My dad had two 105 combines in the '70s and we took off 2,000 acres a year with those two combines. Occasionally we would rent a third combine for the wheat harvest
I had forgotten just how wonderful my old 95 was! LOL. It did do a good threshing job and I paid $7800 for it with 2 heads in 1974 when corn went over $3!!
I had a 55 Rice combine. It was the first combine I owned . It was a tough machine , I farmed some of the blackest "Gumbo" in East Arkansas. The combine gave me good service. When it burned I bought a 410 Massey Ferguson to replace it , I wish I had bought a John Deere. I'm still farming and I still own John Deeres.
Looked like Grandpa couldn't give up the draft horses, even in the 60's but the kids still got a ride. Nice job, Thanks for posting, even though it's not your ag color. You sure make us green guys happy!
Glad you enjoyed! I don't mind some Deere stuff. I'd like to find a tubular elevator with the paddle chain, a 43 corn sheller & a hay cuber. The 1010 crawler would be neat to have & a 2010 diesel, even though they're junk. Oh.... I always got a kick out of the patio series of lawnmowers. The different colors are nice & they were built about an hour away from me in Horicon. Otherwise, yep, bring on the red stuff! 😁
@@ikonseesmrno7300 Your response has bothered me since I read it yesterday. The only 2 JD items i can agree with is the #43 Sheller and the 1010 crawler. I had a #43 sheller and we used it for a couple years until I just ground the whole cob and the chickens never hesitated to eat and scratch out the cob. The 2010 gas was ok, Dad's was a utility model that had been a loader tractor for only 4 years before he bought it. Transmission was still an issue. The 2010 Diesel seems to be one of JD's big failures. An auger would be more efficient and the Patios are cute but now pricy because they seem to be collectable. Hay cuber, never seen one but cube boxes seem popular in range land.
@@kswaynes7569 The diesel 2010 I'd get just for the sake of having one. I've read enough on the forum about how big of a pain they are. Are the Patios getting that expensive? Seems like years ago a fella couldn't give them away, because they're the wrong color. The tube elevator with the paddles is just cool. Not sure if I'd put it to use outside of a show setting. The hay cuber is the same deal. It wouldn't work around here, as you have to have such low humidity, you can throw a match through the air & ignite it.
@@ikonseesmrno7300 With the value of the dollar the way it is (think real estate and old tractors) everything is expensive for just "collecting". I know all about humidity, trying to bale hay 1/2 mile West of Lake Huron, just like the Lake Michigan effect on you. I was shocked to see big square balers running at 6:30AM in Kansas baling 3rd cut alfalfa, early in our move there. Had to have some humidity to keep the leaves in the bale.
So proud of the engine being up amd behind where it belongs and the morons go amd put it beside you half under the grain tank for the next 60 years again after....
Yeah that's just crazy ain't it?? Dunno why they took a good design and munged it all up hanging the engine off one side and the cab off the other. REALLY stupid! But IH had their share of stupidity as well over the years... At least they got it right and stayed that way after they started building the rotaries. I still prefer a conventional combine myself however. Our Claas was done right... cab in the middle up front, grain tank behind it, and engine behind that. Later! OL J R :)
Honestly even though I haven't had a chance to run one I think I like Oliver's design the best. They put the engine in between the cab and grain tank where you had a bit of room to work on it
Definitely... but I'd prefer a 105... last time I talked to one of their guys, they could still get parts for them all the way back to the 45's... Better than you'll do with anyone else! OL J R :)
@@ikonseesmrno7300 Yep, CIH turned me into a Deere guy. We ran IH cotton pickers since the 50's... first one rows, then double rows. They were hands down better machines than the Deere pickers back in the 50's and 60's, and even into the early 70's... but then Deere caught up and they were pretty much even. IH was pretty decent about parts in the old days, though they were higher than Ford, which is why Dad and Grandpa's new tractors were pretty much Fords, and we had a lot of Ford equipment (usually built by Dearborn or Kelley) on the farm... but of course Ford got a LOT of different machinery to fill out their line from other manufacturers, usually painted blue and given a Ford model number. For instance, we're still running the Ford 552 round baler Grandpa bought new in '81; we had one of the first round balers in the area back then. It's a Gehl "1400" model painted blue with Ford stickers on it. I have to get parts from Gehl (what parts I can still get). Dad and Grandpa bought a Ford 640 combine as well... it's a Claas "Senator" painted blue. D@mn good machine, too. Them Germans know how to engineer stuff! Anyway, we ran IH combines all those years, and then CASE IH basically gave their customers the middle finger and quit providing parts support... simply froze us out. We managed for years scrounging the neighbors junk machines sitting in the fencerows and stuff, but eventually that all gets picked over and then when you can't get parts, you got scrap iron... We ran a 214A cotton picker til the early 90's until it died and no parts were available... course it quit just as harvest was starting one year, and in desperation I went to the IH dealer... he sold me an old 416 picker he got on trade... *FIRST* thing I asked him was "CAN YOU GET