You are logged in as a guest. ( ) Your first time combining and backing up:: ->Message format Posted 8/15/2015 20:19 (#4734926) Subject: Your first time combining and backing up south western Ontario. Just wanted to start a fun thread about when you first started driving and operating combines, what age did you start and what accidents and things have you run in to? How was your first time backing up a combine? I am just starting to drive my combine i bought to harvest soybeans, It is harder to back up using mirrors but I am getting used to it and im sure it just takes some experience. I really just wanted to hear some funny stories about goof ups running the combine.

Posted 8/15/2015 20:37 (#4734965 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up streator illinois I think i was a freshman in hs. I dont have any accident storys of my own. But grandpa parked his dodge dakota near the fuel barrel to unload some things. Well i pulled up at night to fill combine the 6620 with fuel saw I couldnt with his truck there. So as I got out to move it gpa came around from other side of combine to back it up to fuel. Before I could get his truck moved he backed into it. The spreader fin on the back opened up his hood like a pop can luckily he stoped inches before it hit the windshield.

These new combines have nice mirors on them a lot bettter than the old ones. Edited by plowman 8/15/2015 20:39 Posted 8/15/2015 20:56 (#4734999 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up NCIN Started as a late teenager and it took me 'til last season at 62yrs to bend my first unloading auger. It will need replaced for this fall but got through last year with the crinkle in it. That barn has been there my whole life!! Posted 8/15/2015 20:58 (#4735002 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up N.E. North Dakota I think I was about 10 when I ran the G-4 MM. Jag Soona Soona Lage Ringtone Download. Had to get off the tractor to turn the hand crank for header lift.

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The worst thing I remember doing was wrapping the unloading auger around a pole in the yard. Had a 402 IH pulltype that you couldn't turn the auger back easily and wasn't watching that side when going between the shop and pole. Posted 8/15/2015 21:10 (#4735022 - in reply to #4735002) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up St.Clair Co. Well lets see, my first was a allis 92 pulled by a WD 45 dealer brought out a 100 allis combine but dad settled on a massey 72 because he was afraid of a tall combine in our hills, no horror stories to speak of did back the combine out of shed once and caught the right side mirror on a roof truss support and shattered it!!

Guess I've been lucky all those yrs. LOL remember a few yrs.

Ago wife and I was out for a sunday *ride' seen a guy cutting beans with a old open station JD 55 wife said wow look at that poor guy with no cab on his combine, I just looked at her and said well at least he's not combining clover with a '72' Massey she just looked at me like a what?? LOL city girl O yea I was 12 when I first combined on my own what the heck was my dad thinking??? Bob Posted 8/15/2015 21:21 (#4735045 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up thumb of mi I've been the main combine guy a while now so no excuse here. Last year when finishing wheat we had to clean out the combines for seed. Part of the field had already been done before. I blew out the machine and the other wasn't done yet.

All trucks and cart ended up in a close bunch and I didn't want to fire up where everybody was and dust them out. So I started backing up I was paying attention but missed the new 9410r there and I hit the tire blowing it out. I was happy I didn't hit the hood or something hard to fix but I was seriously ped off at my self. Didn't hurt the combine and cost me 3700 for a new tire.

Not a fun story tho. Better to not back up if possible Edited by sf 1066 8/15/2015 21:26 Posted 8/15/2015 21:37 (#4735070 - in reply to #4735045) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up NW Saskatchewan Been on my own as chief combine operator since age of 12 when my grandpa had to go away for a few days for divorce court. Kinda got stuffed into the spot but got me out of high school for a couple weeks every fall till I graduated.been chief operator since and,my dad still trucks the grain at age 74! Started on MF 510 then a 510 western special then a 850.new Hollands ever since. Posted 8/15/2015 21:32 (#4735059 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Windom, MN Drove an S680 last fall with a backup camera.

It was nice, but then after a few hours it got dusty and hard to see. Been driving combine for awhile, and never hit anything until last year. Caught the 1020 bean head on the side of the shed and bent the divider almost at a 90 degree angle. Of course it was a Sunday, so I got a BFH, took it off, and pounded it as straight as I could get it. Finished the season that day, but now had a shop put some new metal in it and it's good as it was. Posted 8/16/2015 05:48 (#4735347 - in reply to #4735059) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up.

Johns_79 - 8/15/2015 22:32 Drove an S680 last fall with a backup camera. It was nice, but then after a few hours it got dusty and hard to see. Been driving combine for awhile, and never hit anything until last year. Caught the 1020 bean head on the side of the shed and bent the divider almost at a 90 degree angle. Of course it was a Sunday, so I got a BFH, took it off, and pounded it as straight as I could get it. Finished the season that day, but now had a shop put some new metal in it and it's good as it was. 12 volt windshield washer pump spray it on the back up camera or 12 volt air pump and blow the air at the lens Posted 8/15/2015 21:48 (#4735085 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Northeast Kansas We had a john deere 95 combine, my dad parked the grain truck in a goofy spot, not by the roadside, and my brother backed into it.

