What really happend to the Case combine line????

JD Seller

Well-known Member
I have heard several stories about why Case just suddenly dropped their combine line. What is the real truth about it???

I know of some areas where Case was a major player in that local market and all of a sudden they where gone.

Also to you Case combine owners. Are any parts still available through CIH???

The reason I asked is I know where there is a Case 1660 with less than a 1000 hours on it. It has never set out in its life. The original owner still has it. HE keeps it washed and waxed too. The paint looks like new. He and I have an agreement for me to buy it when he decides he is done. (He had no kids or family to inherit. His estate is going to several different charities)I have helped him keep it in good repair over the years. Just little things like charging system and fuel filters.
 
in 1970 the CASE combine line was ready for a update, they only held 7% of the combine market at that time. They had new machines ready to release but decided the new tooling cost was not worth it so they dropped all harvesting equipment and shortly all tillage production and concentrated on being "The Big Power Specialist". as for parts I am still able to get certain belts and other items but the list is getting smaller, the one you have spoken for sounds very nice and with a decent PM program I have very good luck with my machines
 
Thanks Case Nutty: I do not want the machine to use much. It is just unique around here. The tractor show stuff has kind of gotten boring to me. I am more interested in different stuff that is old and farm related. How many JD "Bs",Ford 8Ns, or IH "H" tractors can you look at without deciding you have seen all there is to see?

I have been playing with the though of a fall harvest day like the fellows have down in Ottumwa. If I would ever do that I would want something "different" to bring to the event.
 
Like Tom ,I use Case machines yet also. Very simple and easy to work on with decent capacity for their age.
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Didnt know they reused the model number when they went to Case IH. The big red 1660 is still a popular machine, but I see there was a Case 1660 before that.

Paul
 
JD,
Case 1660 still comes up on Case/IH on line catalog. Not many of the parts still supplied however.

Used to get in hurry when looking up parts at the Dealership and get into the Case 1660 section when looking up parts for CIH 1660. Soon as I saw Threshing Cylinder and Straw Walkers I knew I was in "wrong pew ".

Similar problem when looking up parts for a later Case/IH 5088 Combine I knew I was in wrong catalog when I saw listing for three point hitch. Opp's into IH 5088 TRACTOR CATALOG BY MISTAKE ! (GRIN)
Bill
 
is there any truth to the rumor that the JD 44-7700 were case developed? don't wish to start a war here just have heard that.
 
all I know is this is the machine that they had ready to release when they pulled the combine plug, it was said to out harvest anything made at the time, I know it had augers like JD had instead of the raddle chain CASE had used before, this was to be the replacement for the 1660/1665 machines
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Noticed the dc high crop in the back. Story is fellow you bought it from is a wonderful kind very handsome fellow.
 
No truth to that rumor. The 00 series were first tested in 55 and 95 combine bodies back in 1964. Then JD hand built the next series of prototypes which more closely resembled the 00 final design.
 
(quoted from post at 01:19:30 11/29/14) No truth to that rumor. The 00 series were first tested in 55 and 95 combine bodies back in 1964. Then JD hand built the next series of prototypes which more closely resembled the 00 final design.
Thanks for the information.
 
What has been discussed many times in the past is how Case
developed the modern corn head that supposedly ended up in J
Ds hands and then copied by IH.
 
I remember back in 1969 or 1970 I was working for a grain elevator in town...On a railroad siding 50 ft from the elevator was a flat car with 2 new 1665 Case combines on it...They must have been for the Case dealer at Harwood,MO...Little did I know that Case was done with combines..
 
a pic of that would have been awesome!! I still can see the last one we got in, the 69 960 I have today,,, I got to unload it from the railcar! I also know where the mate to it was a few years ago that was on the train car as well,
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In one article I read it said that Case leaders saw a diminishing market with fewer farmers farming the available land and less return on investment in the tooling to make one.
 

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