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Tim(nj)

03-15-2002 20:45:51




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While out in the field today, I began pondering something unimportant yet interesting (to me, anyway). How many portable elevator manufacturers were out there when ear corn was king? I am actually considering collecting sales literature about elevators (of all things). Combine boy, your hobby doesn't sound so strange now, does it? :) Anyway, just going by what we and our neighbors have and have had, and by what I've seen at sales, there were a baffling number of manufacturers.

My grandfather had a JI Case and I currently have a Zimmerman. Elevators I have seen on other farms and at auctions: John Deere; Smoker; Kewanee; Owatonna; King Wyse; New Idea; Mayrath; Lavelle; David Bradley; International; Little Giant/Glencoe; Mulkey. I also know about that batch of 500 elevators Allis-Chalmers made in 1957.

Anybody have any to add?

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Art

03-25-2002 01:16:12




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
Valley and Koyker



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Boomer

03-19-2002 06:34:34




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
We don't wanna leave out ol' J.A.Freeman and Son of Portland Oregon, they built a bunch of em! Gooduns too.



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IaGuy

03-17-2002 18:26:56




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
Biewer Mfg made a good sturdy one big enough for square bales out of a little factory in Cresco, IA in the 1940's



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T.A.T.Vasan

08-13-2002 00:16:31




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 Re: Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to IaGuy, 03-17-2002 18:26:56  
Please send me the Elevator Manufacturers list from all over the world. We want to start their agency in Kuwait.
Vasan



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IaGuy

03-17-2002 18:26:30




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
Biewer Mfg made a good sturdy one big enough for square bales out of a little factory in Cresco, IA in the 1940's



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Tim(nj)

03-17-2002 14:42:36




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
I just found 2 more to add to the list: McCurdy and Cardinal.



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JimW

03-17-2002 14:36:58




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
J&M Manufacturing, Inc. of Fort Recovery, Ohio, just about 15 miles away from the "cornpicker capital of the world" - Coldwater,OH -New Idea



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mbfarmall

03-16-2002 18:17:21




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
There also was one made by a company called Stanhoist out of Fort Dodge Ia.



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Steven M

03-16-2002 13:37:12




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  

Smalley, Made at Manitowoc, Wisconsin



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JD70Jim

03-16-2002 10:22:55




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
VIKING made a lot of elevators, I still have one.



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john d

03-16-2002 08:36:08




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
My dad and a neighbor bought a 30' HARVEY elevator in the late 1940's. It had a gas engine, probably 3-4 hp on it, and we used that thing hard until sometime around 1960.



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chris

03-16-2002 07:43:33




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
Here in Nebraska there was a manufacturing company called Blair Manufacturing selling feeder wagons, manure spreaders and elevators. The elevators were a golden yellow with red lettering and many are still used today. The factory was in Blair Nebraska and made other livestock equipment even a small square hay bale grinder. chris



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Ral[ph Ia

03-16-2002 09:41:58




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 Re: Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to chris, 03-16-2002 07:43:33  
And their products were called Kelly Ryan.



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Fudd

03-16-2002 07:00:02




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
We had a Galloway made in Waterloo, IA.



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JK-NY

03-16-2002 05:17:02




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  

New Holland comes to mind right off (as I have one) . If I think of more I'll post 'em later.



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David B

03-16-2002 04:54:59




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 Re: Elevator manufacturers in reply to Tim(nj), 03-15-2002 20:45:51  
Meyer made a good portable elevator and of course International had there name on one, I don't know if they made it or not.



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