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18c ditch system, winthrop Mn | Were these pull type combines top of the line for there day? Saw these at Pumpkin power fest in Hutchinson... my dad had a 66 combine way back...could not use it on tall heavy beans. It looks to me like Allis should of stopped making tractors after the WD-45. |
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Dallas Center IA 515-720-2463 | Great combines. The biggest single reason the grain binder and threashing machine were put out to pasture.
Allis-Chalmers sold more pull type combines than any other company every year from the first year of the All-Crop Harvestor, 1935, until the last model 72 combines were built. Don't know the year.
Did a great job, AND people could afford to buy them.
If it was left up to IHC, Deere, etc. the binder would have been around alot longer.
Are you there Granto? Did you find my brother?
Have purchaced a Mac putor. Just can't get it figured out yet. This old HP is giving me fits.
Went to Boone for dinner. Close to FPS site. Started raining while I was getting my money's worth at the Golden Correl. Good Rain, but it just plain stopped about 10 miles north of here.
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18c ditch system, winthrop Mn | Robert W.... the fair grounds was of full of people in orange, I would never find your brother. It is a great show... the spirit lives on.... if AC would of made one less mistake and deere one more this event would be called Green Spectacular....The WD-45 was there flagship... saw diesel powered wd-45s.... nice sound to them. |
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Chebanse, IL..... | Seems to me like most other collector tractors, they look a lot better now than they did 50-60 yrs ago. The first job I ever drove a neighbor's WD on was pulling up hay forks into the barn. We had a WC, but it was no wheres near as fancy as the WD. Ours didn't even have the self-commencer....or lights of course. Tractor below is neither of the tractors I describe:
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St.Clair Co. IL. | with all the weights on that WD I'm sure he has at LEAST a D-17 motor plus under the hood.
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Camp Douglas Wi. 40miles nw of wi. dells | Back in 1972 I bought a Allis Chalmars 60 at a farm auction for $175 that was in exc. condtion Hocked it up to the Farmall SH did my dads oats with it. Then I made deal with my dad that if I bought a clover screen for it & combine his redclover that I would get 10% of the seed. Well the redclover was so good that I ended up with $500 worth of redclover. |
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Stayner, Ontario, Simcoe County | Allis was ahead of the other manufactures including first tractor to have spin out power shift rear wheels on the WD in 1948 plus a wet clutch to stop the tractor and allow the pto to keep operating, first tractor with a turbo D19 -diesel in 1961,The competion copied the 8000 series cab (introduced in 1982)- these cabs were both roomy , quiet and easy to get in and out off.Gleaner introduced electric over hyd for the controls in the M and L combine in 1975 again ahead of the competion.Poor management decisions crippled the company in 1985.
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East Central MO-Audrain/Pike Counties | "deutz green is here to stay whether you like it or not" --still remember the block man telling my Dad that on our back step as he tried to get him to take over the local Allis dealer that was closing. Dad told him to keep the 8000 series in orange with a cummins in front of it and they would have something to sell. |
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NW Washington | I don't think the All-Crop harvesters were necessarily the top of the line. But they were the first light weight small combines that were low prices and AC sold a bunch of them in the 1930's.
But the competition caught on fast and soon every one else had a small 6 foot PT machine on the market. John Deere sold a bunch of 12 and 12A combines. Massey Harris Clippers were popular.
IH had a couple as did Moline, Oliver and even Gleaner. My dad was a Case man so we had a Case A-6. In our neck of the woods the All-Crops were not all that popular. You alway knew who used one because they had straw dumped in the fence row from the first round because the All-Crop dumped the straw out of the right end of the combine behind the tractor. They also did a poor job of spreading the straw. The tractor driver got a shower of chaff and straw if there was a tail wind too. The cylinder bars were angle iron with a rubber face on one side. I am sure the rubber wore smooth after about one round.
I thought the WD-45 tractor was hot stuff when I was a kid until I got a chance to drive one which was like driving a bucking bronco when plowing. That cure my wants. I am pretty sure the WD-45 diesel engine was the same Buda engine used in Cockshutt 40 tractors with a new name as Allis Chalmers bought out Buda when they needed bigger and diesel engines for their tractors and combines. |
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Allis Chalmers 60,66,72 combines?
