36B Move

Hey John, I"m pretty sure I've got everything you need for the combine, not sure on the header wheels. Come over before the snow flies and we can take a look. It's a great feeling getting them home isn't it?

Bruce P

Hey John, I"m pretty sure I've got everything you need for the combine, not sure on the header wheels. Come over before the snow flies and we can take a look. It's a great feeling getting them home isn't it?

Bruce P

Looks good,never saw one with the mule skinner seat out front.


I don't know your plans,but putting it on steel wheels would end flat tires. In the day dad had rubber tires on his,but in the 70's put a steel wheel on the header side. Still pulled it 10 miles from my uncles place to home and back on the black top till almost 1980.


If you strike out on parts near home let me know as I still have a parts machine.

[quote="Ray54"]Looks good,never saw one with the mule skinner seat out front.


I don't know your plans,but putting it on steel wheels would end flat tires. In the day dad had rubber tires on his,but in the 70's put a steel wheel on the header side. Still pulled it 10 miles from my uncles place to home and back on the black top till almost 1980.


If you strike out on parts near home let me know as I still have a parts machine.[/quote]

Thank you Ray for your offer of help. As I said to Bruce I am essentially out of the picture for now but will certainly need all the help I can get next year. Thanks again.

The "ladder" as we called it was on all the horse/mule drawn machines so far as I know. Different than wagons, there were only two lines to drive these hitches. I think most hitches were made up of 5 rows of 6 with three out front making 33 all driven with two lines.

[quote="Bruce P"]Hey John, I"m pretty sure I've got everything you need for the combine, not sure on the header wheels. Come over before the snow flies and we can take a look. It's a great feeling getting them home isn't it?

Bruce P[/quote]

Thank you Bruce, unfortunately I am out of time this Fall. i will be back in the Spring and then will appreciate very much your help.

I really enjoyed visiting with you and look forward to a continuing close relationship.

I think from what I see of your projects you move much faster than I am capable.

Yes I agree I am so glad to get it home, however I must build some protection for it. My barn was made only for cows and horses with a hayloft which makes it too low to store the combine.

Next Summer is going to be busy for sure.:juggle:

[quote="cojhl2"]Thank you Bruce, unfortunately I am out of time this Fall. i will be back in the Spring and then will appreciate very much your help.

I really enjoyed visiting with you and look forward to a continuing close relationship.

I think from what I see of your projects you move much faster than I am capable.

Yes I agree I am so glad to get it home, however I must build some protection for it. My barn was made only for cows and horses with a hayloft which makes it too low to store the combine.

Next Summer is going to be busy for sure.:juggle:[/quote]

Sounds good. It's been outside, so one more winter probably won't kill it. I'll get over to where my 36's are and check on tires. It was good visiting with you as well, come back anytime.

Ray, I'm not sure when they stopped sacking here, but I imagine as soon as they had halfway decent trucks they went bulk. Like mid to late 30's. At the museum in WallaWalla, there is a piece that tells about the inmates at the state prison there making wheat sacks.

BP

My first field job(truck spotter, previously I ran our elevator), was in 1951. The person for whom I worked had grown up with the horse/mule drawn machines and sacking. In order to show me what that was all about we put the sack chute on the 51 and cut 40ac of tripplett, another experience he wanted to show me.

Anyway my job was jigging and he did the sowing. Wow, it is really something to see an experienced sack sower applying his talent.

Ray I know nothing about the transition from sacking to bulk but would agree with Bruce just because I recollect the 'seniors" talking at the dinner table. I don't know how on a 36 it was possible to sack and unlike a 51 have a bulk tank also. Maybe the bulktank did not exist on a 36 when sacking.

As for the wheel I want it off this machine. I never pulled with a wheel and have no idea how to navigate a steep uphill corner when a backaround is necessary.

My Aunt Margaret (deceased) used to talk about the kids job riding thru the field on a saddle horse to find any strings of sacks missed by the pickup crew. Picking those sacks and loading on a wagon had to be a backbreaking job.

A few years back I gave the last of our sack hauling wagons away probably should have kept it although it is at a good home with person from whom I got this combine.

John, Have access to a bunch of 36's up here in Vintage Harvest country. Got one that the wheels and tires were converted to pretty heavy loader tires. Look like they should last at least two more lifetimes. Make a list and we can look around this winter. Don't try to take those header cart tires apart with air in them. They will blow up in your face, don't ask how we know. Just take the axle nut off and remove them in one piece. Les Schwab has a little larger trailer tire that works, just replaced two of them this summer.

On the sack to bulk change over. My dad had a No 3Rumley that was a sack machine and he built a bulk tank and unloading auger etc. Think it was 1936 as was the year of his first truck. He invited his landlord out to watch it work.
He was about 80 and had never handled wheat any other way than sacks. He road in the truck and they unloaded on the go with him looking out the back window all the time. When they pulled away from the combine he turned to the truck driver and said "Hmm, not to much labor involved in that."

Always called the muleskinners seat the " Crows Nest " around here.