Then we got a 6620, doing corn the hydraulic system would overheat, and even melted off sight glass on the tank. We finally figured out that we didn't connect the header reel lines. That same field, I rammed the end snout into a fence post, then my brother did same thing hours later. Posted 8/15/2015 21:52 (#4735095 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up waaaay east central Colorado The first time I drove combine by myself I was 2. Dad had a Massey 860, and I had been riding on the shelf behind the operator seat watching him work the hydrostat.

He had to stop for something, I think maybe to kick some tumbleweeds out of the corn rows, and he left the engine running. I'd like to think that I was attempting to help, I mean, you can't pick corn with the combine just sitting, right? I hopped down into the seat and pushed the hydrostat forward and away we went. I don't know if the machine was engaged or not (in fact, I don't remember anything other than the stories told about this event, I think my young mind blocked it out ).

This corn was flood irrrigated, so it had been furrowed out to facilitate the watering. For all you guys who've never experienced the joy of furrow irrigation, the field is NOT level by any means, and is difficult to traverse. Somehow or other, I didn't hit my dad, but I was near to a collision course with his precious tandem truck. It got missed (but the nearness of the miss is still debated ), and dad got me tracked down, sat down, and smacked down.

That experience didn't stop me, though. We were always shorthanded (no different from anyone else ), so dad saw in me an experienced operator when I was six or seven maybe. At that time, the only equipment that I could run was the combine, as I didn't have to push any pedals to operate it. I was operating by myself by eight for sure, and opening fields and moving between fields by ten.

We are big, dumb, open country here, though. If we lived in a more crowded area, I don't think that timeline would have stood: ) One of the best things that ever happened to me was getting pushed into doing jobs that I could do (need to italicize the 'could' there ). It made me the person that I am today, and I'm grateful for it. I am trying to pass that on and had my 13 yo daughter running combine by herself and my 12 yo daughter running grain cart by herself this year. They both did very good and were big helps, no major, or even minor, mess ups that were their fault.

Posted 8/15/2015 21:57 (#4735104 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up central Illinois 13yrs old and was told to combine one bin full of oats but not to unload it. My dad had told me he would unload the oats when he got home from the 4H fair. I didn't wait but I did hit the unloading auger on the grain bin. 46yrs later no more combine accidents but never forgot that day. Posted 8/15/2015 22:03 (#4735119 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up NE SD Not a huge fan of backing up a combine, just has a weird feel to it. First time was backing it out of a shed where it was parked next to the wall so you had to wiggle your way out to get to the center of the door.

Everything stayed intact somehow lol. I'm content being grain cart guy and let my cousin run the combine for the most part. I'm apparently the only person who knows how much goes on the front and back of each semi.

When somebody else does it, they get terribly overloaded. I just find it easier to keep track of numbers myself. How many pounds are going in the bins, how full they're getting without crawling up and looking, what's going to town, what contracts are filled, which ones we're skipping temporarily because cash price went higher. Essentially it saves the headache of figuring out the messes of numbers everybody else jots down from who knows what field.

Agree with an earlier post, I was also pushed into jobs I 'could' do, and I think that's the way to do it. Tell somebody how to do it a couple times, show them, and turn them loose at let them figure it out for themselves without them feeling like they're being watched for every 'learning process'. Of course start with something easy like driving a truck or regular tillage without the pressure of planting without knowing what to do right off the bat.

Get a feel for machines and move up. Posted 8/15/2015 22:03 (#4735120 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up ND First time running a combine was when I was 11.

Never had an accident with one, especially at that age. My mother was famous for hitting the auger on the truck box and I knew all too well how irate my dad got when it happened.

I made sure it never did. However dad never had a combine that my mother didn't ding up the auger or worse. Even the 7700 they had when they retired had significant dents from her hitting the semi. Posted 8/15/2015 22:09 (#4735128 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up lizton IN My first was a TR75. I have had to help fix unloading augers before so I haven't hit one yet. Now that i have said that i will hit one this year. Windows Xp Service Pack 3 Build 5512 Final Download Free.

My CR 970 if you hold the button to long the auger would automatically come around to the unloading position. Some how I hit that button when I was opening up a field. I looked over and saw it about 10' from a tree. I did hit a fence with the chopper and made a bigger gate. Doesn't pay to open a field up after dark. So far no major hits. Dad now that is a different story.

