List Of Early SP Combines That Are In Short Suppy?

I have some friends that run a tractor-combine salvage yard and they buy alot out in Kansas.They ran in to a junker out there last summer that said hes 75 farms behind on cleaning up everything on them.Thats an area that not that many years ago had tons of 1940s-50's model SP combines.They were sitting everywhere.

Heres my list of combines that possibly are down to 100 or less decent ones in existence.I'm not counting parts combines.

T Gleaner-a one year production combine where I find more without engines than ones that have an engine.They are a high demand combine.What will the dandy one in Illinois bring?

Early A Gleaner with flathead Ford 6 engine-very few seem to be left.I'm lucky to know where ones at but he still uses it!

100 Allis SP-Probably some over 100 left yet but it seems to be a real high demand combine.The AC collectors are very active.

Massey-Harris 20-Deffinitely well less than 100 are left as not that many were built.Most are probably already in collectors hands.I would consider them the most desirable and most valuable of any SP built.

Massey-Harris 21 with Canvas platform-they are hard to find!

Massey Harris Clipper SP-They seem to be in very short supply and several are wanting me to find them one.Most were junked years ago as they werent all that great.

Oliver 33-The 1st Oliver SP and and few seemed to survive.

SP-9,SP-12,120,150 Case SP combines-Looks to me like not all that many have survived as they probably werent the greatest combine ever built.

IHC 123-125-127-most of the old turtle back IH's seem to have been junked years ago.Finding a restorable one is very hard to do.Looks like I have one bought out in Kansas for $100 but its missing the original gravity dump grain bin.Ouch!!!!

Moel S MM-You are going to look long and hard to find one thats restorable.They werent that great of a combine and lots bit the dust 30 years ago.

Cockshutt-CO-OP 110-112-115-132-137-Again they arent real plentiful except up in Canada.

Ford 611-a low production combine thats hard to find.

There seems to be quite a few early MH (21-A ,Super 27's-etc)
and JD SP (45-55) combines left so dont have them on the list.

If only 100 or each of the above combines are still left yet most wont be in high demand until we get about 110 combine collectors each wanting one.Thats when the price will go up.Right now lots of combines can still be had for free or junk price.

Lets hear some comments.If you disagree say so and state why..I'm trying to get some discussion going on here.

Heres a 20 MH in Canada.I'll try and find pictures of the MM's.I have sales lit for them.

A few 1972 L's lived through this, proving themselves worthy to keep on the farm. However, age and wear have taken even further toll, pushing these last survivors further to the edge of total extinction.

1972 was the first year of the Model L. The L was the first combine to usher in the age of electromagnetic controls, push buttons, new ergonomic standards and more.

The rust belt starts in eastern Kansas and goes clear to the east coast.Any 1940's-50's combine that has sat out for 30-40 years in this vast area is a rusted out hulk and isnt even restorable.Remember that rusted out 21-A Massey I showed on here.Thats what we have to deal with here.I need to get down to my neighbors and take a picture of his 33 Oliver thats sat out for 40 years.Its sad.Quite a few of the model 35-40 Oliver combines seem to have survived.

40-50 year old barn kept combines are few and far between in this area and on east.From the pictures I've seen you post on here,your combines that have sat out look better than the always shedded ones around here.

I've been to the west coast 3 times in the past 11 years and every time we go I see less and less old combines sitting around.Every year I get over a huge area of Oklahoma,Nebraska,Kansas,and MO driving the back roads and dont find much old stuff.We can still find 60's and 70's stuff but nothing much older thats worth having.

I'm afraid that if I lived in Montana I'd have 160 acres full of old SP combines.(grin)Grab me a few pictures in your travels so I can add them to my combine photo album.Thanks,I always enjoy your comments and pictures.

By the way I like your Big Bud that you just bought.