot of the weed seed, thereby reducing the need for so much pesticides.
FletcherABC123 3 years ago
herbicides not pesticides lol. nice video im using my old 82 to combine to harvest soybeans in a few weeks
eros5239 3 years ago
Very Neat!!
Alek9997 4 years ago
I wouldn't call a 1970's combine an antique just yet. Old or obsolete maybe but, not quite antique yet.
kblackav8or 4 years ago
Nice old combine.I'm glad to see someone still cares enough about this old equipment to keep it going.
despardo 4 years ago 4
i agree!!!
farmerdude9 2 years ago
I really like the way you took a little time to explain just how the combine works. All conventional combines, regardless of size, have the same principle. The name of the machine you are looking for, is combined harvester-thresher, which is how the monnicker, "combine" evolved. Older IH machines were actually labeled correctly, "harvester-thresher," which I always liked. It's historical.
CombineWizard 4 years ago 6
Scythe use starts at 1:30 in the clip. Shows use of a cradle in harvesting oats. Most of the time is used to show a 1970's combine.
grostig 4 years ago