JF Combine Harvester

[cosmiccrofter]

I’m not sure that the Ferguson version ever reached production.

Yes it did.

 

[P500Falcon]

Does it give a good sample, much losses over the back? Not a contractors machine but cant see why there's not a niche for them as a farmers machine. A combine is a bit of an investment for a small acreage.

Yes a very good sample. Had minimal losses going slow and steady, It ain't no high output machine that's for sure

 

[76masseyman]

Yes it did.

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Wasn’t that one a replica built by a Ferguson enthusiast, using parts from early combines ?
I seem to remember they built one to resemble the machine that Ferguson intended to make, from plans and drawings that existed.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Yes it did.

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Is that the one that was in the Hunday collection? Also been owned by a gentleman near me. I think I was told that it was a one off.

 

[tomlad]

Re. The fergie i remember seeing one being made replicated by someone , probably in a magazine article as it was a while ago.
Probably all the same fizical combine
As in only 1

 

[Devil's advocate]

That would be great on s reverse drive tractor

I saw one at the Yorkshire show with a deutz Intrac as the power unit.

Dad considered one but was worried about not been able to see the cutter bar.

That was to replace a 20 year old trailed IH bagger combine (stuff got scrapped in those days for been obsolete)

So he bought a 1964 Clayson Mi33 cheap as chips at the time, but it was in a terrible state, stored outside I would imagine.

 

[Oliveau]

Yes it did.

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Good view of the cutter bar - if you drive standing up!

 

[Oscar]

Farmer had one of those JF wrap - arounds a few miles away from me , was doing the job although slow . Probably did 50 acs or so per year .They sort of stopped growing grain , no idea where it ended up but was in great condition last time I saw it but thinking about it must be 20 years ago !

 

[mar]

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That about all I've got, I'll have to get some better action shots this year!

That is a very clean machine how does it attach to the tractor

 

[Lakes Nash]

Well tidy and fully independent

 

[JockCroft]

God I'm getting old. 1968, just passed my tractor test and we bought a JF 5ft cut bagger. Our first combine.20 mile trip from town first time driving with it. It bumped a bit on single track roads.
All in oats that year, lacked patience to let it fully ripen, jammed the drum a few times. That taught one to change down a gear. As best i can remember usually cut about an acre an hour.
The big drawback was gathering bags and then at the barn emptying into auger. Sold it after 3 seasons and used a contractor after that.

 

[glasshouse]

God I'm getting old. 1968, just passed my tractor test and we bought a JF 5ft cut bagger. Our first combine.20 mile trip from town first time driving with it. It bumped a bit on single track roads.
All in oats that year, lacked patience to let it fully ripen, jammed the drum a few times. That taught one to change down a gear. As best i can remember usually cut about an acre an hour.
The big drawback was gathering bags and then at the barn emptying into auger. Sold it after 3 seasons and used a contractor after that.

Self propelled ?

 

[Half Pint]

Is my memory tricking me or did a manufacture produce a chassis that could be equipped with a self propelled forager or a combine harvester in about the 1970s? I seem to remember seeing it on TV perhaps Farming Today or Tomorrows World possibly made by New Idea. I am probably wrong.

 

[Half Pint]

Just thought I think it was Farmhand not New Idea.

 

[Oliveau]

God I'm getting old. 1968, just passed my tractor test and we bought a JF 5ft cut bagger. Our first combine.20 mile trip from town first time driving with it. It bumped a bit on single track roads.
All in oats that year, lacked patience to let it fully ripen, jammed the drum a few times. That taught one to change down a gear. As best i can remember usually cut about an acre an hour.
The big drawback was gathering bags and then at the barn emptying into auger. Sold it after 3 seasons and used a contractor after that.

When I was a nipper in the 50's a local farmer had a trailed Mineapolis Moline. Had a Meadows petrol engine which was a pig to start with a kick like mule. The whole thing pivoted around the axle and it had a platform where a man rode with a wheel to wind the thing up and down to adjust cutting height. A bagger so at the end of the day all the spare staff - pigman, dairy man etc would come to field and load the sacks onto 4 wheel trailers to take back to the farm where they would normally be put onto the drier, 50 sacks at a time.
The MM had 2 reels, either a sort of pick up reel or a bat reel which had to be removed to fold the cutter bar to transport the combine to another field. It wouldn't handle oats so the old binder came into use.

 

[glasshouse]

Just thought I think it was Farmhand not New Idea.

New idea

 

[76masseyman]

Combine mounted tractor anyone ?

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Yes it did.

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Don't think it did , John Moffit got his hands on the plans and had one made, this is possibly it.

 

[Two Tone]

Just thought I think it was Farmhand not New Idea.

Farmhand definitely did do a chassis (with the engine and cab on the LHS) that had a Combine or a Forager fit on it. It was shown at the 1976 Royal Show.
I’d just left school and we were showing British Friesian cattle at it. I spent virtually all week there until the cattle could go home on the Thursday night.
I well remember seeing that Farmhand rig, actually not far from where the show cattle lines sheds were.

Those were the day when we had The British Friesian Cattle Society Pavilion, before it became the British Friesian and Holstein Cattle Society, which probably made my Grandfather turn in his grave!

Interesting, my father told our Herdsman that he wouldn’t be there on the Thursday because he was taking my mum to Wimbledon. Pete, the herdsman replied “I wouldn’t cross the road to watch a football match!”

………Being a football match in July, before Wimbledon FC were ever heard of!
But guys like Peter Palmer thought as much of the Cows as he did his wife and had no time or thoughts for any sports.
His only other interest was that he did love watching any Cowboy / Western films on the telly.
He based his entire career on reading the books of the teachings of Bobby Boutflower, famous Diary lecturer at the RAC.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Farmhand definitely did do a chassis (with the engine and cab on the LHS) that had a Combine or a Forager fit on it. It was shown at the 1976 Royal Show.
I’d just left school and we were showing British Friesian cattle at it. I spent virtually all week there until the cattle could go home on the Thursday night.
I well remember seeing that Farmhand rig, actually not far from where the show cattle lines sheds were.

Those were the day when we had The British Friesian Cattle Society Pavilion, before it became the British Friesian and Holstein Cattle Society, which probably made my Grandfather turn in his grave!

Interesting, my father told our Herdsman that he wouldn’t be there on the Thursday because he was taking my mum to Wimbledon. Pete, the herdsman replied “I wouldn’t cross the road to watch a football match!”

………Being a football match in July, before Wimbledon FC were ever heard of!
But guys like Peter Palmer thought as much of the Cows as he did his wife and had no time or thoughts for any sports.
His only other interest was that he did love watching any Cowboy / Western films on the telly.
He based his entire career on reading the books of the teachings of Bobby Boutflower, famous Diary lecturer at the RAC.

That would be the "New Idea Uni System". Imported from the USA. I think that Elveden Farms ran one for a year or two as a combine and forage harvester, I remember seeing it in the yard at Manns of Saxham after it had been traded in.