PARTS FOR THIS ONE??" "Oh sure!" he said, and I took the old fart at his word because he'd been a friend of my Granddad and Dad years before. Well, he lied to my face. I got home and managed to get the crop picked the first time, but cotton is, or rather was back 20 years ago, picked 2-3 times, depending on the yield and price; cotton doesn't mature all at the same time, and top bolls won't open til you pick the bottom ones, unless you want to let it sit in the field for a month or six weeks and risk a hurricane wiping it all out. (Which is exactly what modern cotton guys do BTW... they don't give a rip, it's insured anyway). I had *just* started second pick and BAM this stupid U-joint yoke busted in the driveline. OF course it was a special one designed as part of the ground and picker unit drive that could be shifted in and out to allow the picker units to turn with the ground drive disengaged for lubing and cleaning the picker units... and of course Case IH didn't have sh!t... they kept me sitting for a week while they hem-hawed around with the "obsolete parts network" and the partsman did call me and said he "might have a lead from a guy in Mississippi that might have one, but he's gotta go check back in their old warehouse-- he'll lemme know in a couple days and I'll call you back" so a couple days later I call him to see if he heard anything and he tells me, "Yeah, sorry, guy said they had a bunch of old picker stuff back there but the boss had some hands clean out the warehouse and just junk all that stuff to make room for newer stuff... no joy..." SO, I had another "junk row" machine. I was so disgusted I just shredded the rest of the crop down (which wasn't a huge loss but more than I wanted of course) and I started beating the bushes for a new machine. I did look at some IH machines and even stopped in at the dealer and he took me out and showed me a somewhat newer 782 picker, which was IH's flagship from the mid-70's to the mid-80's... but one picking unit was clearly "racked" (knocked out of square) because they ran it into a tree stump or well casing or who knows what, and picker units have thousands of moving parts that all have to be aligned right to work properly, so I just shook my head... I asked the dealer who was singing me a swan song about what a great machine it was, "Yeah, and how long til you can't get parts for this one??" He turned as red as the IH junk he was trying to push on me and took off. I went and talked to the Deere picker guru back in the shop, an old guy who'd worked with my Dad when he was younger and still farming and working at the dealerships in the winter in the early-mid 70's... First thing I asked him was "how are yall on getting parts?? What models still have parts available??" and he SHOWED me in the (then) current parts books, "we can get you any part you need all the way back to the first Deere self-propelled pickers (the 99)." I had a neighbor wanting to sell his older 9900 picker, which was a hydrostat double row machine that was a contemporary of the IH 782... I ended up buying his machine and I was shocked at how much better of a machine it was, despite its age. Plus Deere was good as gold on parts support. A few years later I traded up to a 9920 double row, and then we bought a 9940 four row picker to go with it. All were good machines and Deere was very good about parts support. Case IH had made me into a Deere guy... Now Case IH is no more, and New Holland bought out Ford Tractor Division back in the late 90's, and subsequently screwed over all their customers, as they no longer support parts for any of the Ford shortline equipment, and they're exorbitant on parts prices, shamefully so, usually more than even Deere on parts! We've still got 3 Ford tractors on the farm, but I'm pretty much done with New Holland, particularly now that they've bought out CaseIH and turned it into Case New Holland, and the whole hot mess is owned by FIAT (Fix It Again Tomorrow). New Holland lost sight of their market-- farmers looking for a cheaper, more basic but reliable machine without the Deere or IH price tag and cheaper on parts... Now my local NH dealer sells more Mahindra tractors than NH... and more Kuhn hay equipment than NH... he barely stocks any NH hay equipment at all... it's too complicated and too overpriced! So for everything else CNH has basically turned my blood green... though I will admit, I like IH disks better... when I went looking for a better 14 foot disk, I bought an IH 470 disk, because it's built MUCH better and heavier and stouter than the Deere BW/BWA disks I was looking at, and much better than the old Ford 214 disk it was replacing whose frame was busting all to pieces after 30 years of hard work... OF course you can get parts for IH disks ANYWHERE basically-- Shoup and any other number of suppliers can provide you with basically every part on it that you can't fabricate yourself. Not like more complicated IH machines which I'd DEFINITELY stay away from... Later! OL J R :)
Not sure weather you're talking new or used parts? But new for the 5s are close to extinct now. Maybe 10 years ago there was a little inventory around yet but not now. As far as used in my area the parts yards scraped all the 5s out 8-10 years ago and that's not hardly an option anymore either. Been able to pick a few things out from a couple local people that have them in the weeds but been outside so long things are getting rotted pretty bad. There was a place in Kansas or somewhere that was making raddle chains for the quik tatch and inside conveyor chain. We redid the inside chain and tin about ten years ago on our 105. That was a taxing job but has worked good ever since.
