Picture For Today - McCormick Grain Binder

John B. · Jan 21, 2013

I've been going thru some of my books and decided to scan and share some of the pretty pictures. Hope you enjoy this one and others to come...

Wheat Farmer · Jan 21, 2013

I do enjoy the photo. In the Mid to late 50's my Dad bought the last binder the IHC dealer in Ogallala, NE sold. I still have the owner manuals for it and the one he had before that on. Dad road the binder and I (10 years old)drove the MD IHC tractor. Some place a have a photo of the first one being pulled with a F20. It is a strange photo and I think it must have been taken from a neighbors J-3 Cub.

Wheat Farmer · Jan 21, 2013

I do enjoy the photo. In the Mid to late 50's my Dad bought the last binder the IHC dealer in Ogallala, NE sold. I still have the owner manuals for it and the one he had before that on. Dad road the binder and I (10 years old)drove the MD IHC tractor. Some place a have a photo of the first one being pulled with a F20. It is a strange photo and I think it must have been taken from a neighbors J-3 Cub.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 21, 2013

Nice pic. I still give shed space to my Dad's MH binder.

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 21, 2013

There are two of those out back in the machinery pile. The adjustable height wheel adjusters still both hanging in the machine shed. I assume they were removed for transport.

RayP(MI) · Jan 21, 2013

That looks for all the world like the Deere binder we use each summer. Almost identical.
Just change the paint -what's left of it!

JayinNY · Jan 21, 2013

That's a neat pic, thanks for posting

Tom in NE · Jan 21, 2013

Dad had one and used it until the middle 1960's. I can remember the shocks it used to make that we would stand up like little teepees. It got twisted up some in a tornado and I can remember Dad trying to straighten it up by chaining it to a big tree and pulling the kinks out of it with another log chain and tractor. The binder never worked again after the tornado.

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 21, 2013

PIcture of one binder from 9 years ago, its deeper in the dirt and the trees are bigger. When it was parked it was a field. This pictue there was a tractor width road. Now you can barely walk for the brush. (note the wheel in the shed must be off another one)

Bill(Wis) · Jan 21, 2013

"The adjustable height wheel adjusters still both hanging in the shed. I assume they were removed for transport." Could you possibly be referring to the two transport wheels which were actually use for the transport of the machine? The way I visually interpreted your remark was in reference to the two steel wheels that were attached only when transporting the machine either on the road or through narrow gates and finally used to place the machine in the shed. One was attached to the rear of the machine at the operators end of the grain platform and the other was attached to the front of the machine directly across from it. Then, the tongue was removed and placed under the grain platform perpendicular to the direction depicted above. The "grain wheel" was raised up to accomodate this. Then, either horses or tractor was hooked up and machine was backed up to allow the wheels to elevate the machine to get the "bull wheel" off the ground. The transport wheels were then locked in place and away we went. Narrower than before. (;>))
P.S. We had two tongues for ours. One short for tractor use and one long for horses.

Bill(Wis) · Jan 21, 2013

We were both posting at the same time. That wheel in the front in the dirt is what I was referring to and the grain wheel as well as the bull wheel in the picture appear to have been raised up to allow transport.

Paul from MI · Jan 21, 2013

I remember a grain drill that my Dad and a neighbor shared in the 40's and early 50's. The neighbor farmed with horses, Dad had his old Allis B. Neither one ever planted more than 5-8 acres at a time, but they had two tongues, one for the horses and the other for a tractor. They wouldn't dream of borrowing horses or tractor from each other, so they changed tongues all the time. I still remember riding on those old horses, hanging on to the brass knobs on the collars. Seemed like their backs were about 3 feet wide to a four year old kid.

The Dukester · Jan 21, 2013

I rode a McCormick Deering 10 ft. tractor binder many a day in my high school days of 1947-1949. One of the guys in our tractor club now has a nice McCormick-Deering 10 ft. PTO grain binder we cut grain we thresh with our 1930 Avery Thresher. Another nearby club has a real jewel...a Deering horse drawn 7 footer from about 1917-1918. It works pretty good too. They pull it real slowly with a John Deere 50 tractor in low gear just puttin' along. You haven't worked and sweat until you have to shock the bundles from a grain binder on nice, warm, humid summer mornings.

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