Posted by jimb2 on September 24, 2019 at 18:02:38 from (174.114.155.238):
In Reply to: Re: Iowa........ corn posted by tomstractorsandtoys on September 24, 2019 at 14:39:16:
My Dad bought one of the first IH #15 in about 1956. The IH Block Man spent a lot of time having it fixed the first fall, mostly problems with the gathering chains on the row crop head and the sealed bearings failing after corn juice leaked into them and destroyed the lubricant. On the early #15s only the upper gathering chain had a method to tighten the chain. The bottom and middle chain you were supposed to wait until it became loose enough to remove a link and install a special half link before the chains would become loose enough to put the special link in they would jump off the front sprocket and jamb and sometimes before the slip clutch would slip the gathering chain would break and end up going thru the cutter head ruining the cutter head knives and a load of silage. IH was very good they replaced all the parts free but my Dad had about a dozen custom jobs to be done and could not afford the down time. So about half way thru his custom jobs IH Block Man called one evening and said bring your pickup to the IH Dealer and we will give you an update kit. The update kit was a complete new row crop unit with gathering chain tighteners on all chains, grease zerks on some critical bearings, more support for bearings on some shafts, new bearings and mounts with grease zerks for cutter head and a corn break over attachment that my Dad had been complaining to the Block Man about the lack of as his old NH had one.
We spent a whole rainy day in the barn floor installing all the new parts and it was a good machine after that. Dad traded for an IH #16 in about 1962/63 and used it for about 10 years with very little problem other than normal ware parts.
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