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Can anyone tell me who manufactured this plow clevis and type of plow; walk/sit behind? Any information would be much appreciated.
McCormick Deering could be the manufacturer. This plow clevis looks to be for a horse drawn plow, most likely a walk behind plow.
This appears to be horse drawn since there is a seat on the front. I'm not sure what it is or what it is used for. Perhaps harvesting?
Does anybody have an idea? I've included a recent picture as well as one from the 1950s. Thanks!
I asked my husband about this photo of farm macinery because of an age factor and he knew it to be a "manure spreader". When barn is cleaned out of manure, it is then taken to the fields and spread out which enriches the soil.
Can anyone tell me what this equipment was used for and its age? My guess is a harrow or plow.
It looks like a two-wheeled cultivator. It would have been used after plowing an area, to further break apart clods of soil to make ready for planting. It would also be used to knock down weeds and aerate the soil surface around a planted crop.
Hello, I just bought a piece of land in this piece of equipment is on it. I don't want it and would like to get rid of it but I would like to know exactly what it is and what is the value is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Looks like a McCormick Deering Thresher. These were made as early as the 1920's - Yours may be from the 1940's but International made these machines for several years.
Overall condition - any missing parts? - will have a big effect on the value as well as where this item is located.
The majority of vintage farm equipment items are sold at 'farm' auctions so you would need to find out if there are any auctions like this in your traveling area - of course, you would have to have a suitable truck/trailer to haul it to the auction site.
You can Google your state/area for farm equipment auctions to locate something around your area.
You may be able to ask for value information on this site. You can join and present question and pictures and information to see what suggestions they have. These auctions are usually only held once or twice a year.
This looks like a nicer model sold in Canada in 2016.. 1,500 CAD
www.bidspotter.com/
This one sold in 2020 for $1,700 but has a lot of newer parts.
bid.aumannauctions.com/
This is a very good site to ask for information but it takes a few tries to find out what you want to know. You'll have to ask for help with loading pictures but you will receive fast answers here.
They will need to know where you are located.
www.reddit.com/
gggd is right. This is a McCormick Deering Thresher. Your thresher is a comparatively small model - 22x38, it would have been used to harvest clover, oats, wheat and flax on small farms.
McCormick-Deering was never a "company" itself, but the trademark name of a line of tractors and farm machinery manufactured by the International Harvester Company (IHC). IHC was formed from the 1902 merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company and three smaller manufactures: Milwaukee; Plano; and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner.
McCormick-Deering produced wood threshers from 1912 to 1925. In 1925 the company built its first steel thresher.
It's great that you have added photos of your thresher's number. By the number, I can determine the year of manufacture of your thresher. The first digits 22 and 38 are the size of your thresher. The year is encrypted in a letter at the end. Your thresher has N. The letter N was used in 1923 and 1938. In 1923, threshers were manufactured with a wooden bunker.
The price varies. Here is the same size thresher as yours (but made earlier than yours) was sold for 3,750 CAD in 2015 www.bidspotter.com/
When looking at the price of threshers, do not forget to look at the condition, year and size of it. Here they sold a 28x46 thresher made in 1925 (I see that they could not identify the year, although the letter R is clearly visible there) for $ 1.705 in 2020 bid.aumannauctions.com/
So you have MCCORMICK-DEERING 22 INCH THRESHING MACHINE, 38 INCH SEP, CYL SPEED 1050 TO 1150, made by International Harvester Company, Chicago in 1938. Try to sell it through an auction like here bid.aumannauctions.com/
What is this? It's driving us crazy. I'm guessing a thresher part?
If you take a look at this you can see the two side pieces have spikes on them for digging down and the centerpiece for digging into a hole. This is part of an older gardening tool which by the looks of this piece is not that old that is used to hand turn the soil and dig into the soil to remove roots and things like this. They use to call this a back saving gardening tool.
This looks like a old garden hand cultivator that is missing the the handle to push down in the soil , and using a twist/turning motion to loosen up the soil . This was used when tractors were not affordable.
Does anyone know what this is, it's about 2.5across? It appears to be an emblem, if so what's the brand?
Thanks!
