Ben Taylor's Idea of the Month

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Cotton Pickers

I have several posts on combines. Cotton pickers are worthy of at least one.

Big Tractor Power posted
Allis-Chalmers 622 Cotton Picker
Big Tractor Power Allis-Chalmers built cotton pickers through 1981.

Comment on above posting
John Deere has cornered the US market with their round bale picker.

Below are some "front side" pictures of what you see here from the back side of a IH 314 single row picker.

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Tractorholic posted four photos with the comment: "Antique and classic cotton pickers!"

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Screenshot, cotton

Farm Manufacture History Videos

I came across so many history videos that I spent my time collecting them. I haven't had a chance yet to look at any of them. And some of these may be redundant with links I have in other postings in this blog. In fact, one of the purposes of this blog is to sort out and organize the farming information. Now that Blogspot supports embeded videos, I'm trying that as a why to more quickly spot redundant video references.

Compilation of 200 videos

Compilation of 50 IH videos

I forgot I had this posting. I need to sort these into the appropriate section.

Old IH pull combine (source) A feed augur mounted at just one end.
CaseIH Story, IH Axial Flow Combine, steiger history is in Steiger posting (some comments are interesting), The evolution of the Quadtrac design

Video History of John Deere, 7:34, go to 0:30 to skip artsy intro.
MegaFactories John Deere Documentary, 1:13:50   1:35:07    59:07    43:39(costs $1.99)

History of John Deere combines

What Killed Oliver, 35:19

1979-86 History of  AC Gleaner N Series Rotary

John Deere

The self-scouring steel plow video

International Harvestor and JI Case

A 2:13 CaseIH video of stills to celebrate their 175th anniversary and then some video clips. Once again, I'm hoping that Facebook won't loose the video. And McCormick's 1831 is older than Case's 1842.
Doug Warters Come on guys, the majority of the retro stuff in this video is IH. I'm not denying IH's contributions to the current company, but this year is about CASE. Yet another massive marketing failure...

A video of how a "modern" IH 403 works.

Screenshot at -10:46 (source) ["Old Timer" animations]    12' grain header, 50 bushel tank

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Massey-Ferguson

Combines Harvesters Threshers posted

Holt  (Caterpillar) History They started as the Stockton Wheel Co.

Portable Auger Elevator

Drew Wedebrand posted
Still earning her keep high houred 7000

This portable auger elevator seems to have captured the market. Every time I see an auger elevator to fill grain bins in a photo or video, it seems to be this design. It is time to start capturing this technology.

I first saw it at a 2016 farm show unloading a wagon and swinging aside to let another wagon drive through.

Some stills from that farm show:

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I didn't get a good shot of the twin augers that are in the dump hopper. In this picture, I was focused on the old dump wagon and tractor.

They just grab a rope and pull it to the side for another wagon to drive into position.

And then pull it back behind the wagon when it is in dump position.

I also saw this elevator in a video yesterday, but I watched a lot of them yesterday and can't remember where I saw it.

Daniel Dickel posted
You know,when someone says "auger tractor" to me, this is not what immediately comes to mind...Jeff Harris Might be little overkill

Andrew Martinitz commented on the above posting
Why not? 270hp

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[I skipped the usual endless scenes of combines going down a field. I'm more interested in how big grain carts have become and the usage of the portable bin elevator auger. Notice how fast the grain cart can fill the truck.]

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[They use a gravity wagon as a buffer so that they can quickly unload the grain cart and get back to the field while the auger is still filling the bin. Keep watching because they show moving the elevator to the other bin.]

David O'Brien posted
220 on yearly auger duty

Nathan Treadway posted
D21 series II still has her work clothes on.
[According to the comments, this is the only A-C model with this type of grill.]

For the Love of Tractors posted
Harvest back in full swing after some rain.
[Evidently they are using the semi-trailer as a buffer between the high speed of the grain trailer and the lower speed of the grain bin elevator. That is, the tractor can quickly dump his load in the truck trailer and get back to the field and it will slowly dump into the bin elevator during his next trip. They also evidently had the truck trailer full from the previous chance they had to get into the field.]

