My Barn Yard

sjerden · Jul 25, 2011

I collect antique farm equipment. Here's a photo of my barn yard with a Case Power Binder, IHC corn binder, IHC #7 mower and an IHC manure spreader. My barn, machine shed/grainery and house were built in 1886. The old farm equipment fits in well.

johnk · Jul 25, 2011

Nice looking Barn and old equipment. Amazing how fast time passes.......

sjerden · Jul 25, 2011

Here's a shot of the inside. Hand-hewn, wood-peg, mortice and tenon construction. Still a sturdy barn after 125 years. I have boards in the hayloft that are 1X20" 7 foot long. Its full of the old equipment right now. I keep it inside and only take it out on nice days. Some of the old steel has to stay outside year round. I collect old barn wood also. Have a lot of it in the hayloft.

bullbreaker · Jul 25, 2011

sjerden said:
I collect antique farm equipment.

Sjerden:These are old farm equipment pics I posted from Pioneer Museum about 15 miles down road from me.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/photos/177709-older-implement-attachment-pics.html
Check out permalinks #1,#4, and #7.

Boone

tcreeley · Jul 25, 2011

I like it. -Old milking barns make me nostalgic - with the whitewash.
I love the mortice/peg work in old barns

sjerden · Jul 25, 2011

Here's how it looks full of equipment. Notice the original paint on the binders. I've got a bundle conveyor for the corn binder. It's all wood and pretty rare.

jimmyj · Jul 26, 2011

Neat post. Love that old stuff. I'm glad you are taking care of it. Too often it gets ruined or junked for scrap up here. And the old barns that nobody takes care of any more, makes me sad...

sjerden · Jul 26, 2011

Nobody wants this stuff here in Southern Illinois. If it ain't green, and new paint its just junk to the farmers around here. I get it cheap and I like it. Paid $50 dollars for the Case grain binder. It was going to the scrap yard. I started collecting steel-wheeled farm equipment in Nov 2005 and things just started showing up.

First piece I found was this McCormick Drill. Pulled it home Nov 26th 2005 from around Carlyle lake.

jimmyj · Jul 26, 2011

sjerden said:
Nobody wants this stuff here in Southern Illinois. If it ain't green, and new paint its just junk to the farmers around here. I get it cheap and I like it. Paid $50 dollars for the Case grain binder. It was going to the scrap yard. I started collecting steel-wheeled farm equipment in Nov 2005 and things just started showing up.

Same thing around here. I wish I had the space to make my own museum. I saw an amazing threshing machine (with original paint, all the belts, store inside) sell for $100 last year.

sjerden · Jul 26, 2011

Here's about the rarest thing I have. Its a Dane Safety Steel Corn Cutter. Its the first invention that mechanized corn harvesting. Two men sat on it and shocked corn as the blades cut it. Before this was the corn knife. I got seats for this recently. The Dane Tractor was John Deere's first tractor.

sjerden · Jul 26, 2011

Then there's my Gundlach shovel, or hoe drill. Its about as rare as the Dane corn cutter. Got this last October from a farmer in Confidence IL, about 10 miles from me. That's him spraying for wasps after he got it out of the rafters in his barn using his backhoe.

It was his grandfather's drill. Its a walk-behind operation. You would have to manually lift and latch the shovels at each turn, then lower them by hand on the next row.

idaho2 · Jul 26, 2011

sjerden,

Is the corn binder a McCormick Deering. Does it have the side seat. I used one of those a couple of years when I was a preteen until dad got a two row JD. Do you have more pics of that corn binder. Sure does bring back memories that I had forgotten. Thank You

Warren

sjerden · Jul 27, 2011

I have two of them. Both are IHC. I think International Harvester Corporation and McCormick used to be the same company back then. One has the side seat with the foot rest. Here's a picture of my second one. Its missing the lower pick-up chains. Both have had the tounge cut off, adapted for a tractor.

idaho2 · Jul 27, 2011

sjerden,

Thanks. When I rode the seat I was memerized by the gears when tying the the bundle. Keep posting any new finds. Out here in PNW I have yet to see one in the open.

Again thanks for the pic.

idaho2

sjerden · Jul 27, 2011

My Case Power Binder in front of the barn. Here its on its two wheel cart for pulling down the road.

tcreeley · Jul 28, 2011

I found this piece of hardware in the dirt when I was lowering/leveling my old driveway. I assume there was wood attached at one time. Old iron rusts and stops rusting. The threaded portion could have been hand forged from half round stock, welded and threaded. The collar piece almost looks cast. Does anybody have a clue what this could have come from? There is no wear on the iron that I see. It looks light duty, but utilitarian.

sjerden · Jul 29, 2011

tcreeley said:
I found this piece of hardware in the dirt when I was lowering/leveling my old driveway. I assume there was wood attached at one time. Old iron rusts and stops rusting. The threaded portion could have been hand forged from half round stock, welded and threaded. The collar piece almost looks cast. Does anybody have a clue what this could have come from? There is no wear on the iron that I see. It looks light duty, but utilitarian.

Looks like some kind of handle with a loop to hang it with. Since it has a nut on the other end, it must have been a short piece of wood. I'd say it was something like a whisk broom.

Western · Jul 29, 2011

jimmyj said:
Neat post. Love that old stuff. I'm glad you are taking care of it. Too often it gets ruined or junked for scrap up here. And the old barns that nobody takes care of any more, makes me sad...

X's 2 Sad how much of that stuff has no meaning to allot of our population, some nice barns have been destroyed for little to no reason, some for decorative wood and some be cause they don't match the $250,000 house.