Posted by KEB1 on April 22, 2011 at 14:57:13 from (192.31.106.35):
In Reply to: OT: Binders! posted by CLTX on April 22, 2011 at 13:26:01:
When International Harvester was formed from the merger of the McCormick & Deering harvester companies, plus several smaller companies, the resulting company had something like 90% of the worldwide grain binder market. This was long before the advent of the combine, and the normal grain harvesting process was to cut and bind the grain into sheaves, stack them and let them dry in the field, then bring the sheaves to a central location for threshing.
Hence, IH products have been referred to ever since as "binders", or "corn binders". The term doesn't seem to be used as much since IH was broken up in the 80's.
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