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Harvest 1973

rusty6

rusty6

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Almost fifty years ago since I posed for this harvest photo September 11th, 1973. 730 Case pulling the 460 Case combine. Sitting out in the dust was ok for a while but it soon got old. That 730 was a great tractor but the 460 combine tested my patience to the limits. Bent a crowbar on one of the many occasions trying to unplug the cylinder. Left side axle broke sending the wheel bouncing off down the sidehill towards the creek. Dropped the combine to the ground causing some serious damage. We were lucky to find a parts machine locally and bought it for the parts we needed.

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Great picture made better with the story. I've not seen a Case combine like that... you have maybe indirectly told me why! :)
 
(quoted from post at 16:34:59 09/04/23) Great picture made better with the story. I've not seen a Case combine like that... you have maybe indirectly told me why! :)
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I have seen a few of them over the years. 460 was the last pull type Case made before getting out of the combine business in the early 70s. John Deere and International pull types outsold them here anyway.
 
Great old picture, there were a few of those combines in the area, but the john deere 96 and ih 914 were much more popular.
 
Rusty, Is that the same 730 you have now? Is the 460 PTO driven? I think I see a PTO drive. Hard to tell if there is a motor in front of the grain tank. Is this year's harvest complete or maybe canola is still left? I know as a young fellow in ND (1950s) we were usually through with harvest by a few days into September, but we didn't grow canola back then.
 
(quoted from post at 18:27:32 09/04/23) Rusty, Is that the same 730 you have now? Is the 460 PTO driven? I think I see a PTO drive. Is this year's harvest complete or maybe canola is still left?.
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Some of the big guys have been going for a week now until this rain. I have only finished swathing canola on August 31 so it will be a few weeks. Wheat all still standing and I might start swathing it any day now.
That 730 in the picture is not the one I have now even though it is identical. And yes, pto drive on the combine. There was no engine drive option on those in 1966.
 
Hi Ron. Did you see the canola swathing video I posted a few days ago? I was putting in 12 hour days as it was ripening fast and I could barely make 4 acres an hour in such a stand of canola. Hope it yields as heavy as it looks..
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I had not seen that video, but I did look now after you mentioned it. I always liked swathing of hard wheat, durum, barley, and oats, but never did canola. Don't think I would have enjoyed that.
 
(quoted from post at 16:55:42 09/05/23) I had not seen that video, but I did look now after you mentioned it. I always liked swathing of hard wheat, durum, barley, and oats, but never did canola. Don't think I would have enjoyed that.
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Ron, here's a picture of me swathing durum about a week ago. My son took the picture with our drone.


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That's a neat picture. If I didn't live so far away, I'd ask to come and ride with
you. Are you geographically close to Rusty? I had distant relatives farming in the
Cabri area some years ago. They are now retired and live in Saskatoon.
 
(quoted from post at 19:33:56 09/05/23) That's a neat picture. If I didn't live so far away, I'd ask to come and ride with
you. Are you geographically close to Rusty? I had distant relatives farming in the
Cabri area some years ago. They are now retired and live in Saskatoon.
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Ron, I'm about an hour and a half southwest of Rusty and about three hours east of Cabri. You'd be welcome to ride along.
 
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Ron, here's a picture of me swathing durum about a week ago. My son took the picture with our drone.
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That is a good pic Jim. I'd have trouble getting around those corners with the pull type combine though.
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Thanks Ralph. That drone is a lot of fun - my family gave it to me for Christmas. Those corners are sharper than usual because of all the sloughs left over from spring. I would have thought a pull type combine could follow through the corners pretty well. I always make a 270 degree loop at corners, I never cared to hammer on the turning brakes.
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(quoted from post at 19:47:52 09/05/23)
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I would have thought a pull type combine could follow through the corners pretty well. I always make a 270 degree loop.

On big open fields like yours with square corners the pull type is at it's best. Here where I am always going around sloughs, bushes, finishing up with triangles, I lose a lot of time with the pull type combine. But, its the one that works so I'll be running it again this harvest.
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