Matthew Backer posted five pictures with the comment: "Ole trusty versy moving augers"
Sofa King Good What size of Auger ?
Matthew Backer 18 in 125 feet long
Greg Myrholm Big tractor for that
Matthew Backer It is easier to move with a articulating tractor
Luke Runnebohm What size bin do you use that auger on
Matthew Backer 90 ft bins
Matthew Backer It's difficult

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Farm Equipment Videos

This posting is a living document where I plan to save videos that I come across concerning farm equipment. Some of these videos may get moved to posts in the Industrial History Blog when I write a posting to which the video applies. Others may stay here because they are specific enough that I don't envision a more general posting being written.

This is an overview that includes many aspects of raising hogs, dairy and feed cattle.

Ford advertising for their 1953 tractor
Louis Patterson Yea and it caused a war btw Mr Ford and Mr Ferguson [Ferguson invented the 3-point hitch. Ferguson moved on to work with Mr. Massey.]

Farming Life

several up close details in this corn combining video.

comments: Back at it custom baling day 2, (bale ejecting) acid tank and four hydraulic circuits

comments: Baling 3rd cutting of grass hay can't find help to handle little square baling

tedder: folded, unfolding, The Ins ands outs of tedding alfalfa (the video she made in response to my comment in the "unfolding" video. A comment says the tedder is 16'.

about the big square baler

Tractor Collections

Video of Jerry Kuster's IH in Galva, IL. (2+2)

Video of Tom Renner's John Deere in Belleville, IL.

Video of Kevin Syke's John Deere in Oriskany Falls, NY.

Video of James Fillyaw's John Deere in Doerun, GA.

Video of Dwight Christensen John Deere in LaMoure, ND.

Video of A-C

Video of Joe Swindell of tractors and trucks in Wilkinson, IN.

Video of articulated tractors.

Video in George Krejei real and toy tractors in Alliance, NE.

Video of Paquette's Farmall Museum, used
Video of Farmall-Land USA,   2020 is their last season   map

(Video of what killed Oliver.)

Antique Equipment

Honey hole includes steam driven baler, horse drawn corn something with wood parts, oil jack pump, horse drawn grader, harvester? (ties sheaves?) folded for transport, gas engine square baler (another one or a different view?) horse drawn hay press

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Video of a corn binder. (Binder is the term the poster used, it looks more like a buncher to me.

Video of horse drawn wheat binder/buncher.

Videos about equipment design

The evolution of the large baler

Video about Allis-Chalmers 7080 7-bearing crankshaft, 426 cu. in. (7.0L) turbo-charged diesel @ 2550 rpm.   1975-1981

Engine:	210 hp [156.6 kW]
Drawbar (claimed):	154 hp [114.8 kW]
PTO (claimed):	181.5 hp [135.3 kW]
Drawbar (tested):	148.89 hp [111.0 kW]
PTO (tested):	181.51 hp [135.4 kW]

[TractorData]      Factory: West Allis, Wisconsin, USA [TractorSpecs]



Video about the design of the John Deere 1000 HP twin engine 8000 series forage harvester test machine.

Fendt hybird 9470X combine nice animations of various parts of the insides

Another combine animation, Massey-Ferguson "MCS"

Farmers invent axial flow

Twin-Rotor concept from Sperry-New Holland (the content is just 7 minutes long)

Animation of a 2017 twin-rotary combine (source) Basically, Massey Harris is trying to catch up with New Holland. New Holland and CaseIH are part of CNH and both red and yellow combines come off the same assembly line.
Richard Huff Looks fun to unplug!
Jamie R McIntyre It 's Lexion without APS
Oliver Underwood Biggest CR10.90 knock off

How does a Combine work? Example JohnDeere S680 and 9650STS (axial rotor)

Video of "inside the riddle box." I'm still trying to figure out exactly where in the combine the "riddle box" is located. I saw an AC Gleaner, F2 I believe, promotion to implies it is the first separator behind the cylinder. I assume the "show screen" is the grid at the bottom of the cylinder that the cylinder prongs rub against that allows the grain to escape the cylinder as the straw (corn trash) continues out the back of the cylinder.

Drago Corn Heads with chopper

Video of Claas 700 series combines. German company one of their four global plants is in Ohmaha, NE.

John Deere F4365 nutrient applicator (broadcast dry fertilizer) Uses words instead of sound.

