Picking Corn Just Like the Good Old Days!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- It is day two of picking corn! This is being filmed on October 21st. We have moved out of the valley and onto the top of the hill, to keep on harvesting. Thank you all for watching! Make sure if you haven’t already to like and subscribe!
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I miss picking corn in the fall
Such spectacular views. The sights, sounds and aromas of a harvest is something that can't be described. It can only be experienced. Thank you for sharing another great video. Stay safe and God bless.
Look at George just a pickin’ and a grinnin’! Should be a country song in there somewhere!
Absolutely beautiful farm at a beautiful time of the year.
Excellent
I absolutely love these old machines
I really like the way you guys run your farm and look after your gear. It's nice to see those old machines being put to use properly and nice to see them do a great job in the process, it's a testament to both you and the equipment!
Thanks for the amazing videos, you are my new favourite farming channel. I'm from the north of England and your landscape and climate and the way you guys do things on your farm is similar in a lot of ways to how we do things over here, more so than a lot of other American farms I watch on UA-cam anyway, keep up the good work!!👍👍
I noticed that your father wears ear protection. I always wear glasses. The dust raises havoc with my eyes. And on hot dusty days I might even wear a mask , but never ear protection. Maybe because the tractor we use isn't as loud. Anyway, keep up the great videos. I'm just glad to see someone else farm similar to how we do it. Love the camera angles.👍
Love the video
i must say your mom does a great job with the video's and her voice is meant for video's she is very clear and acurate in he explanation's.
Thats a pretty good tractor.
Brings back memories!!
It's been a super fall to get fall work done!! Not too many falls let you pick corn 🌽 in your shirt sleeves!!! Big change coming. I'm writing this Nov 10. Weather going to get cold ❄. Hope you got all the picking done. Thanks 😊.
I think a lot of people will enjoy this video. Thanks for sharing. John T.
Love watching that old tractor working the corn!
Keep these vids coming! Heck yeah!!🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲
I remember after picking the corn and then trying to disk the stalks, trying to cut them up so we could plow them under. Every year we spent as much time pulling piles of stalks out of the disk and the plow and scattering them out by hand. We got a stalk chopper and that made a world of difference. Oh what fun we had working our butts off on the dairy.
Good work. Great video thanks for sharing. See you guys in the next one.
Wonderful Wonderful memories. Thank You so much for sharing and doing farming the way I used to. Now farming large. My dad told me before he passed. You don’t farm anymore. You just run over the ground. I’m not sure if we would go back to farming 300 to 400 acres and make the amount of money in the end. 😮😊😅
Come on Pa, give one them youn'ins a chance.
That is so cool I've haven't seen one of them since I was a little boy. You guys live in a very beautiful very beautiful place you have Rolling Hills. I live in Utah there's mountains everywhere and Farms. Great video love seeing them older tractors work so cool take care and God bless
Really enjoyed the video yet again. Really appreciate that you take the time to take us along.
Love the diversity of equipment brands on your farm
You make it look easy. Last time I picked corn back in the 70s. With a Farmall M with no power steering & no live PTO.
Thanks for the great videos of ear corn picking. In the 60's we had a New Idea mounted on a D17. Had both husking bed and cage sheller.
Your video's are so calming and down to earth
That International is certainly a team player. I’ve seen it used in other situations in other videos. Looks like a valuable asset. Ol-Reliable!
That is a beautiful field of corn.
Very cool watching the process.....noone does it around me.
This is a great video. This is how I remember picking corn as a youngster. Most of my time was spent shoveling cobs into a sheller. Great to see folks who remember and respect the old days. Thanks for a great video.
Great picker. Interesting how you plant straight through and skip the end rows. Thanks for sharing these great videos and insight
I so enjoy your videos of doing the old way. Thanks so much for taking the time to video and show us how its done, thank you.❤❤
Want to thank you so much for all of your videos. It helps make it seem like being outside when you can't be. Love the views, sounds and seeing a machine I had never seen before. My dad farmed a small place but somehow got a corn picker that ran separately behind the tractor. No idea what it was, but he had a John Deere B that made wonderful noise with the occasional back-fire. Take care and may God bless you.
❤❤❤ thanks
I remember before we had a gravity wagon shoveling the corn out into the conveyor. My job was usually walking behind the picker a picking up what was missed. Great video.
I never have run a corn picker. Spent thousands of hours combining corn but never picking corn (I’m 37). Thanks for taking the time to show this!
A hotdog is a 🌭
It's not fast but it makes good feed and it's a cheap way to go if you are a small operation.
Very cool video. Up until the late 80's when my dad passed away, we used a mounted 2-row Oliver picker mounted on our Oliver 77 tractor. I never got to run that - my Dad always did that. And by the end of a day of picking, he was pretty much black from all the corn dust from the picker basically surrounding him. That old picker was worn out, so right before he died, I scrapped it and bought a New Idea 2 row picker (which I still have), and then eventually a New Idea 2-row sheller (which I also still have) and finally, a JD 4400 combine. No market for ear corn around here.
spectacular views, and proves if you look after your machines, they will go on for a long long time
Great video
My favorite farmer's have a blesses day
Thanks for sharing brings back so many memories Great video and always love harvest time..
AWESOME VIDEO! Thanks
38 inch rows crowded the mounted pickers little bit. They were really designed for 40 inch rows. On side hills you wanted to work up. When you had a load you could fall away the rows without knocking corn down
BINGO !........yes, mounted pickers were made for 40 inch rows and the rows would enter the picker without getting the stalks leaned outward.
