Remembering the summer fun

[valleyview]

A foot of snow on the ground and slipping around on snow pack lends me to remember the fun I had this summer combining with the 18 pull type. Got to love the old equipment doing it's job.

 

[tom upton]

Hey- Those model 18 combines do one heck of a good job dont they? I combined 15 acres of oats with mine this fall and sold it by the bag to horse , sheep and goat farmers. I had a lot of them comment on how clean the oats where, and wondered what kind of a setup I had for a grain cleaner? When I told them they where straight from the combine, they where amazed.One guy says to me, Boy you must have a good combine? I took him into the back end of the driving shed and showed him the old 18. He says "you gotta be joking" I assured him it was no joke that I had used it for the whole field and after it sitting idle before that for lord knows how many years it worked perfectly!

 

[Geoff in KS]

Same thing with my grandpa's old Gleaner vs. my uncle's wrong green 7720. The old AC does a lot better, but it's a lot slower too and it hurts the cash flow between the elevator and bank.