What can you tell me about this International Thresher?

Beatles65 · Feb 17, 2011

I have found this old International Thresher. What can you tell me about it? It is not complete as the insides are all gutted out, and there is no way to find whats missing because this is the way the owner bought it. He was just going to cut it up and haul it in until I told him that I was interested. The price is $150. I thought that I would save it and use it as yard art or maybe even put a floor in it and place honey bee hives in it. You could get a lot of colonies in that thing!
It is roughly 20 feet long.
Does anyone know what year it is?
Model number?

I also thought that it would look great being pulled behind my new 1923 McCormick Deering 15-30.

Thanks for all the info!
From Denton, Nebraska.
Andrew Kean.

JimB2 · Feb 17, 2011

When I was growing up in the 1950s we had one like it. Can't remember model number. Sat in the shed for many years until Dad gave it to someone that was going to demonstrate old time threshing at a local plowing match.

JimB

Jg20601 · Feb 18, 2011

In the books I have here it says they started building this type in 1926, with different attachments for different crops. After ww2 it looks like you could order them with tires. Production ended in 1956.
There was no model number mentioned, but yours looks like it was made in the 1930s- guessing by looking at the pictures.
150 Years of Internatinal Harvester, Page 256 by CH Wendel, Crestline Publishing

LenNH · Feb 20, 2011

Try the Wisconsin Historical Society website. They have a huge collection of International Harvester material, including a lot of sales brochures. Some of this can be viewed online.

I hesitate to add this, because I don't have any more information than a memory: When I was growing up in the 1940s, my father and his brothers shared a NEW RACINE thresher, which I believe was a name that International Harvester had bought, maybe along with a factory that was making machines of that name. Big companies like IHC used to buy up smaller competitors (Eastman Kodak swallowed up a lot of competitors that way, too).

Let us know what you find out. Might keep looking myself when I have some time.

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