Post by Red_Painter on Mar 26, 2002 1:31:41 GMT 1
You all may have seen the Axial Flow Anniversary pages on Toy Tractor Show. If not, it might be interesting. www.toytractorshow.com/ih_combine_history.htm I have to mention it because there is a picture (though not the best) of a 1470, the last hillside produced by IH. It was produced and put on for IH by R A Hanson in Spokane, Washington. Later they built levellers for 9600 John Deeres. The picture doesn't show what it can do on the hills. Look at the ladder that arches high over the wheel so that the wheel won't hit it when in full level to the left. It had a whole subframe and it could level much more than the Hillco's (probably about 38% compared to about 28%) It had no duals which helps the later Hillco's with less levelling have stability on real steep hills. The wheels would tilt in a vertical direction as with the Italian levelers though the four way levelling with back end going up and down was dropped probably due to cost. It had four wheel drive. The rears being as big as the fronts on our present combines. Most of these are still in service since the leveller makes them quite expensive and costly replace. I don't know if other areas would have as many combines of that age.
Also the pull type windrow combines such as the 1482 are shown. There used to be all kinds of them sold in places like Saskatchewan ,Canada. These always intrigued me since I grew up with large IH pull type 51 (a version called the 160 was produced until the about the mid 50's for the Norhwest) with a 16 foot draper header combine and with some modification was operated by my dad from the tractor seat. He loved it as he used push buttons to raise and lower the header. We ran it with the self propelled combine for years though it was alot of work to take off the header and move down the road.
I think the Axial Flow is one of the most importand inventions in Ag at least in North America in the past century. IH was truly a great innivator. (I know New Holland had the twin rotor first and they were definitely smart enough to see it's advantages and produce it first though it's my understanding that the designer came over from IH when it looked like IH wasn't in any hurry to carry on with his idea or something like that. I think New Holland had to pay IH for some patent rights) I miss the old IH as well as some of the other old companies. There was so much variety.
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Also the pull type windrow combines such as the 1482 are shown. There used to be all kinds of them sold in places like Saskatchewan ,Canada. These always intrigued me since I grew up with large IH pull type 51 (a version called the 160 was produced until the about the mid 50's for the Norhwest) with a 16 foot draper header combine and with some modification was operated by my dad from the tractor seat. He loved it as he used push buttons to raise and lower the header. We ran it with the self propelled combine for years though it was alot of work to take off the header and move down the road.
I think the Axial Flow is one of the most importand inventions in Ag at least in North America in the past century. IH was truly a great innivator. (I know New Holland had the twin rotor first and they were definitely smart enough to see it's advantages and produce it first though it's my understanding that the designer came over from IH when it looked like IH wasn't in any hurry to carry on with his idea or something like that. I think New Holland had to pay IH for some patent rights) I miss the old IH as well as some of the other old companies. There was so much variety.
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