[AT] IH Grain Binder

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

We used to pick corn for squirrel food to sell at a local lawn and garden 
store. We sold it for 4 times what it would go for shelled. Then Lowes and 
Home Depot started selling it. It is much poorer quality and sold for more 
than the store I sold it to got for it. That didn't matter since folks 
migrated to the larger stores thinking they could get better deals. Finally 
our market dried up. It was good while it lasted. At least we had a lot of 
fun running my Dearborn picker. It was about 99% covered in rust and looked 
like a pile of junk. Man would that thing pick corn! Dad swears he has never 
used or seen another that would do as good as it. It's definitely an odd 
machine for our area--most of the pickers were New Idea or either the usual 
green or red brands.

John


----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 11:19 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] IH Grain Binder

I went in a store a few years ago that had paper board cartons just like the
old Pepsi or Coke cartons (you know the kind that folded flat and
folded out to hold six bottles) except they had a fancy logo on the with
pictures of squirrels or something.  Each of the six holes that should
have held a bottle of Pepsi instead held an ear of corn.   I think they were
getting 6 or 8 bucks for that piece of paper board and 6 ears of corn.
It's amazing what folks will pay for decorations or to feed wild animals and
then complain about the price of food.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:05 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] IH Grain Binder

I have a cousin that would bind bundles of Silver Queen and sell to pumpkin
patches. He did it for a few years and made some pretty good pocket change.
I tried it but never could get the knotter on our binder to work correctly
so I just gave up.

John