O.K. Guys.. Lets see if I can get everything in one post. (please note, some of this has been copied from my thread over on The Combine Forum.) 
I am in the process of getting ahold of a 1960-1965 John Deere model 45 combine. It has sat out by the road at a scrap yard for the past two years or so. Fixing it up and restoring it is my hope, someday. Right now, though, I am concentrating on getting the combine and getting it into running, operating condition. I am (hopefully) becoming a member of the Michiana Two-Cylinder club, and so I can take it to shows and things with the rest of the club.. My uncle helped the PO work on it.. Then he got into money troubles and had to sell it to the scrap yard where I found it. It ran and drove into the yard under its own power, and had, not long before, cut beans. The yard owner and I have come to an agreement where I work Saturdays doing odd jobs and repairing lawn-mowers for him, and I'll pay him cash a little at a time.. My father calls me crazy, but heck, I just think the thing is down-right cool. Besides, you don't see many around these days, that is for sure.
I stopped by the yard one night on my way home from work and got the serial/model number.
Combine S/N: 45-31812
Engine model: HC 145-6
Engine S/N: 1450-4036372
I plan on makin' her real pretty.. I'll keep you guys updated on it here, though this thread will probably move reeeeeeeally slowly.. For awhile, anyway. Once I get it, I get the feeling parts won't be cheap, so I'll be doing more scrap-yard hunting for a parts machine or two.. My weekends will probably be filled with doing what someone once told me in reference to working on classic cars:
"Son, when you have a lot of time and no money, or a little time and no money, here is what you do:
1. Choose a part.
2. Remove said part from vehicle.
3. repair part as needed. (Or replace. If replace, skip step 4.)
4. Clean part, and if possible or necessary, paint part.
5. Reinstall part.
6. See step one.."
I want this combine to- when I'm done with it -look like it just rolled off the showroom floor.
Once it is in my driveway and I know it runs and moves, what would be the order that you would check stuff out in? The urge to pick up a paint gun right away is strong.. But I must resist.
I think I've officially been bit hard by the rusty iron bug, ha! I asked for manuals and paint for my birthday.
PLENTY OF PICTURES!!!
I am in the process of getting ahold of a 1960-1965 John Deere model 45 combine. It has sat out by the road at a scrap yard for the past two years or so. Fixing it up and restoring it is my hope, someday. Right now, though, I am concentrating on getting the combine and getting it into running, operating condition. I am (hopefully) becoming a member of the Michiana Two-Cylinder club, and so I can take it to shows and things with the rest of the club.. My uncle helped the PO work on it.. Then he got into money troubles and had to sell it to the scrap yard where I found it. It ran and drove into the yard under its own power, and had, not long before, cut beans. The yard owner and I have come to an agreement where I work Saturdays doing odd jobs and repairing lawn-mowers for him, and I'll pay him cash a little at a time.. My father calls me crazy, but heck, I just think the thing is down-right cool. Besides, you don't see many around these days, that is for sure.
I stopped by the yard one night on my way home from work and got the serial/model number.
Combine S/N: 45-31812
Engine model: HC 145-6
Engine S/N: 1450-4036372
I plan on makin' her real pretty.. I'll keep you guys updated on it here, though this thread will probably move reeeeeeeally slowly.. For awhile, anyway. Once I get it, I get the feeling parts won't be cheap, so I'll be doing more scrap-yard hunting for a parts machine or two.. My weekends will probably be filled with doing what someone once told me in reference to working on classic cars:
"Son, when you have a lot of time and no money, or a little time and no money, here is what you do:
1. Choose a part.
2. Remove said part from vehicle.
3. repair part as needed. (Or replace. If replace, skip step 4.)
4. Clean part, and if possible or necessary, paint part.
5. Reinstall part.
6. See step one.."
I want this combine to- when I'm done with it -look like it just rolled off the showroom floor.
Once it is in my driveway and I know it runs and moves, what would be the order that you would check stuff out in? The urge to pick up a paint gun right away is strong.. But I must resist.
I think I've officially been bit hard by the rusty iron bug, ha! I asked for manuals and paint for my birthday.
PLENTY OF PICTURES!!!
