What can you tell me about this International Thresher?

Beatles65 · Feb 17, 2011

I have found this old International Thresher. What can you tell me about it? It is not complete as the insides are all gutted out, and there is no way to find whats missing because this is the way the owner bought it. He was just going to cut it up and haul it in until I told him that I was interested. The price is $150. I thought that I would save it and use it as yard art or maybe even put a floor in it and place honey bee hives in it. You could get a lot of colonies in that thing!
It is roughly 20 feet long.
Does anyone know what year it is?
Model number?

I also thought that it would look great being pulled behind my new 1923 McCormick Deering 15-30.

Thanks for all the info!
From Denton, Nebraska.
Andrew Kean.

J.Wondergem · Feb 17, 2011

You say it's 200 feet long???? I was looking for some wheels in the middle of it.

Doug Wi · Feb 17, 2011

I ran mine over the scrappers scale . Got $425 for it. It was mostly all there. Think it weighed about 5700. At $150 its a cheap lawn ornament. Do you have a wife and what does she think of the idea?

Don Mac · Feb 17, 2011

We had one working last weekend at our Vintage Harvest Festival, threshing barley. It is what we would call a 'tin mill', a stationary threshing machine, run of the pto wheel of a stationary tractor by belt drive. Here is the picture of one in operation and you identify the key parts.
The barley was harvested by a reaper and brought to the mill by truck, then fed into the mill for threshing and then bagging.

Leroy · Feb 18, 2011

From what I can see it looks like there is enough missing on the outside it would not even look good in a parade. Looks like the complete blower is missing.

Art Massing · Feb 18, 2011

Beatles,
There’s not much of it left. The parts manual says that the IHC steel separators only came in two sizes: 22-38 and 28-46. You can measure the width of the cylinder and the shaker beds to confirm yours.
IHC made these separators until 1955. I'm not sure they had serial numbers.

I’ve attached a picture of mine from last August.

Good luck with your project!

Art

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