Allis combine

[sunbeam]

This is the first on I have ever seen what number is it sells 2 22 2022
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[BonaparteSouth]

# 40. granddad and dad bought theirs in 1941. early ones had steel dish wheel riveted to hub. later ones had spoke wheels to save steel for war. missing alot of parts!!

 

[Bob Bancroft]

I think it's a model 40.

 

[rrlund]

I'd read in Walt Beuscher's book that those were made to be sold with the Model B.

 

[Irvin Plitzuweit]

I heard Allis sold the patent of that combine to John Deere and that become the 11-A, 12-A and then 25. Allis then designed the 60, 66, 72 with the cross separating section.

 

[rrlund]

They remind me more of an International 42R.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

It sure has the same shape. But maybe they all did back then.

 

[rrlund]

These things were tiny. I don't think they even had a 4 foot cut. They came out after the All Crop. What I read was that there was a package deal that offered the B tractor, plow, cultivator and 40 combine, maybe a few other implements, but it was to mechanize a small farm. Dad said that with that hump, they looked like a set of hair clippers.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

All Crop 40,I had several at one time a lot of them in my area.They will do a great job on grain and things like Clover seed,still have an old one over in the field looks better than the one in the picture.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

I dug out Norm Swinford's book. It states- 40 had a 40 inch cutterbar. and gathered a total of 45 inches. Cylinder and separator all 3 feet wide. It's hump back was the first of that style- borrowing from automotive body panel dies.

 

[rrlund]

I'm a little surprised it has a grain tank. I'd think the majority of them would have had a bagger.

 

[jvin248]

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We had one of the JD versions of the AC pictured, stuck in the brush along the lane the whole time I was a kid. I think a tree ended up falling on it before the farm was wrapped up.

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[sunbeam]

After finding a 40 I found a picture of a SP40 very limited production.
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[Traditional Farmer]

AC G on top powering the combine,a guy had one near me at Luray VA.Think they were built for some ag school for harvesting test plots.

 

[Mark-Ia]

There's one of them next to the creek bank by my house in poor condition.

 

[fastfarmall]

Wow, that looks top heavy !!

 

[fastfarmall]

That 12A was that turtle back JD combine wasn't it, That turtle back cylinder was so weak it would just bend up when a slug would go thru!

 

[Leroy]

The AC 40 and the McCormic were both the same size but the AC was left hand cut while the McC was a right hand cut. Were more McCormic in my area than the AC And doni't think I ever saw one of either make with a bager and others perhaps only 1 or 2 ever, just pictures. Straight down US 127 from rrlund in Ohio that rrlund used to come for the 127 yard sales.

 

[GarryinNC]

My mother's father bought an AllCrop 40 new in 1940, along with a B tractor, and a disc plow. It had a sacking platform, as did most combines around here back then.

My dad got a job riding the sacking platform for him for 10 cents an hour. My mother used to bring them water and lunch. That is how my dad met my mother.

I had a 40 and sold it to Richard G, who posts a lot on here. Also, there is a IH 42r sitting in a shed near where I live. It has been there for over 50 years and is equipped with a 4 cylinder Continental (I think) engine. Both are neat little machines. Allis only built about 15,000 of the AllCrop 40.

Garry

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Richard got a parts one from me too.