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DanielW
Well-known Member
- Location
- Haliburton, Ontario
Where are you located? I have a pickup for a 60/66 I'd be willing to sell. Also have a 66 and 90 I'd be willing to give away. Both have scour-cleans. Have another 66 for parts that also has a scour-clean on it (probably rusted away though as it's been sitting outside), and somewhere buried in a barn I have a brand new scour-clean screen. I'm in Central Ontario.
DanielW
Well-known Member
- Location
- Haliburton, Ontario
Apologies for my late response. The pickup I have is in good condition (from what I remember - it's been sitting at the back of a shed for over a decade). Idler and drive sheaves should be there, but they're not original Allis: I had to make them myself (not a big deal, as B-section idler sheaves & tensioners are readily available. It would only a concern if you wanted to keep everything genuine Allis). I could look into shipping; I'm presuming an LTL load would be most economic. But even so, I highly suspect the shipping with cross-border duties, etc., will be more than the pickup (or even the whole combine) is worth. Especially as these combines were so popular - I suspect if you keep looking you'll find one pretty cheap and much closer to home.
Do you have the combine already? If not, and if you're just looking for a smaller/simpler/older PT combine, I'd might recommend looking at something other than the All-Crops. Like many folks, I was convinced the All-Crops were the best pull-type combine of their day. And I accordingly have/had three all crops. (two 66's and one 90). But I've since concluded that they really weren't all that spectacular. They were crazily popular because they were cheap enough to bring combining to every farmer. And the rubber concaves meant they could thresh anything. For those reasons they definitely earned a place in the history books. But (personal opinion) their cheap price corresponded with a much lighter/flimsical build quality than other combine of the era. And the rubber concaves were ok for the rare case of needing gentle threshing of really fine seed crops. But for any common cereals/grains, a plain old steel bar concave will serve you well and last longer. And any All-Crop you find these days likely has the rubber concaves worn so inconsistently that they'd be pretty lousy at threshing fine seed crops anyway. When I bought my 90, I had new concave bars made with high durometer urethane cast on them to be like-new. But I'm not sure why I bothered. I could have done the same for another make of combine, and most other makes of combines are better built (again: personal opinion). Since owning my All-Crops, I've been around & used Oliver 18's, IH's (a few models), a neighbour's Massey (can't remember the model), and a Cockshutt 422. All pull-types of the same era, and in my opinion all much stouter built than the All-Crops.
That's a long-winded way of saying: a) If you already have the all-crop and are looking for the pickup, I can price shipping. But I suspect you'll be able to find one closer to home far cheaper/easier. b) If you haven't yet bought the combine, you might look into other models instead of the all-crops. My preference would be IH: They're very solidly built, and cutterbar components are the same as IH sickle mowers and very readily available. The Oliver 18 was also superb - probably the best built of the lot. Just a little harder to find cutterbar parts for. But not much harder than the All-Crops.
Do you have the combine already? If not, and if you're just looking for a smaller/simpler/older PT combine, I'd might recommend looking at something other than the All-Crops. Like many folks, I was convinced the All-Crops were the best pull-type combine of their day. And I accordingly have/had three all crops. (two 66's and one 90). But I've since concluded that they really weren't all that spectacular. They were crazily popular because they were cheap enough to bring combining to every farmer. And the rubber concaves meant they could thresh anything. For those reasons they definitely earned a place in the history books. But (personal opinion) their cheap price corresponded with a much lighter/flimsical build quality than other combine of the era. And the rubber concaves were ok for the rare case of needing gentle threshing of really fine seed crops. But for any common cereals/grains, a plain old steel bar concave will serve you well and last longer. And any All-Crop you find these days likely has the rubber concaves worn so inconsistently that they'd be pretty lousy at threshing fine seed crops anyway. When I bought my 90, I had new concave bars made with high durometer urethane cast on them to be like-new. But I'm not sure why I bothered. I could have done the same for another make of combine, and most other makes of combines are better built (again: personal opinion). Since owning my All-Crops, I've been around & used Oliver 18's, IH's (a few models), a neighbour's Massey (can't remember the model), and a Cockshutt 422. All pull-types of the same era, and in my opinion all much stouter built than the All-Crops.
That's a long-winded way of saying: a) If you already have the all-crop and are looking for the pickup, I can price shipping. But I suspect you'll be able to find one closer to home far cheaper/easier. b) If you haven't yet bought the combine, you might look into other models instead of the all-crops. My preference would be IH: They're very solidly built, and cutterbar components are the same as IH sickle mowers and very readily available. The Oliver 18 was also superb - probably the best built of the lot. Just a little harder to find cutterbar parts for. But not much harder than the All-Crops.
