Year End Thanks and Goals for 2008

Well, another year gone by. Where does the time go?  Thanks to all our customers, suppliers  and supporters for making this another great year.

Our goals for 2008:

1. Get drapers available for the model 40 combine.

2. Make available more manuals, parts manuals in particular.

3. Overhaul the website (a 2007 goal not achieved) to make it more informative and effective in finding parts and combines. 

 4. Get that new drill press assembled to allow us to pre-drill holes for the cylinder bars.

5. Get to at least one of the Allis equipment shows with a truckload of parts.

Lets revisit this list at the end of 2008 and see what we accomplish..

May your 2008 Be Great! 

Send a Teddy To Your Favorite Islamo-Fascist

As a promised occasional diversion from All-Crops…I found this hilarious..

http://www.therudenews.com/?p=178

..And this little SP-100 went to Ireland

Received a call from Ireland from a collector who shipped a SP-100 in a shipping container from Nebraska to Ireland to add to his collection of farm equipment.  Seems there was only one SP-100 that ever made it to Ireland prior and it had since been scrapped.  Hope to have more info and pics of the restoration in the coming months…

Another trailer technique

Jim Mills of Georgetown TX took up took Mike Wikes offer of a free 66 combine as listed in the registry and traveled to MO to pick it up. He handled the over width of the combine wheel base buy adding a fixed dolley wheel inside the right axle. This gave him a new narrower wheel base to permit the combine to be rolled up the trailer.

Corn Head 66 in Action

Jim Mills of Georgetown TX was kind enough to send video from the 50 Years of Ag Progress show in Rantoul IL. Shown  is video of a rare 66 corn head all-crop doing its thing. The owner and operator shown is well known AC collector Marion Klutzke of West Lafayette, Indiana.  Be aware this is a large file.

Educational Farm Gets An All-Crop

Pie Ranch in California,”Dedicate the property to educational programs related to food and farming, as well as natural and cultural history.”,  recently acquired an 66 All-Crop. We were happy to supply parts. You can read about it here

New Reel Arms For Sale

I have added reel arms for the 60/66 on the parts page..A word about the reproduction wood parts..that word would be “expensive!”  As I am adding new wooden parts to the lineup to replace the exhausted NOS supply, I have found that having these new parts milled is an expensive proposition.  But if you think about whats involved in making a quality peice, it is really no surprise. It can be a time consuming process and the hourly labor rate is a bit higher now than back in the 1950’s!  So just wanted to let you know that the markup on my end on these wooden parts is minimal to none; so there is no gouging going on;  I am just glad to have these parts available.

Another One Saved

Had the pleasure of talking to Kevin Perkins of Effingham, IL the other day.  Seems he aquired a 72 that had been sitting in a shed since being used one season in ‘64. There were several other all-crops for sale as well, and they went for scrap to China. What a shame! The prices paid for the other machines where in the hundreds; are scrap metal prices that high?? Well, at least we saved one; you can see it here.

Jim Palmers AC-40 at Hutch

Notice how clean the grain is…

I have a bunch of other clips he sent me I need to post, until then, enjoy.

Little K Harvest – Ooh Rah!

Here is a clip of the All-Crop get together at Marion Klutzke’s place in Lafayette Indiana.

Following behind the harvest is the rotobalers cleaning up the straw.