sold my thresher

WOpp · Nov 9, 2014

I am going to miss this machine setting in my shed, however I feel these old machines need to be used. This one will be as it is going to the Amish. It is in perfect condition ready to work.

Case Nutty 1660 · Nov 9, 2014

Good looking unit, do you have the serial handy? I have a very late 53 thresher looking for any other 53 models
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John Saeli · Nov 9, 2014

Beautiful machine, but a sad fate.

WOpp · Nov 9, 2014

serial # is 560242. What year would this thing have been made?

WOpp · Nov 9, 2014

What is sad fate is when you see them on top of a hill full of rocks so the wind don't tip them over. A machine like this I think should be used and taken care off. Where it is going I sure it will be.

Case Nutty 1660 · Nov 9, 2014

Yours is a 1952 model

01gentdc · Nov 9, 2014

kinda agree with john ,, looks like you kept the thresher in pristine condition ,,. probably had the hoseybuggy folx bothering you for yrs , about putting it to honest work , earnin its keep ..the museum honeymoon is over ... lol

1031D · Nov 10, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:11:26 11/09/14) What is sad fate is when you see them on top of a hill full of rocks so the wind don't tip them over. A machine like this I think should be used and taken care off. Where it is going I sure it will be.

the Amish will run it into the ground and rig it when it breaks. In 10 years it will be worn out scrap metal!

WOpp · Nov 10, 2014

Not sticking up for the Amish, but I have seen a lot of 10 yr old equipment run into the ground and rigged ready for scrap heap by every day farmers. I had this machine advertised on YT for the past 3 weeks and not a single call. You all had a chance to own it. I called them hoping someone could use it.

1031D · Nov 10, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:12:41 11/10/14) Not sticking up for the Amish, but I have seen a lot of 10 yr old equipment run into the ground and rigged ready for scrap heap by every day farmers. I had this machine advertised on YT for the past 3 weeks and not a single call. You all had a chance to own it. I called them hoping someone could use it.

3 weeks isn't enough time. Those things are large and require low heavy trailers to move them a distance. Most modern farmers don't give a rats a$$ about old machinery so that comparison is void. Either way thanks for sending a nice late model machine to it's death. If you wonder why none of us bought it that's because $4500 is way too much for most of us to buy and truck it home!

jay-eye-see · Nov 10, 2014

Beautiful machine for sure. It looks as good as my A6 pull type that one day will loose its lease on a shed.
My combine has been listed on here more than once yet no serious offer. It will be a sad day when I scrap it but when that day comes, Ill keep it to myself.

jay-eye-see · Nov 10, 2014

Beautiful machine for sure. It looks as good as my A6 pull type that one day will loose its lease on a shed.
My combine has been listed on here more than once yet no serious offer. It will be a sad when I scrap it but when that day comes, Ill keep it to myself.

Robert Major · Nov 10, 2014

Hey there.
Calm down, at least it will live another 10
years or more, Then become a Toyota. as opposed
to being flattened and ripped apart by a track
hoe tomorrow.
And as for the $4500 asking price when has a
small thing like that ever stopped a guy
calling with $800 low ball offers He never even
had that call!. I used to advertise 10-$15.000
tractors and it never stopped guys offering
$4000 over the phone for an immaculate field
ready tractor with a $4000 loader on!
Regards Robert

1031D · Nov 10, 2014

(quoted from post at 09:29:43 11/10/14) Hey there.
Calm down, at least it will live another 10
years or more, Then become a Toyota. as opposed
to being flattened and ripped apart by a track
hoe tomorrow.
And as for the $4500 asking price when has a
small thing like that ever stopped a guy
calling with $800 low ball offers He never even
had that call!. I used to advertise 10-$15.000
tractors and it never stopped guys offering
$4000 over the phone for an immaculate field
ready tractor with a $4000 loader on!
Regards Robert

irregardless $4500 is too much for a thresher!

WOpp · Nov 10, 2014

A JD thresher sold for $7000 at an auction no far
from me just a couple of years ago. not as nice as
this one. If the $4500 price was to high why did
it sell. It still needs to be trucked a long way.

Straw Boss · Nov 10, 2014

Simple math.

Few Case collectors / many threshers.
vs.
Many John Deere collectors / few threshers.

