CASE IH 1660 Axial-Flow Combine Harvesting Soybeans 

Your video is a great reminder of the value of patience and perseverance. It takes a lot of time and effort to grow and harvest melons and oranges, but the end result is so worth it. And the fact that you're able to make a living by selling them at the market is even more impressive. Keep up the great work! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

I was a test engineer on this machine back in about 1986 when they were converting to the Cummins engine. The engineering teams were very proud of this vintage of models, they were excellent machines.

awesome brings back a lot of memories. when i left school in 1987 i worked on a farm where we had a new 1640,as im in the uk we went to Doncaster to the case hi factory to learn all about how to set it up and what maintenance we needed to do. i drove it for 8 years then had a 1660 for another 8 years. i then left that farm and went to another one that run a 1680. the worst year i had was in 1991 we had a very wet year all the wheat went down flat like a carpet and some even started to grow to make thing worse every day i had to take the concaves out at least twice a day to clean the mud off. glad that was the only year that happened. loving your videos great to see how it is done over there keep up the good work.

I had IHC combines for years. First ones were a pair of 403 s. Gas engines, good machines but a pain to switch headers. Stepped up to a late 915 corn and bean special. It had a lot of good features, but always feeder trouble and cleaning fan problems. Put up with it for some 20 years, it still sits in the pasture. Replaced it with a late 1660 with the Cummings. Love it but it's getting in need of another rebuild. Got 4800 hr on the clock.

Love the Red old iron! The "auto steer" was either your right or left hand, LOL! But in the day, these were the newest & greatest. 👍

We have an 86 1640 and a 94 1660. We had the 1640 for a long time. The front axle broke on us at the end of our oats and it took about a month to get it fixed in the field. We got it back to the farm and fixed it up a bit. We put new bearings on the drum in the feeder house, put a new poly kit in the feeder house, changed a handful of pucks on the rotor and got it ready for soybeans. My father in law made it 2 laps around the field and the motor blew up. Like, hole in the side of the block about the size of a softball, blew up. We didn't have any luck finding another motor for the price we wanted to spend, so we started looking for another combine. We found several that were on the high end of our price range, but they were all downstate or out of state. We ended up finding the 94 1660 about 14 miles from our farm. It was at the high end of what we were wanting to spend, but it is in great shape and we didn't have to pay freight. So we bought it. We have a 20' 1020 flex head for our 1640. The first year with the 1660, we ran the 20 footer. It got the job done, but we needed to upgrade. We ended up buying a 25' 1020 from my wife's cousin. It worked out perfectly. We ended getting a good deal on a 466 with a turbo for the 1640. With any luck, we'll have both combines going at the same time this year. I'll try to get some footage for you. Thought you'd enjoy the story. Have a good one!

Love the Red Machines!!!

We have 3 1660’s that are currently used. One is a 1990 model that had the 8.3 Cummins in it. The bolts securing the oil pump to the engine backed out & as a result the engine seized. I had an older 1460 that I was no longer using & pulled the IH DT 436 out of it & put it into the 1660. Runs great, does a great job combining & uses a lot less fuel. Changeover was pretty straight forward.

I remember growing up with case ih 1660. The farm bought a 1992 brand new off the factory with a brand new corn head and header with his cousins and their dad

Man when I was kid the 1460 seemed like a huge combine. Grandpa had a few of them. One sat next to the rock pile in the grove for as long as I could remember and he ran the other one

Love to see the older combines with the New.

every video, you always get gold. I cant get enough of this stuff

Great video, love the IH combines

Always a pleasure watching these old classic ih combines.. Hoping to import one next year. Cheers!!

Love seeing old machines doing work

Nice! Neat to see the J I Case 1660 too. We use an International 1440 with a 20' 820 header. May not be the fastest harvester out there, but I think she looks pretty dang good. Gotta love red power.

My best friend has a cherry low hour 1660 with th Cummins and it’s a sweetheart

Thanks for the video about combine

I like the classic red combines👍😉 they get the job done like the new machines😁👍

I love your videos we had a 1978 1460 with a 16.5 820 head and traded for a 1986 1680 with a 1020 20 ft. head can't wait for wheat harvest. The 1460 had 436 IH engine and the 1680 has a 466 with a muffler Eliminator.

Great video sir !! On my uncles farm in the UK 🇬🇧 they had a new one there !!! This brings back so many memories for me ..I was a young kid lol 😆. Cab ride was awesome!! But mainly had a ride in the 10 ton grain trailer with polish tractor usurus..and ford 6610 tractors ...great days !!

Great footage!! Still a few of these being used today. The biggest obstacles are getting parts for these older machines.

