I know this video has been out for quite some time, but I love your setup for the 33 head. I just purchased a 615, and it came with a 2 row 36 inch head, and a 13' platform. I have been raising cattle for about 8 years, and just got the opportunity of a lifetime: buying the 45 acres that attaches to our existing homestead! I planted 15 acres of corn this year, and have been picking it with a New Idea pull type 2 row. This year is my first ever experience with row cropping anything. I am a machinist by trade, but farming our own ground brings a certain joy to me. I would love to be able to pick your brain on how you made this setup work! I am currently on the lookout for a 33 head of my own. For the reference I am from Southeastern IL, so if anyone knows where a head is at feel free to let me know! Thanks a lot for the great video!
Can't believe I'm the first one to say anything...just saw the honorable mention of this vidya in the latest Heritage Iron Magazine!! So here I am. Those are some cool little combines!! I'd love one.
excellent looking machine my first combine was 101ihc young 615 then went to 715s they were the best as for as i,m concerened easy to work on 843 head was great also ihc always made the best combines to bad they went broke
You used to see a lot of farmer running them old Massey heads back in the 70's and 80's. i heard they and some of the Gleaner heads were really good corn heads. Heard they flowed the crop well and had less header loss. Just what i heard. We had a 300 with a 22 head.
Funny about the mismatched head. I grew up on a huge south Ga farm and they had a 615 gas burner with a 3 row Deere head. Good times back then oround 78.
took us forever to find a quick attach 615 throat for our 303, wish I had a 833 head now. 844 will work but already run it on the 403 and a 1063 on our 503. nice video
615 Combine was one of the best combines International put out. The 815 was a good unit as well.... 715 and 915, I've heard, weren't as advertised. Too much asked of them maybe? But the 615 eats and cleans well.
+Bill Whitman I have owned both 715 and 615, I can't relate any difference in quality between them. One extra straw walker in 715 and additional horsepower. I used the 715 as my main machine at the time, but the 615 is just a hobby since they are rare. 715 had quite a bit more capacity in my opinion. I thought they were easy to work on. Must have both been pretty good, I see some design carry over on the early axial flows.
They are the same design. The 715 is just a bigger version of the 615. I had a 715 nothing wrong with it except I wanted to modernize with a newer combine.
Curious to what you had to do to use that massey head I just bought a 615 in really good condition but only came with a bean head looking for a 2 or 3 row narrow corn head?
+RD1970 I made the decision to use a quick attach feeder from an IH 715. It had to be cut down 9” in width. This also involved having a new sprocket made for the feeder top shaft in order to fit the smaller size roller chain on the 615. I also swapped out the lift cylinders from the 715. Once the feeder was finished I used some 3” angle iron to build a permanent adapter by welding it to the Massey Header. All that was left was to lower the location of the input shaft from up on the top to down low in line with the IH shaft. You can see parts of this in the last few seconds of the video. IH 3 row corn heads are extremely rare, and the only one to own is the 833. The 733’s are heavy and not the best design. Someday I would like to cut an 844 down to 3 rows. The Massey 300 was a good machine but I think the 615 has more capacity than the Massey 300 this head would have been on.
+dlzastera I had a 1974 IH 715 years ago with 13 head, and 843 corn head. Was hydro and gas engine. Very reliable machine. Traded for 1460. The 615 is for playing with and collecting. There are very few around. They look very tiny compared to newer machines.
