1955 Ford Pull Type Combine

[@TallTexasGMan]

I believe with the hobby farmers and such, this type of equipment may see a comeback. The small farmer looking to plant a few acres and harvest for themselves and their livestock.

[@ALWhite-ub1ye]

I picked up a pair of McCormick-Deering 42 combines for just this reason. One is a bagger, the other has a bin.

[@Jonseyfun]

I've been looking to get one to help start my farm just because equipment is so high priced.

[@MaclearieFarms]

I’m looking for a MM M88

[@shockashoota]

exactly what im looking for , i dont see why one couldn't come out and be about the size if a small round bailer. Only problem i think is kubota or JD would need to have $90,000 for it.

[@annalorree]

This is exactly why I am watching this video.

[@KyleGertner]

Good for you. Keep that beautiful porce of history working!

[@parkerb321]

Would love to see more videos like this! Love the old iron!

[@tomazskrlec5632]

This combine needs to be restored and placed in a museum. This is historical value from Ford. This is not about price, but about the history of quality agricultural machinery.

[@johnathancrotzer5491]

I would prefer one that doesn't work very well to go to a museum. But it would also be cool to see it restored

[@LeMecanoDuDimanche]

Nice combine and nice tractor too. Thanks for this cool video

[@ColtonLloyd]

I’ve never seen a pull type combine in real life.this will be the closest thing Thanks Messick.

[@twothreebravo]

Well...it's for sale too ;)

[@markenge9348]

Back in the 60's my dad owned a share of a Massey Harris model 90 with 2 of his brothers that had adjoining farms. He got tired of waiting for his turn on it so he could harvest his oats. He went to an auction and bought a combine that looked just like the one you're showing here. He was so pleased with its performance that he bought a 2nd one later at another auction and kept them both. He used a super H or an MTA to pull them and they worked just as good as my uncles' self-propelled Massey Harris.

[@aafarm1652]

I rode an old bagger combine for several years changing out bags of wheat being harvested when I was a youngster back in the late 80’s.

[@nicholasbrown7068]

I remember a long time time ago my uncle combining oat's with a John Deere pull type combine very similar to this, offset to the left of the tractor. And he pulled it with a Ford 3000 tractor. Very simplistic equipment.

[@randysavage8963]

Really neat piece of equipment back when equipment was made to last . Thanks for sharing

[@TomSmith-me7ph]

Didn’t know Ford made a combine. We had a pull type combine but it was a Massy Harris. Good video!

[@LanceStoddard]

Ford and their Dearborn Corp. made a lot of ag equipment. Some of that combine may have been made by Oliver. Oliver made combines for Ford later in the 1950's.

[@roosthrower]

Thanks Neil. Great story , enjoyed watching.

[@CluelessRanchHand]

Pretty cool!! Love seeing old iron still running!!

[@justindavis1546]

Great walk back in time.

[@truth6612]

That's awesome. The oldest pull combine I ever saw was in the 80's when working on a guys farm. This one from the 50's is really neat to see. Obviously it was built to last, unlike alot of modern machinery.

[@nfavor]

Growing up our neighbor had two of these. He was retired but still did some small scale farming. I enjoyed watching them run.

[@stephensfarms7165]

Enjoyed watching the old combine. 👍👍👍

[@gman7640]

thank you for sharing. My Uncle had and used one of those in the 80's,. They sure built them to last back in the day

[@bradhigh8137]

It's definitely a unique piece of machinery! I had the privilege of getting some drone footage of Ivan combining the other week and he said you guys were coming over. Good work on the video!

[@rickscustombalingllc.841]

Badass video guys...great farmer and great machine. Thanks for sharing this!

[@Senkino5o]

Very nice vid, Ivan is a really speaker too and explains the combine well.

[@royosborn7869]

Thank you for sharing this. It brings back memories from the 50's and 60's. Nice to see both machines (combine and tractor) still working.

[@ritterjon]

💥 That was very interesting, thanks for sharing it with us. *Keep on tractoring!* 😁👍

[@jamesritter2976]

This is the type of content I'm looking for. Thanks

[@stanhensley3082]

The farmer does a very good job of showing us how combines work.Never ever have saw a combine like this one. Sure did a great job of knocking the grain out of the wheat heads. The wheat 🌾 looks like it made a good yield too! That two cylinder tractor looked pretty sharp also. Thanks.

[@turnertruckandtractor]

The basic theory and functions of a combine have not changed that much since inception. That two cylinder JD 730 is very sweet too.

[@danw6014]

Your right. They have the same basic layout of a thrashing machine.

[@swayme67]

Fantasic! Thank you for sharing!

[@alancoleman4370]

Wonderful video- thanks for sharing it.

[@doublebfarms2313]

I would love to have that combine for a collectors item and to use in the fields.

[@edwardmartin1831]

This video is so damn cool It is amazing that it still works Thank you so much for sharing

[@brianbarclay4316]

Nice tractor pulling that combine!

[@TsunauticusIV]

Wow. That’s probably the coolest machine I’ve seen in awhile. Thanks for sharing this!

