It’s harvesttime, so who wouldn’t want to see photos of combines, corn pickers and shellers going back about 100 years?
This past summer, Nebraska Farmer asked its readers to share photos of those vintage old machines operating in the field or parked permanently in a grove of trees.
Readers responded by submitting more than 100 photos from around the country, with many of the combines and pickers portrayed in this slideshow still running in the field.
Some were rescued from a sure scrap-iron pile, while others were preserved over the years and brought out of retirement every now and then to harvest a few acres.
Many of the photos are blurry and old, but they all depict harvest memories of years past. Plus, they are reminders that innovations considered old or antique today were once the latest and greatest on the market for farmers.
There is a John Thomas’ Massey Harris SP35, looking good and ready to roll in Ohio. Jim Lampmann sent a photo from 1978, harvesting pinto beans in Perkins County west of Grant, Neb. And Marcia Johnson sent a photo of her husband Keith, standing proud in front of his IHC 915 on their farm north of Fremont, Neb.
Over the course of the next several months,...