A customer of mine, Ryan Renko of Edwardsville IL, shared with me a recent outing with his All-Crop 72. There to report was a local newspaper.
According to Ryan, Mr Libbra who ran the the rest of the acreage with his Case-IH 2388 , examined the performance of the 72 in the beans and declared it was doing a better job of thrashing and cleaning than his machine. Just more ancedotal evidence I have come across that supports the idea that these machines can still be a valuable tool for the small-scale farmer.
On the rebuild front, not a whole lot more to show. The machine is completly torn down, and I am going to drop off some of the larger parts to a sandblaster this weekend for a quote. We have rebuilt the cowling over the concave:
We are now rebuilding the concave itself. Hope to have a pic up soon…