[@bladewiper]

Excellent, thank you very much for the video. You can restore something as many times as you want, but it will only be original once, lets hope who ever buys it, keeps it original.

[@robertlong7033]

Some much of today's ag production comes courtesy of side gig farming. It makes a major contribution which creates a strong demand for this type of older but still very much serviceable and affordable equipment. . If this gentleman wants to sell this unit he'll have buyers coming from all directions.

[@sarahandtim332]

Amazing the transfer of power through the machine with single 540 input shaft

[@briannelson4493]

It’s good to see your combine still working. I had one just like that built by Ford. I pulled it with a John Deere B 1951 model mine had a scouwer clean work great. I sold it and bought a 30 John Deere with an apron feed rather than the Draper feed of the Ford.

[@3474jason]

That is cool I just rebuilt 82 international pull type and harvested about 4 ton of rye seed a little bit of learning curve but was fun

[@roberttroxell7823]

"awesome old machine" loved this video, would like to see more like this!

[@danw6014]

These older machines did an excellent job. We had a New Idea picker sheller that shelled corn cleaner than a new combine. The Allis Chalmers All crop combine had a good reputation for harvesting clover seed as well as other grains. There was a couple of them still doing that work in my area in the late 80s early 90s.

[@greghickox9508]

I live in CT so not a big demand for these, however if you have a small local operation, these old machines are super easy to repair if you are mechanically inclined and you can generally get them up and running faster than modern equipment.

[@orsonwells7997]

That is the stuff I grew up farming with....

[@lawrencebessette754]

Wow what a blast to the past

[@rbharvesters7404]

Very interesting machine, well done

[@jamieshields9521]

I know family of brothers who still use Pull type combine Horwood Bagshaw which using ever harvest since new. The advantages of using is not worrying about engine hrs but finding the parts to run PTO combine, not problem with HB even though made here in Australia.

[@neilramseyer5348]

That's a cool machine. Someone around here has a stationary combine, where they had to cut it first by hand and throw it in by hand

[@mikenl3d]

Thoroughly enjoyed that video.

[@kylegertner5869]

Dad told me when he was a kid, grandpa had two Case pull type combines. They were scrapped out but the grain tank, the straw walkers, & some other parts are Still in the grove.

[@dougshrader7721]

As a kid Dad had and Allis Chalmers 66, I think it had a 28 bushel bin. Of course combining was much harder in those days as herbicides were non existent and the ragweed was tough on those wooden bats and the jimsom weed was tough on the canvas elevator. But they did do an excellent job with the crop.

[@danandfaith]

I’d love to see a modern, pull-type combine that works with compact tractors. I have enough land to grow wheat (fields are hay, cut by the dairy farmer up the hill). I grind my own flour. Would be great to grow enough wheat for the bread I bake (yes, I bake a lot).

[@lamontpowell6235]

My neighbor was using one similar, with a bagger when I was a kid 55 years ago.

[@kenrichardson4144]

Great video! Thanks for sharing❗❗❗ 🙂🙂🙂 👍👍👍

[@HTPJohn]

That is just cool right there.

[@elephantcompany6061]

Excellent tractor aswell

[@clintonstubbs2319]

I didn’t know that Ford made pull type combines. Pretty cool old machine and it still looks good. Maybe one day there may be some pull type combines offered here besides the Chinese made ones like the Boaz. This could be useful for small acreage farms.

[@needstacos4892]

What a cool video!

[@jean-philippegagnon9189]

awesome video! i would have thought you'd have blurred the tractor pulling it though hahaha good day!

[@jilescochran3912]

Nice thanks for vedio

[@TimeAfterTym]

I saw in the comments an echo of the question I want to ask. Is there a smaller pull combine for people who want to farm one or 2 acres of corn? I know I would like to plant corn, but At my age I certainly can’t pick it by hand. And I doubt I can trick my wife into it; she’s not only beautiful but smart too! I’ve been searching the Internet but that doesn’t mean much to try to find a tiny pull behind combine.

[@oldtruthteller2512]

Any pull type combine is kinda rare. In the 70s and 80s the scrap metal guys were cutting them up constantly.

[@henrymorgan3982]

Freaking cool! Ford does not make anything with that kind of quality anymore! Too many board members! LOL!!

[@JackOSUrulz]

So VERY true

[@danw6014]

Bean counters, not car guys. The last company to be run by car guys was Chrysler, but then someone got greedy and cashed it in with Daimler. There are a lot of people who are still very angry about that and if they ever got their hands on the last CEO of the gone but not forgotten Chrysler Corporation they would have him drawn and quartered and use old Dodge trucks (not rams) to do it.

[@earlyriser8998]

Excellent to see this. I have in the barn we just purchased an old scythe blade mower which I intend to repair and use again. it must be at least 60 years old....and an older on on the fence line. . ian Mcollum has a channel called "Forgotten Weapons" whihc is very successful. You could start a whole new aspect of this channel called "Forgotten Farm Equipment"

[@1925sk]

Henry Ford, the man had a vision.

