Posted by paul on August 12, 2020 at 23:27:06 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: 2020.08.13 posted by kcm.MN on August 12, 2020 at 22:03:45:
Dad got a slightly newer one, the bronze color, with two rear wheels. He got it for picking ear corn.
Nice idea, but with the poor weight distribution (right drive wheel had almost no weight on it, the left side was weighted heavily) and the drive wheels, rear wheels, and wagon wheels all cutting different tracks in the field, it was always helpless in our clay wet ground. Couldn’t get anywhere, just spin out. Then it didn’t have a real clutch, it had a belt that tightened or loosened. Which mean doing down our hills with a wagon behind the belt would stretch the other way and slip, rolling down the hill. So he had to ride the brakes down every hill. And even that, he couldn’t ride them equally, with the bad weight distribution.
He ended up liking the bean combine on it better.
After a couple years the open bevel gears on the corn picker wore out, and couldn’t find replacements. I think he stopped trying to find any real hard....
Was a neat idea, but didn’t end up working as well in the real world as on paper.
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