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    what tractors will John Deere 55 combine motor fit

    If it's a 217 or 248 used from 1958 through 1966, it won't fit any JD tractor. If it's a 303 as used on 67-69 Model 55 and 95 combines, it will fit a 4030 Tractor, and that's it. Even then, a conversion to a tractor will take the tractor's front damper, fan, etc.
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    jd 65 combine

    HUH? The head from a 55 isn't going to fit a 65. Depending on year models, yes, a lot of 55 parts will fit a 65, the parts catalogs are available for download in jdpc.com, that will tell him what he needs to know. A lot of the cutting parts will interchange, but have you looked at the two? The...
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    first self-propelled

    1958 JD 55, picking up windrowed oats. That fall, in soybeans and corn, a 1959 JD 95.
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    Lack of appetite in soybeans

    10-to 1 what's it's really doing is back feeding. Try a Manchester Force-Feed Feeder chain, and I bet your problems will stop. Learned this lesson a three decades ago on a JD95 with QT feederhouse---appeared it wasn't feeding at the auger/drum. Not the problem. What it was doing was carrying it...
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    Picture of 410.

    Put a set of lift cylinders from a 105 on your 95, that will make a big difference in hydraulic performance.
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    Picture of 410.

    Actually, they worked pretty well as long as the corn was standing well, and the ground was dry. There as no worry about throwing corn out the back as you'd run out of horsepower long before that point was reached. The other reason for the two heads together was that in hilly country you'd have...
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    Alright JD experts

    A reel should not be too difficult to find, one from a 55 will work, and the sickle drive parts are the same as those on a 55. The drive wheels may have been repainted, but I don't believe the rest of the machine has been painted or even touched up. I spent a lot of time on 95's like this one...
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    Roll Call !!!

    West Central IA Don't currently own a combine, but have owned John Deere 55, 95, and 105 combines, and know them inside and out. Given the money. time, and somewhere to put them, a 55, 95, 105, all diesel hydros with QT feederhouses and a selection of heads, also a square-back 96 and 106...
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    JD-Massey

    Yes, 105's could have a 22-foot head.
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    jd 40 combine S.N.

    I don't have a list, but can give you some fairly good guesses. 7980 is either a late 1965 or early 1966 machine, very close to the end of 40 production. 7460 is either late 1964 or early 1965. 6006 is late 1962 or early 1963. Sorry I can't give you better info, have never run across a serial...
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    JD 40 COMBINE

    1964
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    Concave Filler Strips

    Yes, that was my thought as well, especially with all those filler plates. There's only one way to stop walker loss, and that's to prevent grain from getting on them. I wasn't aware that current elevator standards docked for a cracked/split bean or kernel now and then. To each his own, but I...
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    Concave Filler Strips

    You don't have to remove the feederhouse, but if you've got a concrete floor, put a head on the feederhouse, use the appropriate blocking and hydraulic jack, disconnect whatever else you have to, and just back the combine away a couple of feet. It's easier in the long run, and you can make sure...
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    combine ID

    Whatever it is, I'm reasonably certain that it's not a Deere--it appears that the tailings elevator empties into a re-thresher of some kind, and no Deere combine I've ever seen had the cleaning fan (if that's what it is) on top of the separator body. And, as others have said, I don't think Deere...
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    combine ID

    No, Deere didn't buy out the Holt/Caterpillar combines, Caterpillar virtually gave Deere its combine business, as Cat saw that their future lay in industrial equipment. Since they were doing another deal with Deere at the same time, Cat felt that turning the combines over to Deere was an easy...
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