SOME OLD PICTURES WE FOUND

JDMAN60 · Jan 25, 2018

Here are 4 old pictures we found in my late inlaws stuff. The first one is backwards as these were converted from old slides and one was in the wrong way but it is still pretty neat. I remember my father-in-law telling about the year it was too wet to use a wheeled tractor to harvest oats so he borrowed this crawler. The second is his MH 50 that I still have. And the other is the 30 he traded for the 50. I thought you all would enjoy these. ps anyone know the model of the combine?

wjytexas · Jan 25, 2018

kcm.MN · Jan 25, 2018

Awesome photos!! That one of the 50 looks like it's straight out of the TV show Lassie. *lol*

Nice tire chains on that 30, but sure ain't ever seen a loader like that before!

Roger in Iowa · Jan 25, 2018

Combine is a 12A, JD of course.

big tee · Jan 25, 2018

Deere 12A or 25-I think---Tee

Olliejunkie · Jan 25, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:22:01 01/25/18) cool

Nice pics! Was that harvester left hand? I thought the second pic had been flipped but the first pic looks like the lettering is flipped.

Roger in Iowa · Jan 25, 2018

First picture is flipped. 12A as I think you can see the canvas feeding to the cylinder. 25 I think used an auger???

big tee · Jan 25, 2018

25 still had canvas-30 was first one with auger.---Tee

Tech 7 · Jan 25, 2018

Great pics. The combine is a John Deere Model 12-A with optional LUC power unit drive

greymond · Jan 25, 2018

so cool!!!

fixerupper · Jan 25, 2018

Thanks for the pics. The combine brings back memories. The first combine I drove, if you can call it that, was a PTO driven 12a pulled by a 60 Deere. I was just a little kid, the owner of the combine was combining dad’s oats. A Wagon was hooked to the combine alongside the combine and the owner wanted to go back and level oats in the Wagon so he could unload on the go. He put me on the tractor, told me to follow the windrow and he climbed in the Wagon and leveled oats while I steered the tractor. If I remember right he got the tractor going and I just steered. The tractor was in low gear so if something went wrong it at least wouldn’t happen fast.

ed will · Jan 25, 2018

Hi, I believe that is a Ferguson LUO loader. It was
used in combination with a pintle hook frame that
fit between the 3pt lift arms. The matching
spreader had the pintle donut hitch. You just
backed up aligned with hitch, lift the 3pt arms and
away you go with spreader in tow. I used to spread
40 loads a day with that set up. Our loader had
manure forks. The spreader had 1 lever. The lower
you put it the faster the feed to the beaters. Thanks
for the memories! Ed Will Oliver BC

Lucid · Jan 25, 2018

Nice pics, thanks for sharing them!

farmerjohn · Jan 26, 2018

Brought back some memories of my childhood. Dad had a 12A combine, I remember being fascinated by all the belts and pulleys, today it
would be an OSHA nightmare.

showcrop · Jan 26, 2018

That loader also looks a lot like the Dearborn 3 point manure loader that Ford had.

caterpillar guy · Jan 26, 2018

I don't know if there are any pictures of it or not. Dad tells of bolting 3 ft Oak 2x4's to the tracks on the D-4 to pull his cousins M with the combine on it to run the PTO. They put a cable between the front wheels and would pull it sideways when the mud got to the top of the hood. Put planks under the combine to skid on. I think he said it was 46 or 47.

showcrop · Jan 26, 2018

(quoted from post at 13:58:47 01/26/18) I don't know if there are any pictures of it or not. Dad tells of bolting 3 ft Oak 2x4's to the tracks on the D-4 to pull his cousins M with the combine on it to run the PTO. They put a cable between the front wheels and would pull it sideways when the mud got to the top of the hood. Put planks under the combine to skid on. I think he said it was 46 or 47.

I have seen pics of crawlers with wood extensions bolted to the tracks to enable the crawler to pull sleds with hay for cattle after a major snow storm

olgentdc · Jan 26, 2018

Agreed ,12A,.the header flanges appear to be strait ..the 25 is indeed canvas , but Like the Auger feed 30,. these combines have 6-10 inch offsets to widen the heads on each side ,.i do not know for sure, if the cylinder and shaker shoe on the 25 and 30 were wider than the 12a,.but perhaps other improvements were made to the 12A design to ramp up the capacity..

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