Keith Posted 8/15/2015 22:17 (#4735147 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Columbia Basin, Moses Lake, WA I combined an entire circle the first time at age 10 with a 7720. I don't remember any combine mishaps. Most of my mishaps were in a tractor before age 10, and now I barely get to run tractor or combine enough to break anything. The first day we tried our one hired man in the combine he backed into the front of the grain cart tractor. He hasn't run a harvester since, partly because of that and partly because he lost his entire right thumb in an accident a year after the combine backing incident. Posted 8/15/2015 22:30 (#4735170 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND These stories remind me of pictures I found on the internet years ago.

On the way to the big city for shopping, there is one field along the highway with two near identical older NH combines 1500 style or a little newer, parked along the field edge next to the trees. Both have the rear ends smashed beyond any hope of use, within 100 ft of each other. Been there atleast a year. Really wonder what the story is with them? Edited by Jon Hagen 8/15/2015 22:40.

(JD Oops 2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- (109KB - 84 downloads) (92KB - 93 downloads) Posted 8/15/2015 22:51 (#4735205 - in reply to #4735170) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND We had an old White 8800 with the manual fold unload auger. Had that thing stuck out there like a sore thumb as we headed for the wheat field in perfect harvest weather. Drove too close to a power pole as we entered the field and took out the unload auger.

Ran it back home. Most of the damage was many broken bolts and rivits where the auger attaches to the grain tank, plus some bent sheetmetal. We worked on it most of the day and finally got it back in working condition late in the afternoon and headed back to the field. Got back to the field in hopes of doing a little harvest yet that day, never happened, as he entered the field, brother drove too close to the Hesston 60A stacker parked there to pick up bedding straw, yep, took out the auger again.

Never harvested a bushel of wheat that day or most of the next.: ( Posted 8/15/2015 23:45 (#4735261 - in reply to #4735170) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Sunburst Montana Not a combine but my uncle did that to his pickup with our air drill. Tow between cart is why it happened.

Posted 8/15/2015 23:33 (#4735249 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up NM How about backing a windrower the first time. Posted 8/16/2015 00:08 (#4735282 - in reply to #4735249) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Columbia Basin, Moses Lake, WA.

Krantz - 8/15/2015 21:33 How about backing a windrower the first time. Some of those stories should be good enough the topic should have its own thread. Posted 8/16/2015 00:01 (#4735279 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Frytown, Iowa I can't remember when I first 'drove' a combine but I have been operating and opening up fields for 3 years now. Last year I was doing custom for a neighbor with cattle (think fence posts all around ). I thought I could turn in on 18 rows. Bent up the rear spreader on a 9570 with electric cylinder fold and a $1000 later looking to sell the electric cylinder to return my parents machine back to 'perfect'.

The electro cylinder still works but it's not what they had previously so there goes half my labor from harvest. I know I won't do that ever again Posted 8/16/2015 00:40 (#4735299 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Washington Co Ks The first combine that I operated was an AC 66 pull type. A couple of things that happened over the years. One I was opening a field for a neighbor with a Massy 300. I was cutting milo that had gone down pretty bad. The neighbor had Heston Heads on his combine so he would knock down the milo that was planted between the rows on the turn rows so I would cut the turn rows and he did the rest. I was cutting the inside turn rows and he was following me cutting the outside rows with his Gleaner.

As I came to a tree that hung over the field I stepped out of the cab to crank the unloading auger in. My neighbor watched me do that and came along and hit the tree with his auger. Another thing that happened to my dad was when he was cutting milo with a Massy 82. We had moved to a new field and had folded the auger down. On an 82 the auger was engaged by tightening a belt under the operators platform.

It was muddy and mud got into the pulley and tightened the belt enough to start the auger stub with the top part folded down. When I got there he was coming up the field with milo just spewing out on the ground. After that we always folded the auger up before cutting. Posted 8/16/2015 00:47 (#4735302 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up East Prairie, MO I started when I was 11, my grandpa bought a brand new 1640 in 1989 and I started running it right away. We had Massey 550's before that and the last one gave tons of trouble so I'm sure he didn't want to cut me loose on that knowing I might not catch a problem quick enough. Backing was never a problem so don't have any good backing stories, worst thing I can remember from the first few years worth of combine driving was turning a snout under on the corn head and letting it jam in the ground so much I filled the head all the way into the throat with dirt before I got stopped. I haven't had too many combine incidents.years later I bought a 2166 and my grandpa was driving it down the road talking on the two way, holding the mic in his hand he grabbed the hydro handle and the mic folded the auger out, it hit a power pole going wide open down the road.it was a mess.

