What combines do you own?

You have a number of options for harvesting wildflowers. The best way is to set up a windrower to dispense ~4' wide brown kraft paper and have your wildflower windrow fall directly on the paper. The paper windrows have to be "tied" down to keep them from blowing away. This technique will maximize yield by catching all the seeds that shatter. You would need to use a pickup header on your combine and run everything, paper and all through your gleaner. You can, of course windrow without paper and take your losses although you can count this as volunteers for next season. The other way is to cut the flowers standing after they have dried and suffer the losses from shatter. As far a combine setup is concerned, you will probably have to block off most of the opening on your fan. I usually run the chaffer and seive(s) pretty far open to maximize yield and am not worried about getting a clean sample since the seed will need to be run through secondary cleaning. As with most things, keeping the machine loaded up helps it to work most effeciently. This is how it is done out West, perhaps other parts of the country do it differently.

Doug

MF 510 hydro

MF 750 hydro

JD 45 round back

JD 4400

JD 6600

And 1958 #90 Allis All-Crop with factory extended head.

Here's the 95 and the good 227 with a 9550 SH

12A with LUC engine,pickup
25 with 4 cylinder continental engine
30
40 RB with 10' head
40 SB with 10' head
42 rb with pickup
42 SB with 205 corn attach
1955 45 RB with Hercules 4 cyl, shaker pan
1958 45 RB with JD engine 12' head
1962 45 HiLo, with 10' bean head, reel lift
1965 45 SB, diesel, with 234 corn attach
1968 45 SB, with 10' bean head, 235 corn
1948 55, approx 2nd prod. year, hand lever var. speed. Hercules 6.
1951 55, foot controlled hyd var speed
1954 55, var speed, header lift and gauges in console on front left side of platform
1956 55, first year of JD axle and 4 speed transmission, earlier ones had 3 spd Rockwell
1958 55, first year of JD 217 engine, all prior had Hercules, slanted steering column
1962 55, HiLo, rear folding grain auger
1969 55 corn special
1951 65
1962 65
1965 65 sb
1963 95 hilo
1969 105

All bought within last two years.

Also have JD 200 PT, and 226, 227, 237, and 127 mounted corn pickers.

You have amassed quite a collection in a short time.

The 1948 55 came from Oregon, in the Cascade Mountains. It had been on the same farm since new, the owner passed away 2 years ago at 92. His 91 year old wife came out to look at it on her way to bowling. (She was bragging about what a good machine it had been). It used to be a sacking machine, until their son moved away, when they put a grain tank on it. It was always shedded and in good shape.

The 1951 55 came from Kansas, that was also always on the same farm. It was western Kansas, so very well preserved. The machine was always shedded except for two nights a year or so. In 1971 the machine was retired and put away in the shed. This spring I got it started, all it took was to rebuild the carburetor and put in fresh gas.

Have a good thanksgiving. Brad

Looking for any 60's MM self propelled machines.

As soon as I get my new computer I will be posting more pictures of the Kansas Wheat Harvest.

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Do you have any pictures of the 168 MM?What year are combines being featured at Winfield,KS?

Winfield is featuring Combines in 2011. About time a show tried something different.

I didn't get to the Oliver 25. Too many other things going on. As soon as I figure out how to get a G4 MM back across a wsahed out creek I will be bringing it home.

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Allis Chalmers
(3) 66 bigbins---66A hillside---72

Gleaner 2006 R-65 w/ 25" & 6 row---2003 R-65 w/ 20" & 6 row

International
1953 2MH, 101, right hand grain binder, 1 row tall corn binder

Other
Armstong bluegrass stripper, Ford 2 row mounted, Woods brothers picker, dearborn picker, Massey Harris self propelled picker.

Thats my 30 harvesters at this time.

Massey Super 27 Massey 21 With canvas header (4) Massey 35's, 2 are for parts (2) Massey Clipper SP's (3) 91 IH's-1 is for parts 123 McCormick 428 Cockshutt 110 Cockshutt 100 Allis Chalmers T-3 Gleaner SP (2) S MM's-1 is for parts 611 Ford

In 2008 I hope to add a 40 Oliver,early 55 JD,early A Gleaner,and a SP-12 Case.

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