Probably a dumb post, but

Been traveling US 61 highway in eastern Missouri for many years on trips to visit family members. There has been a part of a John Deere combine in a field on the west side of the highway (somewhere between St Louis and the Iowa border) now for many years. A trivial matter, but seems it would be a good piece of cash as salvage.

Right now scrap around here is 3o bucks a ton . Might be worth something as salvage if it's a model that's popular if it's sat that long some of the parts will junk to

Actually, it's between Hannibal and the Iowa border.

You can't scrap it, it's a landmark. Been there since early 90's at least.

That 6600 has been there for at least 25 years. I have no idea what was wrong with it. It is near Canton, MO on the west side of the road. This is about 50 miles from me and I go by it often. Mike

How about the old IH 303 I think, on the west side of Hwy 61 just south of Troy, Mo? It's been there at least that long. Looks to have a 10 or 12 ft grain table. True Son

You're correct, use to go past it when truckin thru that country. Been there a long time.

I like the old combine talk and love the old combine pictures I've seen in this forum. This topic reminds me of an old IHC combine sitting at my cousins place way back off the road but on a hill. Cousins only live a few miles away. I think it was a model 101 if my memory is correct. I drive that way a lot, now and see it sitting there. Some times I think about the machine in use when I was a kid and we combined with them. That 101 was been sitting there for over 40 years. Cousins never farmed much and quit farming when I was a kid and just parked the combine. I'd say it's now a monument to the good old days gone by on North Dakota plains. If I could have a " combine wish" come true, I wish that 101 was up and running, and I wish I had our old IHC 141 in the field beside it! I used to ride on the 141 as a kid with Dad. It had a large operators platform, I would sit on a large wooden tool box behind the operators seat. I could stand up, turn around and look at grain coming into grain tank. This was in the late 1960's We swathed everything back them. The same cousins had a pull type ground drive swather( I remember it was an Oliver) I'm sure it's sitting by the 101. We had a IHC PTO pull type swather. 141 was first combine on farm with unloading auger. Dad had a pull type Oliver with small grain tank mounted high enough to back truck up to it, then lift door on bottom of tank and grain flowed into truck as bottom of grain tank was slanted. This combine was before my time, but I saw pictures of it. I think it was Dad's first combine that replaced the threshing machine. I remember playing on the old thrashing machine sitting back behind our shop as that was it's final resting place. I've rambled on too long. Thanks for the memories.

wow in 74 I believe I worked own there and haven't been back since but I remember seeing a combine I was thinking 95 or 105 sitting in the flood waters up to the cab that year along 61 I think north of Canton Mo could that still be there? It was a long way to the Mississippi but it was a bad year for flooding seemed like it was 10 or 15 miles to Keokuk Iowa from there

I live about 1 mile north of the combine you are talking about. I know the guy that owns that property and machine. It is a 6600. Same guy leaves his equipment that is usable right where he is done with it. Has a grain truck sitting in field across highway from combine that has not moved since he parked it there last fall.

There is a family here that farmed, I went to school with one of the kids. They finished up one year and parked everything, a case 2090 or 2290 and a 1070 and a ji case combine, Hesston swather, grain drill, baler, stacker, truck, massey 57 plow, jd vripper, pull type bean combine, ih vacuum planter, sprayer, and jd corn chopper pull type, all left to rust. Derelects came in and broke a few windows out years later, and the rest sits there. Amazing. I tried to buy that stuff a few years back, said they had sold a tractor and wished they had kept it, not for sale. Amazing what people do, I went by recently andthere weren't any tractors, so they might have sold or hauled them over the hill. Surprising what is laying around.