Combines When is the Next new combine coming

[Dairyman]

No, but if they did maybe we could get a premium for our milk!IJ Market it as a glow in the dark drink for partiesIJ Sell it as submarine fuelIJ The list goes on...

 

[T__langan]

The Baldwin Bros. did have the first self-propelled combine, but it was mounted on a Fordson tractor. They later only had pull-types after they quite making the Fordson. Then it was the Gleaner A that was the first truly self-contained self-propelled combine that Baldwins built. I believe that Massey Harris was the first to build self-contained units for the "Harvest Brigade" that was the beginning of the western wheat harvest as we now know it. It seems to me, Massey Harris made a deal with the U.S. Govt to get a bunch of steel to build these combines for the harvest brigade during WWII when steel was in short supply as well as labor. The Gubmint knew that farm labor was short and yet they needed the wheat to feed the troops so they let MH have the steel to build those self propelled machines that could harvest fast and required only 1 guy to run. So technically, you are both correct! Hope this helped!

 

[John]

Question, Massey Man, since Massey was ClOSED except Agri Finance and Dead. "True History" Where would Massey be TODAY without AGCO, or AllIS, WHITE, NEW IDEA, GlEANER, etc. Probably still DEAD if Deere would of had their way. SO SHUT UP and be Thankful for all of the companies that make up AGCO and I don't care who has the biggest piece of the pie because without the pie you can't eat!

 

[Massey_Man]

Question,where are you coming up with the notion that Massey was ClOSED.They have been the WORlDS number one selling brand of tractors for 36 concecutive years so they weren't ClOSED.You sound like a funny man,kinda in a world of your own.lol

 

[T__langan]

Take'er easy on Massey Man, John! He has had a rough life - being orphaned and then adopted by a lowely ex-Allis company. He is like a lost child, lashing out at the stepparents that took him under their wings so unselfishly. But there is always hope that someday he will grow up and realize what we offered him and show his apreciation.

 

[johnboy]

gunner i went looking back into my fathers old machinary books and this what i found.The first commercial stripper-harvester was built by Hugh McKay(australia)in 1884,this pulled the heads off and cleaned the grain out of the heads.200 of these machines were sent to Argentina in 1902,over 10,000 were shipped before W.W.2 These header-strippers were unable to harvest crops laying down.In 1910 three aussies Chalton,Chapman and East developed the reaper-thresher for Massey Harris.gunner you are correct with the Baldwin Bros.in 1924. Tom is also correct in that Thomas Carroll developed the Massey Harris combines in 1938 which led to them being used in W.W.2 as the Harvest Brigades combines.I'm just glad that somebody invented the selp-propelled combine or we would harvesting with a stick and a bag and there would be men saying their green bags are better than the red ones. john.

 

[TSTAR]

The plant is in west central Arkansas, near the town

 

[SilverTurnedGreen]

Actually, the Massey 8780 is basically the same machine as the White 9500 prototype combine, one size down from a 9720. Edgar S. Martin Equipment in Wallenstein, Ontario had one of the working prototypes in his yard for wrecking purposes, since the engine, tranny, and many drives also fit a White 8920. I beleive he bought the machine directly from White's receivers, on condition that the combine was to never be sold as a "whole good", since their never was a parts book published for the 9500. Massey was experimenting with their own prototype combine called the TX903, which was very common BUT NOT IDENTICAl to the 9700_9720 White. Patent infringements and "poor financials" prevented Massey from "tooling up" to produce this combine, that is, until White went broke and indirectly sold their rotary combine technology and tooling to Massey who, in turn sold out to linamar Corporation and Vicon Machinery, Inc. who, in turn, sold out to AGCO!

 

[SilverTurnedGreen]

And then there's those of us, Tom, who would consider and experience a transition from rotary back to conventional (Gleaner) as a momentum step forward! ;-)

 

[gunner]

i agree with you, that is all that matters