Cojhl2- I dont mind you replying with so much info, I find it very interesting because I am younger so I was never around any of the pull type combines as our farm switched to self propelled around 1962. Ran 95-H combines for many years.

I know somewhere there are some working pics of the old model 35 jd combine pulled by a D4 2T. Will try to find them and scan them. Still have both the combine and cat, someone driving by offered to buy the old combine for a museum but dad said no. Cat still runs as a dozer, been in the family for 60 years now.

old combine as is now, also the D4 cat both are early 40's models







95-H combines, ran three different ones over the years 67' and 68' models seen here

1985 dry pea harvest



both in wheat the last year we ran them

North Idaho Farmer, What great pictures! I'm not to far from you over in Asotin County. I also farm with a 17R D6C. This will be my fourth year with it and I think it's just about the nicest tractor I've ever run. There's not many guy's useing steel tracks over here any more. My place is all in one spot so it's no big deal for me. Thanks again for the pictures.

Bruce

Ah yes,, beuatiful pics of the 95's.

It looks like your family was looking ahead to take so many pics. They are and will become even more of a real treasure.

The last 95 I ran was in 62 and in those days no cab. We were right out in God's world. We did have an umbrella tho and then later someone made a canvas cover for the whole doghouse.

The 95 was the first real hillside combine. The others (with Harris 88 and 98 excepted) were a joke. I remember when the 55 came out some farmers bought them but they were too small and wern't very good on the hills.

Soon after IH came out with the 4way leveling machine and although I was never around one I guess they were pretty good.


Ah ha,, it looks like you park the D4 on a slope with the blade held up so you can coast it to start it!!!!

I had no idea there was a 35. It's a shame to be outside. One of my friends here has a restored 36B outside. i gotta get after him to find shelter for it.

The 95 pics show Love reels and I bet the Dry pea machine has a Love floating cutter bar.

I love it!!!

I only wish we had more old farming pictures, have a few from the 50s but none from the 60s or 70s then get into the 80s and 90s and have a few from then but not many. The thing that really got me to get a good camera and start taking a lot of pics was when we made up our minds to change our tillage program and eliminate the moldboard plow, I snapped a couple pics plowing that last field and since then I have carried a camera with me a fair amount. That pic of our two 95s hung in the office of a nearby grain and fertilizer coop.

The 95-H was an extremely popular combine here, never has there been or will be a combine here in as high of numbers as those. Our hills were not steep enough to cause them many problems so the pull types were eliminated by the early 1960s while they might have stuck around later in areas with really steep hills.

The model 35 combine was not as big as the 36, there is a 36 parked down on the neighbors place, once pulled with a D4 on my great uncles farm.

Yep, "ol yellar" had her blade propped up for a few days while we took a break when we were widening out a road a couple summers ago. Coast starting sure beats using the starting engine. That cat has built a a lot of access roads for us and neighbors over the years.

And yes there is a pea bar on that combine

"Bruce wrote:

North Idaho Farmer, What great pictures! I'm not to far from you over in Asotin County. I also farm with a 17R D6C. This will be my fourth year with it and I think it's just about the nicest tractor I've ever run. There's not many guy's useing steel tracks over here any more. My place is all in one spot so it's no big deal for me. Thanks again for the pictures.

Bruce

Thanks, good to hear there is someone over there still running the good old cats. I go down to Anatone once a year to help some friends and their neighbors with the spring branding of 200 or so calves. They farm a little on the breaks of the grande ronde but it is so rocky and the weather so nasty there they mainly do cattle and hay. Driving through from Asotin to Anatone it looks like mostly no-till now, usually see several big tractors and air drills parked in the standing stubble. (It always rains on the Saturday that we brand calves)

What year is your D6C and does it have the 3306 engine? That was the only reason we bought ours, we were wanting to replace our D6B and talked to all the cat experts and they said get a cat with a 3306 engine, we looked at some D5s and a D6 that were in poor condition and stumbled across our D6C in great shape. Its certainly a workhorse and has been reliable but I still prefer driving the 84J D4D, it has always been my favorite.

North Idaho Farmer. Here are some pictures of two of our D4Es. We installed a new undercarriage with extreme service 24 inch pads in March 2009.

smart looking machine.....why E/S shoes? are your soils very abrasive?

Still around boys. My D5 marked 40 years at work last spring......and I have been fortunate enough to own it for 19 of those 40 years.





Some old Cats.....& pull type combines coming from me soon.

Richard, I wanted the tallest grouser I could get. Most of the areas we work are real steep and the ground is soft.

98J, Great pictures, keep em coming. I had a D4 84J years ago with that same cab. I think they are called a Pringle cab.It was a great D4, turboed.70 inch gauge with 24 in pads. Some one had put an oversized fuel tank on it. Great for working long hours.

98J, Good to hear from you again. Was wondering if something dire had happened to you. Looking forward to see more pictures. Darrol