Modern day grain harvesting - NOT!

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Here's me Sunday binding oats with an old John Deere binder. Age not known, but at least 70 years, probably many more. Got some parts from an Amish man who had a derelict salvage machine in his pasture. Thanks to DIL's Aunt Cindy for taking pictures. Now I gotta shock (stook?) all that - about 5 acres. Got a couple days work ahead of me.

rrlund · Aug 2, 2017

Geez,you cut on Sunday and didn't even break anything. I couldn't even grind feed that morning and accomplish that. lol

KEB in GCMS · Aug 2, 2017

I like seeing the old machinery being used.

ss55 · Aug 2, 2017

Where are you located? I'm surprised your weather was cool enough that you needed to wear a jacket in late July, or was that just for protection from mosquitoes?

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Just a long sleeved shirt for sun protection. Was in the 80's that day.

rusty6 · Aug 2, 2017

Not many working binders left around here. I've got several derelicts in various stages of salvage. Wonder if I could make one working model out of them all? I see yours is pto drive.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 2, 2017

I like your picture. Grain looks to be well advanced. I still have my Grandpa's MH binder , tucked away in a shed. Brothers were just going to send it to scrap when we cleaned out my Dad's place. So I dragged it home , some days I wonder why .

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Nope, ground drive with a heavy old bull wheel. Never saw a horse equipped with a pto option. Did see a two wheel cart which ground drove a pto once. Would sure like a pto binder. This one is borrowed. Think I am the only user, as I end up making the repairs.

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Who said I didn't break anything? Somewhere out in that field there is a strap and buckle off one of the canvass aprons. Going to have to repair before next season. Anyone got a source of those 1" metal buckles and 3/4" #8 coppe rivets? They're getting scarce around here.

Leroy · Aug 2, 2017

Would that buckle be the same as used on harnes for a horse? If so I think I could get them easy.

rrlund · Aug 2, 2017

Did you go to Bush's to look for those rivets? I don't know where to look for the ones I know I have here somewhere.

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Fits on inch cloth strap. Two piece metal. One pirce is buckle, other is a metal flapper with teeth which grab strap when pulled through.

casecollectorsc · Aug 2, 2017

I had my wife drive while I rode the binder. 4 on the carrier then drop and 8 in a shock.

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Got some at the old hardware in Stanton. My hardware in Six Lakes says they can't get them anymore. Think they were NOS, suspect when they're gone, they're gone.

mjbrown · Aug 2, 2017

The men who had spent years cutting grain with a sythe and cradle probably thought they had died and gone to heaven when they got a binder.

K Effective · Aug 2, 2017

Gotta love the ingenuity and engineering ability of folks back then, creating tools to save time and labor to such a degree. Every time I see the baler tie knots I wonder how it was developed.

430WLPG · Aug 2, 2017

I have a lot of NOS John Deere binder parts

RayP(MI) · Aug 2, 2017

Knotters on grain binders are very similar to knotters on today's balers, with the exception of addition of twine fingers to gather twines before tieing knot. Same exact process. Guy who invented them was a genius.

ILB · Aug 2, 2017

Please send me an e-mail. I have a binder parts question. ILB

Modern day grain harvesting - NOT!

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