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Amity, Oregon | I think my dad put this together in '59 or '60. Must not have been a success because I only remember a 4 row 3-point planter on a M5 Moline. Dad is 93 and doesn't remember anything about the Uni-planter. Just found the pictures today and thought y'all might enjoy.
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| Wow, that's cool. Do you know about the location the pics were taken? If you can find the where, maybe someone in the area can remember it. |
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68340 | I remember seeing a sales brochure showing a 6 row planter being pushed by a New Idea mule, but never actually saw one in action. Just not practical enough. That mule would just be another machine you would have to keep working, along with your regular tractor. If you have ever been around or worked with New Idea equipment you would not long to use it any more than you had to. Glad you have your photos. My Dad was a real inventer also. Build his own 3 point blade, soil scraper, modified elevators for moving seed corn, put a number of tanks in a barn and the graders to grade seed corn. Even build one of the first high boys to go through tall corn. |
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Amity, Oregon | The pictures were taken somewhere near Amity or Dayton, Oregon I'm pretty sure. The way I remember it changing implements on the Uni System was not all that fun. We had a swather, combine and picker-shellor and got plenty of chances at it. First you cut ryegrass with the swather, then put the combine on and ate dust for weeks on end, except when you were unplugging the cylinder from the piles the (insert colourful language here) swather left behind. Corn was harvested after school started so it was almost fun, except for running in snow and mud. So you see that's why I don't have anything bad to say about the White 8800 and the Hesston 6600 that replaced the Unis. |
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southern MN | They were so much fun in mud, with their off-center weighting........... Not.
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Nusbaum Farms LLC Bellfountain, OR | That's cool! Would that tank have been carrying liquid fertilizer or insecticide? Hey, at least the view was good.
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| I hope Unifarmor sees this and has something to say about it. He has contacts and gets around pretty good in the area. Ya never know, he may know something about it. |
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Schlegel Farms, Hagerstown Indiana | I'm just thinking out loud here, but Could that power unit be a Minneapolis Moline....................the predecessor to the New Ideas Uni?
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Kingston,Mi | It is the M-M mule, I'll now attempt to attach a pdf.
edit: I will post the picture once I resize it, sorry about that.
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South Texas | Thanks for posting. I really enjoy the old machines of all types but this one has a real story to go with the history.
In late 60's, the Ag Engr Dept of Univ of WI produced a 4 row, self propelled wheel track planter. (Anyone recall the wheel track planting? We used it for years.) Anyway, so far as I know, Prof Bruhn was chair at the time--good guy. Since 4 row was about all you could do with that type of design, chisel plowing rapidly took over and larger units became king. I think the prototype just used 4 weighted truck tires to squash the track and there were just two wheels in back. Not sure if steering was through the rear wheels or differential steering of the fronts.
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Western Oregon | I don't talk to that G706 feller much. I suspect he may be converting to Internationals. (Pre CaseIH of course)
I have obtained photographs of the guy however.
In the top photo he is getting ready to drive out from under his combine
In the bottom photo is his corn picker. Good thing he greased it before removing it. I think he would be happy to come help you combine corn. Need a couple days notice... It looks like it has taken him a few years to get around to putting in on in place of the combine.
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West Central Minnesota | If you look in a 1951 MM calendar, you will see the first MM uni-tractors. There is one pictured there that has the operators station on the right hand side instead of left side. Currently there is a group of collectors trying to bring a uniharvestor back from Brazil that is on tracks. |
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Western Oregon | Here is a photo G706 sent me. I'm going to see if I can get him to comment as I didn't hear the details of this track conversion. It is not the same as the Brazil conversion of course. Probably a home built affair.
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| Yea I remember Wheel track planting, never did it but dad and I talked about it. Remember that. |
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Rural Valley pa | Really makes you wonder what combines will look like and do in 50 years. |
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Amity, Oregon | Don't know very much about this machine. It was owned by a farmer near Dayton on highway 221. The machine was scrapped in the 1970's, Don't know what happened to the tracks. Dad says it worked really well compared to a standard Uni in mud. The track system didn't come from the local MM dealer. May have been farmer built or an aftermarket system. |
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53590 | I'm a little late to the party!!!! I have a unitractor with the baler unit. I would love to find more attachments. I know they made a grain drill and manure spreader for them aswell. They were wayyyyyy ahead of their time. Any one who has any of these units and would like to sell them to a good home with lots of other molines get in touch with me!
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