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Wade
11-02-2004 18:37:06
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Re: Still looking !!!!!!!!! in reply to Dave in S MN, 11-02-2004 13:07:07
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well i also like talking about old pull type combines, as i don't know all that much about them. but i'm learning quickly. when people say they have a real nice machine, usally it means a total rebuild if you buy it... I would love to find a nice (((all there, no parts missing))) machine in the woods. I would like a 72 or 90 allcrop. i found an all crop but its over 100 miles away. the guy said the head needed a total rebuild, and gave a picture of the rear end of the machine??? if i was selling somthing i would take more than one picture. I went and looked at an IH 80 combine for 495 dollars. would like to take it because i liked the guy he was real friendly. but it also needed a total rebuild. small dents all over it looked as if it was never cleaned since the day it was bought. it had dirt on it and there was grass growing in the dirt. it had it hooked up to an oliver. it looked as if it worked just fine but i did noticed that the sickel bar, and the head had a bow up in the middle. i don't know if thats common. i know on haybines they useally bow back or down. it also looked as if the auger had dirt in it i mean real dirty. he used it on soybeans. no one said much about the IH''s so i think i'm going to pass on it. I think i could have gotten the allcrop for scap iron price but its so far away. if it was good it wouldn't matter but since it is bad 100 mile would take along time to get home and you mite find more wrong with it i didn't even see it. I seen an add in the paper for a JD 7721 pulltype combine, i was kinda curious (because i thought for sure it was selfpro) they said no, its a pulltype with a pto, they said its the same machine as the selfpro. but pulltype. they said they used a 4 row corn head on it and a 13 grain head. but someone else that came and looked at it said it would handle a 6 row corn head that thats what he would be useing it for. but since its still for sale mybe he didn't want it. well anyways this machine comes with no heads at all, and they want 8,000 dollars for it. they said the SP''s are going for about 10-12 thousand. they think its worth 8. they told me this and i didn't even ask about the price yet. I want to use it on 30-60 acres. i don't think i want to spend quite that much. but i guess what really gets me is that i get calls about combines i don't really want like 60's and 66's i mean i would take one thats in mint shape but these people call me and say they have a nice one and it just needs to be polished up and you could use it for show. but its field read the way it is. and you go and look at it and you can tell it was just pulled out of the woods. i mean really theres on canvases at all. the wood is rotted off. one had a small tree stump in the sickel bar you could tell he used a chainsaw and cut it as close to the sickel as posable. you could see it was grown in the sickel but the guy insisted that he used it last year and that must be a pieace of fire would that stuck on the sickel as he drove in out of the barn. but i got one better yet last week i went and look at a 66 i got a call about it he said i heard you were looking for a combine i said yes, he told me he used it last year YOU KNOW THE FAMOUS LAST YEAR. he told me where he lived and then it hit me i know this machine i think i use to see an old allis in the woods next to the road. well not saying anything about that to the man, you know because you don't know exactly because it was years ago. and you don't really notice anymore when you seldom drive by. and you never think about it. well i told him i'd stop by. well i did, you will not believe this , i mean WOW. big trees cut down were it use to be and stacked up for fire wood. the machine sitting not 50 feet from where it was in the woods you could see the drag marks in the dirt, a tire gone off the rim. the tire still sitting in the woods. me man came down his drive way and his first words out of his mouth were i lost the tire on the way down here from the barn. i listened to is bull not saying a word the entire time and at the end i told him i would have to think about it. i mean i could not even believe this i just got in my truck told my dad who went with me i'm sorry i told you i thought it probly was that one in the woods. and said nothing else and drove away, well about a mile down the road my dad broke out laughing. not usally my dad. and said well i see it all now. it was worth the trip. he went through all that work and came up with this big lye. to try to make a buck because he heard someone wanted a combine. he deserves it. well i'm still looking
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