Homemade 4-row corn picker

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I will have to find pictures of all of those.

one thing I am learning about machinery is its unique region specific uses.

I found a ledger printed by Deere in the 1930s that listed the many different
machines They built, listers, bedders, transplanters, loaders of all sorts, haying tools. many of those things I have yet to see.

I am afraid in Our insane chase to collect the tractors, We left the "less" important implements for the scrappers to feast on. that was a bad mistake, Today the most interesting displays at shows are the tractors with the tools and attachments offered for them. Much of those things are now gone. Overshadowed by the greedy extrication of the power units that ran them, many of the the tools went the extinction route only to ever be remembered by the mention of them in the sales brochures found hidden away in filling cabinets and desk drawers. I am as guilty as the next one for doing so, I bought a John Deere H 22 years ago and found the entire side yard was full of mowers, plows and such. I loaded the tractor, a totally derelict disc and a #4 Big horse drawn mower. I left everything else laying where is was. Including a Cockshutt drawbar mower. Boy was that stupid. My granddad let a scrap hauler cut up an almost new 101 JD semi mounted corn picker,purchased in 1953 with the new 40 tractor. what I would give for them today just to put on display.

So with that little sidebar, I will bring this back to the beginning. "Reversed Tractors"

It is important to recognize and preserve the interesting variation and imagination that engineers, builders, dealers, and end Users found and modified tractors for, Not push them off to the side in the hunt for another production piece. I have a friend who is in the middle of a restoration of a CCS Case that still wears the remains of its cane loader. A number of people have told Him to get out the torches and finish removing it. I am glad He did not do so.
The attachment is as important as the special modified tractor that moves and powered it

[Clarification here]
(I am not talking about the shoemaker jobs that did not work or were so unsafe it defied reason. I am talking about the thoughtful well built machines previously talked about in the beginning posts. We have all seen the reckless stupid concoctions of moving parts that maimed or killed innocent people and destroyed other equipment. One of those ridiculous
hob goblin jobs that keeps coming to My mind is the video on U-tube of the giant wheel log splitter that is no more than a guillotine waiting on its next ignorant careless victim. And the scary part was the hill-jack shown running it was so proud of it, it was sicking. It made My skin crawl in horror )









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