Dad had a 600 IIRC... first combine we ever bought, back in about 71-72 I guess, about the time I was hatched. He did our grain sorghum with it and started doing custom work to pay for it. It was an antique even then, and the previous owners ran it through grain sorghum that had been desiccated with sodium chlorate... which was a somewhat common practice back in the 70's. Kinda stupid if you ask me, because in our 100 degree plus heat in July when grain sorghum and corn are coming out of the field, grain can dry out to plenty in just a few days... plus chlorate is basically SALT and in our damp/humid climate, that old combine was just rusting away to nothing. I remember Dad bought a can of automotive Bondo and was pasting up holes all over the thing to keep the grain in, and under the auger in the header he was cutting and pop-riveting in sheet metal patches to keep the grain from running out through the holes... he had to take a big sheet of tin and put it under the straw walkers to catch all the grain falling through them and let it slide back down into the cleaning shoe because of all the holes rotted in them from the chlorate. He was doing a custom job and had the grain tank full one time and the unloader auger or gearbox or whatever busted when he went to unload, so he had to dip all the grain out and throw it in the truck with a five gallon bucket. He ended up getting a heat stroke that day because it was well over 100 degrees and he had to spend the night in the hospital. He only ran that combine a couple years then he and Grandpa traded it in on a new Ford 640 combine, which was a rebranded Claas "Senator" combine from Germany, with a 300 inline six Ford gasoline engine. That combine ran like a champ and would work circles around anything else at the time. Later! OL J R :)
Undecided at this time on which one I’ll need . I like the 900 but the 600 would be more economical for my micro farm operation. Thanks buddy I enjoyed both videos! It would be nice if they still made a small farm combine.
I'm glad you enjoyed them. Might get another one on tonight & then it's on to Deere. You can still find small combines, but they have big combine price tags. They're meant for seed test plots.
My grandad traded a 45 John Deere for a super 92 Massey Ferguson in the late 1950's it was finally taken out of service in 1969 or 70 my dad had a 95 B John Deere that he replaced with a 410 Massey Ferguson
600 was our first self propelled combine. Added a 660 a few years later. Traded both for a 1660 corn special. Loved those combines.
Dad had a 600 IIRC... first combine we ever bought, back in about 71-72 I guess, about the time I was hatched. He did our grain sorghum with it and started doing custom work to pay for it. It was an antique even then, and the previous owners ran it through grain sorghum that had been desiccated with sodium chlorate... which was a somewhat common practice back in the 70's. Kinda stupid if you ask me, because in our 100 degree plus heat in July when grain sorghum and corn are coming out of the field, grain can dry out to plenty in just a few days... plus chlorate is basically SALT and in our damp/humid climate, that old combine was just rusting away to nothing. I remember Dad bought a can of automotive Bondo and was pasting up holes all over the thing to keep the grain in, and under the auger in the header he was cutting and pop-riveting in sheet metal patches to keep the grain from running out through the holes... he had to take a big sheet of tin and put it under the straw walkers to catch all the grain falling through them and let it slide back down into the cleaning shoe because of all the holes rotted in them from the chlorate. He was doing a custom job and had the grain tank full one time and the unloader auger or gearbox or whatever busted when he went to unload, so he had to dip all the grain out and throw it in the truck with a five gallon bucket. He ended up getting a heat stroke that day because it was well over 100 degrees and he had to spend the night in the hospital. He only ran that combine a couple years then he and Grandpa traded it in on a new Ford 640 combine, which was a rebranded Claas "Senator" combine from Germany, with a 300 inline six Ford gasoline engine. That combine ran like a champ and would work circles around anything else at the time.
Later! OL J R :)
Undecided at this time on which one I’ll need . I like the 900 but the 600 would be more economical for my micro farm operation. Thanks buddy I enjoyed both videos! It would be nice if they still made a small farm combine.
I'm glad you enjoyed them. Might get another one on tonight & then it's on to Deere. You can still find small combines, but they have big combine price tags. They're meant for seed test plots.
Spike tooth cylimders were designed by most combine manufacturers for rice machines and other high volume crops hard to thresh crops
My grandad traded a 45 John Deere for a super 92 Massey Ferguson in the late 1950's it was finally taken out of service in 1969 or 70 my dad had a 95 B John Deere that he replaced with a 410 Massey Ferguson