I agree with Ana...it appears to be the outer end of a branding iron. The attachment for the handle is still on the back, but the long handle is obviously gone. Each rancher had their own branding iron "emblem", that was used to burn into the hides of cattle and horses that they owned. It was a definitive way to prove ownership of ranch animals that often grazed on open land with other rancher's animals.
I think this is way too large to be a branding iron. A lot of old farmhouses make their family emblem like this and they hung on the top of the gate when you entered the property. I worked in Texas for a few years and visited a lot of old farms and saw emblems like this posted there.
I recently volunteered at a local museum (Poquoson, VA) to research the origins of some old farm equipment that they received as donations. The equipment is in "as is" condition and may not be complete.
I've taken several photographs of what I think is a harvester (from different angles) and am unable to locate any manufacturing marks or model numbers on the unit due to its condition.
I'd be most appreciative of any assistance that I can get, in regard to identifying this particular piece of equipment:
1. Who manufactured it?
2. When was it manufactured?
3. What did it cost?
4. How was it used?
I believe this may be the easiest piece of farm equipment we've been asked to help identify.
I believe your picture is of a #594 John Deere hay rake but these were also make by other companies so I may be wrong on that; it seems the actual years of production was from 1945 - 1952 (I could not narrow it down any closer since different years were stated on each site).
I have not found anything about original cost as the only ones I found were from those years and just regular people/farmers owned them.
There is a lot of information available online but mostly just from owners asking questions.
I did like this very short YouTube video of a machine in action:
www.youtube.com/
here is an excellent article:
smallfarmersjournal.com/
As to the answers to your questions you may be able to contact the John Deere Museum and let them verify that your pictures are of this model.
www.deere.com/
www.deere.com/
Can anyone identify this farm equipment? It actually has three wheels.
This is part of a larger machine called a combine. The combine or piece you are seeing here was pulled behind the machine to harvest the field. You could harvest wheat wit this machine. They would pull this behind the harvester which had a large stack on it that would dump the harvested wheat into a truck that ran alongside the machine. The rake in the back would plow up the fields and push the grain into the harvester that would process this and shoot the grain out into the back of trucks.
Does anyone know for what this was used? It is about 30 - 40 inches long. The blade part is 17 inches long. There is a sharp edge along only one side.
We would like to know what this piece of machinery is. Could you please help us? No one seems to know what it is. Your assistance would be really helpful.
This is an very old crop harvester used to harvest oats and wheat on the farm. This is a picture of a newer one that is also "old"
I got this and no one here has ever seen one or knows for sure what its purpose was.
These pieces of old farm machinery are in the car park of a pub in rural Kent, UK. One of them was made by Weeks & Sons in Maidstone. The area was historically important for fruit and hop growing, but I wondered if anyone could recognise what they might have been used for?
This is a wooden object about 4 feet high, 2 feet wide and looks a bit like a ladder but the top pulls off. Belonged on my grandfather's farm and could be 100 years old.
My family would like to know what it is and how it was used.
My grandparents had this in their barn. It was in the hayloft and was used to climb up there to enter the loft. The piece comes off to give access to the loft. When done and before filling the loft with new hay the piece is put back on to hold the hay in place. That was in the barn for my grandfather. If your grandfather had a barn this could be used for the same purpose in his barn.
I'm trying to figure out what I have here. I am not so much worried about its value, but rather a possible mfg. or how in fact it was used and on what? Perhaps what and how the pulleys were attached and driven.
Is it an attachment or the main component in a piece of machinery that's missing many parts?
This looks like a piece of farm machinery that had a belt attached to it that ran down train and the wheels would turn and break it up before it was dropped into a bin. That is one of the times I saw this. The other time was on the back of a tractor in the field and it was used to harvest grain and when it turned the grain was put on a belt or in a shoot and it went to the back into a bin for harvest.
These wooden pieces were found in an old barn. Anyone know what they are from?
Normally items such as this were used like a nail to hold a fence together or for buildings to hold large beams in place. They were old wooden nails that they used for building.
Long ago wooden pegs were easier to come by , coming from natures trees and the art of carving them by hand . These craftsmen used these pegs to put together furniture, horse pulled wagons, and structures. Made perfectly to fit in like a puzzle, locking in secure. Making it a great piece of heritage ! Some are still being made today by generations of carpenters!
