new small pull type combine

Tom from Ontario · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:59 pm Post subject: new small pull type combine

If you could buy a new small pull type combine and remembering the old ones, what would you go for? People with less than 100 acres of grain are having a tough time keeping old ones going or getting a custom operator. I imagine there will be a ton of votes for A-C 72 and 90.

rrlund · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Ya,gotta agree on the 72 or 90. I had a JD 42 but I wouldn't give a plug nickle for another one. Oliver 18 maybe.

RayP(MI) · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

What small acreage I harvest, a good used (read CHEAP) combine would be welcome. Right now, I bind and shock the oats, and take them to the local steam/old tractor show for thrashing.

Scott 730 · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Frank Dodson · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Oliver model 18.

rrlund · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

That'd shoot the heck out of our August social life.

RayP(MI) · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Oh, I'd save some for Blanchard, just not so much - Kinda got in over our heads this year!

young tractor · Guest Report to Moderator

I have put about 40 acres of soybeans and wheat through my 90 allis pull type and the only thing that has broke was a rock guard yesterday. Plus very easy to get parts through Yaz all crop. It purred right through 55 bushel soybeans.

RodinNS · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Are custom operators really that hard to find??
I'd probably quit before I tried cutting grain with a PT combine.

Rod

wijim · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Id buy a new JD #30. She did a great job again this year in the beans.

Flewster · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

RodinNS · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

If you enjoy tinkering with an old combine... that's one thing. I can think of things I'd rather do having spent a fair amount of time having tinkered with an old combine... when I needed it to work.
It's not a road I'd care to follow as a means to an end. To fool around... that's another thing.

Rod

Tim(nj) · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

In some places they are. Can't hire anyone around here. Big farmers just want to worry about their own, and not enough potential customers for somebody to just do custom harvesting. I'd gladly hire a big, new combine to do my soybeans in a couple days, but I'm forced to fight that cantankerous Gleaner K2 for however long it takes.

Larry NEIL · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

You bet, an Oliver 18 combine. Neighbors had one when I was a teenager. I helped and don"t remember ANY breakdowns, although I"m sure they had a few. That thing just kept going and going. I just saw one in the Wi. Farmer paper about a month ago for sale by an equip. dealer. Advertised it to USE! Asking was $800.00 I believe.
Larry NEIL

Tony in SD · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: new small pull type combine

Don't forget the popular Minneapolis Moline G-4 and it's variations there of

I still have my Grandpa's G-144 he bought new the year I was born. It's only been on 2 farms it's working life my brother and mine

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