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1994 Harvest Video

rusty6

rusty6

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Got some more vintage VHS digitized and uploaded to youtube. A few scenes from harvest 1994. Wheat and oats. Great harvest weather. Good times.
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1994 Harvest
 
that 5542 was one of the best combines for the smaller farmer. easy to service and pretty trouble free. I had the Minneapolis 4292 which is the same combine just yellow. still have it here but not used in 20 years and its getting rusty. if had been inside would be a good unit.
 
(quoted from post at 10:02:28 02/02/20) that 5542 was one of the best combines for the smaller farmer. easy to service and pretty trouble free. I had the Minneapolis 4292 which is the same combine just yellow. still have it here but not used in 20 years and its getting rusty. if had been inside would be a good unit.
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Only ever saw one 4292 MM. It was all Cockshutt here. Down in the states they would have been painted green and named Olivers.
 
(quoted from post at 10:36:51 02/02/20) I enjoyed watching it. Much as I hate to admit that 1994 was a while ago. Are those your boys ? Thanks for showing us.
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Bill you are right it is a long time ago. One of those nephews has a daughter now almost the same age he was in the video. I'm glad I shot as much video as I did back then.
 
Great video rusty. I have two neighbors one which had the MM version of the 5542 and the other had the Oliver 5542. Both have gone to scrap now. You probably know it but others might not know is that combine is an original Cockshutt combine/design and stayed on the market under various names into the 80s. Pretty good run. Only other combine that had a production run that long was the JD 55. That JD 7720 was one of the best JD ever made. That feeder house reverser was a big deal on combines when it came out. Does your 7721 have one?
 
(quoted from post at 11:56:50 02/02/20) You probably know it but others might not know is that combine is an original Cockshutt combine/design and stayed on the market under various names into the 80s.. That JD 7720 was one of the best JD ever made. That feeder house reverser was a big deal on combines when it came out. Does your 7721 have one?
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Thanks for watching. By the sixties both Oliver and Cockshutt were owned by White. The Cockshutt tractors we got here in those years were just yellow Olivers. Later red. I guess White liked the Cockshutt combine design so they sold a few as Olivers.
No, my 7721 does not have a feeder reverser. It has an add on accessory on the table auger where I can put a lever on and reverse the header auger. Its a rare thing to plug it though. I don't usually push them hard enough to plug up.
 
In the fall of 1962 they had a couple of the 430 model running corn & beans in the next county. One of the engineers from Branfort stopped there on his way back and said that shelling corn was a little bit new for him. Interesting to see a combine with that style of header working!
 
(quoted from post at 18:20:58 02/02/20) In the fall of 1962 they had a couple of the 430 model running corn & beans in the next county. One of the engineers from Branfort stopped there on his way back and said that shelling corn was a little bit new for him. Interesting to see a combine with that style of header working!
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I think that was the only style header available on those combines of that vintage. Remove the pickup to put the reel on for straight cutting. Although I don't think this header was ever used for straight cutting. A neighbour had the older 542 with 16 foot header and it was used for both straight and pickup harvesting. Not so simple as changing headers is on today's combines.
 
Good video, Rusty. I like seeing ones like that, brings back a lot of memories. My dad bought the earlier version of the 5542, a 431 new the first year they came out, 1962. Finally put a Fibro cab on it the last year he had it, 1973. I spent many hours riding and later driving that thing - hard to forget the cold October winds blowing barley chaff in your face and down your neck! I had a little newer one from '75 to '78. Simple old combines, only 5 grease fittings but you were supposed to grease the variable speed pulley every 3 hours which meant shutting off the motor. So it got once a day as well.

Is the John Deere your neighbour Don's outfit?
 
Local rice farmer had a Oliver 431, looks similar to the 5542. It was worthless and as I remember was junked out in just a couple of seasons. Local Oliver dealer wanted to get one in the fields and gave him a really good price. It was the only one sold in our area.
 
(quoted from post at 10:09:15 02/03/20) Local rice farmer had a Oliver 431, looks similar to the 5542. It was worthless and as I remember was junked out in just a couple of seasons. Local Oliver dealer wanted to get one in the fields and gave him a really good price. It was the only one sold in our area.
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Its true some people can tear up an anvil with a feather duster. But I'll admit the Cockshutt combines were not built as heavy as a John Deere or maybe IH. They were also less expensive to buy and therefore sold well to smaller farmers who knew how to take care of them and make them last. Through the fifties and sixties I'd bet that Cockshutt and Massey were the biggest selling combines in this part of Western Canada.
 
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