Really enjoy the pictures all of you have been posting.Down here in Cal. I have the same slopes but different trees and poorer crops.My how time has gone by,ran a 95H from 86 until about 92 I think.Then moved on to 78 Gleaner MH2 I had run for a neighbor from 79 until I brought the 95H. After running a harvester with the hydrostatic going back to a clutch and variable speed was hard.But still good to think about the good old days,thanks again.
Ray

Hi North Idaho Farmer. If i remember rightly the J Deere 95 was superseeded by the 105 which had slightly higher capacity after 1993 with a slightly larger diameter auger which caused les wrapping especially in rice . am i correct Atlas,

North Idaho Farmer: Yes yoru right about the number of 7722's for sale, I subscribe to a smalll paper out of Colfax where they advertize a lot of these machines. There were 4 - 7722 recently traded in at Colfax. Some one is upgrading. Interesting comment you made about the elevator on your 1980 machine being an overshot, I would like to see a picture of that sometime.
Atlas, if memory seves me well here the 105 was not a replacement for the 95 just a little bigger machine at the time, the eventual replacement for these machines were the 6600, and 7700 machines, the 6602 being the direct repalcement for the 95H or a hiilside version of the 6600. The 105 was a level land machine, and never produced as a hillside. It was a good threashing machine. Not sure about the header auger, that may have been a rice machine special. Deere never reallly address the platform auger issue until they came out with the 200 series platforms with the 24" auger. They also quit trying to drive everything from the left end of the header with the 200 series which gave it better balance.

"Ray54" wrote:

Really enjoy the pictures all of you have been posting.Down here in Cal. I have the same slopes but different trees and poorer crops.My how time has gone by,ran a 95H from 86 until about 92 I think.Then moved on to 78 Gleaner MH2 I had run for a neighbor from 79 until I brought the 95H. After running a harvester with the hydrostatic going back to a clutch and variable speed was hard.But still good to think about the good old days,thanks again.
Ray

A couple of things. Back in the thread a ways, Tanker asked:
"Was wondering how thirsty the high winders were- my 2U uses 3 gal / hr on 40 ft finishing disc & 3 1/2 / hr on 30 ft dbl offset disc[ that's the old heavy fuel] w/ the new crap -it doesn't seem to like- it takes a good 4 on the offset-Are all the 2U's used up out there or don't you guys like em for some reason??- I know they were used in MT & WY- as some wheat run guys commented bout that.."

Never saw any D8's farming around here. Closest thing to a 2U that I ever came across was this Bad Boy that worked just north of Wasco, Oregon.
A classy D7SA that was pretty well tricked out:





OK, so Ray, I see you are from Paso Robles. One of my favorite Cat books
is "Caterpillar Great American Legend" (Photography by Henry Rasmussen)
published in 1986. In that book are two ag D8's from the Paso Robles area.
The text says east of Paso Robles ( pictures on pages 66,67,68 &69) Do you
have any knowledge of these two great looking machines??? The background
in the pictures looks an awfully lot like...........here.
Also, did your MH2 look anything like this;

Bruce- no rush on getting those pics, it would be nice if you could get some snaps of it in action this spring though. We have had logs go to the new Bennett mill in grangeville, they just built it about five years ago and they say it is the most efficient lumber mill in the state now. Most of the good logs go to konkolville mill only 15 miles away and some of the low quality logs have to go to the pulp mill in Lewiston.

Ray- know what you mean about running the hydrostatic machines, never could have imagined how nice they were until trying them. Not many gleaners around here but the MH2 was the most popular of the few silver seeders there were. One neighbor ran a 77 and a 79 up until 5 years ago or so when one burned up on him. He still has his son or a hired man run his other MH2 while he drives his 86 gleaner R60.

Atlas- woody answered you as good as I could, I know nothing about the 105, never have even seen one.

Woody- I get the same publication you do I assume, I was also at arrow machinery a few times recently dealing for some 222 headers. We would like to have 4 of them one wheat and one pea header for each machine. We ended up hauling home two junky headers, one with a good bottom and one with a good auger and a new set of reel bats to make one good header. I think there were five 7722s on the lot there, along with four at the Caseih dealer in colfax where we looked at a bigger harrow cart. I will take some pics to show you the different elevator on the 80' combine.

98J- thanks for adding your pics, wonder what kind of equipment the D7 was used for, must have been one pulling son of a gun.

The JD 105........a 95 on steroids. Goes back a ways....not a follow on to the 95
really, it was built during the same era as the 95 & the 95-H. Went away in the
early 70's with the advent of the 6600 series. Never saw one in the flesh, but I
do happen to have (imagine that ) a picture of one down in Texas that I downloaded from the net a few years back:



This is a really well preserved unit. The 105 was never offered as a Hillside machine.

"98J- thanks for adding your pics, wonder what kind of equipment the D7 was used for, must have been one pulling son of a gun." NIF

Yeah, I would love to get my hands on this Bad Boy. It worked on a place just north of Wasco, Oregon for years......came up from California originally ( at least
the dealer stickers said so) All trash around Wasco, so I am sure it had a Big
Ass chisel & disk behind it, as well as a monster set of rods. Traded off on a Quad Trac. Check out the extended fuel tank........and just a few lights too!
You are right......a pullin' son of gun....still at work some where.

Thats a good looking D7. By the looks of that diesel tank what ever it pulled must have pulled hard enough to burn more than the stock tank held in one day, or they only filled it once a week.
Bruce

That big fuel tank would be nice even on a D6C.

[QUOTE=North Idaho Farmer;: Hehehe could hook onto the neighbors eleven bottom IH plow and see if that would do it.[/QUOTE]

Don't think so -- my 20 pulled 5-16's all its life--better look for something bigger-