Was 12 years old whe dad set me on the 95 harvesting grain. No cab... barley was the worst...face mask to keep the dirt out of lungs was a must at times...1966 was the year of introduction
My uncle bought a new #96 combine when he first started farming and my Dad had a #95 and traded it on a #105. And then my uncle treated his number 96 on a 6601 JD combine. They farmed together . And eventually 1976 he got a brand new 6,600 JD combine. My uncle always said that number 96, it was a better combine than the 6601
Old advertising for John Deere You say Zee, we say Zed. These were very good combines. I remember them harvesting.
My dad had two 105 combines in the '70s and we took off 2,000 acres a year with those two combines. Occasionally we would rent a third combine for the wheat harvest
I had forgotten just how wonderful my old 95 was! LOL. It did do a good threshing job and I paid $7800 for it with 2 heads in 1974 when corn went over $3!!
Amazing how far we’ve come.
Thank you for posting! Brings back memories of my teen age years cutting rice in South Louisiana.
I had a 55 Rice combine. It was the first combine I owned . It was a tough machine , I farmed some of the blackest "Gumbo" in East Arkansas. The combine gave me good service. When it burned I bought a 410 Massey Ferguson to replace it , I wish I had bought a John Deere. I'm still farming and I still own John Deeres.
Pretty neat for it's time! Thanks for sharing.
They were some pretty advanced machines in their day. Glad you enjoyed!
Looked like Grandpa couldn't give up the draft horses, even in the 60's but the kids still got a ride. Nice job, Thanks for posting, even though it's not your ag color. You sure make us green guys happy!
Glad you enjoyed! I don't mind some Deere stuff. I'd like to find a tubular elevator with the paddle chain, a 43 corn sheller & a hay cuber. The 1010 crawler would be neat to have & a 2010 diesel, even though they're junk. Oh.... I always got a kick out of the patio series of lawnmowers. The different colors are nice & they were built about an hour away from me in Horicon. Otherwise, yep, bring on the red stuff! 😁
@@ikonseesmrno7300 Your response has bothered me since I read it yesterday. The only 2 JD items i can agree with is the #43 Sheller and the 1010 crawler. I had a #43 sheller and we used it for a couple years until I just ground the whole cob and the chickens never hesitated to eat and scratch out the cob. The 2010 gas was ok, Dad's was a utility model that had been a loader tractor for only 4 years before he bought it. Transmission was still an issue. The 2010 Diesel seems to be one of JD's big failures. An auger would be more efficient and the Patios are cute but now pricy because they seem to be collectable. Hay cuber, never seen one but cube boxes seem popular in range land.
@@kswaynes7569 The diesel 2010 I'd get just for the sake of having one. I've read enough on the forum about how big of a pain they are. Are the Patios getting that expensive? Seems like years ago a fella couldn't give them away, because they're the wrong color. The tube elevator with the paddles is just cool. Not sure if I'd put it to use outside of a show setting. The hay cuber is the same deal. It wouldn't work around here, as you have to have such low humidity, you can throw a match through the air & ignite it.
@@ikonseesmrno7300 With the value of the dollar the way it is (think real estate and old tractors) everything is expensive for just "collecting". I know all about humidity, trying to bale hay 1/2 mile West of Lake Huron, just like the Lake Michigan effect on you. I was shocked to see big square balers running at 6:30AM in Kansas baling 3rd cut alfalfa, early in our move there. Had to have some humidity to keep the leaves in the bale.
