JD 105 combining corn

[960]

Recreated a 60's harvest past weekend in east central Illinois.

 

[Alan K]

Neat.

 

[cumminspuller]

Good picture. Thanks for posting! Got any more?

 

[WI Dan]

Cool!

 

[wjytexas]

cool. but it was more 2 row equipment in my part of the country back then

 

[gtractorfan]

That was a big combine back then. I remember being impressed seeing that "105". Now try to find anything new that small.

 

[Tech 7]

Well done. Years ago the local dealership sold John Deere farm equipment and IH trucks. A friend of mine has the invoice from when his grandfather bought a new JD 40 combine. Invoice has both John Deere and IHC logos printed on it.

 

[rrlund]

My uncle farmed 1000 acres and had a 95,then later a 105. He did a tremendous amount of custom combining too.

 

[robgIN]

Cool picture. I remember 45s, 55s, 95s and 105s in the neighborhood back when I was a kid. Was it he 95s that turned the high rpms ? I remember being able to hear one of them running a mile and a half away.

 

[Mike (WA)]

I remember a college buddy from eastern WA whose family had a 95- he was excited, because they were moving up to a 105. Would have been about 1966, I think. Nothing much bigger than 55's in those days, in western Washington.

 

[Goose]

I started out with a JD 55, then moved up to a 105. There wasn't as much difference as I expected.

 

[centralilbaler]

love it when we had our 105

 

[The Red]

Great job! There were some 45s in a field near our Indy house on the westside but were scrapped around 2008 for that field to develop into houses. Combines are gone, field is in weeds and volunteer pine trees.

 

[Frank 41]

The first big combine I rver ran when I got out of school. A neighbor bought on from Martin Bros at Roanoke, IL and I drove it to Dewitt. Ran it that fall, then went to Goldfield, IA to run a 2MH on a 560D the pick corn until Dec 6 and snow was about 2' deep in the last rows we didn't get.

The "good old days".

 

[LME]

Nice pic. we had a 45 & 55, also a 1962 IHC pickup.

 

[fixerupper]

Thanks for the memories. I had a six row head on a 105 gas and boy was she busy but the old 105 gave me 19 years of good service. In today's 200+bushel corn it would be VERY busy. Had to extend the unloading auger to the uptional extra long length to clear the Killbros 375 wagons with 16 inch extensions. One of the best things I did was switch from a 15 foot bean head to a 20 foot. With the 20 footer I could keep the separator full without over driving the cutter bar. It's a good old machine that's built tough enough to be worth rebuilding many times over.

 

[fixerupper]

Oops, double post.

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

That was supposed to be me this fall.I bought a 105 gas,and a diesel engine and a quick tach feederhouse and a 444 head but time did not let me get it ready for the field so I am still running a 95 with a 435 corn head.It is slow going in 200+ bu corn but no problems so far.I hope to have it done for small grain next year.Nice pics thanks for posting. Tom