First harvest in 50 years! 90 Year old combine lives again!

[Music] good morning ladies and gentlemen this is the day we've all well some of you have been looking forward to uh i finally got the sunshine back together last video i think the header was still off uh lots has been done since then i didn't have time to film it i've been so busy here she is i did a test pass already uh last week uh it's been such a crazy time i i got married and had a million things to do and you know the five hours i could spare here and there i would come and work and i just didn't have the time but here's kind of the setup my dad made a nice intake elbow for this i got a intake pipe and the exhaust you know of that all went great um i added a water temperature sensor because i want these things i don't want it to overheat so i'd like to know what the temperature is magneto's back on carburetor is back on the fuel tank i had to clean as you can see it's still pretty gross in there but i've got a filter if the tank was pristine i wouldn't run a filter but because there is a little strainer filter inside here but um i figured i don't want to mess with the car but mess with it so much i'd rather just have a filter uh greased everything fixed a couple little things here and there on the unit itself but there really wasn't a whole lot on the combine itself unfortunately i lost the fuel cap which is i'm still beating myself up every day over i don't know where it went i when i cleaned the tank i had transported a couple different ways in my truck and to a shop and it sat outside and i don't know if somebody stole the cap or what happened to it but it was quite a priceless cap it was a brass cap that said sunshine on it and i can't believe it's gone but i'm hoping fingers crossed it'll turn up sooner than later um radiator leaks pretty bad i'm not going to fix it it's already been fixed so many times maybe i'll save up a bit and see if i can get it repaired properly but it's not that bad of a leak there's just a couple pin holes that drip water so you just got to top it off once in a while um you can see what i've done so far decent amount of grain just for one pass around and we got a whole field to do um what else can i say lubricated everything i think i said that it seemed to work pretty good engine wasn't lugging it ran really good no chain slipping um yeah i don't know what to say there's a temp gauge kind of put it beside the original oil gauge that worked out nice yeah i've got an umbrella on there now that's what i forgot to say a nice little umbrella so yeah so that's that and um we'll get some clips of it harvesting today see you soon [Music] then [Music] do [Music] don't [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] now [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] you

Channel: Little Farm On The Prairies

Views: 78,024

Keywords: combine, harvester, harvest, oats, barley, wheat, antique, vintage, sunshine, waterloo, sunshine waterloo, first, first start, first harvest, cold start

Id: e_mP65i-OLE

Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 30 2021