1969 Corn Special/612

[NewGen Doug]

I have always enjoyed seeing everyone's pictures so the other day when I was in the shed I snapped a picture of my "toy". I always wanted a 95 or 105. I found this one local and it was in good shape so I bought it to add to my collection of tractors. The 612 cornhead I found west of me, but I haven't got it to operating condition yet.

 

[NewGen Doug]

picture

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

That is a very nice machine. My 95 is waiting for it's turn in the shop this summer for a complete rebuild and a 329 diesel to replace the 303 gas. Going to a quick attach feederhouse and a 444 cornhead with all poly snoots. Tom

 

[2002sliverado]

Nice purchase. Hope it turns out great for you. I remember when I was in high school, back in the early 1980's, I saw a 105 Deere with a 20' soybean platform, a pickup head, a 4 row wide corn head, and a 6 row narrow corn head listed in a newspaper I purchased. I wanted to buy it and start doing some custom harvesting with it. It was a low hour machine and seemed to be decent buy at the time. There are times I regretted not going for it, but I was about to go into college and would not have had the time to make it work. I still have a place in my heart for a 105.

 

[GreenEnvy]

That is nice one. I think those 612 headers are hard to find too from what I heard. We have a 69' 55 corn special.

 

[fixerupper]

Yes the 612 is hard to find. Wasn't there a 812 too!

 

[brutus49DC]

If it was a gas the fuel bill would have ate up your profit margin. My neighbors 95 used almost twice the gas as our 715 and a 105 was worse.

 

[cumminspuller]

That is a super nice looking machine! Have fun with it! I wouldn't mind having a 95 or 105 to go with my 45.

 

[fixerupper]

After I did some carb work on my 105 the consumption went from 6 gph to 5 with its tongue hanging out full time. A diesel probably would have been 3.

 

[GreenEnvy]

Lot of guys made a good living with gas 95/105s. A 105 should burn more fuel then a 715 since its a bigger combine and the only way a gas 95 could possibly burn twice as much is if the 715 had a diesel. The last gas combines we had were a pair of MF 510s and they weren't easy on the fuel either.

 

[brutus49DC]

Our 715 took 4 gallons an hour with a 4 row corn head, neighbors 95 took 7gph, I can give you his phone # so you can call him and ask, our 510 dsl. took 2 gph, this was when corn was 100 to 120 bushels per acre, I know I am a terrible person for saying anything bad about green machinery!

 

[GreenEnvy]

I don't need your neighbors phone number because I have two 95s one a 1966 and the other a 1967 with the 303. Feel free to come ride with me on them because I guarantee you will be able to cut for more then half a day which is all a 95 could do if it was burning that much fuel. Did you read fixuppers post? Looks like a 105 on its worst day doesn't even burn 7 gpa.

 

[BANDITFARMER]

You have a good looking 95 Corn Special and a really hard to find corn head. I wish mine looked as good as yours but mine set outside for a long time before I got it and it look rough but she's good on the inside . I will be waiting to see yours in the field working again . Bandit

 

[4240 Turbo]

compared to other options of the era, gas masseys and gas gleaners and gas JD harvesters all burn fuel, but as I remember from our combining the masseys with the 327 small block were about the worst, seemed like 15 gallons only lasted about 3-4 hours. The old 105 gas seems like in corn as long as you weren't fighting mud too bad, would burn 1-2 gallons less than massey, Gleaner was maybe similar. IH never made it on our country. Not sure if I have seen a single sp ih walker machine here on the western slope. Some out east though.