The Buckeye Lowdown Reaper and Binder.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 263, 29 August 1888, Page 3

The Buckeye Lowdown Reaper and Binder.

Wb havo rccontly had the opportunity of :^ctiDg i a;specimen : .of the .latest? type 0f,,. If Buckoye harvester. This ia the ,^ne known as the-Buckeye Lowdown . • EpPer and binder, and it is on view ab IVA S- Monin and Co.'s High . street) Mses, Auckland/ We areßritish enough' P dy wten English mechanical genius .|mphsorer, that of other countries, but ; * are tho British onough to appreciate a Wag when we see % and fairiy admit : «Sii r v? ritcomea from' The/ *Jn\ni Buck°y e machines are Aulfcj^J»4Uer. and, Co., of Akron, Ohio, :fefc a a \-• '■ the sPeci^l- mechanical ■ rWdmL lmP.rovemea^adopted,in the :K I maohlQe' now under notice, : «&: W o*^--' b -V ■'New • Zea- : •mS ■•? aten- fc- °Henoticeable, characfetuwf r f men, cP' inventors and manu■'^SiS^W is: their Pfc2 te"f i ll/ 6™l^ ap- . '% Ac? t0 sPecial conditions. ' 5*E ( r plTnt?; fcbe v^tory over \ emiSi 8^4 Wo regard tho BuckS T«! of !V caper and bindei' as a marl PlSv ':f en*y and Poetical • s fM4 P£"Oln^ *actly wha" is wanted . %,iJi^ The chief ejects to 5 '^cxX 6a] harv^tcr ; are a maxi- °£ wort ™th a minimum . 10(10 the w a6h, ine toust not onl Vbe able « % "nder'certain circumI on ft" ld, bS ada Pted t0 d 0 tho ? lv,, ,;: ai:1' 0l( -™l the hill bide, and ■^(»n ,! cs,OtQqvuremonts, the Buckeye 'i V. 1' WQ can at the |.. rtaPws and binders. It is at

least 3001bs lighter than any of the elevator machines, being as easily worked with two horses as the latter are with three. It has competed in public trials, both in America and in Australia, with the best machines in the world and come out first, which is a guarantee of the quality of its work. It has been practically tested in this colony by many Southern farmers as to its adaptability foe hillsida- work, and their testimony is that- the Buckeye Lowdown can cut on as steep sidelines as any back-delivery . machine^ thus saving the labour of six or seven men binders, while its .weight is bub very little more than an ordinary reaper. lbs construction is so arranged that the weight of gearing, etc., is all on the platform side of the driving wheel,1" thus rendering it perfectly safe against the risk'of capsizing on the steepest sidelings ever cropped. • The total weight is about 9001b5., and its lightness of draught has been specially remarked upon by all who have worked it on hilly country, of which we have a great deal in New Zealand. This alone would stamp the implement as being suited to our special requirements, so long as it holds its own with other machines as to quantity and quality of work done. This Buckeye does not claim to be "all steel," but a judicious combination of steel and malleable iron, very few castings being used iii its construction. As compared with other machines it has fewer wearing parts, having in this latest pattern discarded the intermediate gearing at one time in use for working the binder. Another special feature i 3 the one platform canvas, instead of the elevator canvases. The grain is cut in the ordinary way and carried to the teddees by the platform canvas. It is then tied and delivered _in sheaves of any size to the sheaf carrier, and dumped by the driver as he finds it convenient. One of the chief improvements in the present machine, over its original of a few years ago, is a moveable binder with greatly increased width of canvas, which fits it for handling the heaviest and tallest crops. Another improvement is a higher knife speed, which has the effect of preventing choking when working in damp straw, or where the undergrowth is thick and green. Both the driving and grain wheel^are on the suspension principle patented by the proprietors. The measurement of the Lowdown is 10 feet 6 inches over all, and thus it can be taken through any ordinary gateway with perfect ease. The driver has merely to work a foot-lever to throw the machine out of gear, and that done he can drive off at once to any part of the farm or district. These are practical merits which all farmers will recognise and appreciate, and we anticipate a quick ealeof the shipment shortly to arrive in Auckland to the order of Messi's Morrin and Co. We may add that this machine has been: successfully used in the south to cut and bind cocksfoot and-ryegrass. The only machine of this type tried in this provincial district is one bought five years ago by Mr. Geo. Halley, of Cambridge, Waikato, and. he has the very highest opinion of its merits, although the improvements since effected make it a long way behind the present : pattern.— "New Zealand Farmer."