Screenshot, new JD large square baler
Lonely Farmer said Krone has an 8-inch wider pickup

Krone animation
Challenger animation
Massey-Ferguson large square baler animation.
MF 2270 XD animation
Hesston by Massey Ferguson 2100 Series Large Square Baler Animation

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John Deere commercial hay tools

JD 9-series round balers

Krone Big-M 500 mower: the big triple mower. Has augers with hoods so that you can either mow or swath. At -0:31 it claims it teds, but it looks like swathing to me. Maybe tedding is mowing already mowed hay.

Krone square baler and stacker

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JD 2017 combine, new features

2730 combination ripper at work

JD Frontier stuff for manure, round bale feeding, feed mill

JD R4030 and R4038 sprayers.

Videos of specific equipment

Massey Ferguson 1200 tractor "original promotinal film."  An articulated 4-wheel drive tractor pulling a 7-bottom reversible plow.
Massey Ferguson 100 Series
Massey Ferguson 300 Series
Massey Harris Ferguson 735 combine

A set of knives being sharpened while in the equipment. I can't tell what type of equipment this is in. So I debated about whether or not to save the link. But it is so neet that I decided to save it, and I hope someday I'll get a clue if it is a chopper, or big square baler, or what.

GoPro between the 10" deep chisels of a subsoiler so the video shows the wave that "shatters the compacted layers of soil."

Farmall 560      65,982 were built 1958-63. It replaced the 450. It had 54 drawbar and 61 at the belt. (I'm still suprised it had a belt pulley. The PTO made the belt obsolete.) The rear end was not strong enough for the engines. They recycled the design of the lower-powered M model. IH offered a new rear end in mid-1959 and sponsored a massive field  replacement program that cost them $19m. To avoid problems like this is why they now torture test prototypes before beginning production. In 1956, IH rushed into production a new engineering center in Hinsdale in 1956 because John Deere was giving them stiff competition. But IH never again gained its lead in tractor sales to JD. Farmall evolution: M, SuperM, 400, 450, 460. The 560 was the 450 with a bigger engine.

Farmall M H 1930s sales video    1906 single-cylinder gas engine and other milestones including the 1924 Farmall row-crop tractor.

Farmerjon9660:  side rake, good alpha goes into square bales, 70% crab grass (it's been wet) goes into round bales.

Screenshot, I don't know if this was for grain or hay. Note the conveyor belt moves the product to the inside instead of the outside. (bad vertical format, Massey-Harris) 

Video of Massey-Fergerson 1978. This is the first time I can remember seing a reversable plow being reversed. It makes sense to quit watching after the plowing scene.

Video of Xtreme grain carts: 1325, 1125 & 1025 bushel capacities. This surprised me since I thought a grain truck could old only 1000 bushels.

Screenshot, also shows walking floor and tipping semi-trailers

Videos of factory tours

CaseIH Steiger 4WD tractors, Fargo, ND plant tour

CaseIH Combines, Grand Island, NE.   Tony Salter This was when the 9120. Was being built. 10 long yrs ago

54 quality teams in the John Deere East Moline combine plant.

(Des Moines ordinance works in 1941) 2000 people. Produces self-propelled sprayers, cotton pickers, tillage equipment (disk is pictured) and grain drills.

Videos of field work

Drone video of Big Bud with 12 tires pulling 21-bottom plow. 1977, 1100 hp http://williamsbigbud.com/

20-row Kemper on a 800 hp JD chopper. Shawn Shearer There ain't no way I would depend on a John Deere not to blow out the windows or at least hog up the tractors following it. Bryan Brasch No way in hell could a John Deere do that. Shawn Shearer I feel as though I have to agree but I watched the YouTube video of them testing that head on the three major brands of choppers and they claim the Deere handled it best, I tend to call bull shit but what ever I wasn't there.

John Deere 9RX catches up with Steiger/CaseIH quad-trak? "imitation, not innovation" The tillage equipment it is pulling is not green!

Videos of stationary work

Big bales to little square bales: Video of bailing square bales from round bales. Video of bailing square bales from big square bales. (They also do alfalfa hay for their own caws.)

2016 WI tech days

Corn stalk baling: windrower, square baler, "Stinger 6500" that can stack 12 high (but they do just 4-6 for corn stover)

CaseIH Optum 300 pulling "lawnmower" chopper and wagon (silage)

John Deere 8800i chopper, their biggest. Unfortunately, unlike pull choppers, you can't see the guts of a self-propelled to determine if it is a "lawnmower" or "fan" design.

