2021.12.02 "Extra" Pic

(pic donated by [b:846659a421]Steve Metcalfe[/b:846659a421])
Puzzle: https://jigex.com/RyCR4

Now that's interesting lol

More reality, thanks for sharing.

AC B with an AC 40 combine,used to be right many of both in my area.

The other day Dad and I were at the local Agco dealer. Drove around lot looking at what they had there. There happened to be an F2 setting there. I told dad I could remember when that would have been a big machine in it's day now it is like using an old E or A compared to what is out there now.

Dad began family on his own in 53. Landlord financed all equipment for dad's start up.
He wanted an AC combine, so dad purchased largest available. A 66 model with a huge 7'
head and auger across the top to bypass the 40 bushel grain tank and dump into the
trailing wagon. A very modern setup to farm a whooping 300 acres.

Wow big difference between yesteryear and todays equip. Neat picture. RB

I used an
Allis 60 for many years, good old combine, but only a 5' cut. Neighbor ran my 6 acres of beans in 40 minutes, I'd have been all day at it. Allis
advertised a new model B tractor and a 40 combine for less than $1000 and it sure beat pitching bundles.

according to what i have seen and been told, that photo seems as applicable now as 70 years ago. The all crop as advertised like the model T, small enough to be able to be used by each family. No more
waiting for the big custom crew to come along to your little field. Buy your own machine and get your own crop in. Now on this website some 70 years later, guys ask what is a small affordable combine to get
their own crops in so they dont have to hire it to be done, or wait for the hired crew to come by. what are your thoughts?

my grandpa started custom farming in about 1938, bought his first place in 1941 but was still hiring out the harvesting til 1949 when grandpa bought a new all crop 60 when my dad was in high school. my dad
ran the combine 30 years til it was lost in a barn fire. dad loved the great job of combining it did, dad loved how well it worked on hillsides. combine cant throw the grain straight out the back when it is
built on a right angel. dad loved the quick adjust cylinder speed with a handle, no tools required. plus if grain is a little tough in the morning, give cylinder speed a couple cranks for the first hour or
two of combining. then crop dries out and back speed down to normal. dew start to set in late afternoon or evening, give cylinder speed a couple cranks to speed up a little and keep sample clean for the last
round or two. one specific year, one neighbor had oats fall flat. flat flat. dad said you could walk around and not even get oats in your shoe laces. other neighbors wont even try to combine it but dad
gives a try. the down sloping guards pick up the entire crop.

as irony would have it, i ended up somehow stumbling across an allcrop 66 when i was in high school and ran it in oats for several years before selling it in 2005 to another good home to be used and enjoyed.
dad never thought he would be running an allcrop again after so many decades.
dad also mentioned how much the allcrops made such a reputation. for many years, every combine salesman had the same pitch when selling their combine, saying the new combine would give cleaner samples then
the allcrop. didnt matter if your old machine was an allcrop or not, they just made sure to say it cleaned better then the allcrop.