Truly amazed at how it handled the down rye. Looks to be in wonderful condition, just like the rest of your equipment, and the farm looks it as well. Thanks for the ride along.
Back in the 60's and 70's I cut a lot of wheat, clover, timothy and soybeans with a 60 and we always had the cleanest crops going to the elevator. Depending on the crop we used different tractors on it, Usually the WD but it might be the Oliver 60 but if we really needed the power for green stuff the MH 44 diesel. I like the D15 (?) narrow front you got to pull it too. Best combination to run with ! Thanks for posting this, It brings back memories ! Bandit
Bandit farmer Yep, my grandfather sold Allis Chalmers for years in Lennon, Michigan. My dad would go down to the railroad yard with another man and unload the 60s combine from the flat cars. There'd be 4 to a train car. They'd put the tongues on them and haul the 60s over to the dealership. Glynn Brunger was the biggest dealer in the Allis Chalmers system. E-mail me at johnfortworth@aol.com and I'll send you a picture of a lot full of 60s at my grandfather's dealership from the late 30s. The Allis Chalmers people would send out test machines and use my grandfather's farm. The engineers would go one round and tear the machine completely down. I have some of the old wood stock from those combines painted orange I hang in my office for decoration. I remember that nasty itching rye. Great video. Regards...
I am so amazed. Granted AC made a zillion of them but they're 60 plus years old and I didn't think that there was any around yet to see one still working well I am simply overwhelmed
In a high tech age to see a machine so simple in design perform so well. To run for as long as they have and to be so productive. Millions of acres harvested and hundreds of millions of bushels in the bins. This is how you build a machine.
Amazing how clean these old machines deliver the grain to the tank... not even particularly dusty... Compared to these new machines cramming a bazillion bushels an hour through them, these machines produce cleaner grain than they ever could... though I think cleaning could be greatly improved on newer machines if guys knew how to really adjust them... We always ran our Ford 640 (built by Claas) with the air wide open and the chaffer and sieves wide open, then adjusted the chaffer and sieves down as needed to keep crud out of the tank, and we always ended up with a good clean sample (even in weedy fields) and very little loss off the shoe (it's never zero losses, period), and most of that was just light, empty, or withered kernels that blew over with the chaff... not good grain. Plus, it really allows you to "open up" the combine and run it at full capacity... Nice video, but for pity's sake-- save the music for just the intro and the departure... twelve and a half minutes of the same three notes is just mind numbing to the extreme, and keep it turned down so the machine can be heard over it... OL J R :)
When the All-Crop Harvesters were produced the farmers were supplying the seed companies with seed. So they were designed for quality and not quantity. The do a great job.
Is there any modern version of this that is a PTO driven pull behind? We have a small farm and grow grains for our livestock, but don't need a large combine. Maybe finding one of these old ones would work? I just worry about parts and maintenance.
A lot of my combining is done for organic farming. The combine handles the weeds very well as you can see in the clean grain sample. It also makes me a better operator by forcing me to fine tune the setting until the grain is perfect.
Would you mind sharing how you have this set up, like what's your gap between the cylinder bars and the concave bar? Do you run the cylinder bars on a slight spiral or are they straight with the shaft? What cylinder rpms do you run it at? I ask because for the last 2 years I have combined rye that looks similar to yours with a d14 and a d17 series III in first gear on the low side and had to constantly slip the power director because it would jam the cylinder with straw. My cylinder bars are set up slightly spiraled and I think I was running a 3/8" gap. I am going to get a tach to measure cylinder speed this year because I think that could make a difference. I would love to be able to combine as fast as you are going in this video, I'd be surprised if I went half that fast.
As a son of Missouri farmers, I can't help but to love antique farm machinery. It takes me back to a simpler time!
Truly amazed at how it handled the down rye. Looks to be in wonderful condition, just like the rest of your equipment, and the farm looks it as well. Thanks for the ride along.
