[Farmall] binder and thresher values

[kkinney at herculesengines.com]

John
Where are they located?
Keith


On Apr 11, 2013, at 8:15 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:

> Have any of you been paying attention to what grain binders and threshers are selling for? We are considering selling ours. Both are hard to find a buyer for. We’ve got an antique club interested in the pair. I know value is determined a lot by your location, I would say both sell for a lot more in the midwest where threshing bee’s are more common.
> 
> The binder is a 7ft. IH model. We cut 2 wagon loads a year for 16 years until 2 of the canvases got heavily damaged when a slat broke. It has not been used in a couple years but has been sheltered ever since we got it running. On more than one occasion I checked it and it was tying 30-33 bundles per minute without missing.
> 
> The thresher is an IH, early 50’s model made in Canada. It has always been shed kept. The blower was removed and replaced with a conveyor from an older model when it was new. It has a grain weigher and both the wagon spout and the “Y” for sacking the grain. It was only used for about 10 years before it was replaced with a combine. I can’t remember the size but it has been successfully pulled with a DC Case, Titan 10-20, Case 12-20, McCormick 10-20, and a Gibson (not the little ones but the one with a 6 cylinder engine). The last time we ran it we were letting the bundles lap on the feeder and it ran fine.
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> If anyone has seen any sale results or asking prices I’d love to know what they are. We don’t have to sell them, but could use the shed space, and I’m not willing to spend a fortune on canvas repair just for us to play with them here. Don’t you just hate it when you get a phone call where someone wants to give you money for one of your playtoys?
> 
> John Hall
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