[Farmall] binder and thresher values

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

central North Carolina.

-----Original Message----- 
From: kkinney at herculesengines.com
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:43 PM
To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
Subject: Re: [Farmall] binder and thresher values

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.
>
> 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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