Harvest 1960

rusty6 · Apr 28, 2019

Got a vintage harvest time shot here from September 16, 1960. A couple of neighbours came in to help my dad with harvest. Guy on the left has his Case, (120?) and the one on the right has his Massey Harris 90. They seemed like huge machines compared to dad's little Case model A pull type.

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 29, 2019

Great Historic Pic! the CASE is a SP-12 as the 120 had a folding unloading auger
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55 50 Ron · Apr 29, 2019

Straight cut in 1960 surprises me. My Dad was still swathing then. I even ran his swather in 1962 when I came home when my Navy enlistment ended.

Was that all grains or just certain ones?

rusty6 · Apr 29, 2019

(quoted from post at 06:07:04 04/29/19) Straight cut in 1960 surprises me. My Dad was still swathing then. I even ran his swather in 1962 when I came home when my Navy enlistment ended.

Was that all grains or just certain ones?

Seems to have been a cycle of straight cut to swath and then back to straight. In 1960 my dad did not own a swather and all grains stood until ripe enough to straight cut with the little six foot Case. Sometimes he used the binder to make oat sheaves or hire a neighbour to swath them as oats tended to shell out if left to ripen standing. After the early September snow in 1965 that laid standing crops flat a lot of people went to swathing everything. Dad got an old MH 12 foot pull type. Everything was swathed here until 1990 when I bought an 18 foot straight cut header for the 510 Massey. Since then I've been mostly straight cutting wheat. Sometimes oats. Always swath canola.

Harvest 1960

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