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JM - Killifer “Direct Connect” line predates Tenco, hopefully I still have that literature somewhere.

I laugh at people that collect some of the other colors say they have a California high crop or a California orchard tractor, and it’s nothing like you would have found out here. Nothing like in the sales records, nothing like you find in old newspapers, nothing like you find in the UC extension’s vast collection of photos.

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Tue, Oct 7, 2025 11:15 AM
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JM, in '68 one of the rice farmers south of Grand Island had the whole fleet of 105's on full track. His ranch foreman had been with Tenco for many years. One did not see many Green Combines on full track. - cts

Yes on few full tracks of many makes, but we in NorCal know that there were plenty of HALF TRACK machines. Let's not get me started about the Hardy Harvester, Hahn-Merton etc! ***Were all of the custom builds based around a CASE stationary harvester? One of our members in your old neighborhood had a nice homebuilt rice harvester, which utilized that brand for threshing. JM

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CR: Yes on the JD-K for the little crawlers. Someone here had shared literature in the past; very cool! Makes one wonder who did what. Allis Chalmers had similar set ups; I thought the AC was nicer in the sense they routed the hydraulic lines inside, instead of over/out like the CAT toolbars.

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Tue, Oct 7, 2025 1:17 PM
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Reply to Deas Plant.:

Hi, juiceman.

For us 'pore, iggerant DowNunda residents', what was the purpose of the 'horizontal windmill' hardware on the front of the Diesel Seventy?

This kew-ree-yuss mind would like to know.

Just my 0.02.

If your asking about the first picture, I don't want to say your wrong because I cannot get it enlarged to see what might be on the radiator. But going by the fuel tank being in front of the operators station, I was thinking one of the 3 cylinder models. Cat 35, 40, or RD6.

Maybe if we both poke him JM will answer your question. Very similar to the header on a Holt combine. So guessing it is a swathing operation to dry the straw out. To probably run the crop thru a Holt combine. From my days around the JD 36 combine it did not like any green or tuff straw. Maybe on of the biggest weakness of Holt combine design. If the straw did not break it would find a place rap on a shaft or plug something.

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Tue, Oct 7, 2025 5:34 PM
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Hi, Ray54.

Yep, yer right, Diesel Thirty Five. I could see that there were 3 words across the top of the radiator and mis-guessed the middle one as "Seventy". I have just blown it up by almost 2X and it does appear to read "Thirty" instead of "Seventy".

Thanks for the heads-up.

Just my 0.02.

You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

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I showed some of the direct connect stuff on here years ago, they had stuff from the small tractors up to the Cat 60. All mechanically raised.

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