Hi, Dad had one of the very first production #15s. He went to an IH demo in the fall of 1956 and IH was demoing the #15 chopping corn being driven by a SA. So he ordered a #15 to be delivered in the late summer of 1957. We had a SC and JD420 both without live PTO. He used the JD420 to drive the #15 but the 420 had very poor gearing, 1st was to slow, 2nd to fast. He used a neighbours B250 on the #15 a lot. That #15 was nothing but problems with the corn head. The IH Field Man was constantly at our farm. Chopped several gathering chains that fall, a bolt holding one of the cutter head knives on broke and the knife cut a nice circle around the drum before crashing into the shear bar. To IH's credit, they supplied replacement parts and gave us a redesigned corn head for the following season. That fall Dad trade SC for a 300U with T/A and IPTO. The 300U handled the #15 very well in 2nd LO T/A but used a lot of gas in heavy corn.
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