Did you know IH built silo unloadersdryers?

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 6, 2017

I have a late 60's to early 70's IH dealer sales manual. Inside it shows the IH model 90 silo unloader,model 290 auger conveyor and the 2000 silage feeder.The silage equipment is dated June 1965. It also has a section on IH liquid manure pumps and spreaders.It also show a No.10 continuous flow grain dryer. It is dated 1964. I guess IH had to keep up with John Deere who sold silo unloaders,conveyors,silage feeders and crop dryers as well. The IH dryer was made by someone else as I have seen pics other places but do not remember who. Tom

GreenEnvy · Mar 6, 2017

I didn't know JD built silo unloaders until I bought a late 60s JD modern farming magazine off of ebay. I also didn't know IH built or sold a self propelled sprayer in a neighbor gave me his 1976 IH buyers guide.

730virgil · Mar 6, 2017

i have been told at one time john deere sold silos, does anyone know anything about that?

GreenEnvy · Mar 6, 2017

I thought I read that too somewhere. I think it was back in the early 1800s or late 1900s.

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 6, 2017

This book also has the self propelled IH sprayers.I knew of a small Deere dealer in western PA who told me he sold over a dozen Deere silo unloaders and a couple of silage feeders. Tom

oleclint · Mar 6, 2017

Yes, John Deere did sell wooden silos 'way back when'. They had there own wrenches to tighten the hoops or bands.A very good J D collector item today.

International Harvestor bought there grain dryers from Hume Fry co. of Mendota, Ill. We ran two of them together , many yrs ago. They were very econmical dryers. No problem drying wheat or grain sourgum as well as corn or beans.In fact they were designed in Garden City, Ks.Big Milo country. clint

Dick2 · Mar 7, 2017

My grandpa lived in Iowa from 1912 to 1918; during that time he designed and patented a wooden overshot hay stacker. He made some and sold them around the neighborhood. John Deere learned of it, came out and bought his patent - then told him that he couldn't make any more stackers, even for himself! After he moved to ND in 1918, he figured that JD would never find out about it so he made a stacker for himself and two for my Dad and his brother when they started farming. We used that stacker until Dad bought a Case hand-tie wire baler in 1947.

I don't know if JD ever made or sold any of those stackers though.

coonie minnie · Mar 7, 2017

The Deere silo unloader was made by somebody else, and marketed by Deere. I can't remember who... but there was one in Green Magazine a few years back, perhaps in the "Do you have one?" Section.

Deere also made (marketed) a TMR mixer for a couple of years. It was built by Roto-mix, and sold by Deere.

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 7, 2017

Are you sure Deere bought their unloaders from someone else? They had a very different design that used a torque arm mounted to the silo door. My sales brochures and literature show it as a Deere product built at the spreader works in Moline. At that time (mid 1960's) I do not think Deere bought anything from outside companies. Tom

Donald Lehman · Mar 7, 2017

New Holland built silo unloaders back in the late 1950's-early 1960's, also. We had two of them. They shoulda stuck to building balers............

(smile)

pete 23 · Mar 7, 2017

If IH didn't build something, you didn't need it . I guess you could say that was another one of their reasons for their demise.

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