Posted 8/16/2015 06:29 (#4735360 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Oxford County, ON I always enjoyed being the buggy man, rode and drove the combine enough that I could handle it, then in '02 we got an 8820 to go with the 7720. That fall all the corn went flat, and I mean it was like lawn roller flat. It was taller after you combined it than before. Dad and I ran those two machines for days at 1-1.5mph; east-west rows we had to go one way only, and we still wrecked some snouts. When it was all over my dad took an old toy, broke a snout off, and mounted it on a plaque with the caption 'Order of the Broken Snout- For putting up with your old man.'

One thing we did learn- corn slides up plastic a little better, but you can weld steel back together! Posted 8/16/2015 06:47 (#4735372 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up NW Ohio I started in '76' with a 510 Massey w/ hydrostat shelling corn, I would have been in 6th grade, so 11 yrs old. Shortly after in '79' we got a MF 750 gray cab, and Dad said if I was going to run the combine, I had to grease and service it as well, and thats when it really took off for me. My 2 backing experiences are when we got out 7720II, it was late at night and shelling corn and I backed into a wagon lightly and just enough that it pushed the tailboard of chopper in just enough for the chopper rotor to hit and make noise, but that pulled back out easy, I think I had to replace a couple of vanes is all. The 2nd time was I was backing the 7720 in the shop after working on it outside and I was crawling it in and taking my time, like snails pace, but anyhow I was about all the way in and I heard this tremendous loud CRASH!, 1st thought was I tipped over my large pedestal fan, then it hit me ' THAT WAS MY SNAP ON 65th ANNIVERSARY TOOL BOX!!!!! ', I dont think I touched a step on the way down from the ladder. Yep thats what it was, tools, sockets, wrenches, everywhere on the floor along with a wracked box.

I was just sick. Insurance helped ( but was trying hard to screw me ), I spent a little more and got my present day bigger box, bought the old one back and have it in decent shape, but it aint the same or work the same, it got twisted and racked pretty good. Posted 8/16/2015 07:29 (#4735414 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up So Illinois Number 1 rule I try to live by.never back up. Pulling away from a truck it takes a whole 15 seconds more to pull away and turn.

Not worth the chance in backing into that vehicle that just pulled up behind you that you didn't see or maybe your memory of exactly where everything is has a couple lapses in it. Posted 8/16/2015 07:53 (#4735448 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up I think I was about 9. It was a JD round back 95 cutting wheat. Dad would fill the truck, then take it to the bin.

I would run the combine to fill a Grain-O-Vator and the combine bin, then he would top off the truck and go again. The next year I ran the grain cart, pulled by a JD 60. I have pictures, which I will post when I get a chance.

Jeffery - 8/16/2015 18:31 Wish these new combines still had the lever to the left to move the unload, I hate the button, its either all or nothing, very little control by comparison. You wouldn't think that if one day you had been cruising down I-90 in a 7720 and your cousin who was riding along shifted his weight on the edge of the seat and swung the unloading auger out into the path of fast moving traffic coming up behind you. Posted 8/16/2015 21:45 (#4736904 - in reply to #4736818) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up St.

Joseph, Champaign County, IL When dad and a neighbor farmed together, they used the neighbor's 7720. Dad was running it one time, and the landlord was riding with him. Next thing dad knew, the oil temperature alarm was going off. The guy riding was sitting on the lever enough to somewhat engage it, and causing the oil to overheat. Posted 8/16/2015 21:39 (#4736889 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up Wallis, TX We didn't have a combine but I was forced into driving a cotton picker at 10. Dad got sick and when he got out the hospital he couldn't crawl up on the picker. So, he sat on the end in a lawn chair and checked on the machine every round until I got the hang of it.

Didn't put my first dent in one until several years later, that was caused by the machine sinking and leaning into the module builder. Bought my first combine when I was 16, put my first oops in one about 30 years later after I lost partial sight in one eye and lost my depth perception. My son claims there wasn't a road sign left within a mile of the barn by the end of season. Posted 8/16/2015 21:55 (#4736934 - in reply to #4734926) Subject: RE: Your first time combining and backing up St. Joseph, Champaign County, IL Don't truly remember when I started running one by myself, but was probably around 10, running a 6600 in corn.

Before that, I remember one time when I was riding in the cab of the 45, dad wanted to check on the machine so he put me in front of the wheel, and stepped out of the cab and off the machine. I was probably 6-7 at the time. He got back on before it was time to turn around at the end of the pass. We were cutting beans at the time. Just about took the auger completely off one of the 6600s once, on a high line pole. As soon as the combine made that hard left turn, I knew what I'd done.

Was sick to my stomach. I continued to run that day, though. Went and got a tarp, auger, and tractor.

Set the end of the auger in a hole, on top of the tarp. Pulled the combine up in the right spot, and just ran the beans out the side of the machine. Wasn't the most efficient, with having to get out and start the tractor and auger each time, but was better then setting still with that combine.