IH Made This???????????????

[Diesel Doctor]

I was at a show last weekend and ran onto this liquid manure spreader.

It was an IH 725, made in Canada, that filled using vacuum and emptied using pressure.

I have never seen one.

Anybody know if this was made by IH or by another supplier with IH markings?

What other different stuff did IH make that we don't normally see?

 

[gary1466]

I'm sure there is a tank like that in my 1967 buyers guide but it's @ work and I wont be back till Saturday.  I thought the same thing when I saw the IH grain dryer @ Farmall -land USA

[Drysleeves]

They're in Buyer's Guides but I have never seen that introductory literature piece. Don't know for certain but betting those were contract built like the Arts-Way grinder/mixer paint and decal versions built for IH in Iowa. Don't know who built the grain dryer setups like the dry in the wagon version with what resembled a Herman Nelson heater with flexible tubing hooked to wagon hatches. Bet that was the antithesis of convenient.

[Jeff-C-IL]

I will point out that the frame & wheel arrangement looks very similar in design to a IH manure spreader of the same time.  We had a 555.

[iowaboy1965]

I dont know what model it was but I saw one advertised on Craigslist in the last 10 years or so. Didn't go look at it.

[stronger800]

I feel like I’ve never seen anything, but I have seen one of those listed for sale on Craigslist locally a year or two ago.

 I remember thinking wow, never knew that existed. Paint and decals looked original. 

[acem]

I'm surprised any are still around.

I bet they didn't have the rust out guarantee like the solid manure spreader!

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Fairly certain they're repainted Clay Honey Wagons. Have some lit on them somewhere. They had a poo pit pump, too.

Mike

[Matt Kirsch]

9 hours ago, acem said:

I'm surprised any are still around.

I bet they didn't have the rust out guarantee like the solid manure spreader!

IH wouldn't stand behind them!

[SDman]

Neighbor had one....this would have been in the mid/late 1970s. My memory of it was that he would come over and pump out our septic tank once a year/every other year. To my knowledge, he bought it new from our IH dealer. 

There was an article in Red Power Magazine. a few years ago talking about IH's entry into this business in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Neighbor got out of the hog business in the early 1980s....never seen his IH honey wagon after that.

[Absent Minded Farmer]

One brochure has surfaced. Thought there's one floating around that pertains to the equipment itself, but it's not surfacing at this time.

Mike

P.S. What dealership is listed on the back page??

P.P.S. I would like to find one of the slurry tankers & a pump one of these days. Think someone on..... YT(?) made one of the tanks to scale & pulls it with a Cub Cadet(also ??).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[acem]

Here's some pics I stole from fleabay.

 

 

 

 

 

[Jeff-C-IL]

Use one of those to "blow" the manure on your field today - and every 1 acre horse farm city girl Karen  will be calling the sheriff.

[TN Hillbilly]

When I was in college, the college farm (where I worked) had at least 2 lagoons and a pit. The town had grown around the farm. The assistant farm manager made sure we always started spreading liquid manure the Thursday before Memorial Day and the Thursday before Labor Day... 

and we had hogs.

[Rick G.]

I’ve got this same brochure in my IH brochure collection. It has the dealer mark on it from Ida Implement, the IH dealer back in the day from south of Ida Michigan, on Lewis Avenue. Does anyone here remember that dealer? Is the old IH dealership building still there on Lewis Avenue? Being in Texas now, I haven’t been back up home in MI since back in 2017. 

[Mike56073]

16 hours ago, Absent Minded Farmer said:

Fairly certain they're repainted Clay Honey Wagons. Have some lit on them somewhere. They had a poo pit pump, too.

Mike

That's what I'm thinking too, it sure looks like a honey wagon.

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Another pic for this post. I found this in the buyer's guide for '70. It features a glimpse of the brochure I posted above.

Mike

[ChrisNY]

On 9/25/2024 at 12:35 PM, Jeff-C-IL said:

Use one of those to "blow" the manure on your field today - and every 1 acre horse farm city girl Karen  will be calling the sheriff.

Not here, every day 365 most every dairy is blowing it on the fields at 5-10,000 gal/ac

Have seen the brochure pictures but never seen one in person. 

[Ruby Red]

Here's the 1/2 Scale Model 1400, there was a 1100 and 1400 gallon, and the vac tank

[Ruby Red]

The original Photography was filmed at O'Neils Farm Equipment in Binbrook Ontario, have the O'Neils decal on the Scale Model

 

[Mr. Plow]

Farmington Implement has a whole segment on them in one of their videos.   Pump. Tank, etc.   Interesting stuff.

[Jeff-C-IL]

So, the question is....is that 1/2 scale model FULLY functional???  If so I feel real sorry for the guy on the lawn tractor......😁

[DT Fan]

18 hours ago, Ruby Red said:

Here's the 1/2 Scale Model 1400, there was a 1100 and 1400 gallon, and the vac tank

There's been an @Ruby Red sighting!

[nate]

On 12/16/2024 at 8:10 PM, Ruby Red said:

Here's the 1/2 Scale Model 1400, there was a 1100 and 1400 gallon, and the vac tank

Nice!! Enjoy your posts! Hopefully you’re back for a while??

[acem]

10 hours ago, Jeff-C-IL said:

So, the question is....is that 1/2 scale model FULLY functional???  If so I feel real sorry for the guy on the lawn tractor......😁

Might be handy if your septic tank needed cleaning out!