Pictures and Puzzles Thread

[Jim.ME]

How could it swivel?

Think of a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer with the cab under the trailer neck. Going forward turn the truck right, the crane wheels will go left.

 

[4wdtom]

How could it swivel?

Looks like a "fifth wheel" behind the cab in front of the counter weight.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

View attachment 4945IH truck with a built in Mobile Crane

Do not know what it was like to steer even with the crane wheels on the ground.

Kurtis, Cutting Edge Engineering, Gold Coast, Australia (as seen on you tube) has a similar, but smaller arrangement on an IH tractor.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

View attachment 4943Dexta in tall Grasses

We have a field that has not been ploughed or cultivated for many years and contains a number of different native grasses and wild flowers, plus a few docks again. We keep it mowed a couple of times a year and, in the Spring and Summer, just go and walk round and chill out with the flowers, insects, birds and animals.

At first I was identifying the orchard grass and timothy. But then something else caught my eye. Curly dock! Yikes! As part of my semi retirement plan I have seeded a small, gully field to Dutch white clover. Some dock remains, and I think the clover is feeding it!

 

[oldsarge]

Something went a little adrift this morning!!!! This is what should be here.

Ford 4000

View attachment 4942

Ford 4000 on halftracks just showing off.

I wonder what cowboy first discovered that it would do fhat ?????????????????

 

[oldsarge]

Think of a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer with the cab under the trailer neck. Going forward turn the truck right, the crane wheels will go left.

I imagine that when you''roaded''it ,the wheels came behind.

 

[DoubleO7]

Do not know what it was like to steer even with the crane wheels on the ground.

Transport mode with truck 180° pulling the crane structure via the fifth wheel.

 

[Brian G. NY]

View attachment 4944John Deere

John Deere Model D.

I have loved the "D" since back in th early 50s when as a preteen kid I used to send away each year and get John Deere's annual brochure.
It has that tough bulldog look about it; I ain''t afraid of nobody!

 

[Majorman]

Thursday Compilation

Got called away but better late than never.

 

[Janicholson]

View attachment 4945IH truck with a built in Mobile Crane

Do not know what it was like to steer even with the crane wheels on the ground.

With 2 or 3 cubic yards of concrete behind/on the rear axle the whole thing is not suited for muddy conditions. Jim

 

[showcrop]

Think of a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer with the cab under the trailer neck. Going forward turn the truck right, the crane wheels will go left.

I see the fifth wheel, but it would take an extraordinary operator to put anything where he wanted if he had to plan from forty feet back where the hook was going to go, if it would swing only while moving forward or back.

 

[cjunrau]

Is it possible for you to do a new thread every day with all the topics instead of continuing on this thread. this thread is on page who knows what as I have my setting on order of threads posted. that way I don't keep getting the same threads for a month. others out there are the same as me and can benefit from this as well thanks.

 

[super99]

`The bars on the windscreen are "Bug Bars" and the ones on the front are "Kangaroo Bars". When it gets dusk to dark, kangaroos hop across the road and do not use the Zebra Crossing. A common sight along the roads in Victoria is a Wombat, laying in the ditch with its legs in the air, like Kangaroos, they are pretty solid animals and can make a mess of your front end if you hit one.

They must have HUGE bugs down there!!!

 

[Majorman]

Axial Flow Training Slide

During the1970's through to 2000 I did a lot of training courses for operators, much of which was on combine harvesters. I was lucky enough to be able to work with a number of the major combine manufactures who sold machines here, and be trained by them to be an approved instructor. I spent a lot of time with the Axial Flow machines, during the first year, when they were introduced, visiting farms and helping with the initial operating problems that a new concept brings. IH gave me a number of slides to use to help with training and this is one of them.

 

[Majorman]

Dronningborg-MF 30

Another of the combines I trained operators on. This one was taken on a site visit to a new combine that was having grain loss problems in a crop of malting barley..

 

[Majorman]

Stripper/Header

Another Stripper/Header from Australia, this one has a rather strange addition of a second threshing and cleaning mechanism built on the side. From what I could gather, this machine was used to harvest Linseed/Flax and the extra addition was for threshing seed heads that passed through the original threshing mechanism.

 

[Majorman]

E27N Doe Style

I do not know whether this was ever used in anger or whether it was something done so the owner could say he had built one. Two Fordson E27N's with Perkins 6.354 engines coupled together in Doe's style.

 

[Majorman]

Lightly Rusted

IH Titan.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

View attachment 5015Axial Flow Training Slide

During the1970's through to 2000 I did a lot of training courses for operators, much of which was on combine harvesters. I was lucky enough to be able to work with a number of the major combine manufactures who sold machines here, and be trained by them to be an approved instructor. I spent a lot of time with the Axial Flow machines, during the first year, when they were introduced, visiting farms and helping with the initial operating problems that a new concept brings. IH gave me a number of slides to use to help with training and this is one of them.

I have a CaseIH 1660 which is my first rotary, and probably my last combine. The challenge I see with this is the tendency for everything to be thrown to one side or the other. I think two rotors would be better.

 

[J Wendt]

I have a CaseIH 1660 which is my first rotary, and probably my last combine. The challenge I see with this is the tendency for everything to be thrown to one side or the other. I think two rotors would be better.

Problem is you got the wrong color, galvanized combines don't have that trouble.