IH 82, only used once?? Looks mint, but dusty...

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/grd/2658085766.html



Says they only used it one season in it's whole life. It does look very "preserved." Dusty... but, it might clean up really nice. I hope he gets his asking price, and I hope it goes to a collector who isn't going to beat on it. The only thing that would worry me is where it is located. Anything that close to I-80 is going to be subjected to quite a bit of humidity and rapidly changing temps. For those of you from out west not familiar with this...

Imagine a glass full of ice and coke on a hot summer day. The outside of the glass gets foggy at first, then the fog turns to full droplets of water, and runs down the glass. Leaves a puddle on the table... Well, when it is humid and the temp goes from 20 at night to 70 during the day, the inside of metal buildings(tin roofs) starts to sweat like a coke glass until it literally starts to rain indoors. The same thing happens to the metal on machinery, until the whole thing is just a big coke glass leaving a puddle on the table. Humidity and rapid temperature change is a nasty thing... Seeing how Punxy gets snow pretty early, and they are in the path of lake effect snow, they get it even worse.

Sorry for the science lesson, I'm just saying, this thing could have brown surface rust under all that dust, and it could be pretty thick.

I'd love to go see it, but I would hate to lead teh seller on, or waste his time.

John, you have a valid hypothesis, but look again at the combine in the pic. It's not just dusty, but there is still a good finish on it. Yes, there may still be a degree of rust in places, but overall, the coating is in very good condition.
I've seen the effects of just what you mentioned, acting adversely to vehicles parked indefinitely over decades, inside a barn or metal shed, in regions of both high humidity and extreme temperature changes. Welcome to central Oklahoma and north central Texas!
Typically, a mere scratch or nick on the surface, will let in just enough moisture to react with the metal beneath the coating. Once started, the decay by oxidation spreads like a growing mold. After only a few years, the telltale evidence is a uniquely concoidal patterning of paint erosion. No doubt, you've seen this on otherwise well-painted farm equipment and vehicles parked outdoors.
Obviously, just from the front view, the paint job on this little combine, is in near-perfect condition-too good to have underlayer rust.

Just like the one my Grandpa bought when he and the
neighbors quit threshing, including the bat reel and
scour kleen. Can't say I miss it though... all the
times we had to work on the sickle drive, and unplug
the cylinder. Thistles were real bad for plugging
it, and worse for unplugging!Had to replace a
bearing on the cylinder the last year I ran it, too.

Wow, you are really over thinking this. If it's that much moisture in the air, how would it be dusty?? $3500, he'll be sitting on that machice for a while unless a rich die hard IH collector shows up.

For some reason, the word "doubtful" crosses my mind. I don't see a safety decal anywhere or any other for that matter. Just the typical International emblems & model numbers. Looks like a repaint. Granted, they didnt make a ton of those combines, only 3705. It's still not 10 units. It's not a demo or test unit, either. Unless IH had sooooo much faith in those machines, they saw a day's testing & all was good.

Mike

I saw one that got into a bidding war one years ago. Still had most of the paint on the cylinder bars. Used 1 year; then the owner died, & the wife kept it in the barn for the next 25 years. Sold for around $10K to a PA Clover farmer as I recall. If the information is true; it would suprise me if its not sold already at that price.

Don't be too sure on that. A well-known PA jockey got a hold of one a couple of years ago and sold it for $4500 after only having it 2 weeks, so .. . .

Over thinking? Dusty from summers, I'm sure. But come here in teh spring or fall. stinkin miserable... Just the other day, I went into the barn to move some stuff around, and the red grease had a pink layer on top where the water turned it.

Unless he pulled it out and waxed it every year, I'd say there is oxidation damage.


as far as the decals, I do see a safety decal on the bin, where are the other ones? looks like the red reflective is on the back side of the bin, too.

Regardless, it's a really nice machine and I wish I had the money, because it would be mine.

On a similar note, I am about to punch a guy in the face for his craigslist ad. . .


For years... not exaggerating... I have wanted a 42R, 52R or straight 42/52 pull type later style with the C60 power unit. There is one on craigslist, the ad went on there on Nov 8th. I emailed the seller 2 times and never heard back. So, I used my other email address, told him I would come get it, consider it sold. No answer. I emailed him from another email account, with a fictious name, told him I would give him double his asking price, and buy him a steak dinner. no response.

I got so mad, I started driving around his town, trying to find the barn I saw in teh background of his pictures, in hopes to run in to him and thank him for making my anxiety levels so high. fortunately, I did not find his barn, because I probably would be in jail.

How about some common courtesy? taket eh ad down if it is sold. email me back. do something other than nothing. I am not an angry person, normally. I do fine. However... When stuff like this happens, I am fit to be tied and that is a shameful truth, not an exaggeration. I just can't stand dealing with people. You know, if the guy would have just emailed me back, I might have offered him $500 cash to tell me who he sold it to, so I could find them and offer them twice what they paid for it. Some people could get lots of my money, but apparently, money doesn't matter to some. I hope the person with that ad reads this, and knows that he missed the boat. At this point, if he was on fire, I wouldn't pee on him to put it out. idiot.