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All-Crop Allis Chalmers Combine

This is a 1936 model 60 Allis Chamers combine. One of the first mass produced combines and was a very successful machine. Interesting part of it is that it's name the 60 combine referred to the width of the cutter which was 5 feet or 60 inches and with a straight through combine the grain as it was cut it went straight up and there was a full width cylinder that separated the grain right away. That was unique at that time. This one is equipped with a pick - up to do the swathed grain. If you notice at the top there is a little finger hanging down and as the machine operating that wend backward and forward and spread the s2wath out so that it went through the cylinder more evenly. The other unique part of it is that the threshing part went straight through but the separation from the grain from the straw went at right angle in other words cross ways so this part of the back here is the separator where after the grain came up through and through the cylinder went into this area and the cylinder is right there to the left of the opening. And then the straw went in on these shakers and went separated through with the grain falling down underneath and the straw going on and exiting over on the other side of the machine, which was unique. Most combines the grain came up and was threshed through the separator and it was exited out the back, this one was a cross draft. This little machine was quite small but did a fairly good job was exceptionally good with fine grass seeds and things like that but used extensionally in the area at the time and proved to be a very good machine. The power for the machine and this one in particular is a power take off where the tractor provided though this power shaft and operated the machine through there. Many some of them also had a motor mounted right in this area, ran off its own self propelled motor. The grain of course, we talked about the threshing would come up into the tank then would exit through here. The operator would stop the combine himself and put this auger into motion and dump the grain out into a truck very small hopper did not hold a lot of grain. Some farmers would build a wooden platform around the top, so they could add another foot or so of capacity through the tank. Another interesting part is that this wheel has a gear on it and a chain that provides power to turn the wheels that help with the cutting. As you move a wheel you can see it moving over there, so the wheels would turn at the same speed as the combine traveled across the crop. If you went faster then the wheels would turn faster and do a better cutting job, as you slowed down the wheels slowed down. Another unique feature of this machine

Filming: Marty Haldane
Filming: Alison Marshall
Voice: George Campbell
Editing: Jon Thomson

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How the Massey Harris 1950's Baler works.
1950
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada

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Massey Harris #1 Special Baler

This one is a Massey Harris Hay Baler approximately early 1950s no sure on that exact date.
It was powered by take off or by motor. This one did have motor on it and in the restoration process we did not have a motor so we are waiting for that. The motor sat in this area in here and when it did not have the motor there would be a powered take off shaft that ran through that hole in their, that is closed up and would power it that way. This one the motor would sit here and the big drive belt would go around here and around the big pulley and drive the machine again picked up the hay or material you are baling with a pick up and carried it up into the transfer chamber to read over to the plunger. We are going to have a demonstration on how the machine actually moved as the hay came in from the top this huge plunger from the top pressed it down and then you can see the needles getting out of the way and as that pushed the hay down then the main plunger that went forward is no going to start moving back pushing the hay into the major into the camber where the baler will actually take place. You see the big plunger coming forward here pushing forward and this one will lift up out of the way and as it goes back the hay is pressed into this chamber. After enough hay got in the needles then are triggered and they go back around. And take the baler twine around the baler and finish the tying process. We've completed once cycle and tied the bale.

Filming: Marty Haldane
Filming: Alison Marshall
Voice: George Campbell
Editing: Jon Thomson

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Tractor power to cut wood
2000
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada