New to Fourm and New Combine

wbhf3

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I just recently started looking at this form, but I have been interested in old combines for as long as I can remember. My grandpa had two old pull type combines sitting down in the pasture and as a child I was more interested in looking at that old All Crop AC and 64 IH than I was looking at the cows.

We are tride and true Gleaner people but I just pulled a IH 101 combine home. I have been driving by this combine for 20 years sitting in a barn. I purchased it from the original family that bought it new, and I picked it up off of the farm where it was delivered when new, and I have also been told that it was the first 101 sold from the local IH dealer. Could anyone tell me what the year of this combine is, the serial number is 101A-952? I thought it would be a 1956, but am not sure.

I really enjoy seeing all the pictures of combines on this site!
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Welcome and congrats on your purchase....My book doesn't show IH 101 serial numbers but with that low of one theres a good chance that its a 1956 model...Thanks for the pictures...

Back in the 1960's there were 3 adjoining farmers just north of Sheldon,MO (10 miles south of me) that all ran 101 IH's....One of them with 800 acres ran 2 of them..I can remember going by there and seeing them all in the field using early 1950's Chevy 2 tons to haul the grain...
 
Congrats on the find. Every time I see one of those 101s I remember being at an auction near Coon Valley Wisconsin about 20 years ago. I was there buying up AC stuff, they had a SHARP 101 that was pulled out of the shed for the first time in 20 years. The auctioneer couldn't get a $100 bid. The scrap guy wouldn't buy it because he didn't want to haul it down the hilly driveway and road leading up to it. The owner said if it wouldn't bring $100 it could stay where it was. Im wondering if it just got pushed back in the shed.

Jim

Welcome to a great forum.
 
Very cool find. I've always liked the looks of the older IH combines. I also run gleaners but would like to find a 503 IH. We used to own one when I was young then we bought a gleaner G, another combine I'd like to find.
 
Grinder where you located? I know of a G in Minooka Il that's for sale. It's a gasser (Allis 6), gear drive with a bean platform. 4 row wide orange cornhead. It is barn kept. Started a couple of times a year. Has not been used for a few years.

Don't mean to high jack the thread. Just trying to help
 
I also like the looks of the old IH combines, I think the 101 looks like a well designed machine. However, I am still partial to the silver fleet, I'm sure all brands have good combines it is just what a person is used too.

1206, I live about 25 miles south of Sheldon MO (I actually worked in Sheldon for a few years). My neighbor was a shop foreman at the local IH dealer for years and he said there was a lot of 101's around our part of the world. There were even two old brothers down here that had a little 91 combine and my wife's grandpa had a 151. It is neat to talk with my neighbor IH mechanic and hear about the old days of IH.
 
By any chance did you get that combine out of a shed SW of Jasper? My late uncle (Loren G) lived 3 miles west of Jasper....About a year before he passed away he took me and my brother to look at a shed full of old machinery SW of Jasper....In it was a 101 IH combine which I have a picture of...My late uncle was good friends with the owner and had permission to look.....I don't think anyone lived at the farm..
 
It's probably the same machine you looked at, I know it had been setting there for at least 25 years. I also got a 2 row 283 corn head with it. If you and I are thinking of the same Loren G, he lived 1/2 mile north of our farm when my grandparents came here in 1966. In the late 60's he moved west of Jasper and tried to sell the farm north of us to my dad. Dad had just been drafted and didn't think it would work out at the time. That was all before my time, those are just the stories I have been told.
 
Grinder owner wants $1000.00. Talked to him today. He had someone look at it the other day. Guy said he would take it but so far has not came up with a check. If you are interested send me an email and I'll send you the owners name and number.
 
We're talking the same Loren G and I'm sure thats the same combine..I took about 15 pictures in that shed and heres the 101..That was maybe 2007-2008..
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(quoted from post at 12:27:19 07/17/16) Grinder owner wants $1000.00. Talked to him today. He had someone look at it the other day. Guy said he would take it but so far has not came up with a check. If you are interested send me an email and I'll send you the owners name and number.
I was going to send you a private message but it looks like its disabled. Here's my email [email protected] , if he still has it I wouldn't mind looking at it.
 
Yep, that's it. Small world isn't it? The owners of that combine were very good farmers in their day, they just never changed with the times over the years. I just live a couple of miles from that farm you were at. When they got the John Deere 55, the 101 was put into retirement. I hope to get this 101 running again and take it to the local antique tractor show this fall. Some day I would like to find a little 91 to go along with this 101.
 
Engine is BD220 (basically a pickup truck engine). Not a Gleaner guy, but power/capacity is comparable to a JD 45.

I'll also back up 1206SWMO's opinion. A serial number fewer than 1,000 almost has to be a first-year model. Mine is 12899 (1961)
 
I'd like to try and get it to run but that will be in a couple of months when it cools down..I'll call you then..
 

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