Our Old Combine

Hollin farmers Tom and Matthew Davenport show how they use a 1970 International Model 82 combine to harvest an eight acre field of oats at Sky Meadows State Park. This small combine was manufactured for farmers when farms raised diversified crops which included grain. The combine is powered by the power takeoff from the tractor. Matt's grandfather had a combine just like this, but it was sold in the 1990s. Matt found this one (which was better shape than our old one) at a farm equipment auction in 2007 and bought it for $400. Tom demonstrates mowing with a scythe, and shows how a similar tool, the "cradle" was used to cut grain fields. Photos of the cradle are by Stephen Hough from from Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri. The photos are of Elva Hough, who is probably the photographer's grandfather. Excellent pages on thrashing and rural life at http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org

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• International
• combine
• model
• 82
• combining
• oats
• grain
• harvest
• mowing
• cradle
• scythe
• farming
• agriculture

[CombineWizard]

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.

[despardo]

Nice old combine.I'm glad to see someone still cares enough about this old equipment to keep it going.

[farthereast54]

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.

[hayfork100]

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.

[vmdairy]

Thanks for posting this instructive video.

[sebakyuubi]

what tractor is??

[EnvelopeofDeath]

that thing is sweet

[vtlpluyr]

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...

[klootzak37]

great , i love all about the harvest, modern harvesting or harvesting the old way, you name it! :-)

[farmerdude9]

i agree!!!

[dmbfan1912]

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.

[MasterofPuppets6787]

now days we see quite a faw 30 ft heads