Serial No.1 Tractors and Combines.

[IHandJDman]

With the 460 No.1 thread I was wondering, how many different tractor and combine No.1s are accouted for?  I know the 1st 1066 and 1086 both sold a couple years ago.  The 1st 1460 combine has been out at different shows.  I own the 1st 2144 combine and I'm sure there are many more that are known about.

[766 Man]

  I know that for a few years an IH 1440 combine which was in Texas was advertised as the first Axial Flow off of the assembly line.  It was on Tractorhouse and was priced around 35,000 dollars.  I don't think that any first serial number piece of farm equipment period made it this far east when brand new.  Maybe a few first year production units which had very low build numbers for that year.

[Big Bud guy]

58 minutes ago, IHandJDman said:

With the 460 No.1 thread I was wondering, how many different tractor and combine No.1s are accouted for?  I know the 1st 1066 and 1086 both sold a couple years ago.  The 1st 1460 combine has been out at different shows.  I own the 1st 2144 combine and I'm sure there are many more that are known about.

I thought the first 806 was out there in a collection.  Is there a first IH 1256?

[twostepn2001]

2 hours ago, Big Bud guy said:

I thought the first 806 was out there in a collection

At one time l think Bermuda Ken (Kenneth Updike) had 806 #501. 

 

[Alan Dinan]

The first 1460 was bought new by a farm near Greenville, Illinois. They still own it and use it. As mentioned above, it’s been to several shows. The first 1486 sold in Missouri just across the river from me about 8 years ago. Never heard where it went.

[Drysleeves]

2 hours ago, twostepn2001 said:

At one time l think Bermuda Ken (Kenneth Updike) had 806 #501. 

 

He sold it to the guy who has #502, which is a Diesel. Larry Eipers (sp) I believe.

I know of a guy who had one of the first 806 D's produced. He was part of a factory connected promotion where he turned it up for tractor pulling in the summer and back to something more normal for farming. It was a real early production number, maybe even 503. His son couldn't recall for sure but it was definitely single digit. IH was tired of getting walloped at tractor pulling and wanted local guys to advertise at County Fairs.

[Haystack]

Seem to recall the first 1206 turned up at a Red Power show few years back, cant remember who owns it now tho. 

[Drysleeves]

It appeared at HCOP last year, but it was prototype sn 501. There were several of those. Production #7501 has not surfaced.