Excellent job Jason. I love our new equipment but.........the old school equipment is pretty awesome no matter what color. Two thumbs up BTP!!👍👍

The video is very good as always, nice to see those big machines working, I have a 2188, I love the sound of cummins, greetings from Uruguay

We had a 1660 for 28 years great combine

We run a 90 1680 with a 30’ 1020. We bought the combine in 2001 with 2300 hrs.. It has about 5300 hrs. on it now. The old girl is a beast still. I worked at an CaseIH dealership out of high school and went to “2300 series combine productivity school” in Racine at the factory training center. We’re nearly all green but, there’ll always be a red combine in our fields.

The axial flow was released in 1979 for the 1980 model year, i was around then, i remember it, there was some experimental ones in 77, but that was it, & they were all red, no white & no stickers/decals @ all on them, the 15 series combines were last year was 79, i have a 80 model 1440, my dad has a 79 & 76 model 715,s , so,s there you go, it is what it is

The farm across the road from us uses a 1660 axle flow combine. It a Good Machine.

This last harvest season we finished the season with our 1983 ih 1460, nice

I was kind of surprised when I heard the machine running it sounds really good for its age and looks like it’s been extremely well taken care of

We run a 2188-, great machine- red iron from the 80s and 90s is impossible to beat these days, that’s for sure

God bless you the 8.3 Cummins sounds so good. My uncles case ih 2166 has a 8.3 Cummins engine in it

I really like your content. Keep up the good work

We are thinking of getting one of these machines

In 1987 I considered to buy a new Case combine, think it was a 1640 to do contract harvesting, I made a phone call to a dealer and they did not took me up seriously, not sure why so I drop them and had a look at a used Deutz, it needs a starter when I get there so I could not start it to make decision, I lost interest, today I feel I had to look more after two disappointments

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Have a 1670 a hillside model leveling system installed by company in Spokane WA. Distributed to dealers primarily in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. They'll level 48% which isn't quite enough to stay level in some spots. Also were equipped with 4wheel drive, hydros

Great video! My dad had a International combine, it was early 1950s. Don't remember what model it was! Thanks for sharing!

I like your video because you farm and I farm

Good video

I was just watching one of your videos on a case 9250 combine when this video popped up on my notifications. There's a lot of difference in the 9250 and this one. That's also like comparing watermelons to golf balls👍🚜

Great to see the RED IHC'S in action a great representation of our farm history!😀

Very nice

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We run two s790 John Deere combines and a 1425 bushel grain cart

We have a 1640 caseih combine with the international 466 engine no turbo. Seems to have lots of power for 15 foot head and 6 row corn head

bet the original 1660 was hell ova gutsy on fuel, a 318ci petrol v8 roaring away all day 👍🏻

We run a 1992 1660 with a 20' 1020 platform head and a 6 row 963 corn head.

good combines we use to have a 1660 1987 model. till we got a newer case combine

We had a 1990 with small numbers but still with the 466 engine.

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Ih came up with the axial flow combine then John deere stole there idea. Like gleaner did to massey with the power table rotor. Awsome combine

The East Moline factory was closed and removed from the site. Currently being redeveloped for retail/hotels. Sad day when all those jobs were moved to Grand Island Nebraska.

Only combines that are older that get a better sample than a 16 series case are the 21-25 series case and a gleaner. We used to run a gleaner m2 and the sample quality was next to none. Yeah these newer ones with twin rotors get great quality but we’re comparing apples to oranges there. Our 7120 cant get the quality of the 1660 no marter😢what, even with filler plates

Our 1660 made that same sound. 😂🤣

We run a 1983 International 1480 and a. 1996 case ih 2188

Not much room for a buddy seat in the old 1660, haha, but a beauty just the same.

Ah good, I like how it dumps to a stationary trailer instead of being followed. The dream of having my own poor person canola field with just 1 combine and 1 tractor with accessories has hope after all 🚜

Really....I was forced to set thru a McDonalds commercial in SPANISH!!

I have a 1992 1680 with 30 ft header. 6000 hrs. Love it. However, I need to sell it

How large of a corn header do you think this could use?

I have a 1660 case 4x4 with cummins power, run it together with my lexion

We have 2 1660 and a 1680

Please make tractor back up like 30 feet.

Almost as Awesome as watching that Mike Less Guy on RU-vid

I prefer my Gleaner R-52, at least the screen keeps moving.

I wish we could cut our soybeans. But we got about over 2 inches of rain due to the hurricane 😪

I have the exact same combine and header setup but I’m up in Canada and do lentils, peas, wheat, durum, canola and mustard. The cummins is a beast for the size of that combine. We also have a case ih 7120 that isn’t even a comparison to the 1660 but the 1660 is just cool and it does the job with way less issues

East Moline???

It isn’t axle flow. It is axial flow. They aren’t pronounced the same.

Gta San andreas

Talk about getting your money's worth!!!

Send me the WhatsApp no for this combine company where is made in from ?

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