#80 Combine and 1PR Picker (pics)

I put some pics of my newest acquisitions (#80 combine and 1PR cornpicker on the website (see URL below). I also took close-ups of all the decals (click on any of the thumbnails for large images). The link below is for the combine. You can go to the navigation bar on that page to get to the cornpicker.

Tony
IH 80 Combine, etc.

Hi PurdueAg: Great... Glad to see your combine. We'll have to exchange notes since I have the twin to it. I bought mine early last Summer. It was close enough to the model 64 that I ran as a kid back then. I'll look for your email and send you a picture... ag

Thanks! I like the website. I hit the YouTube, too.

Just saw your YouTube message. Yes, I often wonder, too, what it must have been like for folks to farm 100's of acres on the vintage stuff -- and for them it meant food on the table and not just having fun on a hobby farm!

Tony

Hi Tony: You wonder what it was like using vintage equipment years ago to make a living? My answer is that it doesn't seem that much different then now. Bills to pay. Weather to watch and its related concerns. Too wet/dry.hot/cold etc.. Dern goverment messing with price supports of our production.. The change in scale or size of equipment seemed big back then compared to what the pre ww2 farmers had. We thought our methods were much more modern then just a few decades before. Humans haven't changed too much but machines have. I had one older lady tell me that country people got along much better during the depression then now. The depression made people help each other a lot more and she missed that. ag

Maybe people just have it too easy now, and end up complaining more. I am currently covering food, agriculture, and soils in the conservation class that I teach, and we are discussing how the government has killed the small farmer and caused the conversion of farm land to housing and strip malls. I also think that megafarms are less environmentally sound than smaller family farms for a number of reasons, including the value systems of the small farmers that were closer to the land (by the way, I am a conservative nnalert who also happens to care about the environment - rare these days it seems). We also discussed how the loss of family farming and agrarian culture has negatively affected the family and the responsibility of our kids. The problem with our education system can't be fixed by throwing money at it. The problem is with the breakdown of the family and kids misplacing their values. You can't teach kids if they don't want to learn or value learning, no matter how nice the school facilities and equipment are. I just think that families that work together and kids who have chores and responsibilities other than video games and TV at home lends it self to more responsible students. Okay, enough of my tangent. Enjoyed reading your blogspot!

Man there's a rarity... a college prof with some common sense!! Is that your full time job, and if so, how do you keep it espousing those ideas :shock: ?

Yep, full-time. I teach at a private, independent college, so we don't have to deal with the far left-wing whackos (like William Ayers and that one socialist clown out in Colorado - can't remember his name). Of course then you have the far-right libertarians that think that pollution stops at their fence line and that they can do whatever they want without need for regulations. There are still some of us Teddy Roosevelt conservatives in education, but I'm afraid we're an endangered species.

With kind regards,

Tony