"Atlas" wrote:

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

Hmmmmmm......you wouldn't per chance be having a feeding problem with a platform auger???? If so........keep the edge of the auger flighting square.
If it is rounded off.....grab the Makita........... & grind the edge SQUARE.....
Trust me. It will feed then. Up hill........or down.

Say whatcha want,, you cannot beat the beauty of those big machines with the "Radius Rod", "Torque Rod", or "Swing Frame" leveling coming around a steep hillside!!

Regarding Auger headers. When we got our first 95H there was almost no experience around with that kind of header. An old timer that overhauled our 36B every winter convinced us that little area between the sickle and the auger was not enough room to allow wheat to flow toward the feeder.

JD made an extension about 8" long (for what ever i don't know) which we insisted Frontier install.

Well we ran that for about halfway thru harvest and decided it was a joke. In fact it participated in igniting a fire. Also that year we had a lot of down wheat and that extension, because of the slope of the bottom pan, would not allow the sickle to get down below the down wheat.

We removed that POS and then we had a machine!!

tanker- still got some white stuff on the ground over there? This has been a really mild winter, got a little over a foot of snow in December and some subzero weather but January-February has been pretty warm, only snow left on the farm is in the shade of the woods and a couple north slopes everything else is melted off already. Not like last year didnt see bare ground in the backyard until mid April.

Main problem with the masseys is...well just about everything. Fuel pump has quit on the 1155 unexpectedly many times, once in the middle of the county road in a narrow draw with no alternate route, blocking the entire thing until we got it towed up to a pullout. Tranny on the 1155 will get stuck in park going up or down a hill, no parking brake either so only option is shut the engine off to get out and open gates, pick up boulders whatever. Hydraulic pump failed on the 275 multiple times, just happened this past summer again, have to split the tractor in half to work on it...dealer sold us a so called much improved version and it lasted maybe 7-8years before blowing the seals out.

Non-existant user wrote:

tanker- still got some white stuff on the ground over there? .rub it in--

Main problem with the masseys is...well just about everything.

this global warming is getting me down:mad: - The `1155's round here were a can of worms also- pullers are all thats left cuz of the 640 eng-[most 640 are snaged from white combines] I needed something w/ 3 point to use rotary hoe & the 1130 seem to be the very best in that size- regardless of color-am wondering bout the peas you showed- do you combine after they are DRY? - peas grown round here are harvested by special combines the canning co has[if it says libby - libby - libby- on the label - label -label]- they have special combines for the sweet corn also..

"cojhl2" wrote:

Say whatcha want,, you cannot beat the beauty of those big machines with the "Radius Rod", "Torque Rod", or "Swing Frame" leveling coming around a steep hillside!!

Regarding Auger headers. When we got our first 95H there was almost no experience around with that kind of header. An old timer that overhauled our 36B every winter convinced us that little area between the sickle and the auger was not enough room to allow wheat to flow toward the feeder.

JD made an extension about 8" long (for what ever i don't know) which we insisted Frontier install.

Well we ran that for about halfway thru harvest and decided it was a joke. In fact it participated in igniting a fire. Also that year we had a lot of down wheat and that extension, because of the slope of the bottom pan, would not allow the sickle to get down below the down wheat.

We removed that POS and then we had a machine!!

So.......you would prefer a machine with a maxed out leveler than, say
" The Silver Seeder Slip Slide'n Away Blues?"



Forgot to mention some of the other fallout from the demise of the 'good
levelers' One big issue is that the drive wheels are not as far ahead anymore.
The result when you head down something steep......can result in a sudden need for a change of shorts. Like when the rear tires come clear off
the ground and you lose the steering. Not a fun feeling. Never bothered me
to dive off in a '70'.....



The new style levelers have the drivers in the same location as their LL
cousins, as opposed to being moved ahead. To help keep the rear axle down,
fluid in the tires and LOTS of counter weights........a 2388:

Tanker- yes they are harvested dry. There used to be green peas grown and harvested with those special harvesters just west of here but the cannery quit. They still grow some over near walla walla I believe. Everything else in the palouse and my area is the dry peas, mostly spring planted- green and yellow colored or the fall planted black peas.

I really like growing the winter peas, no fertilizer needed, limited herbicides and it really impresses the neighbors didnt plant any last fall but probably will this fall

Non-existant user wrote:

98J- great job explaining the leveling details and adding the diagrams

Those are Jim's aka redpainter's pics of the 4 ways IHs im guessing from over in the Uniontown area?

Always thought the 4 way leveling was cool but in later years it was not that popular here, JD 95-H and 6602 machines had the market, gleaner was fairly common as well. The 70s vintage IH combines were nearly all used up and parked by the mid 90s while the 6602s are still cutting in fair numbers to this day.

Yup, they are Redpainters pics. There were quite a few 151's & 403's over here,but I didn't have any good shots of them. Downloaded some good ones from Redpainter a few years back into my library. They were cool to watch.
Had one (a 403)at SRS ranches for a number of years....used to take my 95 down to help them finish up......spent a lot of time cutting with the 403 while
the 6602 wandered off on it's own. Also got these shots of a well preserved
IH 51 from RP.........looks like you could latch on to her with a good old 9u
and head right out to whack some wheat. Might need to scrounge up a motor before hitting the cut.

[QUOTE=98j;
" The Silver Seeder Slip Slide'n Away Blues?"

funny how mcns are know by diff names in diff locals- round here they are- silver turtles- and the other ones are know as - green grinders..

NIF & 98J
Some more great picutres. Thanks again for sharing.
Hey NIF on some of the 6622's your neighbors were running I see a small tank
mounted behind the grain tank on top of the rear hood, is that for extra fuel or whats its purpose?
98J that is a lot of weight on the back of the 2388, are the newer 8010 etc running that much rear weight with a Hillco Leveler?
NIF and 98J what ever happened to the Cab Manufacture Comfort King? Most all of the old 95H's that had cabs used them. Where were they based out of? Washington somewhere would be my guess.
A great thread, very enjoyable.
Woody

Atlas: Had to go pretty deep into my old books to find it......but finally came up
with my copy of "Basic Settings" by Ray Stueckle. Seems pretty simple....but
believe me the flighting edge makes a huge difference in the feeding. My 95-H
flighting was hard surfaced as per his recommendation ( face only) Keep the edge square, and any feeding problems on the downhill end of the auger go
away.