Rebuilding the 91 Bean Special every year- when you're 12-14 yrs old and working on it by yourself, those long shafts in the windrow pickup were not fun to slide in and out to change the pickup teeth. Always a few bent bars in the feeder, standing on your head to change them, everything's full of dust, fresh spikes on the cylinder and bars, check and repair all the little dirt sieves on the augers and conveyors, go though the belts, straighten bent fins on the racks, yada yada Next came the Innes windrower, teeth, u-joints, blah blah Then install the 4-row cultivator on the 706D (the one that bolted on in place of the weight rack and then swung in to the frame rails), move the wheels all the way to the end of the axles with the old 8N loader, pull off the cultivator attachments and install the bean pullers, pull off the blades to be sharpened... Yeppers, bean season was tunzafun- I remember combining, IIRC 1971, at 11:30PM, gramps and both uncles asleep in the pickup as we'd been going all day, and it started snowing under the full moon- kinda surreal. Finished the last windrow at 2:45AM and ran out of gas heading for the truck to unload LOL
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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