GreenEnvy · Nov 10, 2014

Its no secret JD brings a premium in the antique world. I bought two Case 500s for the same $$$$$ that might have bought rough poor running JD R on a good day. And like the StrawBoss said JD threshing machines are rare. $4,500 for me would be way too much but I'm not holding it against you that you got what you wanted. Who doesn't when they go to sell something. We don't amish were I'm at so I am assuming going by this thread they don't the meaning of maintenance??

John Saeli · Nov 10, 2014

You got $4500 for it??!!!!

OliverNate · Nov 10, 2014

One heck of a nice looking machine. I agree with you that they need to be used. I don't know how Amish treat their equiptment, and I'm not taking shots at what you were asking. But I do know they are the ones to go for when selling this old equiptment cause money is no object to them. They need it to farm so cost is not a problem and collectors just can't compete.

oldmisterbill · Nov 10, 2014

I will never understand the big thing about green especially from that era. I had a B it was good to me but definitely not (in my eyes as a case) as good as a case. I operated an old (even back then it was old) CC on steel it had been neglected but kept on doing a good days work.I guess I never saw a Case I wasn't proud of.

Case addict · Nov 10, 2014

This was a beautiful machine. We have a lot of Amish in our area. The thing I don't understand is that in 1952 when this was made the Amish would have used horses and binders. Now 60 years later they will use this thrasher. Does that mean in 2050 when farmers are using unmanned remote driven harvesting machines the Amish will be using Case 2188s or JD 9870s? Just wondering. Most in our area have cell phones but don't keep them in the house but outside in a shed. They us cordless power tools but use my electricity to charge them. Most are good people but it all seems confusing to me.

gtractorfan · Nov 10, 2014

Not sure what you mean about amish in 1952 and now. When they used horses and binders they needed a way to thresh, and now with a thresher they still need a binder. If they start using self propelled combines they'll probably refit them with steel wheels- and this thresher too.

1031D · Nov 11, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:52:18 11/10/14) One heck of a nice looking machine. I agree with you that they need to be used. I don't know how Amish treat their equiptment, and I'm not taking shots at what you were asking. But I do know they are the ones to go for when selling this old equiptment cause money is no object to them. They need it to farm so cost is not a problem and collectors just can't compete.

the Amish here run the hell out of everything and when exact parts can't be found things are made to work. I've seen truck loads of nice equipment destroyed in a matter of years. His thresher will have the factory rubber discarded and get steel wheels put on it. Anything that breaks will be band aided, ran broken or rigged until it's junk. Most of their machinery sits outside also, kind of a park it where you last used it deal. They stop in a couple times a year and try to clean me out but I won't sell. At the rate were going there won't be many threshers left by 2050! The Amish can afford to blow money because they deal in cash - no taxes!

Bret4207 · Nov 11, 2014

The Amish here, most of them, would take something like this thrasher and treat it like gold. It would be in the barn except for 4-5 days a year it's needed. They'd have a parts machine or 3 sitting in the fence row too. The only new farms you see here are Amish and they generally look a heck of a lot better than English farms. There are idiot Amish too, but most are better neighbors than the welfare trash that would otherwise be renting the old farms in my area, growing pot and cooking meth. No pit bulls chasing kids and cows, no cops up and down the road all night answering domestic calls, they pay taxes and most are as helpful as they can be. They're just people.

Don Rudolph · Nov 11, 2014

I'd much rather have Amish neighbors than the 1000+ cow dairies that are taking over here. They wouldn't be driving the land rent up and polluting Lake Michigan with millions of gallons of manure, as happened recently. I hope that Case machine allows them to continue farming for a long time. Don

GreenEnvy · Nov 11, 2014

Everybody has their favorite brand. I've been around a few guys who thought those early Case rowcrops were junk. There are JD guys who don't care about Case. IH guys who don't think Case ever made a tractor, Case guys who think their stuff was the best and on on on. I didn't grow up in that era so I tend to like most tractors. We never owned Case tractor and I don't know why. Always went with IH and JD.

GaryinKs · Nov 11, 2014

where about was the picture taken,? very pretty country

WOpp · Nov 12, 2014

The picture was taken in my yard, SW N Dak

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