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I worked for a guy cutting wheat that was telling me about loading combines like that laid the sides down between the wheels and drove them on. He was telling me about his old Indian motorcycle he took with him too. He was probably in his 50's maybe 60 when I worked for him 30 years ago.
 
In the early 60s Dad worked for a custom cutter. They had 2 combines, 2 trucks and 2 operators! They loaded them just as you see here! On one highway trip Dads truck developed a problem-overheating I believe. He was behind the other one so he got creative. He found a ditch and unloaded the combine and drove it to the next field! Not sure how far, several miles I believe. Then they went back to repair and get the truck!
 
My uncle custom combined pre-self propelled. They loaded the tractors on the trucks and pulled the combines behind the trucks.
 
Seeing the deck chained down to the frame reminded me of the first grain truck I put my way too big bale deck on.

Loaded it would lift the front of the deck up.

Being that the truck had outlets and a control to run a hydraulic drill fill I attached a cylinder to the frame.

Before loading bales I would hook one end of a cable with a chain on the end to the frame on the passenger side and the other end I hooked to a clevis on the the cylinder, suck the deck down and go.

Loaded you never missed not having power steering, hitting big bumps was another story.

Off road use only.
 
If I remember it right, Massey even built a low profile special tread width combine especially for custom combiners. They could be loaded on a straight truck with the box sides on the deck with the combine above them.
 

BTDT!! I was instructed by JD dealer to load/haul a JD 55 combine with header on a '64 Chevrolet C60 with 18' bed. I had Txdot over height/width permit. When I drove this load through 1st neighboring town the out of season hung Christmas lights started hitting pavement sounding similar to fireworks. Local business owners came out of their businesses screaming at me & shaking their fists at me.

Another time I had to haul an open station JD 5020 with axle mounted duals over 200 miles on the same '64 C60 truck.
 
I see a wheel on the back of the deck. I wonder if the deck slides back to load the combines? How much did those combines weigh.? I have a blue Ford truck that looks exactly like that one!
 
Thats a beautiful picture . Back when if you worked hard and wanted ten combines you could have them and not be considered the anti Christ for having them
 
Summer of 1954 my Mom took me from our small farm outside Boise, Idaho to her parents farm in Putnam, Oklahoma. My Grandad had his #55 John Deere combine (no cab) loaded on a truck like the blue one. We left and spent the summer of '54' along with 6-7 other guys combining all sorts of crops from Southwest Oklahoma down into Northern and then Western Texas. We slept on the ground, bathed in ponds or water troughs and ate like kings every day. We took turns driving the combine 24 hours a day. When school was about to start in Boise my Grandad put me on a Trailways bus somewhere in Western Texas and three days later I was home in Boise in time to go to school. Great memories of a fourteen year old kid. Try that today.
Tlc
 
In the mid 60s I worked for a custom cutter and we hauled 403 international combines on trucks like that but pulled the 14 foot headers on trailers behind the trucks. Used IH and Chevy trucks. From Texas to Canada. Was a good job for a 14 year old. We had 4 combines. No cabs.
 
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