98J- yes the 9632 made by rahco had the same set up as the 70s and 22s, not sure about the john rea conversions on the 9600s.

As for the company that builds the 35% levelers today, I still see it advertised as a rahco leveler or acculeveler on the new JDs not sure of the actual name though.

A few pics of a 22s leveler

On the subject of peas, (hmm, how much more can we squeeze out of that?) my area has been growing stand-ups for several years. Main reason, as NIF said, is to get away from putting those ornery bars on the headers--seems like it's the hottest day of the season to do that plus there's always too many green draws you can't get when you want to wrap up and cut wheat. You can see the tendrils that wrap around and support the plants. This past year the farm used a 10% mix of Alaskans on some, which picked up the yield a little bit since they mature a little later. Hot weather during bloom and fill will pretty much cook the yield you are looking for.

Fall wheat is usually seeded right into the stubble, unless it gets damp like last fall when we shredded most of it. Working that residual into the soil with the drill is key to holding water, when we get it. I'll shoot a combine and drill picture in the next post.

I used photo merge to hook together three shots of this drill outfit. Obviously it doesn't bend like that but you get the idea. The accordian up-fold cultivator was built by a farm shop at Farmington, WA and it's integral with the JD drill hitch. When it's moved there's a whole lot of folding going on...but it works really well. Liquid tank hitch built by same outfit and the Cat has been turned up to a little over 300 hp to pull it all. All the wheat is planted this way, in legumes they lose the tank.

The combines are in one of the first standing pea crops they raised. We all felt real good about that!

Bleedinred- nice shots, that one you merged together kind of threw me off at first. Is that 35' of model 455 drills?

Know what you mean about cutting the draws in legumes, usually lentils are the first thing we can cut but still the last thing to finish in harvest. We dont grow any spring peas at all so we still have to use the pea bars for all the lentils and black peas. The few people here that do grow spring peas do the standup varieties now.

Hi NIF 98J. Going back to augers .on the low side ie the lower half of auger does the crop ever refuse to travel to the feed elevator especially with different crops. do you have different revolutions to push the cropup and along to the elevator. thanks Atlas

Can't tell you how much I've been enjoying this thread. I spent a few years of my long lost youth around Kamiah Id. mostly with red crawlers, did have a D2 also but used it mostly for blade work. Sure miss the scenery. Thanks for the memories.

I don't have any pictures but the auger on the header would pull the crop in underneath the flights and to the back of the header pan where there is a stripper bar that keeps it from wrapping on around the auger. Once it hits the stripper it slides along the header floor to the feeder house where it is picked up by the feeder beater, or feeder chain. On the 95H and 6602's the entire header speed including auger was constant. I understand that later machines may have had a variable speed control to the entire header with a reverse for unplugging. For us to change auger speed required a sprocket change.

At times wrapping on the auger could occur, but it was usually on a vine crop like vetch when it had some green in it. A thin crop of safflower could be hard to feed because it was so bushy and didn't want to go under the auger. If you had a good stand of safflower you just shoved it in "8" and kept the header full. ("8" is variable speed or hydrostatic talk)

Some of the operators in our area when they wore the flights down and started to have feeding problems would pound a 1/2 in lock washer onto the flights to make them grab.

Casey

Some more pics of peas, the long vined austrian winters we grow.

Despite the huge growth, they dont actually outyield the short spring types as much as one would think

They shrink down alot by harvest but the residue can be a problem to manage, the spring legumes are a piece of cake to no-till or cultivate after harvest. The winter legumes though take disking or chisel plowing to get through it if it gets wet and doesnt dry out like in the fall of 2008. You can see what kind of mess it can turn into sometimes in this pic.

atlas- see my previous post a few days ago but usually adjusting auger speed wont help feeding very much, need full flighting and a smooth header bottom. Some people that keep headers outside will have more problems with feeding because the rusty header bottom wont allow the crop to move as easily. Also one of the main problems is getting the crop into the auger, the reel can be adjusted back closer to the auger and plastic finger extensions installed in real short crops like lentils.

In a good wheat crop though, no problem feeding on the steep stuff.

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Cant say as though the masseys are any favorite of mine, way to many break downs and hard to work on

Assume you are ref the 1155-the perkey engineers didn't have their pen real sharp when they designed that eng- main bearings are very narrow -on 540 cam diam is small{corrected on 640} couple round here had flange break off liner & sleeve headed to crank whils rod beat it to death-
I just scored a fine egsample of the best of what massy had to offer-1130 w/ 6/354 turboed--am going to rotary hoe instead of preplant chem which cost to much & often don't work{would use cat on hoe but think 10+ mph might be hard on tracks}-- also a couple of pics of mcns w/ perkeys which should qualify as cat as they own co. 510 combine w 6/354 non turbo-& my lawn mower w/ 4/108 non turbo[2 pics as currently mostly under that funny white stuff] - -- last pic shows the hills we have here- windmills hard to see on horizon [best my camera will do] start @ 12 miles from here..