first self-propelled

[usetob]

what was the first self-propelled combine you operated?

myself was a 21A

 

[Bob]

I didn't get to OPERATE the Super 27, but I got to "tune it up"!

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[olgentdc]

203 ihc,... actually i was MORE the wrench puller and fire extinguisher man , while older brother ran the beans we always had to watch out for a flameup ,, some years beans can really be nasty with dust ,,1st machine i owned and really putin some operator time was my dear gasser 1968 mf 300 ,, still use it each year ..

 

[Nathaniel Watts]

A Gleaner F corn special for me, I think it was in 1992 or so.

 

[jdvswmo]

Gleaner E Cutting Fescue Seed Mid 80's

 

[flying belgian]

960 Case.

 

[JMS/.MN]

1970 Gleaner Model K in 1976, winter wheat.

 

[Moline_guy]

Neighbors 95 john deere. Kind of different looking forward and not back like the 96 i was use to.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I think I ran the neighbors e gleaner for a round in corn before dad bought a 101 IH with a 10 foot head and no cab. It was really nice and should have been preserved but we didn't think about antiques in those days, we were more interested in using it. We cut 3 rows of soybeans at a time!

 

[CLTX]

MH21

 

[MN Scott]

John Deere 4400.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Case 1010 and I plugged the cylinder picking up windrows.
The weather was hot and Dad was ------.

 

[Bradley K]

1978 JD 6600 diesel

 

[Bradley K]

1978 JD 6600 diesel

 

[Ande]

It was a "1010" Case,it was traded in with a engine valve problem.Of course it was sent out to our "testing grounds" (our farm),and it wasnt fixed,about every 10th round it would stick and of course lose power.It was the 6 cyl Hercules.It was a nice combine to harvest otherwise with

 

[Ill John]

Minnie Uni/LA combine

 

[Mike Hunter]

it was an IH203 with a 10 ft.head in oats, summer of 1975.Plugger her up once ate dust all day.

 

[Tom Railsback]

Super 26 Massey-Harris; last was a 1660 Case.

 

[BANDITFARMER]

A-C 100 sp cutting wheat in 1965 I thought I was on top of the world getting to run it.

 

[Retro]

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

 

[W R]

Have never owned or operated a self propelled, and have no desire to. Prefer a PTO/tractor machine any day.

 

[1031D]

1962 Massey Harris 72SP with a 12' platform and 2 row corn head

 

[LAW/MN]

1969 IHC 205, 13 ft head and 227 cornhead. Variable speed control was a right arm-shoulder killer and I was only 40 then.

 

[jwal10]

IHC 123SP bagger machine in red clover, hot and dusty....James

 

[cadet trooper]

Ran a JD45 w/2row cornhead in 1958 along with my brother running one for our cousin who was also running one we were all going one way because the Dekalb corn was down and of course the wind was in our face going the slow direction I think I ground off most of my teeth with the chattering.

 

[Dave Sherburne NY]

Tied the bags on an old Allis years later
moved up to 8820 JD and then to a JD 9600

 

[H2omelon55]

A 1954 Massey Harris 80SP, if sitting in my Dad's lap and steering counts!! Then a MF 300, 410, 510 and 550. I guess we have been partial to that red paint.

 

[1206SWMO]

I drove tractors alone at a very early age but Dad never let me combine until I was 17.The first combine I drove alone was our 1965 203 IH with a 227 corn head.This was in Sept 1966 while shelling corn for a neighbor 1 mile to the north.After that I did most of the combining and Dad did the hauling.I could just kick myself for never taking a picture of the 203.

 

[1968 403]

1963 year model IH 403

 

[Critter]

Mid 80"s setting in dads lap Gleaner G.

 

[NW MO Poppers]

Me too. Ours was a SideHill. Grandpa had a 1978 and a 1979, both 6600 SideHills.

 

[Dean Barker]

It would be a Gleaner A-II in soybeans. My oldest son and I combined corn with this combine for the very first time the same day.

 

[Kentb of SWMO]

Allis C-II with a 18 ft heade cutting Fescue in about 1994.

Kent

 

[Kentb of SWMO]

Allis C-II with a 18 ft head cutting Fescue in about 1994.

Kent

 

[STUDIEDIESEL63]

Our 1974 MF300 shelling corn,Dad would run during the day,then I d run till 2,3oclock filling the trucks up again.Still have the 300.

 

[MattLF9]

1980 Gleaner F2.

 

[MattLF9]

1980 Gleaner F2.

 

[MattLF9]

1980 Gleaner F2.

 

[Anonymous-0]

1988 John Deere 8820

 

[Anonymous-0]

boy you guys know how to make a fella feel old.
Not many in this post started much earlier.
Somewhere in the fal of 6? combining wheat
with two 72AC and dad went to town and cam back with Plain E gleanor that was a treat from that to E III to K, F., and right on up the ladder

 

[JW]

7720 with a 220 platform in down beans

 

[Flewster]

1956 Gleaner A.......got first taste of running it in 1987 or so in wheat....and "since I did such a good job" (yeah right) I got to run it from then on out each fall in Milo........

 

[J.ReinkeFarms]

Fall of 1992, I was 9 years old, we had corn. Dad had a model 55 round back with a spike cylinder. He had me run a round and unload, then he went in the house and I went until the truck was full two times that day. Was lucky enough that I started running it after dad put a cab and heater on it.

 

[OLWHDA]

Oliver 25 in about 61 or 62 shelling corn.

 

[OLWHDA]

Oliver 25 in about 61 or 62 shelling corn.

 

[schriffs]

Dad"s Gleaner F2, but remember riding in the F with him before he got that one.

 

[CaseNutty 1660]

it was 1969,the machine was a 1961 Case 1000 with 18ft hdr

 

[olgentdc]

1970 203 intertrashinal

 

[Jay Poole]

Massy Harris Clipper... sitting on daddys lap. Round back 55 till we quit farming in 79.]