Bought a IHC corn binder today

FarmboyBill · #1 09/27/09, 09:03 PM

Got to see it operate. It bound 0ver 50 bundles, or shocks, depending on what part of the country ya come from. Never missed a one. He said it had only missed one in 600 cause when he got to the end of the field he didnt raise it and the knife fouled on the mud. Dont know what that would have to do with binding, but. He gave me 6 balls of binder twine. Thats more than ill ever use, FOR ANYTHING> Cost. $1500. It has the high elevator so that a hay rack can be drivein alongside it and the bundles will drop off at around waist highth. It also came with the toungue trucks, tho he hadnt used them.

**Ross** · #2 09/27/09, 09:30 PM

Wow can't be many of them in working order left! What are you thinking of doing with it?

Windy in Kansas · #3 09/27/09, 10:20 PM

Ross I think you would be surprised at how many are still around and still in working order.

I've never seen a corn binder at work. We owned a McCormick-Deering grain binder that we used to cut our sorghum crop. In a lush year it was tough to get the grain binder to handle the tall feed but generally got it done.

I know where there is a John Deere (at least that is what I remember it was) that is for sale, shedded and in good shape. I've been keeping my mouth shut and hope to buy it someday but not until I've got a shed to keep it in. It would be a disservice to buy it and then let it set outside.

Nothing quite as farm like as a pretty field of shocked feed. This feed is normally topped by holding the bundle tops against the raised header of a combine, then the feed is used and the grain sold for seed. http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...scan0032-1.jpg

Some call the shocks of feed stooks. Regional it seems. Never heard them called that until within the last few years.

**fordson major** · #4 09/28/09, 07:59 AM

i would love too find a pto powered one!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12867541@N06/3910495289/
there is a pto powered rubber tired JD binder for sale in new york state! get an A or B (or newer!) and you would have a nice combo!

uncle Will in In. · #5 09/28/09, 10:35 AM

GOOLEE Bill <> Are you going to put up some fodder shocks? You'll need a team and wagon to run alongside to catch the bundles. I know you don't want to drop them on the ground as they come out of the binder. The Amish use them to cut fodder to fill silo. The ensilage cutter is hooked to the blower at the silo. They power the cutter/blower with steel wheeled tractors.

The binders they make shocks with have a bundle carrier on the side just like grain binders have.
They dump the bundles in rows and stand them up later in fodder shocks which are in rows.

The shocks are hauled in to the buildings later in the fall when the ears have dried well. They are run through a corn shredder which shucks out the ears and chops up the fodder. The fodder is blown into a mow or other building for stock cattle feed and bedding. The ears are shoveled into an ear corn crib to be ground later for dairy cow feed.

We live in a totaly different world now than when I was around that way of farming. Miss it. Unk

FarmboyBill · #6 09/29/09, 07:28 PM

I bought a husker shredder this spring. For the same amount $1,500 from S. S Dak. Im going to let the corn dry entirely then bind it then run it through the husker shredder, put the corn in the crib and blow the shredded corn in a wire silo. Its got to be wide dia, as the shredder dosent blow to alful high. QUESTION The gatherer boards ar without a BIT of paint. What Im wondering is, should I paint it and then put a hardener on it, or put the hardener on first followed by the paint, or hardener, paint, hardener paint, hardener, or paint followed by haredener, followed by paint, followed by hardener. ALSO, What kind of hardener would u use? Other than the gatherer boards, and the WELL oiled boards below them, the iron work and most of the rest of the wood, the paint work is in remarkably good shape, faded red on the frame, and faded yellow wheels. It must be a later one as it has a roller chain on it. Someone has put a small wheel that may or may not have had origionally, ? shaped cleats on it. It has the high elevated conveyor so that somone on a hay rack can take the shocks off at waist level, but the previous owner didnt use it and so its come seperated from the binder, and I dont see how it fits on. It has a big faced wheel that rides below the conveyor, a crazy wheel.

haypoint · #7 09/30/09, 08:22 AM

I sold an old corn binder last year for $75. Still worked, but some of the sheet metal was rusted through. Steel wheels and not PTO.

Last fall, I visited an Amish farm when they were filling their silo. Boys with a wagon and team of horses would go out into the field and pick up the shocks of corn, fill their wagon. Hard work throwing all those bundles.
Then they'd wait in line behind the other wagons. Eventually, they'd get up to the chopper/blower and pitch the bundles into it. More hard work. Once the wagon was empty, back to the field they'd go.
Hard work with lots of resting time in between.
At lunch time, the horses were put in the barn and fed. The boys ate lunch and laid around the front lawn for nearly an hour, before resuming their work.