I'll Be Da*ned!

[Allan in NE]

Thought that bugger looked awfully familiar.

Drivin' by the dealer's lot yeasterday and spotted this old low-profile corn head setting along the hiway.

Hmmmmm, looks an awfully lot like the one I had bought new back in the late 70s or early eighties and had to sell. So, I stopped in there this morning just to see, inquire, snoop and ask.

Yep, so and so just traded it in. HEY! THAT'S MY OLD CORN HEAD!!!

Bought it on the spot..................and don't have a single stalk of corn to my name. 'Tol ya I was crazy. :>)

Oh yeah, center divider is around back of their building for some darned reason. :>)

Allan

 

[RobMD]

Talk about a small world Allan!

I recently found a Massey ferguson 230 tractor that my Dad sold in the early 90's. Somehow it managed to get to ohio, then back to PA, and then 30 miles from my house 15 years later. The weights and the scratches in the paint were a dead giveaway.

 

[Anonymous-0]

How does that fit on that pull swather you've got?

 

[M Nut]

Good for you Allan. Always nice to get a piece of iron back home where it belongs!

 

[Anonymous-0]

Reminds me when I got all new bearings for my orange 430 head about a decade ago, one I used on the F and F2. Serial number split- of all those built, mine was the number they split at. Dealer said, "Yeah, but AC was not always that fussy about all parts being changed at the split". Found that out to be true as well.

 

[Dave from MN]

30" rows?

 

[Allan in NE]

Yeah,

As I remember it, I had to drive up on the row when I switched to the narrows.

The wide 38s would let the combine track down in between.

Allan

 

[Allan in NE]

That head came on a very early F2; one of the first they got on the lot back then.

My current F is one of the last Fs built. Is the head gonna fit my machine?

Allan

 

[IaGary]

How do you do it?

I have things I have traded in and wished I would have kept but I never see them again.

1086fwd is one of them.

Anyone seen it lately.

Gary

 

[Anonymous-0]

Allan, there is something good in your future I can just tell from the way the nuts fall around your tree. There is a guy in eastern Wa that is (or at least was) begging for someone to come and combine a full pivot of corn for him. Heard it paid 45 an acre plus fuel. Man you could have that whole rig paid for in a week plus get some seroius seat time on the old Gleaner. Brother in law has a guy that wants him to do 30 acres of barley yet this fall with his Gleaner. Heads are all hanging down but the grain is still in the hull and probably make about 30 bushels to the acre. A spud grower is giving it to him for free. Think about it, we could have and ol fashioned harvest run yet this fall???? Migraine

 

[Anonymous-0]

Dang. That's pretty cool.

 

[paul]

Yes.

Orange heads have different drive sprockets on the combine than the black heads have - you''l have to check what your combine came with.

--->Paul

 

[Allan in NE]

Oh,

No doubt the old sister is gonna take some TLC to make it field worthy again and I keep telling myself that it was traded off for a reason.

One of these days, I'll go talk to the prior owner and see what he says about it.

The combine/heads were one of the few items that I knew where it went. Just kinda nice to have the same exact piece of machinery back again. :>)

PS. Oh yeah and DUH! Woke up in the middle of the night, figured out why that center divider was off. That's how they loaded the old rascal... :>)

Allan

 

[Allan in NE]

Thanks Paul,

I'll check the old smoker next time I walk by 'er.

Seems to me that it has the 13-tooth 60-chain sprokets. Can't 'member for sure tho.

Allan