Look What I Found!!

[John Saeli]

Here is a You Tube Link to a family still using the CASE Combines. To this day there hasn't been a better engineered Combine. Take notice of the quality of the corn in the bin. They are using the famed 306 Corn Head which was really designed to be used on the Great 1665 Combine. This family has it on the 1660, but the 1665 was heavier in the front and had a heavier propulsion system. A Perkins 6cyl Diesel was an option, but the Chrysler 318 Industrial purring @ 2100 RPM was a great power unit. She had to be slogging mud in heavy grain running against the governor to get 4 gal./hr thru it. Enjoy:

 

[Wrangler1973]

Great video John, thanks for sharing. I've only seen a few Case 60 series combines, one is part of a farmers collection another an 1160 is sitting in another's "scrapyard" turned over being dismantled and another was a 660 that was part of a collection and used before being shedded for nearly 30 years, sadly it was bought and taken to a scrap yard. I wish I could've done more to save it but I had no where to go with it or could afford to get it running. I still have pics of it though.

Gene

 

[RBnWA]

Sure miss the 660. That was one great machine. Great video John. Thanks for bringing back the memories. Loved running that combine. RB

 

[casecollectorsc]

I put a lot of acres thru my 306 cornhead and 1665. Ran 2 1660s and a 1665 for 40 years. Good machines that did a lot of custom work for us. Had to upgrade to a 1640 rotor as they were getting quite worn out.

 

[jon f mn]

Nice video. Sure wish they had made that head in a 4 row so I could use one.

 

[RJKeith]

Great video, but why do I think they are customers oof yours

 

[Tgrasher]

Reminds me of the winter of 1966, my brother running the combine, picking corn in mid- December. Ground had been mud but got really cold, teens, so it froze over enough to allow picking. Some spots didn't freeze as thick as the rest of the field and the Case combine would break through the frozen ground and get hung up. My job was to stand by with an 830 and hook to the rear of the combine to pull it back out of the mud when it broke through. The only heat/shelter I had from the cold and wind was the 830 and the exhaust manifold. That was so miserable, I still remember it well after 60 years. Man I loved that 830.

 

[A. G. Keiper]

Great video. Thanks for finding that, John. My brothers and I got to spend some time on several of those Case combines back in the 70's. Even got a chance to use a 1665 here in northeast OH.

 

[nick831]

Nice memories. Wish we could go back to that time, things were built so much better and life was better. Thanks, John.

 

[want@1070]

Nice " 30 s "

 

[Don Rudolph]

Here is a You Tube Link to a family still using the CASE Combines. To this day there hasn't been a better engineered Combine. Take notice of the quality of the corn in the bin. They are using the famed 306 Corn Head which was really designed to be used on the Great 1665 Combine. This family has it on the 1660, but the 1665 was heavier in the front and had a heavier propulsion system. A Perkins 6cyl Diesel was an option, but the Chrysler 318 Industrial purring @ 2100 RPM was a great power unit. She had to be slogging mud in heavy grain running against the governor to get 4 gal./hr thru it. Enjoy:

Sure is good to see those CASE machines in action. Reminds me of our 1160 with the Chrysler 318.

 

[Tgrasher]

The Case combine in my story above had a Chrysler Slant Six, same as my 1965 Dodge Dart. Can't recall the combine model, had a cab, any guess as to what it may have been?

 

[Don Rudolph]

The Case combine in my story above had a Chrysler Slant Six, same as my 1965 Dodge Dart. Can't recall the combine model, had a cab, any guess as to what it may have been?

It must have been a 960. The 660 had a 4 cylinder Case engine.

 

[casecollectorsc]

It must have been a 960. The 660 had a 4 cylinder Case engine.

Or a 900...my brother had one.