McCormick No. 76 Harvester Thresher

I'm new to the forum, but I thought I would share what I found. I found a McCormick 76 combine in eastern Missouri on Craigslist, and decided to try to save it. It is very solid, but missing a few parts (mostly the unloading auger), and a few things are bent. After getting new tires on the combine, my father and I pulled the combine from the field and moved it to solid ground. I still have to move it across the state (since I live near Kansas City), and am looking into those options. Overall I am pretty satisfied with the combine, and hope to restore it to running condition soon.

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Just a suggestion. but I would find the missing parts before I started the restoration. I my take awhile to find - if you can find them.
 
(quoted from post at 10:53:03 05/01/17) Just a suggestion. but I would find the missing parts before I started the restoration. I my take awhile to find - if you can find them.
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I know it's your machine and you're free to do as you wish, but I'd leave it original. It still looks really good, and they're only original once. I'd just rebuild it mechanically and call it good.
 
I agree with you both! I think restore might not have been the best word to use. I am on the hunt for the missing parts, the biggest being the unloading auger. I really hope I can return this combine to running condition in the near future.
 
I have had a little experience restoring an old combine. The one we restored was a model 42 John Deere and about half way through the project I wondered "What was I thinking." It turned out as the only
combine ever "Certified Expo Quality." Spent about ten years searching for a corn head suitable for restoration and found two that we could make one good one out of. I will try to post some pictures.
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Take a grease gun with you and grease the heck out of the wheels. They only have a bushing or a roller bearing in them. Not a tapered
bearing. Probably don't want to drive too fast.
 
Tom OConnor, that is a beautiful job you did there! I would be afraid to use that combine it looks so nice!

(quoted from post at 04:15:02 05/03/17) Take a grease gun with you and grease the heck out of the wheels. They only have a bushing or a roller bearing in them. Not a tapered
bearing. Probably don't want to drive too fast.

They are bushings, and that is why we made the decision to move it a few miles down the road to where it is sitting now. This weekend I am going back to get it with a trailer. We will be welding some heavy C channel to the sides of an old bulldozer trailer I own to make it wide enough to back the combine onto safely, and use cribbing and plenty of chains to keep her in place.
 

Mr. Jones,

Don't worry there is nothing in my collection that will ever go back to the field again, not that they couldn't, they run like they were new, but they have done their share of work and will spend the rest of their life hopefully in a collection or a museum. Tom
 

Mr. Jones,

Don't worry there is nothing in my collection that will ever go back to the field again, not that they couldn't, they run like they were new, but they have done their share of work and will spend the rest of their life hopefully in a collection or a museum. Tom
 

Mr. Jones,

Don't worry there is nothing in my collection that will ever go back to the field again, not that they couldn't, they run like they were new, but they have done their share of work and will spend the rest of their life hopefully in a collection or a museum. Tom
 
That is probably one of the nicest restored combines in existence. Nice work. I wouldn't take to the field either. But that is why I don't restore my combines. I want to use them.
 
(reply to post at 00:33:05 05/05/17)

Very nice
Awesome job
But I want to use mine
I want to play in the big sand pile with my toys
We plant wheat every year just so I can call my friends and say
Come play
Bring your toys
I'm hoping to have 15 different combines running at
The same time in the same field this year
Anyway nice work
Doug
 
Wow!! I wish I had that many friends with combines to come harvest wheat! So far it's just me and 1 other guy with Allis drag combines.
 
I know where there is a 65 pull type, PTO driven, setting outside but still looks good, and all there, and a 105 gas, one of the last ones made.The 105 is inside, that's mine, the 65 is a neighbor's.
 
not much fun to look at an unused combine even with an expo paint job, but when chaff and dust start coming out the
back and grain starts filling the tank then it gets a whole lot more interesting, this goes for corn pickers balers, ect. also
 
I was able to bring the combine home safe and sound today. Making the trailer wider was the way to go, and made the trip far more tolerable (and faster). My 1947 Allis Chalmers WC had its hands full backing it into my machine shop. Looks like my Farmall 400 will get to run this combine in the future instead.

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