I think i might have to trade in my threasher and try one of
those 55's
Got a bigger kick out of seeing a 95 and 237 on a 630 a couple weeks ago then seeing a x9
So proud of the engine being up amd behind where it belongs and the morons go amd put it beside you half under the grain tank for the next 60 years again after....
Yeah that's just crazy ain't it?? Dunno why they took a good design and munged it all up hanging the engine off one side and the cab off the other. REALLY stupid! But IH had their share of stupidity as well over the years... At least they got it right and stayed that way after they started building the rotaries. I still prefer a conventional combine myself however. Our Claas was done right... cab in the middle up front, grain tank behind it, and engine behind that. Later! OL J R :)
Didn't Massey have the engines in an awkward spot for a while?
@@lukestrawwalker No straw manglers for you, eh? :v)
@@ikonseesmrno7300 ya lots of years case and gleaner are the only ones who never did that stupid setup haha
Honestly even though I haven't had a chance to run one I think I like Oliver's design the best. They put the engine in between the cab and grain tank where you had a bit of room to work on it
My 55 was nice but hated the manual unload auger. My 6620 was the best i ever had.
I’ll take a 45 with cab please . Thanks for sharing IKON 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed!!👍
Definitely... but I'd prefer a 105... last time I talked to one of their guys, they could still get parts for them all the way back to the 45's... Better than you'll do with anyone else! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Yep, most of the parts for the old IH combines have been picked through & used up a long time ago. Stationary threshers, too.
@@ikonseesmrno7300 Yep, CIH turned me into a Deere guy. We ran IH cotton pickers since the 50's... first one rows, then double rows. They were hands down better machines than the Deere pickers back in the 50's and 60's, and even into the early 70's... but then Deere caught up and they were pretty much even. IH was pretty decent about parts in the old days, though they were higher than Ford, which is why Dad and Grandpa's new tractors were pretty much Fords, and we had a lot of Ford equipment (usually built by Dearborn or Kelley) on the farm... but of course Ford got a LOT of different machinery to fill out their line from other manufacturers, usually painted blue and given a Ford model number. For instance, we're still running the Ford 552 round baler Grandpa bought new in '81; we had one of the first round balers in the area back then. It's a Gehl "1400" model painted blue with Ford stickers on it. I have to get parts from Gehl (what parts I can still get). Dad and Grandpa bought a Ford 640 combine as well... it's a Claas "Senator" painted blue. D@mn good machine, too. Them Germans know how to engineer stuff!
Anyway, we ran IH combines all those years, and then CASE IH basically gave their customers the middle finger and quit providing parts support... simply froze us out. We managed for years scrounging the neighbors junk machines sitting in the fencerows and stuff, but eventually that all gets picked over and then when you can't get parts, you got scrap iron... We ran a 214A cotton picker til the early 90's until it died and no parts were available... course it quit just as harvest was starting one year, and in desperation I went to the IH dealer... he sold me an old 416 picker he got on trade... *FIRST* thing I asked him was "CAN YOU GET PARTS FOR THIS ONE??" "Oh sure!" he said, and I took the old fart at his word because he'd been a friend of my Granddad and Dad years before. Well, he lied to my face. I got home and managed to get the crop picked the first time, but cotton is, or rather was back 20 years ago, picked 2-3 times, depending on the yield and price; cotton doesn't mature all at the same time, and top bolls won't open til you pick the bottom ones, unless you want to let it sit in the field for a month or six weeks and risk a hurricane wiping it all out. (Which is exactly what modern cotton guys do BTW... they don't give a rip, it's insured anyway). I had *just* started second pick and BAM this stupid U-joint yoke busted in the driveline. OF course it was a special one designed as part of the ground and picker unit drive that could be shifted in and out to allow the picker units to turn with the ground drive disengaged for lubing and cleaning the picker units... and of course Case IH didn't have sh!t... they kept me sitting for a week while they hem-hawed around with the "obsolete parts network" and the partsman did call me and said he "might have a lead from a guy in Mississippi that might have one, but he's gotta go check back in their old warehouse-- he'll lemme know in a couple days and I'll call you back" so a couple days later I call him to see if he heard anything and he tells me, "Yeah, sorry, guy said they had a bunch of old picker stuff back there but the boss had some hands clean out the warehouse and just junk all that stuff to make room for newer stuff... no joy..." SO, I had another "junk row" machine. I was so disgusted I just shredded the rest of the crop down (which wasn't a huge loss but more than I wanted of course) and I started beating the bushes for a new machine. I did look at some IH machines and even stopped in at the dealer and he took me out and showed me a somewhat newer 782 picker, which was IH's flagship from the mid-70's to the mid-80's... but one picking unit was clearly "racked" (knocked out of square) because they ran it into a tree stump or well casing or who knows what, and picker units have thousands of moving parts that all have to be aligned right to work properly, so I just shook my head... I asked the dealer who was singing me a swan song about what a great machine it was, "Yeah, and how long til you can't get parts for this one??" He turned as red as the IH junk he was trying to push on me and took off.
