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Central Kansas | At the sale yesterday, they sold a 35 Massey Harris combine. Kinda looked like a "tinkertoy" but kinda cute! Had maybe a 10ft header on it with a grain bin that looked to hold about 35 bushels. How old of a machine would this have been and where would something that SMALL be used? Can't imagine that they built very many of them, beings it wasn't much bigger than a toy! |
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East Kansas, DeSoto | In a dairy area I live once they were practical and popular for small farms. Gifford |
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68340 | Talked to local JD owner 20 years ago about the first combines. He said the first ones he remembered only had a 3 or maybe a 5 ft cutting bar width. It might take you a week or 2 to do your 3-40 acres, but the selling point was you did not have to help the neighbors with their wheat harvest. This was back when they still made bundles, hauled them in, ect. Located in SE Nebr. |
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Yorktown, TX | My Opa had a Massey Harris SP combine that was the first self propelled combine in Gillespie county Texas. It was older than the 35 but very similar, and had cable steering all the way back to the single tire in the rear. It had an 8' grain table that had a canvas with bats on it, a small hopper with a sacking station on the side. He cut wheat, oats, barley, and corn. To cut the corn he had to raise the reel all the way up and drive extremely slow, but it did it. With that small combine he harvested 200 acres of his own crops, and right at 1000 acres custom. Him, my Oma, and my dad would work very late and start as early as possible. They just slept in the truck camper in the fields till harvest was over. We still have the combine sitting out under the trees in Fredericksburg. The motor still runs. I want to fix it up someday in the future.
Edited by JKneese 5/18/2009 01:53
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Princeton, Indiana | Several of them were customized as plot combines during the 70's and 80's.
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Stayner, Ontario, Simcoe County | THE MF 35 HAD AN 8 FT HEAD AND WERE BUILT IN THE LATE 1950'S . THEY ALSO BUILT A MF 35 PULL TYPE COMBINE. |
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southern MN | Well, you cribbed corn on the ear, beans would yield 30 bu an acre so you could make 2 or maybe 3 rounds before emptying the hopper. Oats could push it a little at 50-60 bu an acre but you could still make a round.
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NW Washington | Thousands and thousands of 5 and 6 foot pull type combines were used up until into 1950's which were a big improvement over binders and threshing machines use previously. Ear corn was harvested with a one or two row picker. A big tractor was a Farmall M or a John Deere A, and farms were much smaller. A BTO might farm a whole section. And there were a lot more farmers. Times change. BTW, Massey Harris had a 7 foot self-propelled Clipper combine too which was a sp version of the pull type Clipper which was a straight through machine with about a 5 foot wide cylinder.
Edited by JohnW 5/18/2009 01:41
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SE Michigan | Not all farms were 1000-10,000 acres. My grandfather had one that was used on 100a, several of the neighbors had 35's also, Some day I suspect I will read a post on this site about JD 7700's IH 815's etc, some BTO will be asking how someone could get by with such a SMALL machine. |
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High Springs, Florida | I learned how to run a combine on one of those in the early 1970's!! Man, what a dusty dirty machine that was to run. I did wheat, oats, speltz with that machine. I think it had a 9' platform. Of course no electronics at all, you had to really use your ears and listen to the sound of the cylinder to gauge your ground speed which you adjusted with a lever on a quadrant on the right side. You kept your right hand on it all the time, constantly adjusting your speed to match crop conditions. You were always filthy dirty at the end of the day after running that machine. |
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Kansas City area | I have run one as a plot combine. Work great for the small areas, easy to set and clean out, and don't need a big tank. |
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