Montana 1950's International crawler and Type 51 Hillside combine

[JP1]

 

[Strungup52]

The man on the combine?
Steering to keep its mouth full.

 

[Exfarmer]

I think he would also lift and lower the header and control the discharge auger. I assume it is an engine on combine so he presumably kept an eye on that too

 

[startinghandle]

The guy on machine is keeping an eye
on thing
The crop is cut quite high up
Between the header wheel marks there are narrow parallel wheel which could be photographers vehicle
It's my guess the crop was grown especially for combine trials and photographic purposes
Does anyone know if the crawler is the
Model that starts on petrol then changes over to diesel
Would there be anything incorporated in the crawler design from military tanks of 8 years previous

 

[Exfarmer]

I thought the change over models were built for Europe as the Americans ran on petrol .
There are lots of film of similar combines working in the Palouse region, Washington state.
i think the tracking is probably the effect of the combine being steered up the hill

 

[Exfarmer]

Sorry dug a bit deeper, you are right it was a changeover tractor . The TD9 , which I guess it is, was developed in the 1930’s and gradually evolved. Crawlers actually evolved before tanks as military tractors for pulling guns about

 

[Ruston3w]

too big for TD9, my money on TD14, wide guage, obviously. engine wise a close relative of the TD35/40 but heavier (and wider)