[ihccollector]

Hello fellow members, I am a little late for the discussions about yard sweepers, all seem to be from a year or so ago. I came on them tonight because I was looking for information. I just picked up an IH International sweeper! I haven't really done any research on them yet. I know they were offered and I think I have a piece of IH literature showing them. I suspect they MAY have even been made by Parker but it is tagged and decaled IH. Now when I say I picked it up, I mean I literally picked it up. Out for a Sunday drive with a friend in a Classic, 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible and we drive by this sitting by the road. I almost break my neck and he asks do I want him to turn around? Please! Check it over and go to the door and ask the nice lady if she is selling it or?? She says no it is there for the junk man to pick up. Would she mind if I took it except I would have to come back for it- won't fit well in the trunk of the Lincoln. No, she says that is no problem just set it in the driveway turn-around. Can you believe this?! I went back today, about 60 miles one way, and I picked it up. I wanted to thank the woman and chat, she told me last night her husband had worked 30-some years for IH! She was not home so I left her a note to thank her. We tinkered with it a little while unloading it and I think it will not take too much to get it back into working condition. That is exciting isn't it.