Old School RVing

Around here everyone refereed to them as a old "binder", have no idea why.

Were they within towing and cargo capacity?

fj12ryder wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
I bought a brand new '72. I, even back then, knew how to use a screwdriver to aim the headlights.
The term "corn binder" had nothing to do with headlight aim, but was related to the fact "International Harvester" was mainly a agriculture equipment company.

Yep, I have several friends, my age and older, and they all refer, or referred, to IH as "Binders". Which I always assumed was meant as another name for a "reaper" or "binder".

We always called them Corn Binders. I had a 71 Travelall years ago. It was a tank.
Aiming your headlights high to drive through corn and hay fields at night to feed the stock? I never heard that one.

Ed and I just drove west on parts of old Route 66, following the route his newly-married father took right after WWII, pulling a travel trailer from Michigan to California so he could learn about working with "plastics". That must have been one long trek....

JRscooby wrote:
I bought a brand new '72. I, even back then, knew how to use a screwdriver to aim the headlights.
The term "corn binder" had nothing to do with headlight aim, but was related to the fact "International Harvester" was mainly a agriculture equipment company.

Yep, I have several friends, my age and older, and they all refer, or referred, to IH as "Binders". Which I always assumed was meant as another name for a "reaper" or "binder".

That drive looks like it could really scramble your eggs.

Looks like the third one back is a late 50's Dodge. Can't make out what the 4th and 5th ones are.

I bought a brand new '72. I, even back then, knew how to use a screwdriver to aim the headlights.
The term "corn binder" had nothing to do with headlight aim, but was related to the fact "International Harvester" was mainly a agriculture equipment company.

I had a '62 corn binder! I loved that truck so much.

We called those International trucks , " corn binders '. Headlights were always aimed high so a could see over the corn and hay while drivin out to feed the stock , My last one was a 1962 or 1963 .