cornbinder

A nickname given by farmers, to any of the many self-powered products (E.G., trucks, tractors, tractor/farming implements & attachments, , refrigerators created by International Harvester Company or better known as IHC or IH, having a logo where a red i sits inside/over a black H (Resembling -i-), which is said to be depicting a man sitting on a tractor where the H is the tractor, the i is the man and the dot on the i is the man's hat/head. Origin: The origin of this nickname spawns from the ingenuity of the International Harvester Company's owner Cyrus H. McCormick (inventor of the reaper). It was well-known in farming, that if something was helped to lessen the work on humans, animals & machinery, while getting the job done quickly and correctly, International built it. The love for something being built right, dependable and most importantly durable, was carried on to the truck industry and later to heavy machinery and big trucks today. In the below Example, the date is 12/26/2012 and an International Scout wasn't the only thing to survive Winter Solstice... The place, a local gas station which also didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that the Mayan Calender had to be flipped back to page one (no idea what everyone is worked up about).