Identify Combine Seeder

[Kayrick]

I purchased this combine some three years ago and i have been unable to find anyone who can inform me who made this implement and roughly when it was made.

 

[Randy Shoe]

Didn't realize they called this a combine. I thought it was a seed drill.

 

[paul]

I wrote a reply but didn't post it, I tried to be funny but ended up sounding like a smart a.

So, is this a grain drill, or a fertilizer applicator, or? It's a little different design than I'm familiar with, and you only gave us one angle.

It's not a combine, combines are for harvesting!

Does it use the shovels to create the seed trenches? Wish we had a few more pictures.

Often times the manufaturer put a logo or letters on the ends of the bin. Covered by the tires in the pic. Or any cast iron pieces have a serial
number on them, the first 2 letters or numbers often are a code for the manufacturer.

The gauge adjusters for seed or application rate often have a bit of writing on them, can be a good clue.

Inside the lid is sometimes an application chart the writing will give a clue.

Many machines have a serial plate in an out oft he way protected part of the frame, sometimes under a lot of old grease.

So,e clues to check out......

Paul

 

[Kayrick]

(quoted from post at 22:11:15 01/23/18) I wrote a reply but didn't post it, I tried to be funny but ended up sounding like a smart a.

So, is this a grain drill, or a fertilizer applicator, or? It's a little different design than I'm familiar with, and you only gave us one angle.

It's not a combine, combines are for harvesting!

Does it use the shovels to create the seed trenches? Wish we had a few more pictures.

Often times the manufaturer put a logo or letters on the ends of the bin. Covered by the tires in the pic. Or any cast iron pieces have a serial
number on them, the first 2 letters or numbers often are a code for the manufacturer.

The gauge adjusters for seed or application rate often have a bit of writing on them, can be a good clue.

Inside the lid is sometimes an application chart the writing will give a clue.

Many machines have a serial plate in an out oft he way protected part of the frame, sometimes under a lot of old grease.

So,e clues to check out......

Paul

We have been cropping since i was a boy, i am now 63 and still farming -- Its called a 16 row combine seeder in Australia as it applys both fertiliser and seed in one operation. There are 4 rows of tynes each offset from each other, the first set open the ground, the second set open the ground and apply seed and fert thru droppers, the third set open and apply seed and fert thru droppers as well the last trailing set open and cover.
I have been all over the machine for the last 3 or so years and have found zip on it to help me determine what it is there is absolutely nothing. Can post more pics if you like.
Kayrick.

 

[carvel minne farmer]

ah combine being the short form of combination.

 

[SVcummins]

They call combines headers in that part of the world

 

[Matt from Oz]

Hi Kayrick

I am not exactly going to be a lot of help to you but I will give it a try. The wheel makes me think it could be a Shearer but the drive looks more like an International. Could also be a Conor Shea. Sorry have you looked in ads or maybe a museum may be able to help like the one at Temora, Gilgandra
or Gunnedah in NSW. Don't know where you are from but there has to be somebody out there who could confirm it for you. In Australia we call this a combine because it plants seeds and also drills fertiliser in one pass. They have tines with what we call points another poster called them shovels.
Interesting how things are different in different parts of the world. These were/are mainly used to plant grains like wheat, oats or barley and can plant legumes as well. Can also be fitted with a small seeds box to plant pasture species like lucerne, clovers and small seeded grasses like ryegrass
and phalaris. Really depends where you are as to what is grown.

 

[Kayrick]

Thanks for that Matt. We are down in South Australia, murraylands. The closest match we have got to id is a Horwood Bagshaw T series AET 16 row cultivating drill, 1964 variety. Still runs like a champion never misses a beat.

 

[paul]

I got to thinking that must be from a different country, and might be a 'different set' of English being used. That's why I changed my message like I mentioned below.....

We Americans can get kinda self-centered, thinking we are the center of everything.

Love to see different machines from different parts of the world here!

I too see some similarities to IHC designs in the Hitch and lift, but probably just a similarity.

Paul

 

[paul]

Here in the USA early drills had either disks (coulters, single or double) to open the seed slot or some had 'runners' which is just a flat steel bar
that cut in the ground.

Modern big seeders out west now are known as hoe drills, and have a shank sort of like your machine has, of course a much different machine
over all.

In my wet heavy soil something like that wouldn't work at all.

In your dry climate, or in western USA, that would be just the ticket for gettingthe seed down into moist soil.

Paul

 

[Leroy]

Paul, here in the USA the early drills were hoe drills with the disk openers comming later, the new stuff I am not familuar with so don't know about hoe openers on new.

 

[Matt from Oz]

Hi Kayrick

Thought you were down south somewhere. Thought about Horwood Bagshaw but we never see a lot of their gear here. I am in central western NSW. What ever it is it is an Australian made machine which there are not a whole lot of anymore. We have a Napier Grasslands trashseeder which is
very handy, just fixing up above the undercarriage on it now.

Regards

Matt

 

[paul]

Didn't know that, just doesn't work in the clay soils here so never seen a hoe drill operate of any age. Seen a couple when I go to an auction 100 miles west of me.......

Never see runnerr corn planters either, first one I ever saw I wondered why they were selling a broken planter, no disk blades on it.... what? Huh?

Paul

 

[SVcummins]

They also plough and have tractors with rubber tyres and when they have to tighten a bolt they use a spanner

 

[hd6gtom]

Kayrick I know your question hasn't been answered, but I want to thank you for posting the great picture and
educating us about your country. Always appreciated. Thank You.