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Plowboy-
I contacted Macknair about the wood parts for the cornbinders a few weeks ago. He indicated that he had not gotten any informaation from his Amish suppliers with regards to prices this year. I would still be interested on any contacts for these parts you can get from Rudys. Let me know what you find out on your next trip there.
Thanks

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The horsepower I use to pull the All Crop Harvestor is not four-footed but comes from a 45 year old tractor. The All Crop is the 66 model that has the smaller bin size. Also have a 60 that is not operational.

Most of my fields are fairly flat and planting oats with the 6 foot MCD grain drill is an easy pull for the team. I wouldn’t expect it would be much different with them on an 8 foot drill. Using three on a 12 foot drill would probably work okay too if the ground is fairly level. Using four would just be another extra gear available. It is usually cooler weather when the oats are planted here but the team hardly even works up a sweat.

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Sounds like you had better document that binder threading procedure with some good notes, photos, or a video. The old boy with the pacemaker may not be around to show your kids.
If you go to Rudys for more binder parts can you get me a phone number, fax number, or address of the Amish supplier he uses to get the wood parts for MCD corn binders. I’m not having much success tracking anything down.
Thanks.

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Plowboy-Tell me more about the wood kit you got for rebuilding your MCD cornbinder. What pieces of wood were included? What type of wood? Cost? Who did you obtain the kit from? I would be interested in contacting them. Getting a wood kit would greatly aid the process of rebuilding mine. Hard to come by good hardwood around here. Sounds like you are getting right after your rebuild. Good luck on the process.

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Went out to the shed and took a picture of the grass board on one of my MCD No 9 mowers. I replaced the old broken grass board a few years ago using the same measurements. Overall length is 34 inches, width is 7.25 inches. Distance from bolt attaching board to mower and the grass stick to the board is 14 inches. Two bolts on the grass board are 4.5 inches apart. Lower bolt on grass stick is 3 inches from top and upper is 1.25 inches down. Nothing special about these dimensions-yours may be different. This has worked well in tall grass.

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I use a McCormick corn binder(long vertical) with two Suffolk horses. They pull it along very well. Don’t usually cut for long hours at a time. The binder is in pretty fair condition but could use some of the wood replaced. That is on the list of winter projects, and has been for several years. I have a bundle carrier that attaches on the back end to bunch up the bundles and then dump them, but have not hooked that up yet. Do you have a bundle carrier on either of yours? Most of the time I cut when the corn is matured and dry then build large shocks out of the bundles. During the winter I roll the shocks onto a sled and move them to the corrals or feedyard and pull the ears for the pigs and feed the stalks to the horses. Some loss of the ears to wild critters but isn’t usually too bad.

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