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Goose

Goose

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Going back to the days of the pull type combines in the 40's to 60's, why were some configured to go around the field clockwise and some counter clockwise?

The Allis Chalmers went counter clockwise and I believe Gleaner went clockwise. Was there a reason, or just the whim of the designer?
 
The were designed to follow behind reapers . The reaper would cut the oats in a windrow then the combine would follow with a pickup head. If it was dropped and done right the oats would go in butt first reducing the risk of jamming by the heads going first.
 
Early grain binders were left hand cut. They could be used to make a windrow by removing the bundle holding arm. Also, with the offset seat on a WC, the AC combine header was on the left, easier to watch.
 
Watch at threshree . if you feed bundles in if you go butts first the leaves will push down. When we used a table feed silo filler you never threw in heads first you would jam the feed roll when the leaves would go up then you would get told do it right. One job i don't miss cutting with a corn binder tossing it in a Wagon and feeding a silo filler. If you watch the Amish they do it the same way.
 
The Case combine did have the header on the right as mentioned, and the Allis Chalmers and John Deere were on the left.
It might have had something to do with both AC and JD tractors having hand clutches. It's hard to run a hand clutch with your right hand and look over your right shoulder at the same time. I used to run a right hand baler with a WD-45 so I know!
 
Our Gleaner pull type was left hand with a 12 ft. header, powered by a Ford Model "C" engine, which was Ford's commercial version of the Model "A" engine. Later we had 2 MM pull type combines with a short pickup header on the right side.
 
(quoted from post at 14:19:37 08/29/16) The Case combine did have the header on the right as mentioned, and the Allis Chalmers and John Deere were on the left.
It might have had something to do with both AC and JD tractors having hand clutches. It's hard to run a hand clutch with your right hand and look over your right shoulder at the same time. I used to run a right hand baler with a WD-45 so I know!
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Bingo!! I think we have a winner. I never ran an AC combine but I've run a few bales through a roto baler.
 
Actually, I believe the AC 5' combines came out before the WD with the hand clutch.
 
I always thought it was so you'd run the stubble down going counter closkwise around the field,then when you came back to clip the straw,you'd cut clockwise and run back under it with a mower that cut on the right.

Oliver combines cut on the right by the way.
 
Both the JD 12-A and the JD 30 have the header to the left of the tractor. Turn to the left to cut. I-H combines turn to the right. I know where there is an old I-H model 52 sitting in a shed. It has a power unit on it. Has not been used much, been in shed for over 50 years.

Garry
 
I spent plenty of time on a grain binder as a kid, 8 to 12 years old. With a binder, you made your windrow by dumping the bundle carrier on the same spot every so often. Ideally, you dumped when you had about six bundles in the bundle carrier and created a series of windrows around the field.
 
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