Moving the parts Harvester at Vista

I have been wanting to retake some farm ground at the Vista museum and in order to do that we need to move our parts harvester. The harvester use to sit on the west end of the museum grounds back in the day, but they moved it over by the farming area about 10 years ago (east end). At the time they moved it they had already scavenged a rack gear for leveling the wheel off of one side, the machined moved with no problem then. Now after 10 years the weather and age is catching up unfortunately. As a result of the missing rack the one wheel on the side the rack gear was removed had now leaned over and is sitting up against the machine. I was able to make a quick and dirty steel brace to substitute the missing rack and correct the wheel leaning problem. Vista member, Jeff Holemo, helped with the move using his adopted D4 and member Robert Critz helps keep and I out as we move the almost 100 year old machine. All is not lost and I have been adamant about keeping the machine intact with hopes of stabilizing it better and cleaning/treating it for preservation, BTW the engine had been removed some years ago and is in storage.

For those of you that didn't know we have a complete (ran when parked) Holt Hillside Harvester with a bulk hopper attachment undercover in our Harvester Barn which is where Chapter 16 is setup during the shows. It was just brought to my attention that this machine is going to be turning 100 years old soon, I guess I better work on getting the machine running again...

[video]https://youtu.be/qjlRuxgfrHg[/video]

That's great, it amazes me what kind of craftsmanship went into those wood combines. There is most of an Oregon Special (I think) across the canyon from here I wish it could be inside, but it's dry enough here that it's still pretty good. I doubt my 9500 will still be around for its 100th birthday.
Thanks for sharing.
Bruce P.