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Combine Of The Day: May 21, 2018; Matchbox '77 Massey Ferguson Combine Harvester
Topic Started: May 21 2018, 02:25 AM (133 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car of the day comes from corvairjim's collection, and is Matchbox's 1977 Massey Ferguson Combine Harvester.


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The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate harvesting operations - reaping, threshing, and winnowing - into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers and canola. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and plowed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labor saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture.



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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Combine Harvester


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This Matchbox model is an unlicensed combine harvester. After asking around, the brand Massey Harris (turned Massey Ferguson in 1958) was mentioned as a close match, especially in this color scheme. So take the model identification with a grain of salt, but the "combine harvester" identification is spot-on. :D


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The cut crop is carried up the feeder throat (commonly called the "feederhouse") by a chain and flight elevator, then fed into the threshing mechanism of the combine, consisting of a rotating threshing drum (commonly called the "cylinder"), to which grooved steel bars (rasp bars) are bolted. The rasp bars thresh or separate the grains and chaff from the straw through the action of the cylinder against the concave, a shaped "half drum", also fitted with steel bars and a meshed grill, through which grain, chaff and smaller debris may fall, whereas the straw, being too long, is carried through onto the straw walkers. This action is also allowed because grain is heavier than straw, which causes it to fall rather than "float" across from the cylinder/concave to the walkers. The drum speed is variably adjustable on most machines, whilst the distance between the drum and concave is finely adjustable fore, aft and together, to achieve optimum separation and output. Manually engaged disawning plates are usually fitted to the concave. These provide extra friction to remove the awns from barley crops. After the primary separation at the cylinder, the clean grain falls through the concave and to the shoe, which contains the chaffer and sieves. The shoe is common to both conventional combines and rotary combines.



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atombaum
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I have the Superfast version. :thumbup:
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tksjohn
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Well, it's still a COTD :thumbup:
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Pegers
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not my cup of tea at all.
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It's a classic Matchbox
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cody6268
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Ah, that's what it is. It was always a simple generic to me.


I have its older brother, the Claas. Kinda weird that it was red and yellow, but the King Size version was the proper green and red. This on the other hand, is the right colors, other than the fact that the yellow parts are red on the real one.


I know this model lasted into the early '00s. Other than the Pony Trailer that was recently reintroduced, what is the longest lasting Regular Wheel model?
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pjedsel
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Combine of the Day...I can easily relate to that as they are very common in my area. Even been known to find one parked on Main St. at the metal fabrication shop we have in town. This one is probably more generic than Massey but a nice little piece with lots of play value for young farmers - moving reel and grain spout. Where I lived in eastern Washington, Massey's were a common choice in the '50's and '60's and then Gleaner's (Allis Chalmers) tended to claim the bulk of the market.

Here are two of mine - at one time I also had the yellow, green and blue versions but sent them to other farms. :farmer:
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And the original regular wheel Combine :farmer:
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And one of my favorites - the Major Pack Massey :farmer:
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Dean-o-mite
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Nice collection John!
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Dean-o-mite
May 21 2018, 09:28 PM
Nice collection John!
I'll say! I never knew there were so many different Matchbox combines out there. I had one as a kid, but didn't realize it was a completely different casting from my "new" one. With the basic description on the base plate instead of a manufacturer, I assumed that it was a generic model, but now I know that it approximates a Massey Ferguson. I like to learn something new every day - I just learned something.
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