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Northern Idaho | For hillside combines here in the west they made the model 36 combine and the smaller versions the 33 and 35. They bought the model 36 from caterpillar in 1936. Cat made them starting in 1926. JD made the 36 until 1951. They made the model 35 from 1936-41. Not sure on the 33.
We have an old JD 35 sitting down by the barn. Used it from 1950 to 1961, it is a 1941 model with a 14ft header. Pulled with a D4 cat which we still have. The 36 combines were bigger and usually pulled with a D6 sized crawler. Hardly ever saw any pulled with wheel tractors. Pulling the combine was apparently the hottest job during wheat harvest because you were sitting between the engine on the cat and the one on the combine plus no shade from the sun.
The first four pics are of our 35 in its present day condition, you had to pull a lever by hand to keep the combine level, heard a story about the neighbors almost tipping one over because the hired hand threw the lever the wrong way on a hillside.
Last two pics are not mine.
Next one is the model 36 but it was still owned by cat and not JD at the time I believe, an old cletrac crawler is pulling it.
Last one is a model 33 pulled by a D4 in 1967, a few of these pull types ran into the 70s.
Edited by NIF 4/26/2011 11:34
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Old pull type JD combines
