combine pics from farm progess shows past
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Topic: combine pics from farm progess shows past
Posted By: johnny
Subject: combine pics from farm progess shows past
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 12:43pm
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I just uploaded some pics of combines from past farm progress shows circa 1960's several pics are gleaners.
http://www.grandpastractor.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=426 - http://www.grandpastractor.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=426
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Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 6:14pm
| Neat pics. Back then the gleaner's styling actually fit in with the rest of the combines |
Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 8:50pm
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Kinda reminds me of Rantoul only they wasn't new there.
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Posted By: Nick in MI
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 10:33pm
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Ive never seen most of those old combines besides the gleaners and ive never heard of fox, were they an import or something? real cool pics. ------------- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it weren't for John Deeres our tools would rust |
Posted By: johnny
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 10:40pm
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I could be wrong but fox was a wisconsin company that buillt self propelled choppers. They built a chopper that oliver kind of copied, then I think oliver bought them out I think. I am sure someone else here probably knows more than I do.
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 10:43pm
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Thanks for posting Johnny.Great pics.Have looked at the other photos and have really enjoyed looking at them.They were still making open platform combines in 1968? Guess it was longer than I thought.I was 2 years old then. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 4:25am
| Dad had a 600 Case just like the one in the picture with no cab. Combined oats all day on it next to the bin made a very dirty man out of him! Neighbor in town wanted to know when dad had hired a black man on the farm, dad told him I don't have any hired men. The guy was adement that he saw a black guy driving the combine through town! Dad got to laughing after he relized it was HIM! |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 6:48am
Yes, Fox was bought by Oliver. there was a write up in Heritage Iron about it. ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
johnny wrote:Posted By: CDR,Ky.
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 7:00am
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When I was a kid back in the 60's our neighber's had a self propelled Fox chopper like the one in the picture. ------------- If you first don't succeed then you'se brute force! |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 9:27pm
| I love seeing all that equipment when it was shinny and new instead of run down and in the junkyard. Thanks for posting. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 10:06pm
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great pics!! notice how the gleaner's corn head chopped the stalks better than the other brands! those were some pretty weedy fields too! to this day my old k & g combines chop the stalks up better than my neighbors new JD combine....his stalks look like an old mounted picker did his corn! |
Posted By: Dutchboy Johan
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 3:09pm
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A lot of Fox choppers where powere by Detroit 2-stroke engine's. A wonderfull sound!! ------------- ---> Better by Design <--- Johan Straver, Almkerk/ Netherlands Allis-Chalmers 190XT Ser.III #26829XTD |
Posted By: redline
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:24pm
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I am pretty sure the Fox brand ended up being owned by Hiniker. Fox and Brady were combined (Brady of stalk cutter fame), when I worked as a partsman and called for Brady parts at Hiniker, I think they answered the phone as Fox/Brady. Hiniker also has the Century sprayer line. ------------- If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done! |
Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 9:02pm
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Redline is correct on Fox. For a while they were owned by Koering, then by Brady and ultimately by Hiniker. In their day they were THE silage chopper company. ------------- The innovators offer what others will imitate. |
Posted By: Rayhowling
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 10:03pm
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I remember Fox forage harvesters back in the 1960's. Coleman Equipment in Ontario, Canada selling them all over. They were a well built harvester, long life machine. One of my first jobs was for someone who did custom harvesting corn haylage dry straw after the combine to put into barn for cattle bedding. That was just before the self unloading wagons came out. They had endless chain like a manure spreader and you used a manure fork to pull the straw or hay down into the Blower. That was one dusty job on a hot day. |