Posted by Thehickdaddy on December 16, 2020 at 08:20:33 from (50.38.108.149):
In Reply to: Re: 2020.12.16 posted by blackhole49 on December 16, 2020 at 05:40:08:
Lots of steep ground out here on the west coast.
In addition to many home made and custom ordered machines, Holt of Stockton California was building hillside combines by 1890 and Harrington manufacturing of Washington was building engine powered, pull behind combines rated up to 40% slope by 1920. Both companies also building their own crawler tractors to conquer the hillside terrain.
And another side note is that when big international harvester set about to design their hillside combines of the 1980s, I believe the engineers were sent out to palouse, Washington to study the ground and also to work with the guys who had decades of experience making hillside machines and conversion kits.
Separately, I believe it was Adams tractor company made a few hillside wheel tractors that had adjustable rear final drives that could be adjusted per the hillside requirements
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