ChrisNY Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 BigTractorPower filmed me for a day while combining corn this fall. A clip of it is #6 in this video. He has it labeled wrong as a 1482 but🤷🏻♂️. Will be a full video coming out at some point. 25 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny bill o Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 and to think I knew you when you were just one of the little people..... Nice! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paystar5000 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 That’s cool. You do a fantastic job keeping that combine in top shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWRB Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 That Combine really is in beautiful shape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1256pickett Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Looking good! I don’t think I’ve seen a 1400 series that clean in 20+ years. Most are faded rusted and beat to crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkLa 1086 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 What is the benefits of a pull type combine other than one less engine to take care of? I notice when they come up for sale they are usually in the far north and Canada and little where else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 You were flying in that corn! Looks great. Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
766 Man Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 There used to be a JD 400 cuber south of Rochester, NY on the Genesee River flats SW of Geneseo, NY. The farm that owned it was a one time JD dealer. Maybe I'll take a run over that way sometime between now and spring to see if it is still there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 hour ago, 766 Man said: There used to be a JD 400 cuber south of Rochester, NY on the Genesee River flats SW of Geneseo, NY. The farm that owned it was a one time JD dealer. Maybe I'll take a run over that way sometime between now and spring to see if it is still there. There were/is lots of them down in Wyoming were my sister was living. I even thought about buying one that was for sale. I’m surprise to read that there was a cuber over in your region. The alfalfa has to be really dry like down to 10-12% moisture in order for them to work. That’s why most were sold in the west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Congrats on getting in the video. I bet that JD 410 header is the only one in existence restored. If not damn close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 2 hours ago, ArkLa 1086 said: What is the benefits of a pull type combine other than one less engine to take care of? I notice when they come up for sale they are usually in the far north and Canada and little where else. Biggest thing was cost. It’s not just the engine but the transmission too that’s gone. Other reasons I’ve heard is they are easier to work on since you doesn’t have the engine, drivelines, and cab. In some cases pull types will have more capacity then their self propelled counterparts depending on the tractor it’s hooked too. I live right on the fringes of pull type combine country. You literally only have to go 10 miles north into Canada from me when you start running into them. Have a neighbor with a pull type axial flow that he used for grass seed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo1946 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Real nice 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNY Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 4 hours ago, 1256pickett said: Looking good! I don’t think I’ve seen a 1400 series that clean in 20+ years. Most are faded rusted and beat to crap. And that was filmed 2 weeks into the muddy season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkLa 1086 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 57 minutes ago, Big Bud guy said: Biggest thing was cost. It’s not just the engine but the transmission too that’s gone. Other reasons I’ve heard is they are easier to work on since you doesn’t have the engine, drivelines, and cab. In some cases pull types will have more capacity then their self propelled counterparts depending on the tractor it’s hooked too. I live right on the fringes of pull type combine country. You literally only have to go 10 miles north into Canada from me when you start running into them. Have a neighbor with a pull type axial flow that he used for grass seed. I wonder why that was just a regional thing especially since down here people weren't much for bells and whistles either and didn't even want a TA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNY Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 2 hours ago, 766 Man said: There used to be a JD 400 cuber south of Rochester, NY on the Genesee River flats SW of Geneseo, NY. The farm that owned it was a one time JD dealer. Maybe I'll take a run over that way sometime between now and spring to see if it is still there. I have never seen a cuber here in NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
766 Man Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 32 minutes ago, ArkLa 1086 said: I wonder why that was just a regional thing especially since down here people weren't much for bells and whistles either and didn't even want a TA? A lot of dead weight for fall harvest which can be wet along with traversing steep hills. It's one thing to pull a JD 30 with a Farmall 400. It's another to pull a 914 through the mud with an 806. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredT Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 That cuber sounds like a Detroit Diesel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimw Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Back when these were built almost all small grains up north in the Dakotas . Probably Canada and Montana. Almost all grain was swathed . I remember my dad saying they would advertise you could buy a 1066 and 914 combine for about the price as a 915. These guys were cheap but also have to realize these machines only ran in August into September. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, JaredT said: That cuber sounds like a Detroit Diesel It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 59 minutes ago, ArkLa 1086 said: I wonder why that was just a regional thing especially since down here people weren't much for bells and whistles either and didn't even want a TA? Like what was said most pull types were sold in regions that windrowed their crops. Big dry fields with nothing to run into. Rusty runs a pull type combine. Hopefully he will reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkLa 1086 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 What is the benefit of windrowing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searcyfarms Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 8 hours ago, ChrisNY said: BigTractorPower filmed me for a day while combining corn this fall. A clip of it is #6 in this video. He has it labeled wrong as a 1482 but🤷🏻♂️. Will be a full video coming out at some point. are you mailing us all autographed pictures? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheatking Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 33 minutes ago, ArkLa 1086 said: What is the benefit of windrowing? swather were used to cut and windrow the crop to bring it in quicker and ripen the green stuff so its all dry moisture come harvest a practice that isn't used so much anymore to newer variety's are able to come in more evenly and use of chemicals to desiccate and mature the crop for straight cut combining as mentioned the pull type combine was a cheaper alternative for the smaller/ cheaper farmer lots of 914/1482's covered this area, was sort of an alternative for a farmer to save the money and buy a nice tractor and have 1 less engine around the farm one old fella i knew claimed he made his best money in his farming career with pulling disker a pull type sprayer and a pull type combine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDman Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 24 minutes ago, ArkLa 1086 said: What is the benefit of windrowing? Two benefits....you cut the green weeds in standing, ripe crop so they can dry down so you can run them through a combine; and if you have a crop that isn't fully ripened, windrowing it helps to ripen the whole crop for harvest. With small grain, you can end up with areas of the field that ripen quicker than others. PT combines were common in eastern SD back in the 1960/70s as well, as small grain was about the only thing harvested by a combine at that time. Soybeans were in their infancy, and most corn was either harvested for silage or still picked on the ear by a corn picker. One other argument in favor of PT combines was that many farmers had a big tractor that wasn't being utilized during small grain harvest...with a PT combine you had one more job that could justify having a big tractor year around. I'm guessing in the late 1970s/early 1980s there were more IH 914 PTs in South Dakota than all IH SP combines combined....the 914 was very popular. I think if you went up to North Dakota, the 914 was even more popular up there as they were pretty much all small grain at the time. By the mid-1980s, PT combines were less common. When the PT Axial-Flows came out, you could buy a 2-5 year-old SP combine for the same $$$, and you could use it for more than small grains. That was the time when corn and soybeans started to become more popular for crops, and small grain diminished. Also, more small grain was direct or straight-cut in the field, instead of windrowing. Pull-type combines were designed for pickup headers, not row-crop and/or large straight heads for direct cutting of small grain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkorth Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 That 5400 John Deere sure brings back memories for me, seemed huge back in 1976. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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