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Bob Bancroft
Well-known Member
- Location
- Aurora NY
Dad had a JD 12A. He made the observation that our neighbors with the AC's started cutting wheat much later than we did.Apologies for my late response. The pickup I have is in good condition (from what I remember - it's been sitting at the back of a shed for over a decade). Idler and drive sheaves should be there, but they're not original Allis: I had to make them myself (not a big deal, as B-section idler sheaves & tensioners are readily available. It would only a concern if you wanted to keep everything genuine Allis). I could look into shipping; I'm presuming an LTL load would be most economic. But even so, I highly suspect the shipping with cross-border duties, etc., will be more than the pickup (or even the whole combine) is worth. Especially as these combines were so popular - I suspect if you keep looking you'll find one pretty cheap and much closer to home.
Do you have the combine already? If not, and if you're just looking for a smaller/simpler/older PT combine, I'd might recommend looking at something other than the All-Crops. Like many folks, I was convinced the All-Crops were the best pull-type combine of their day. And I accordingly have/had three all crops. (two 66's and one 90). But I've since concluded that they really weren't all that spectacular. They were crazily popular because they were cheap enough to bring combining to every farmer. And the rubber concaves meant they could thresh anything. For those reasons they definitely earned a place in the history books. But (personal opinion) their cheap price corresponded with a much lighter/flimsical build quality than other combine of the era. And the rubber concaves were ok for the rare case of needing gentle threshing of really fine seed crops. But for any common cereals/grains, a plain old steel bar concave will serve you well and last longer. And any All-Crop you find these days likely has the rubber concaves worn so inconsistently that they'd be pretty lousy at threshing fine seed crops anyway. When I bought my 90, I had new concave bars made with high durometer urethane cast on them to be like-new. But I'm not sure why I bothered. I could have done the same for another make of combine, and most other makes of combines are better built (again: personal opinion). Since owning my All-Crops, I've been around & used Oliver 18's, IH's (a few models), a neighbour's Massey (can't remember the model), and a Cockshutt 422. All pull-types of the same era, and in my opinion all much stouter built than the All-Crops.
That's a long-winded way of saying: a) If you already have the all-crop and are looking for the pickup, I can price shipping. But I suspect you'll be able to find one closer to home far cheaper/easier. b) If you haven't yet bought the combine, you might look into other models instead of the all-crops. My preference would be IH: They're very solidly built, and cutterbar components are the same as IH sickle mowers and very readily available. The Oliver 18 was also superb - probably the best built of the lot. Just a little harder to find cutterbar parts for. But not much harder than the All-Crops.
When looking to update a little, he found a late SP100 at auction. Never could get the thing to work right. It was a very good thing he still had the 12A. Then he traded the SP100 for a brand new Gleaner E, last year of production. What a great machine. It's still going!
hi, to spacechem
i did check out the allis auction site and there was only one pick up and it was going with a machine.
to daniel,
too late. i bought this all crop twenty years ago and have made significant up grades to it with concave, beater bars and drapers. i wanted to try harvesting buckwheat with it but i understand it is better to mow and windrow it, let it dry and use a pick up to thresh it. if you looked into shipping, let me know what it will be and what you need for the unit. i'm not interested in original allis but i would like it to work.
i did check out the allis auction site and there was only one pick up and it was going with a machine.
to daniel,
too late. i bought this all crop twenty years ago and have made significant up grades to it with concave, beater bars and drapers. i wanted to try harvesting buckwheat with it but i understand it is better to mow and windrow it, let it dry and use a pick up to thresh it. if you looked into shipping, let me know what it will be and what you need for the unit. i'm not interested in original allis but i would like it to work.
DanielW
Well-known Member
- Location
- Haliburton, Ontario
Will do. How much buckwheat do you have to harvest? Before I had our pickup head, a neighbour borrowed one of our 66's for a small buckwheat foot plot (I'm guessing about 2 acres). He just dropped the regular head under the swathed windrow and it did fine. Wouldn't want to rely on it to work for more than a couple acres, however, as it's probably a little slow going to make sure it doesn't plug/bungle up.hi, to spacechem
i did check out the allis auction site and there was only one pick up and it was going with a machine.
to daniel,
too late. i bought this all crop twenty years ago and have made significant up grades to it with concave, beater bars and drapers. i wanted to try harvesting buckwheat with it but i understand it is better to mow and windrow it, let it dry and use a pick up to thresh it. if you looked into shipping, let me know what it will be and what you need for the unit. i'm not interested in original allis but i would like it to work.
The chap who owned my gleaner used to do a lot of swathed clover in a similar fashion without a pickup head: He had four or five crop lifters on the head and that was all he needed. Crop lifters are pretty common & inexpensive - I suspect you could adapt a few onto an All-Crop fairly easily. You'd probably only need three or four for a 66.
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