I could have painted it several different colors. Black, Ford Red, or Allis Orange. It came out of the factory in Ford Red but it was repainted Allis Orange at the Dealership in 55 after Allis bought Gleaner. This was the first year it had ever been in a field since 1962 after it combined some flax. I hadn't gotten around to having the bigger soybean sprockets remanufactured yet so this video was of it combining 60bu soybeans with small grain sprockets last year. Soybeans were super clean but little over half were cracked. You never get anything running at 100% the first year I have learned with combines. Later in this video I always cringe cause I can hear it eating a bolt I left ontop of the header. This year I took out the return elevator chain an covered the opening in the sieve so everything went to the grain tank. The sample was still very cleaner an put are new Deere Axial combine to shame so I was very happy. One of the best parts about the T3 was its narrow enough to drive right onto a car trailer, an that's how I hauled it home across three states. I'll put my T3 up against any of its competitors any day an I'm a Deere guy.

@@MrTGleaner Haha, wow, that's saying a lot! I noticed you could see down both sides of the machine while driving it. I wish there were more of those around, they would be great for small farms like mine. And with the price of land anymore, they would just get more popular as the years go by.

Long as you have a nice Minnesota fall breeze from the other direction you wont even notice the dust with this little machine.

Next year I'll get a auger feed wagon to use as a grain cart 👌

I was doing high moisture soybeans with some green steams out there. I plugged it only once surprisingly an it was only three handfuls under the feeder cylinder an away I went again! Its just a dream to run! I got a Massey 60sp combine out also an that thing plugged first ten feet in the green stuff! If you remember anything ells about your T please share!!!!!!

I had some bad rust under the radiator so I applied some industrial cold-zinc spay made in Minneapolis MN. Its specially made to look new an stick to galvanizing as long as you do a good job at cleaning the oil an grease off before applying. I liked it so much I covered all of the galvanizing with it. Very happy with how it turned out.

Safety back in the day was a little sign next to the driver seat that said “Do not dismount will running!” This combine never had that put on but people already kinda knew not to get off when chains are flying at 1000 rpm lol

Not sure the old 6v would run something like that 😂

Your generation sure knew how to make thing work with what you had! How did you get the combines on an off the trucks?

Mr Norm , I understand where you're coming from , I'm crocked up and can only do bits and bobs but I'd give my left nut to pilot one of those old combines and tractors for a while . Great memories 👍🎃

Once they start going down the back of your shirt you can push them to the back of the tank with a flick of the arm. Give ya another 100ft 😂