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| ...when most small grain was windrowed and most corn was put up for silage in the upper Midwest(soybeans were not even thought of then). Think of the Dakotas, Montana, Canadian Prairie provinces. Those areas had a lot of pull-type combines up until the 1980s. Pull-type combines had a lot of capacity(they usually were built on the largest SP combine chassis of the time period). Most "prairie farmers" had a big tractor(think of those BIG wheatland tractors that all the Corn belt collectors of today have such a fascination with) that was not doing any work at harvest time anyway; so a PT combine made economical sense for them. Once row-crops gained in popularity(and the later PT combines were not any cheaper than a 3-4 year old SP combine), the PT combines lost their appeal. Used to be many 914IHs, 6601 John Deeres around here in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Still several of them sitting around in this area-most haven't been used in 20-25 years. | |
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Pull type combine ???
