This is a 1480 serial # 24348 and it has a 1010 24' header.  I think this combine would have harvested a lot of rice in it's past. I haven't even looked at this machine or talked to the owner yet so I don't know anything about the actual machine it's just one that will be coming up in a auction sale. How will this machine tend to compare to other IH machines of it's age or older? What JD machine would this compare too?
 What older IH models would you tend to stay away from. In the post below where the young farmer was thinking about buying a combine, Proud2bafarmer posted he didn't like the 1680 because of problems but didn't state what his problems were with it.