Top 10 Classic Combine Harvesters of 2021

Big Tractor Power counts down the top 10 classic combine and harvester finds of 2021.

Combines and Harvesters Featured:

10: JOHN DEERE 95 Combine on tracks
09: JOHN DEERE 5400 Forage Harvester
08: Massey Ferguson 550 Combine
07: JOHN DEERE 8820 Titan II Combine
06: International 1460 Axial Flow Combine
05: JOHN DEERE 65 Combine
04: JOHN DEERE 9501 Combine
03: Allis-Chalmers 880 Cotton Stripper
02: JOHN DEERE 400 Hay Cuber
01: International 1482 Axial-Flow Combine

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[DerekSheldrake]

I am a fan of Combines especially the classics. I am not a farmer, but from a farming background. Love these machines. I even have a collection of models.

[milandjurdjevich]

I enjoyed the pull type combines with the 1482 being my favorite. My first combine was a John Deere 40 self propelled which served me well when I ran it. It is highly appreciated to see these machines in action. Thank you for your time putting this together.

[dadasaurusrex]

That 9501 and the Titan II were absolute monsters in thier time. Beautiful to see them running. The Titan IIs will always be my favorite combine. They still look awesome. The farm neighboring ours had one and I loved watching it.

[TickyMN]

Your #2...JD hay cube was all new to me. Hope to learn more about that one. Thanks!

[TheBohunk]

I have fond memories of our 1st self-propelled combine, the Massey Harris model 57. No cab and a lot of chaff still comes to mind.

[chrisreinhart]

The 860 massey brought back memories of the 1980s. I worked on a farm with one and when running the buggy the combine couldn't disappear behind a hill on you, just had to look for the smoke trail.

[qingdaotaihaotyrefactory]

Great job finding all those pull type machines!! That 8820 was a nice machine too. I again can't pick a favorite. Those Massey's was walking good too

[sweethomevirginia]

Thank you for taking the time to find and film the old classics. Please film more old machinery as you get time and opportunity. What treasures!

[johnthompson]

1480 by far and wide!!!! Been through some bad weather, lodged crops and down corn, it stood The 1480 is a good machine. John T.

[samhanson]

Well, when I was in my early teenage years, we had an International Harvester 140 with a motor on it that we pulled with an M Farmall! And then we went up to an International Harvester 150 with the power take off on it! I did a lot of combining with the 150 pulling it with an International Harvester 1066! We farmed just outside of Evansville Minnesota! 🤠
And then my Dad bought a 77 case combine (power take-off) which we pulled with our International Harvester 560! Good Memories! 😎👍

[thedonleroy]

That's a first for me. I've never seen or heard of a hay cuber before. The pull type International combines brought back lots of memories. We ran a 914 & later on a 1682. They were both great combines once you got used to them.

[HisNameIsRobertPaulson]

I’m not even a farmer and I’m amazed by these machines even though I don’t know what they are doing.

[jamesbinkley]

I really like to see the pull type combines also the John Deere hay cuber didn't know they made one great job

[jamesritter]

I love those old pull behind harvesters. Especially the early smaller ones.

[AndreiTupolev]

That John Deere 9501 is enormous. It looks like something out of Transformers on its two wheels. And imagine spending a whole day operating the John Deere hay cuber with that two-stroke diesel blaring away at full revs behind your ears all day

[CDFCaptain]

Watching the cotton stripper took me back to the last time I picked cotton with a JD 9910. That was in 1984. Picking late into the afternoon watching the sun starting to settle. The smells and noise. I sure do miss those days.

[josephhicks]

The hay cuber is so foreign, and the AC cotton stripper was delightful to view. The AC was working on an angle, much like today’s farmers cut wheat and soybeans on angles here in NW Indiana.

My pops used a JD 30 pull-type for soybeans and any wheat.

[rosstheoliverman]

I never knew AC made a cotton harvester like that. Way cool!

[tractorcorleone]

I am surprised that the tractor with the pulled combine does not pull to the right, it drives in the lane without any problems 👍👍

[debraevenson]

This is Robert and we had a MF 550 combine with two headers a windrow pickup head & a 18' rigid with Hart-Carter Flex attachment, bought it used with 100 hrs & ran it 4 yrs. From the past this was our 6th Massey & about the most troublesome. After 4 yrs of problems it went done the road & we switched to a 7720.