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We had the same one after we got rid of the Mc Cormmick (?) piece of crap!!! Sure beats the old binder, & stuking sheaves, then on the wagon, & into the old thrashing machine. Kinda missed the thrashing bees, & big meals at everyone's house. Lots of more youngin to play with after lunch. Don't miss the grainery shovelling though when they got full up. The youngest or the smallest got that job. Glad I was bigger than some. Old Art Oakley always worked the straw stack, thanks Art were ever ya are, maybe we'll see each other again? Burton Taylor had the thrashing machine & always showed up with 6 of his boys (sure made things go a lot easier) Burton also had 3 girls, he did not sleep in the basement..... Good guy Burton, even if you were young, he would look right at you to include you in the conversation. By gone days.............. GWPGUY. 🐾👣🇨🇦

when I was in high school I bought one of them to combine fescue seed. hooked it to an old Ford jubilee and paid for the combine the first weekend.

use the thing for five or six years with very little issues. always had my older sister or dad would take seed for me at the end of the day before I could drive. after I got my license I took my own. percentage was probably one of the most profitable things I've ever done..

A few around here kept them into the 60's for alfalfa seed. I can sort of remember Dad and Grandpa running one on wheat, but Dad bought a Model A self propelled in 1959 when I was 6 years old.