[@BillTheTractorMan]

There is a few of these old Ford combines still in use by me. The guys use them still because some land your cant get a big combine into and these machines can make it down narrow wooded trails. Smaller farms like them because they cant afford a self propelled combine.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

This guy seems absolutely fascinated with the fact that threshing machinery has followed the same basic design for over a century.

[@lcee6592]

Very high on the awesome scale! Funny, he didn’t mention any of the computers or electronics on the combine or the tractor…

[@shanedaft666]

I think Neil should buy it and put it in the new factory show room and put next to it something a bit more up to date next to it fir the history of the combine

[@MessicksEquip]

Cool idea

[@grahamrichard1442]

curious, how is it when it comes to throwing wheat out the back end.. And about how many acres a day can you cover with that combine.

[@eddiethornton1859]

My grandfather had a jd tow thrassher in between 19 1955 and the we went to clayworth combine the your father sold us we bout axelflowx after i find ye straight forword to deal with

[@jazzerbyte]

Some of the similar era pull types (Massey Harris, McCormick, etc) were positioned to the right side of the tractor. I wonder if the decision to position on the left side originated from England?

[@nelsoncreekfarm]

Bin type machines were common in the 50's. Baggers were 1940's and earlier.

[@danw6014]

I remember working on a dairy farm in the 1990s. At the time the farmer was in his early 50s. He said he remembers taking his cow to the 4H fair one year and there were straw stacks in every barn yard just like always, and the next year there were none. Farmers changed to the pull type combine overnight.

[@stanford2444]

I have an earlier model with a canvas feed and a locked up Wisconsin engine instead of a PTO. Canvas is shot and really wish I had that one instead.

[@1925sk]

Did these run off the tractor PTO?

[@ianarchibald1423]

If I'm not mistaken, I think Dearborn WAS Ford, the exact same thing, just a different name.

[@matthewmarquette6778]

The augers nowadays hold as much as it's bin.

[@kylerayk]

Why would you be surprised that principles found on a 1955 combine would be found on modern machinery? Proven technology. Thrashing is uncontrolled movement. Threshing is removing grain from the husk, pod, or cob.

[@thirrybelisle]

I wish i could own one since i own a small operation sadly i am in Canada

[@daviddelaet8116]

What Ford tractor would have been used in 1955? 600?

[@JCWren]

I know absolutely nothing about combines. I'm curious if new ones are more efficient than the older ones, in terms of how much winds up in the bin.

[@tangydiesel1886]

All depends on the operator.

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

Newer, especially axial flow, is way better.

[@JCWren]

@@tangydiesel1886 How can it "depend on the operator"? The question (albeitly that could be worded better) can a 1955 machine strip the same, more, or less percentage of the wheat from the stalks compared to a newer machine. However, based on what @Airplane Doctor says, it seems that axial flow gets a higher percentage off the stalks and into the bin.

[@tangydiesel1886]

@@JCWren mainly depends on what is meant by "efficiency." By number of acres covered, and bushels put though in a day, yeah, newer is better. Machine size is huge compared to what was around in the past. I was reading the question as "grain loss" which is entirely on the operator. Any machine can be set to not spit grain out the back, no matter the brand, or age. If fuel efficiency was what was considered, then walker machines would have a leg up. Takes less hp to run a cylinder and walker, than a rotor to put bushels in the grain tank.

[@JCWren]

@@tangydiesel1886 Excellent information, thanks! Grain loss is what I was referring to (I didn't know the term), but not from spillage so much as the mechanism that strips the wheat from the stalks.

[@willjeffery2661]

A modern walker machine is very little different to an old static threshing machine.

[@Windsor1492]

Strange seeing Messicks featuring a John Deere.

[@bradjenkins932]

They are featuring a Ford combine.

[@onebigbobo]

I’m very thankful he did not scrap that machine when he purchased the property. It’s a reminder to take care of your equipment and it will take care of you! It reminds me of the bailer grandpa used from when I was much younger. It was a new Holland, but it ran off a pony motor, not a pro shaft. He pulled it with his 8N until the mid 70’s and it was converted to a PTO shaft in the mid 90’s. I can’t remember it ever busting a bale.

[@ohiofarmer254]

there is a guy around here that has one just like that

[@derrickschumacher6975]

Echos of the past.. (To be fair, the two cylinder was the click bait) lol

[@bbruce995]

they made them better than they are today, today all the electronics are made to fail

[@countrymankdx200]

I got an allis chamlers all crop 72 combine for sale

[@brinnenvanlue7928]

I am so sad your not on a Ford tractor

[@ericlakota1847]

Back then farmers dident buy junk if it was letting the farmer down and was pos farmers would let world know they would not buy stuff not made to last back then they paid money they saved up the wife and whole famaly would be involved in perchase

[@rexross7086]

It would be nice to watch one of these without the freaking music

[@karatejoe5049]

This guy is semi verbal.

[@swampwhiteoak1]

It is shameful to pull that great Ford combine with that ugly green tractor.

[@elcheapo5302]

From a time when Ford made things to outlast bread.