Combines What is the first combine you ever ranIJ

I started running a 1983 JD 4240 in 1994. I was riding shotgun in soybeans. Ernie pushed the steering wheel forward climbed out, turned his head and said "better start driving city boy". He jumped off and I was on my own. Some instruction huhIJIJ

CORRECTION! Model was a 4420. I was thinking of his tractor model instead of the combine model.

Grandpa's Gleaner E, 10 ft head with MandW header control and a 2 row TAll corn head. Had a cab that you could pull a couple of handles and the roof would raise. Dad put in an old ford truck heater for him. Big step up for Grandpa, he moved out of an F-20 with a mounted corn picker.

My first was a massey 585 with a 12 foot closed front, without power steering or a cab, not even a umbrella, but that was all the normal things back in '68, dont know if they were anywhere else other than out here in Australia.

A New Idea 717 Uni-System which caught fire 3 times every 2 acres

The first one I operated was a Harris seperator that had been modified. It was pulled by a Caterpillar D-7 7M.Some place I have pictures and if anyone is interested I will search for them. Actually my title was header tender.

an (model number)82 massey harris which had an aftermarket cab put on it in later years. Every morning when starting out in wheat harvest I'd fill two pans with water in the top of the cab and the fan would blow it down onto me during the day. I still don't know how I put up with it. I think that 9600 is making me soft now. Still.......in it's day that 82 was a darn good machine. I'm just glad someone invented a reverser since then!! Deerebines

First combine that I ever ran as a kid was a pull type

a massey harris 82 would be the first combine i drove under the watchfull eye of my farther. than we got a 4400 and since i was to young to drive on the road i got to run it when dad went to the elevator with the loads.probably drove that combine more than any of the rest that we have had since .dad's the combine operator on our farm mostly. hope i can still handle a combine as good as him when i reach his age.

it was a JD 40, no cab, 10' head cutting milo. thought i had the world by the tail then we got a JD 45 with a cab and fan. boy have times changed