Mini Stripper Combine Built In Kansas Shop

Mini Stripper Combine Built In Kansas Shop COMBINES Miscellaneous 25-2-21 Jared Barker runs a self-supporting religious mission in the Phillipines that raises its own crops for income. The mission is in an area where rice can be grown continuously throughout the year. After harvesting crops by hand for years, Barker finally decided the mission farm needed a way to harvest rice by machine. And he knew just who to call û Red Decker, who runs a machine shop thousands of miles away in Galva, Kan. Decker had been supporting Barker's mission work for over 40 years so he was familiar with the operation. When Barker told him what he wanted, Decker set to work building a mini harvester that would do a quality job. Decker found nearly everything he needed in his junk pile, except for the stripper header. Barker had seen a stripper operating on a Kansas farm and thought it would be a good solution to his situation. The men ordered a custom-built 8-ft. header from the manufacturer, Shelbourne Reynolds in England. The stripper harvests grain "dirty" by pulling the heads off the stalks, and then you run it through a thresher-cleaner back at the farm. The base of the combine is an articulated, 4-WD Case ditcher while the grain tank came off an old Baldwin combine. The 80-year-old Decker doesn't know how many hours he put into the project but it was shipped to the Phillipines after a few months of work. Now a job that used to take weeks can be accomplished in hours, freeing workers up for other tasks. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jared Barker, Box 7982, Karonadal, South Cotabato 9506 Phillipines.

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