Post by Red_Painter on Jul 6, 2002 5:02:40 GMT 1
If you have interest in North American combines made by IH before the axial flow go to www.toytractorshow.com/ and click on IH Combine History for the date of 7/01/02. The history starts with the ugly icecream scoop models of 1940's (maybe one of the world's ugliest combines) to the last made 1977 American designs. It is in three parts so you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to go to the next part.
On part one, there is a picture of a hillside 151 like the first self propelled combine owned by may dad. Having 4 way levelling made these machines popular. Unusual about the 151 was that the back up and down hinge was raised and lowered by a single central mounted cylinder behind the shoe. Even with a slide for the straw, this collected chaff and the later 403 went back to side mounted hydraulic cylinders and the chaff dropped between the hinge frame arms. The automatic levelling was controlled by a front mounted pendulum floating in fluid and actuated hydraulic valves as the pendulum tilted right to left or front to back. Linkage underneath raised and lowered the header as the rear frame sat down or raised up.
Later 403's are shown on Part 2. The 403 with about a meter width cylinder drum was one of the most popular IH combines.
Part 3 shows the last conventionals. The 453 came out in the 70's and was the last conventional and four way levelling IH combine. Our dealer was not happy that another dealer said he was happy with the size so the company did not develope a larger hillside combine. Soon after John Deere and Gleaner came out with larger combines. The 453 did have 30 percent more capacity that previous machines and was popular. Many loved the 4way levelling. My brother still runs two of them. It seems like hillside machines are made to last longer than levelland due to the cost of the leveller making replacement more expensive.
The 915 was the largest levelland IH combine before the axial flow. Interestingly, most IH enthusiasts do not know that it was originally designed with twin saddle tanks (like Massey) and when the new product engineer, product committee, and much of engineering saw it, the decision was made to change the design. Soon the top mounted bulk tank 815 and 915 were designed and went into production. It seems that when Massey was number one others were following their designs. Even John Deere 6600 and 7700 had the front mounted engine design.
I would really like to see some history on European IH combines as well as other makes too.
On part one, there is a picture of a hillside 151 like the first self propelled combine owned by may dad. Having 4 way levelling made these machines popular. Unusual about the 151 was that the back up and down hinge was raised and lowered by a single central mounted cylinder behind the shoe. Even with a slide for the straw, this collected chaff and the later 403 went back to side mounted hydraulic cylinders and the chaff dropped between the hinge frame arms. The automatic levelling was controlled by a front mounted pendulum floating in fluid and actuated hydraulic valves as the pendulum tilted right to left or front to back. Linkage underneath raised and lowered the header as the rear frame sat down or raised up.
Later 403's are shown on Part 2. The 403 with about a meter width cylinder drum was one of the most popular IH combines.
Part 3 shows the last conventionals. The 453 came out in the 70's and was the last conventional and four way levelling IH combine. Our dealer was not happy that another dealer said he was happy with the size so the company did not develope a larger hillside combine. Soon after John Deere and Gleaner came out with larger combines. The 453 did have 30 percent more capacity that previous machines and was popular. Many loved the 4way levelling. My brother still runs two of them. It seems like hillside machines are made to last longer than levelland due to the cost of the leveller making replacement more expensive.
The 915 was the largest levelland IH combine before the axial flow. Interestingly, most IH enthusiasts do not know that it was originally designed with twin saddle tanks (like Massey) and when the new product engineer, product committee, and much of engineering saw it, the decision was made to change the design. Soon the top mounted bulk tank 815 and 915 were designed and went into production. It seems that when Massey was number one others were following their designs. Even John Deere 6600 and 7700 had the front mounted engine design.
I would really like to see some history on European IH combines as well as other makes too.