1981 versatile 400 swathing wheat.

[rustred]

i got a couple pic's of the wheat going down today. considering the next to nothing rain we had all summer i cant bish too much. seamed like it was raining all around except here.

 

[BillinCentralMO]

i got a couple pic's of the wheat going down today. considering the next to nothing rain we had all summer i cant bish too much. seamed like it was raining all around except here.

Swather looks well cared for. We had an abundance of moisture until August and then a few rains in August. We are in Central ,Missouri. We are looking at a record harvest of the corn and likely same with the beans. The market is responding accordingly with the lowest grain prices in years. Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

[scootergmc]

Nice photos. Nice classic machine.

 

[flying belgian]

i got a couple pic's of the wheat going down today. considering the next to nothing rain we had all summer i cant bish too much. seamed like it was raining all around except here.

12 ft head?

 

[rustred]

12 ft head?

15 ft. just right for the massey 850

 

[Masseyharrisnut]

i got a couple pic's of the wheat going down today. considering the next to nothing rain we had all summer i cant bish too much. seamed like it was raining all around except here.

Nice looking 400. I had one for years. Very good machines. Wheat crop looks pretty good as well.

 

[David from Kansas]

i got a couple pic's of the wheat going down today. considering the next to nothing rain we had all summer i cant bish too much. seamed like it was raining all around except here.

Pick-up reel must have been a nice luxury back then as most swathers just had a bat reel. Remember travelling thru eastern NE and SD back in the mid 60's on the way to Minnesota and surprised at all the spring crops; i.e., wheat, oats, etc. that had been swathed. Nothing like that in Kansas as it was all direct cut.

 

[rustred]

yes the pickup reel is the cats meow. other wise with them old bat reels u just go over top the layed out crop. these swathers came out in 1970 and i had a 1970. with the macdon pickup reel.

 

[wore out]

Nice photos. Nice classic machine.

''Nice classic machine.''

I have to ask, scooter, have you ever driven one?

They are a cross between a bucking bronc and a carnival ride!

 

[Tony in SD]

I had been operating the old 400 for several years. Then Dad bought a new 400 in 1974, so I had a lot of time on a 400. It was my machine. I operated and fixed it. Wasn’t much I didn’t know about how it worked or how to fix them. I preformed preventative maintenance on it every morning when it was too wet to cut. I rarely broke down in the field. When I left the farm in 1980, dad asked me how to run the swather because he had never run it before. Great machine of the era. If I was closer, I’d come operate it for you.

 

[rustred]

Sure , but if u drove I will be finished before u arrived ! Be time for beer 30! Lol

 

[Tony in SD]

Sure , but if u drove I will be finished before u arrived ! Be time for beer 30! Lol

Rusted
where jou located?

 

[rustred]

Rusted
where jou located?

in central alberta , an hr. north of edmonton.