Combine header

[Hopalong]

Working past abandoned farmstead this afternoon, stopped to look at remains of an old combine in the bush. Letters on side are still visible, McCormick Deering Number 11. It was a pull type, likely made in 1920's.
Made me wonder what caused equipment makers to put combine headers on right side of machine rather than on left as had been done with binders. Made it necessary to go around fields clockwise rather than counter clockwise as binders did.
Plows, oneways and diskers were also made to go counter clockwise if you wanted to fill furrow from previous round. As Archie Bunker used to say, those were the days.

[fjlip]

Deere 12A was also on the left side...

[Partners]

Good question.who was the first to turn direction?

[biglentil]

She all ends up in a museum or junk heap sooner or later. Sad but true. Gotta wonder if our ag tech will seem barbaric in 50 years. Hard to imagine equipment getting much better.

[redleaf]

Road travel might have been a good reason to change configuration.

[furrowtickler]

Yup red leaf , you got it lol

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Well, it seems that I've finally caught up with technology a half century or more later. Just last year I modified our home made V/Parallel rake to pull off to the right instead of the left. It tracks much better when turning two swaths at once this way, and easier to go on the road. But after years of driving down the right swath, I still forget and pull onto the wrong swath quite regularly.

Have an AC rollbelt baler here, it pulls to the left.

[WiltonRanch]

Wonder if binders were left sided because of the natural tendency for horses to turn left easier than right.