I went and talked to the Deere picker guru back in the shop, an old guy who'd worked with my Dad when he was younger and still farming and working at the dealerships in the winter in the early-mid 70's... First thing I asked him was "how are yall on getting parts?? What models still have parts available??" and he SHOWED me in the (then) current parts books, "we can get you any part you need all the way back to the first Deere self-propelled pickers (the 99)." I had a neighbor wanting to sell his older 9900 picker, which was a hydrostat double row machine that was a contemporary of the IH 782... I ended up buying his machine and I was shocked at how much better of a machine it was, despite its age. Plus Deere was good as gold on parts support. A few years later I traded up to a 9920 double row, and then we bought a 9940 four row picker to go with it. All were good machines and Deere was very good about parts support. Case IH had made me into a Deere guy...
Now Case IH is no more, and New Holland bought out Ford Tractor Division back in the late 90's, and subsequently screwed over all their customers, as they no longer support parts for any of the Ford shortline equipment, and they're exorbitant on parts prices, shamefully so, usually more than even Deere on parts! We've still got 3 Ford tractors on the farm, but I'm pretty much done with New Holland, particularly now that they've bought out CaseIH and turned it into Case New Holland, and the whole hot mess is owned by FIAT (Fix It Again Tomorrow). New Holland lost sight of their market-- farmers looking for a cheaper, more basic but reliable machine without the Deere or IH price tag and cheaper on parts... Now my local NH dealer sells more Mahindra tractors than NH... and more Kuhn hay equipment than NH... he barely stocks any NH hay equipment at all... it's too complicated and too overpriced! So for everything else CNH has basically turned my blood green... though I will admit, I like IH disks better... when I went looking for a better 14 foot disk, I bought an IH 470 disk, because it's built MUCH better and heavier and stouter than the Deere BW/BWA disks I was looking at, and much better than the old Ford 214 disk it was replacing whose frame was busting all to pieces after 30 years of hard work... OF course you can get parts for IH disks ANYWHERE basically-- Shoup and any other number of suppliers can provide you with basically every part on it that you can't fabricate yourself. Not like more complicated IH machines which I'd DEFINITELY stay away from...
Later! OL J R :)
Not sure weather you're talking new or used parts? But new for the 5s are close to extinct now. Maybe 10 years ago there was a little inventory around yet but not now. As far as used in my area the parts yards scraped all the 5s out 8-10 years ago and that's not hardly an option anymore either. Been able to pick a few things out from a couple local people that have them in the weeds but been outside so long things are getting rotted pretty bad. There was a place in Kansas or somewhere that was making raddle chains for the quik tatch and inside conveyor chain. We redid the inside chain and tin about ten years ago on our 105. That was a taxing job but has worked good ever since.
Combines have come a long way
Indeed they have. The best "new" feature is the rotary cylinder. Next best is air conditioning.
Cut alot of wheat, oats and corn with a 55EB
Will the operator please turn the corner
I wonder why they didn’t include the 106 pull type, maybe they didn’t have to out at the time.
I couldn't imagine combining with no cab
I had a Case pull type & that was dusty enough.
Was 12 years old whe dad set me on the 95 harvesting grain. No cab... barley was the worst...face mask to keep the dirt out of lungs was a must at times...1966 was the year of introduction
How much was a new #96 and a new #105 with a cab. My dad and his brother firm with those two models and they were purchased brand new.
My uncle bought a new #96 combine when he first started farming and my Dad had a #95 and traded it on a #105. And then my uncle treated his number 96 on a 6601 JD combine. They farmed together . And eventually 1976 he got a brand new 6,600 JD combine. My uncle always said that number 96, it was a better combine than the 6601