OT: Price Bean Harvester wanted

Sharing for a member/friend of a friend; Looking for an operational PRICE Bean Harvester, one that is in good shape. Central California I know there is someone out there that knows, perhaps CR?

His photo for attention. JM

This one, hasn’t ran in a while, my brother looked at this one in 2016, at the time they wanted quite a bit for it, plus you had to take the other one that didn’t have an axle on it. He ended up with a running SP orchard model at the time.

https://stockton.craigslist.org/grd/d/tracy-dry-bean-harvester/7879877196.html

Those huge pulleys look awesome, I'd love to see them turning

A couple of Prices

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aHvcL5Iw9Nw

Pretty cool, thanks Gary. Nice juxtaposition of drawn and self-propelled too. Was the self-propelled a factory option?

The orange machines were the late David Pellegri’s pride and Joy. On his funeral the SP machine was brought into town by Mattos trucking and used as the Hearse.

The factory SP machines were made narrower, the outer edge of the bulk bin is even with the outer edge of the rear tires…. A pain unloading. The factory pull type Price had the bulk bin centered on the rear tires and you can walk in between the rotary onscreen and the bulk bin. The factory SP machine there is no room in between the screen and bulk bin. Also the factory sp machine is slightly narrower. If you plug up the sp machine with vine… good luck time to go swimming. A few years back my brother and I were chugging along in early December we had the neighbors show up with a 3 cylinder pt factory walker deck, 3 cylinder pt BB special high heeler and a 4 cylinder Ventura special pt and they were almost going 2x as fast as us.

There are quite a few SP machines near that orange one and all the others stay buired in the barn unless it’s a really wet year.

When I see a Price bean harvester I always think of the Hoffmans.Dad, Paul,sons Ron,Buzz and Marv.Went to school with the boys when they lived in Denair and had their shop and a vineyard there before moving to Tracy.Still remember going to see them right after they built their new shop.I think they had five or six bean harvesters and other harvesting equipment in the shop and it still looked empty.
We had a CB Hay bean harvester and they always kidded us when were we going to get a real bean harvester

Were the Lilliston peanut machines good for anything? Seen quite a few of them here back in the day.

The lilliston’s and the rebranded blue liliston’s were around in the 80’s and 90’s, still see a few in blackeyes. I remember them being used in the newly planted orchards when they were the newest thing out. They were a slow machine, an extremely slow machine in baby Lima’s as they didn’t have the capacity to process the vine. That being said a few years back the cleanest load that came into the warehouse came from a liliston… I won’t tell that to the folks mentioned above. I couldn’t imagine trying to use one today on some of the drip irrigated Lima bean fields that the custom harvester pulls out of when the windrows won’t even feed into his machines.

Very interesting. The mix here were CB Hay, Lilliston, Price and there is one double row monstrosity that I do not know the name of (HUGE).

I never had to get close to any bean machinery, other than get my annual gratis bucket of beans from a friend or two; If anyone wanted to debate about mechanical cling peach harvesters, I may know a few things! LOL. Thanks guys. JM