Claas Lexion 740 (combine)    Flat instead of triangle track.

CaseIH 8240 Axial Flow  It is not spreading the straw like the Claas 740 did, but it looks too chopped up to bale.

CaseIH 8230 & MacDon Flexdraper Note the gap in the center of the header. The header flexes in the middle. Dual tires instead of a track. The Claas is on its tail.

John Deere S680 & 635FD at 0:20 seconds, note on the right side the guys down on their hands and knees. I assume they are looking for wheat grains the combine left behind.

Kuhn Merge Max MM 700 (hay merger (rake))

Field Tillage Demo  I noticed the yellow tractor with red implement was pulling a lot harder, then I noticed the chisel plows in the middle of the implement. Note that it runs slow enough that they did not put baskets on the end.

Tribine is now in production, I learned in another video that a 1000 bushel grain cart can fill a simi-truck grain trailer. Compatible with John Deere heads. drone footage   They have been testing the new architecture for years. Here is a video from the 2013 show. Yet another video.

A 3000 BU "grain system" "three truck loads"

corn harvesting demo

Unusual harvesting

Unusual harvesting is the type of topic for which I don't envision writing more general postings. So I include pictures as well as videos.

Mellons

Potato harvesting

Video of cranberry harvesting.

Video of lettuce harvesting.

Video of rice growing. They say near the beginning that they have plenty of water. So I assume they were pumping from a river. But later they said they were pumping from wells. Underground aquifers can be drained. The Western Suburbs of Chicago switched from well water to Chicago's treated Lake Michigan water because the 1000-foot deep wells were going dry.

Video of sugar beet harvesting. Another. Who controls when the truck moves forward with respect to the chute? At the end you see that another machine cuts the foliage off the top. And another Buy this time youtube noticed I was watching sugar beats and offered several more including 12-row that cuts the foliage itself and has a big bin. That solves the problem of how do you do the outside rows. But it can't unload while running. Fortunately, it unloads quickly. Then I discovered that it can unload on the run. 2016 in Sidney Montana         Video where comment complains about the job done by the devoliator. I have never figured out who is responsible for the speed differential to spread the load along the trailer --- the trailer or the harvester driver. If the trailer driver, where is the camera mounted to see where the trailer is full?

Beet harvester bends a high-tension tower.

Video of tobacco harvesting.

Video of harvesting sub clover seed. Uses vacuum.
David Klimpsch Its subterranean clover seed. The plant burys its seed in burrs below the ground, and it required to be scarified up to the surface using harrows etc to allow the machine to harvest it via vacuum
Another video

For the Love of Tractors posted

Pumpkin Harvester

Screenshot from video of John Deere 7430 pumpkin harvester

Screenshot from video of AgroStahl pumpking harvester

Screenshot from video of green tea harvest

Screenshot of citrus harvester
Starting at 2:43 you finally see how it catches the fruit. I assume the man pickup fruit was to illustrate the old way rather than show what the machine missed. At 3:41 is a different design that grabs the trunk to shake the tree?

Screenshot of tomato harvest

Screenshot, the first AGGO Allis tractor that I have seen
It becomes very redundant until they show the processing plant

Screenshot, green bean picker

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Screenshot, cotton

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IH: 620 cotton picker videos: picking and unloading. (Links are broken 20161223.)

Tulip Bulbs

Video of "topping tulips." And one with John Deere and a JVS triple topper.

Tomatoes: 1   2   3   4   canning plant    tomato paste(not a good video)     The part that removes the tomatoes from the foliage is under a cover so I could not figure out how that is done. Some of the tomatoes get dropped a significant distance. Since they are red (ripe), they must be bred to be hard so they won't bruise.

Peas, it's just combining.

A video of spinach harvesting.

Video of field cleaner for celeriac. I need to learn what celeriac is because here is another video.

Video of dumping sugar cane into a truck

James Hill posted six photos of a lima bean harvester.

Just a picture, but definitely an unusual harvest:

Combines Harvesters Threshers posted
Chopping Lavender for essence

Chris Fink posted a video and the following two photos. It is obvious that you can't use an auger for peanuts. That would be why they use an elevator to lift the peanuts up into the bin and why the bin is tilted up to dump the contents.

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