I actually had a chance to have a chat with CB's grand daughter a couple of years ago. She is a really nice lady that gave me some great information about the old guy. She never even knew much about the bean harvesters he was responsible for, I guess at the time she knew him he was an avid bowler. I unknowingly had spoent quite a bit of time in the same bowling alley, while waiting for my next train to arrive in san Jose to take back to San Luis Obispo. I am a railroader by trade if my screen name doesnt give it away. I Have grown beans since I was a kid with my Father and Uncle, and then I started out on my own back in 1998 with an old 1936 C.B. Hay that I got from the Plo family out in Lompoc. I rebuilt it and used it til It was just too expensive to keep fabbing everything. I tried using a JD 7700 turbo with a slow down kit and even a Lilliston but both have proven to be not working well for my application. I am going to end up hauling a 47 standard from Stockton up to my area this upcoming season, nothin beats a c.b. hay for beans.

Juiceman. I miss George. I know he was involved in rice combines, I just can not remember the name of the machines he helped build. When a national show was back east I would call and ask him if he was going. If the answer was yes, I would put in my order and he would drop the stuff of at my place on the way through. I alway thought Grimes was a funny name for a place.
Thanks
Ken

I know they use to make a rice combine in College city called the Hardy Harvester, kinda looked like a self propelled c.b. hay on steel tracks, painted yellow.

Gee, Ken,  I asked George Rankin if he was related to the Rankin’s that made the one wheeler and the after market parts to improve hay balers. 
He said no Relation that he knew of. 
He knew a lot about 60’s also. When I brought my best 60 home I stopped in Colusa to get a bite to eat I looked out the restaurant window there was George checking out the 60 on my lowbed. so I went out and had a nice conversation with him.     
One of his first jobs as a young man was operating a 60 pulling a rice harvester. We lost a lot of knowledge when we lost George. 
 Skinner 

One wheel drive mystery solved, thanks Skinner!
George actually worked in College City, CA and not much there to be educated unless you sat at one of the local watering holes.
Back in the day, the Hardy Harvester WAS the Cadillac of rice harvesters. Twin 1160 CAT V-8 motors, D4 running gear, and Allis Chalmers transmission, until some were built to run a single V8 and hydrostatic transmission. 2 speeds; slow and super slow…
The big rice operation I worked for treated the combine operators well. We were to drive them and nothing else, as rhe bankout cart operators were supposed to wash our windows and grease only a few of the bearings; I opted for them to onky clean the lower 2’ of cab
glass, as the cabs didn’t have decent insulation and it would turn to a sauna if your AC wasn’t proper. Ahh, the memories! JM

I spent a lot of years (48) at Woodland Draper Mfg. building drawers and drag chains for CB Hay, Burrier, and Price machines. Been retired now for 9 years but the shop is still open.

Drapers, not drawers!

Hahaha, yes on DRAPERS.
Welcome to the forum!
I am one of your locals, north of you in Yuba City. If memory serves me right, WESCO and others utilized your firm to make most of the grain trailer tarps?
Didn't the Timothy family purchase it and make it into a business more geared towards nut handling equipment, while continuing the manufacture of tarps/drapers, etc?
We have our 2 local tarp shops here still, Martin's and Live Oak Canvas; if we did not bring any of our new tarps to any of the trailer builders, we would have them by within Woodland, CA "grain trailer capital of California" some call it. JuiceMan.

Yes. We made a lot of tarps for WESCO, PT Welding, Roy Lay and pretty much everyone else within spitting distance.
My brother and I sold to a couple of local boys in 2014 and they had one of the Timothy boys running it. I believe they merged with an orchard supply company out of Ceres to pick up the growing demand for shaker and sweeper parts.
The heavy rubber bottom draper on the CB Hay was a monster to wrestle around. It made a big difference when we convinced them that 4" centers on the Oak slats were part of the backfeed problem and cut out a lot of weight by going to 8".
When I started Pat and Guy still had Sutter Draper.

Wow! Glad you found this thread. We are one of PT's original customers, done some business with the Sambucetti clan and the Parquette's from WESCO, as well as DC.
Sutter Draper??? I haven't heard that name in YEARS! Pat Ferraro's son in law was my high school welding instructor, and Martin Dixon took over and began Martin's Canvas.
Not even sure if Martins (Scott) has ever done any drapers, period!
We used Sutter Draper's services back in the mid 70's to repair the canvas covers for our JM Adrian and FMC mechanical peach harvesters...
You had a thriving business, and seems it was always busy there.
I still see some folks use old drapers to cover things up with; not the original intended purpose, but folks re-purposed them. JM