Since there is a wave of other toys:

Here is my new one.





If anyone is in the area, Tomorrow's project is to run down parts and repair a gearbox.

And maybe play this weekend.

forgive the ignorance but what the hell is that beast

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I certainly can. I'm usually the one in need of forgiveness.

early 70's 3-row Corn Picker, actually a Combine.

Standing Corn in the front, trash out the back and shelled corn in the bin on top.

This one has several modifications from a regular stock machine.

i see...... wait till banks sees this thing........ i dont know what he's gonna want more that or johns ford tractor

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HA! Yeah I couldn't believe you didn't know what that was!! Man o man i wouldn't be able to decide...however..the combine can do some serious damage

They should design one for strip mining in the flat pitch fools coal. take the overburden off and run a combine into the coal

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BTW is that your lowboy, Doug?

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You bought this for a hobby? what is your hobby? I can relate though, because of my completely unnessesary forway into my sometimes all consuming automotive hobby. My BMW 5 series driving coworkers and friends who take up safe hobbys like golf will never understand the thrill of trying to stop a 2 ton car with 485 HP and manual drum brakes, ....thats good times.

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My aim, when I built my car was to scare the hell out of myself, its the type of vehicle that were I to park in front of your house, your lawn would die

They have........ they're called continous miners

No. One dream at a time, I'm lucky to get the combine at the price I did. And the guy hauled it 150 miles for an extra $250.00.

Corn Breeding. Developing the parent lines that are then used to make the hybrids that farmers buy. It is set up as a business but it may never make a profit.

This particular machine is modified for shelling test plots. Two rows about twenty feet long. Stop let the machine clean out and weigh the results. Next plot. Each plot being a different variety.

Chris, FYI. By Corn-Belt standards this is a tiny machine. Almost no serious farmers are using anything nearly this small.

That is right you guys do not really have farm fields up your way. It caught me by surprise. Doug there is a huge farm equipment auction house up by me. There is an auction at least once a month.

Total change of subject:
YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE SOMETHING COOL- - - WATCH A COMBINE CRASH UP DERBY.

It makes normal crash up derbys like childs play.
I have some big videos somewhere but they need compressed to be posted.

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Okay, First of all, Brian, what you said about golf.... .... most of us (if not all of us) totally understand where you're coming from on that one!

Doug - Yeeeeeeeaaahh, but im talkin' surface here I'd love to see a combine driving through a coal vein ripping coal! (yeah right) it would make a funny photograph though.

The corn breeding actually sounds pretty awesome! Thats something i could see myself totally interested in - although partly because of the harvesting equipment involved. I always thought blueberries would be a really good crop. For right now though i'll stick with trying to harvest the hay and the coal in our "fields."

i do love farm equipment though.
You must own a full scale farm then?

Pete - just because you guys have combine derbies and we don't doesn't mean that bituminous is any better than anthracite. stop trying to play it off like it does.

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Banks -

No, I just rent the land I need. Which is only a couple of acres. It can be very labor intensive. The 1 acre plot I had this season, had about 500 plots. The corn that is kept for the next year all must be hand-pollinated. That means tons of work in a very short period of time.

The Combine is for next year, yield plots are less work.

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Digger those are sharp - - - I have seen only a handful of those.l

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