quasi Report This Comment Date: August 03, 2008 11:00PM
This just irritates me, Somebody worked really hard to restore this truck to
like new condition then it gets treated like this. Idiot.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 01:32AM
Ok,quasi.
I've been around cars all my life and thought I knew just about everything there
is to know about 'em, but you've got to help me out with this one.
Just what the hell is a "Binder" for Christ's sake?
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 01:58AM
Corn Binder
90130_ Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 01:58AM
Ah, I get it now.
The term "Binder" comes from their Agriculture equipment background,
according to a website I just checked out. Apparently from harvesting machines
that used twine to "BIND" crops into sheaves.
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quasi Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 02:17AM
International Harvester started out making farming equipment then also began
building trucks, and did so up until it became Navistar and the farming
equipment manufacturing side joined up with longtime rival Case to form
Case-International while the trucks continued production at International Truck
and Engine. Anyway, a cornbinder is a piece of farming equipment, and sometime
long ago someone began jokingly refering to the trucks built by the farm
equipment manufacturer as cornbinders, which was eventually shortened to
binder.
FYI, International recently signed a contract with the U.S. Army for something
like $1.8 billion to supply trucks and parts for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The trucks are based on the 7000 series and there will be numerous varients
basically doing the same thing these binders do at home, hauling lots of stuff
wherever it needs to go. Let's do some rebuilding, boys & girls.
quasi Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 02:20AM
OK, while I was jumping back & forth between the computer trying to write
my last post and work on some other things, y'all got ahead of me. Oh well, now
ya know.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: August 04, 2008 08:58AM
I play a game online called AirRivals and the armor we put on our aircraft is
sometimes called a binder. I've never understood why.
FrostedApe Report This Comment Date: June 06, 2009 05:15PM
During WWII, just about any business with a machine shop was co-opted into
producing M-1 rifles for the war effort. One of my friends has one with an IH
logo stamped on the receiver. I think the most unlikely one I've ever seen was
made by the Singer sewing machine company.
