One Of The First Combines Ever
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Ben Hausler, Wichita Falls, Texas, recently sent along a photo of one of the first "combines" ever used in the U.S. It shows an Avery tractor pulling a stationary threshing machine that's double-hitched to a push binder. The push binder cut the grain which was then delivered up a rubber conveyor to the top of the threshing machine. The thresher had been fitted with its own gas engine.
"My dad came up with this system in the early 1900's. It allowed him to cut and thresh grain at the same time just like the combines of today, but before they were widely available on the market. He was more than just a little ahead of his time," says Hausler. "The photo was taken some time between 1905 and 1910. My dad died in 1925 when I was four years old so I never saw his setup. I'm 78 and retired now. The photo is from the book "Trails Through Archer", a history written by Jack Loftin of some of the events that took place in Archer County, Texas, around the turn of the century.
"By the time I was 12 or 14 years old we were using a Case P pull-type combine. We used a binder to cut the grain, then shocked it and let it cure. Three or four weeks later a threshing crew consisting of 8 wagons and four shock æpitchers' came in to thresh the grain."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ben E. Hausler, 708 8th St., Room 212, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301 (ph 940 322-3701 or 692-
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One Of The First Combines Ever AG WORLD Ag World 22-4-24 Ben Hausler, Wichita Falls, Texas, recently sent along a photo of one of the first "combines" ever used in the U.S. It shows an Avery tractor pulling a stationary threshing machine that's double-hitched to a push binder. The push binder cut the grain which was then delivered up a rubber conveyor to the top of the threshing machine. The thresher had been fitted with its own gas engine.
"My dad came up with this system in the early 1900's. It allowed him to cut and thresh grain at the same time just like the combines of today, but before they were widely available on the market. He was more than just a little ahead of his time," says Hausler. "The photo was taken some time between 1905 and 1910. My dad died in 1925 when I was four years old so I never saw his setup. I'm 78 and retired now. The photo is from the book "Trails Through Archer", a history written by Jack Loftin of some of the events that took place in Archer County, Texas, around the turn of the century.
"By the time I was 12 or 14 years old we were using a Case P pull-type combine. We used a binder to cut the grain, then shocked it and let it cure. Three or four weeks later a threshing crew consisting of 8 wagons and four shock æpitchers' came in to thresh the grain."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ben E. Hausler, 708 8th St., Room 212, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301 (ph 940 322-3701 or 692-
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