Antiques doing bean harvest.

Helped our son finish his soybean harvest today--with the forecast it is always good to get the beans done! He has a Deere 9600 an I still have my old Deere 8820. The 9600 is a 1989 and the 8820 is a 1979 so I guess they can be called antiques. We have a 925 on the 8820 and a 930 on the 9600 so we take 55 ft. every time across the field. There was a farm sale last spring 5 mi. from Me and a better 8820 sold for $3000 and a newer 925 head brought $2000. So that is why I keep the old girl-junk price. The 9600 I bought 5 yr. ago for $17000 and the 930 head for $3300 on auction time and sold it to our son when he took over---so we don't have much invested at todays prices. When you hear a new draper head is around $100000 and both our outfits together are not worth $25000. The grain cart I bought new in 1982. At the time I had a Deere 3300 and my Dad had a Deere 7700.He traded for the 8820 so I traded the 3300 in on the cart. When he died in 88 I bought the 8820 on Mom's farm sale.......Thanks----Tee The duct tape is what I put on the windshield of my combine when I pull my Honda big red behind it when we go to another farm---Can you guess why???????

Where are the antiques? Those are the same machines were have here.

Looks good to me ! Considering the price of corn wheat and beans , you have about the right $$ invested in equipment , in relation to the value of the harvested crop.

Here's my two but I do not consider them antiques!

Heck, those are really new compared to my JI Case 1660s. I ran them until last year when I upgraded to a 91 1640 Case-IH. Still use a 1660 for wheat.

You put the duct tape on to remind you not to back up....


Do I get a prize?

The local Deere dealer has a combine thing every Summer--used to have two sessions, one for the 20 series and one for the newer ones. Now they don't even mention the 20's. At todays standard they are old-one is 27 yrs. and one is 37 yrs. old. The picture of the wife and myself doing corn was 5 yr. ago-we don't use it in corn.

YES you do.. I built a front fold 20 in. planter years ago and had a hitch on the back to pull the 3 wheeler. Had a 300 gal. fert. tank mounted length wise on the middle of the planter so I couldn't see the back. Well when I got to the new field I pushed the lever to unfold it but it wouldn't unfold all the way---DAH, it hit me. Ran the handle bars of the Honda through the 2 seed boxes as it unfolded. DUMB ME!!! Had a roll of duct tape with me-taped them up and away I went. So now I leave myself notes.----------Tee

I have the antique ones in the shed, the 78 combine and 75 tractor are new to me, LOL. Rod.

Where are the antiques? All I see is two newer machines doing a good job. If you want an antique come ride a few rounds in my 1969 Deere 95 and 105 machines. Just finished the second day of beans and think I will be rained out today. Nice pics thanks for posting. Tom

casecollectorsc has the best antiques.great looking machines. RB

What antiques? Those are new machines.

that Case looks pretty nice.

Good looking machines. Be sure to watch the waterpump on that 9600. They will leak antifreeze into the engine.

You are right-THANKS. They talk about that problem on New Ag Talk alot----Tee

I was going to say the same thing. A 1995 9500 combine, a 650 cart, and a 4440. In beans that cart will make the old 4440 grunt - both pulling and unloading!