Crawfordsville, Arkansas | mountain_anderson - 10/17/2023 09:32
Hi all,
I couldn't find out anywhere online, but I heard from a friend that the trucks from the harvest bigrade in the 40s with massey harris combines that the flatbed trucks they used to carry the combines with where converted into their grain haulers after unloading their combines. Is that true and if so, how did they do it?
On the wheat harvest in 2000 we put 30' rigid heads on trailers inside the box on the tandem trucks. They had made a system using a 2 or 3" tube bolted in the center of the bed and the head trailer had a corresponding slot made to match up. Put the hitch of the trailer on the side in a bracket and then use the combines throat and a lift resembling an engine hoist to raise the trailer up. There were jack stands made to hold the trailer up in the air and the tandem reversed until it was all the way to the front of the box. Put a pin in the tube and she was good to go. |
Questions about the 1940s harvest bigrade