Used. 60 many times with my dad, I see the scour clean on the elevator, had one also
Back in the 60's and 70's I cut a lot of wheat, clover, timothy and soybeans with a 60 and we always had the cleanest crops going to the elevator. Depending on the crop we used different tractors on it, Usually the WD but it might be the Oliver 60 but if we really needed the power for green stuff the MH 44 diesel. I like the D15 (?) narrow front you got to pull it too. Best combination to run with ! Thanks for posting this, It brings back memories ! Bandit
Bandit farmer Yep, my grandfather sold Allis Chalmers for years in Lennon, Michigan. My dad would go down to the railroad yard with another man and unload the 60s combine from the flat cars. There'd be 4 to a train car. They'd put the tongues on them and haul the 60s over to the dealership. Glynn Brunger was the biggest dealer in the Allis Chalmers system. E-mail me at johnfortworth@aol.com and I'll send you a picture of a lot full of 60s at my grandfather's dealership from the late 30s. The Allis Chalmers people would send out test machines and use my grandfather's farm. The engineers would go one round and tear the machine completely down. I have some of the old wood stock from those combines painted orange I hang in my office for decoration. I remember that nasty itching rye. Great video. Regards...
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I am so amazed. Granted AC made a zillion of them but they're 60 plus years old and I didn't think that there was any around yet to see one still working well I am simply overwhelmed
They are quite the machine.
In a high tech age to see a machine so simple in design perform so well. To run for as long as they have and to be so productive. Millions of acres harvested and hundreds of millions of bushels in the bins. This is how you build a machine.
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Thanks for posting Dennis , great video .
Amazing how clean these old machines deliver the grain to the tank... not even particularly dusty...
Compared to these new machines cramming a bazillion bushels an hour through them, these machines produce cleaner grain than they ever could... though I think cleaning could be greatly improved on newer machines if guys knew how to really adjust them...
We always ran our Ford 640 (built by Claas) with the air wide open and the chaffer and sieves wide open, then adjusted the chaffer and sieves down as needed to keep crud out of the tank, and we always ended up with a good clean sample (even in weedy fields) and very little loss off the shoe (it's never zero losses, period), and most of that was just light, empty, or withered kernels that blew over with the chaff... not good grain.
Plus, it really allows you to "open up" the combine and run it at full capacity...
Nice video, but for pity's sake-- save the music for just the intro and the departure... twelve and a half minutes of the same three notes is just mind numbing to the extreme, and keep it turned down so the machine can be heard over it...
OL J R :)
When the All-Crop Harvesters were produced the farmers were supplying the seed companies with seed. So they were designed for quality and not quantity. The do a great job.
The 60 All-Crop Harvester, is a nice old machine.
I like rye too, it turns into good bread.
Good video. Brings back good memories of our All-Crop 66. Daniel
We had one of these with the Hart Scour Kleen done an awesome job combining clover seed
They are a great machine. The All-Crop could harvest 107 different crops, truly amazing.
Do you know what size tires it takes
The tire size is 6.50- 16 SL implement.
Nice... Love these old machines...
Is there any modern version of this that is a PTO driven pull behind? We have a small farm and grow grains for our livestock, but don't need a large combine. Maybe finding one of these old ones would work? I just worry about parts and maintenance.
Why are so many fields have so many weeds?
A lot of my combining is done for organic farming. The combine handles the weeds very well as you can see in the clean grain sample. It also makes me a better operator by forcing me to fine tune the setting until the grain is perfect.
Would you mind sharing how you have this set up, like what's your gap between the cylinder bars and the concave bar? Do you run the cylinder bars on a slight spiral or are they straight with the shaft? What cylinder rpms do you run it at? I ask because for the last 2 years I have combined rye that looks similar to yours with a d14 and a d17 series III in first gear on the low side and had to constantly slip the power director because it would jam the cylinder with straw. My cylinder bars are set up slightly spiraled and I think I was running a 3/8" gap. I am going to get a tach to measure cylinder speed this year because I think that could make a difference. I would love to be able to combine as fast as you are going in this video, I'd be surprised if I went half that fast.
Beautiful.
You will notice the crop is down badly, but the All-Crop just rolls along with it.
AC 60 brings back a lot of memories. Great ones!
George Simmons, Conover, NC