Harvest pics!!
- Thread starter jakeboy
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- Aberdeenshire
Tidy combine
david
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- County Down
The best invention in the world was putting a cab on a combine.
Nice machine there jakeboy ! and thanks for posting photos.
Nice machine there jakeboy ! and thanks for posting photos.
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
Many many, many moons ago....early 2000/2001 at a guess, our 525 what we have now, and neighbours 520 super 2
note the cheeky little scamp piloting the 520, and the 35....wonder who that could be
note the cheeky little scamp piloting the 520, and the 35....wonder who that could be
John can I use these photos on my website?? I'm going to do a section soon on other people's classics?? I have quite a few all ready!!Many many, many moons ago....early 2000/2001 at a guess, our 525 what we have now, and neighbours 520 super 2
note the cheeky little scamp piloting the 520, and the 35....wonder who that could be
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"And if the corn prices slip any further I may get bl##dy inundated" !!?
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
Reckon a lot might think the same about grain tanks, getting rid of bagging shoots.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
At least with a bagging shoot you kept all your weed seeds in a bag now you just spread them all over your land then complain you have to spray all the weeds off. Progress ??
Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
@renewablejohn not familiar with bagger combines, does the grain not go over sieves same as a modern tank combine?
Thank you David!
The cabs on the 525s were known to many as coffins!! For various reasons! For one they looked the same shape!!
Any wiring routed into the operators station through the cab panel quickly chaffed through with the vibration causing electrical fires!!
Most operators would suffer heat stroke!! When the roof top cab chillers packed up!! Providing they worked in the first place!!??
Also with the majority of fires emanating from in and around the engine bay any quick access lifting up the engine bay cover was thwarted by the cab panel!! Losing vital time to stick the old extinguisher in, which usually was not bigger than a smartie tube!! So fat lot of good!
But you are definitely right the dust is a killer!! my cousin had to Finnish work aged 50 and died at 52 through lung disease caused by dust from his combine driving for a large estate cutting over a thousand acres yearly during sixties and seventies!! But he absolutely loved his job!! Never wanted to do anything else!!
He had no regrets, and enjoyed every working day!!
How many today can say that!!?
I have an old Massey combine brochure which quotes!! Unlike our competitors machines the operators are sat to the side of the feed elevator away from the harmful dust!!??
Bet my cousin could argue that point!!
Regards All
renewablejohn
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- lancs
You had screens on the combine taking out all the small stuff to give you a perfect sample but unlike modern combines it was normally bagged up and taken home for chicken feed.
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
Few more....pre harvest servicing, keep the engine bay and the control lever console clean (and i mean spotless, we wash it out at start of season, then blow it out every other day during harvest) and the wiring in good order and they dont catch fire!!!!
Vincent
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- Kildare Ireland
Our neighbours had a 525 that was parked up in the shed when it was replaced with a deutz Fahr, was then put out to make space and finally scrapped a shame really . If it was still there I'd have it after seeing the above machines still going strong. Spent many a day and evening on it.
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- S. Staffs
The Massey baggers had a rotary screen cleaner which used to do a really good job, the grain was coming off so slowly they could cope easily. But the last bagger I worked on was a contractors M103, it was much faster and the wheat came off so quick you had a job to keep up with two of us filling and another tying, can't remember if it had a cleaner screen or not, anyone know?
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- Aberdeenshire
What's your website?
www.yellowswirl.info Regards jakeboy