SOME CHALMERS HISTORY: My dad worked for Chalmers in La Porte, IN in the 50s before starting Miller and Sons Nursery in La Porte which went on to be well known in the county for landscaping hundreds of homes and businesses. He was a draftsman when the Model 100 Harvester was designed, and drew arguably the most complex blueprint ever drawn by hand. The drawing is an orthogonal see thru view of the Model 100 Harvester that he spent 6 months making. It shows all the internal moving parts of the harvester, all drawn to scale in a single drawing. It was used in the patent submission by Chalmers, and the patent attorneys stated they have never seen a drawing of such complexity and that it made it easy to illustrate the patent application. Our family has a full size copy of the blueprint and need to one day look into offering it to the Smithsonian for scanning. I am dumbfounded whenever I look at it and try and imagine how he was able to draw it on a drafting table...
We have a 60 with a bagger. Dad bought it in the 60’s. For a small farm it is perfect! We just bought a 72. Needs a lot of work, but I had to keep it from going to the scrap yard. It’s stored inside and we are planning on fixing it up.
The All-Crop sure is a versatile and well-engineered piece of agricultural equipment. I wonder if it won any design awards? I especially liked the CA pulling the 66...had no problem at all.
These are neat combines, but that side discharge is just silly. Why would someone want a self propelled combine that can only be reasonably used in one direction? If you cut with the standing crop to the right of the combine, it dumps the discharge into the next pass! Thanks of posting this video, it's very interesting to see the old advertising from days long passed.
To answer your question. Because it works very well. With a 90 degree turn, the thrashed grain and trash must stop and change direction. This produces better cleaning with much less grain loss. Independent testing of the All-Crop Harvesters proved its superior design. They had the cleanest grain samples with the lease amount of grain loss.Still to day you will not find a better combine that delivers in these two areas. As for operating direction, combine any direction you want. The All-Crop has the extra capacity to handle the trash from the previous pass. The Reality is that even with “ modern” combines most operators still go one direction. Thank for watching.
@@The1952caallis That capacity is best used on raw material instead of re threshing. Proof is in customer's preference. All crop was dropped for Gleaner.
very interesting why they did that . i dont know ,it sure would have increased the return cycle because the drum was quite long and the preparation table had to cope with new thresh being put on,nearly its whole length
When the “66” was first introduced in 1953 it used the same bin and auger setup as the “60”. In 1954 Allis introduced the Big Bin “66” which had a 25 bu bin and the unloading auger coming off the side.
the 70 had steel thresher bars as opposed to the 60 having rubber coated bars i remember dads one. he bought an extra one for spare parts. he had a few bars lying round with the rubber peeling off. i remember how they were renowned for the sample of seed produced.
Since I have the blueprint my dad drew of the model 100 while working at Chalmers in La Porte (detailed in my recent comment), I can definitely confirm that!
SOME CHALMERS HISTORY:
My dad worked for Chalmers in La Porte, IN in the 50s before starting Miller and Sons Nursery in La Porte which went on to be well known in the county for landscaping hundreds of homes and businesses. He was a draftsman when the Model 100 Harvester was designed, and drew arguably the most complex blueprint ever drawn by hand. The drawing is an orthogonal see thru view of the Model 100 Harvester that he spent 6 months making. It shows all the internal moving parts of the harvester, all drawn to scale in a single drawing.
It was used in the patent submission by Chalmers, and the patent attorneys stated they have never seen a drawing of such complexity and that it made it easy to illustrate the patent application.
Our family has a full size copy of the blueprint and need to one day look into offering it to the Smithsonian for scanning. I am dumbfounded whenever I look at it and try and imagine how he was able to draw it on a drafting table...
We have a 60 with a bagger. Dad bought it in the 60’s. For a small farm it is perfect! We just bought a 72. Needs a lot of work, but I had to keep it from going to the scrap yard. It’s stored inside and we are planning on fixing it up.
Did You rebuild that 72 yet ?
@@maxamumdawg5494 No not yet. Too many other irons in the fire.
Great video!!!
The All-Crop sure is a versatile and well-engineered piece of agricultural equipment. I wonder if it won any design awards? I especially liked the CA pulling the 66...had no problem at all.
Yes, the two designers were given the McCormick medal for the model 60.
Good day I remember our neighbour having pull type, & saying about rubber on cylinder bars. Did you ever combine alfalfa seed? Thanks
Just watched a model 100 in barley today!😊
These are neat combines, but that side discharge is just silly. Why would someone want a self propelled combine that can only be reasonably used in one direction? If you cut with the standing crop to the right of the combine, it dumps the discharge into the next pass! Thanks of posting this video, it's very interesting to see the old advertising from days long passed.
To answer your question. Because it works very well. With a 90 degree turn, the thrashed grain and trash must stop and change direction. This produces better cleaning with much less grain loss. Independent testing of the All-Crop Harvesters proved its superior design. They had the cleanest grain samples with the lease amount of grain loss.Still to day you will not find a better combine that delivers in these two areas. As for operating direction, combine any direction you want. The All-Crop has the extra capacity to handle the trash from the previous pass. The Reality is that even with “ modern” combines most operators still go one direction. Thank for watching.
@@The1952caallis That capacity is best used on raw material instead of re threshing. Proof is in customer's preference. All crop was dropped for Gleaner.
very interesting why they did that . i dont know ,it sure would have increased the return cycle because the drum was quite long and the preparation table had to cope with new thresh being put on,nearly its whole length
I could be wrong but the pull type being called a 66 looks like a 60 to me because the unload auger is on the front of the bin.
When the “66” was first introduced in 1953 it used the same bin and auger setup as the “60”. In 1954 Allis introduced the Big Bin “66” which had a 25 bu bin and the unloading auger coming off the side.
Okay. Thank you.
I used a 90 model back in the early '80s
the 70 had steel thresher bars as opposed to the 60 having rubber coated bars i remember dads one. he bought an extra one for spare parts. he had a few bars lying round with the rubber peeling off. i remember how they were renowned for the sample of seed produced.
I don't remember a 70. I do remember a 60, 66, 72, and 90. The only difference between a 72 and 90 was the 90 had a sliding tongue.
This the only harvester I have seen with the unloading anger on the right hand side maybe the the film is back to front ?
All of the All-Crop harvesters have the head on the left and the unloading auger on the right.
Since I have the blueprint my dad drew of the model 100 while working at Chalmers in La Porte (detailed in my recent comment), I can definitely confirm that!
no its legit