The very first planter I bought was a JD 290 with 36 inch row setting.
When I tried to hire a neighbor to pick for me with his mounted picker he refused saying 36 inch rows were too narrow for his picker.
love your videos of picking corn my late father had (I still own) used a 450 farmall with 2 row ih 2mh picker i can remember my dad and uncles putting it on, riding with him and all the stories some good and some bad
Love harvest videos and what y’all are doing on the farm thanks for sharing always enjoy!!!!!!!
Nice video, I have a super mta on my mounted picker and she gets hot on those warm days . 1st gear with the ta back in good corn is about all it do.
Great memories of picking in the cold with BlackBerry brandy. Lol,lol too bad I don't live in southern wis.
Thank you for posting your videos, it is my escape from the stress of life. Spent almost every summer on a dairy farm, got to help with making hay. Never got a be there for corn harvest, had to come home due to school starting.
Do you bale corn stalks for bedding or just plow under?
Have a great day and know that I appreciate all the hard work you guys put in to keep farm going and take care of the cows!!
I really enjoyed the video. Brought back some very good memories from a long time ago.
I had my old 237 John Deere picker mounted on my 60 with power steering. A few years ago I bought a second 60 with no power steering. The previous owner said it spent most of it live with a picker on it. The front tires were all marked up from the gathering chains. Bet it was fun to steer in some conditions.
A neighbor of mine mounted his JD 237 on a 70 JD.
He put a SINGLE tire on the front end replacing the 2 front tires every time he mounted picker.
He said it solved many problems .
@@douglasmacarthur8775 I bet that worked good.
As a kid I spent many weary miles picking ear corn with a two row corn picker.
Excellent video real good camera angles and editing.
How many passes before the grain wagon is full of corn cobs?
Several people asked if the corn was planted in 30 inch rows.
It would be IMPOSSIBLE to pick 30 inch rows with a 2 row mounted picker.
A neighbor of mine who did custom picking with a 2 row mounted picker would refuse any corn planted less than 38.
He planted all his corn at 40 inch rows and preferred farms who did the same.
If you were closer I'd come and help out I wouldn't even charge you sure miss doing that kind of work grew up doing it
I am into the farmsim 22 game and I wish we could get this old school corn harvest in the game it looks like a lot of hard work but looks also, very gratifying at the end of the day.
One thing about the hills….if there’s not a real good flat spot to unhook a wagon…..there’s more than likely a rock around somewhere to block the wheel. Lol
Your ground speed is faster then I thought it would be. I assume you are going to grind cobb and all for feed!
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Hahaha,,,the good old days with a bunch of machinery and corn dryers no my friends in the old days we used to pick up corn and beans by hand.
Just wondering maybe you have mentioned and I missed it do you have merch? Cool thought a t-shirt with a gear symbol and a big boulder rock from those hills would be cool! And maybe a line and farms underneath?
986 will eat some corn! Do you carry extra shear pins ?
Just need a couple of pheasants to flush now!
is the picker set for 36" cuz it seems to me you're planting 30'?
30 inch rows would be IMPOSSIBLE to pick with a 2 row mounted picker
Curious ...did you ever kick out any deer in the standing corn while cutting ??
Is your picker a little wider that the rows?
definitely.
40 inch rows work best.
You ought not be standing to the side of the steering wheel like that, if the front of that tractor drops in a hole, it could easily toss you right in the gathering chains. Or maybe groundhogs are just an Indiana thing? Love the picker, those rubber finger wheels in the husking bed are still available through Agco. Not too pricey either. The late models had paddles made out of stiff rubber belting in a four paddle design. Although, the husks grind up for feed too.
Best regards from Indiana.
The early ones had the paddles. I have a very late 325 with the 327 husking bed and it has the rubber fingers. There is a place in Pennsylvania that says if they can't get parts they will make them.
The early ones like the XL etc. had steel individual paddles about three inches wide. The late models had wide rubber paddles that went all the way across the husking bed. I replaced all the finger wheels on my two row narrow for a little over two hundred dollars six or seven years ago. I got them through an Agco dealer in Plevna, In. That was originally a NI dealer. That place in Pa. also sells wood kits for nearly every ground drive manure spreader NI made.
What part of Wisconsin are you in
How quickly after harvest do you take the corn picker off?
Imagine having 1000 acres of corn to pick nowadays, but only having a 2 row picker. Then if you could even pick all of that corn, imagine how many of those wire bins or corn cribs you would need to store it all.
What is the distance between the rows? 30 inches?
I did'nt see you check the engine oil or hydraulic oil level before you started.
Fun for 30 minutes, dirty job
What's the reason you don't have a combine is it cause of the hilly Terrain
This isn't the old days..... I remember the old days, walking through the corn 🌽 rows, pulling corn off the stalk and throwing it in a slow moving wagon pulled by a mule...
What state are you in? (New viewer)
Wisconsin. I believe somewhere between Eau Claire and Lacrosse.
@@mikefeyereisen5574 thank you 👍
Looked it up...hand pickers do 10 bushels per hour.
Wonder how much time it took to run corn through the binder and then a stationary husker.
That picker definitely is for a physically agile operator. The climb in doesn't look OSHA approved
I used one of those many years ago. It jammed up about every other row. Johnson grass would bind it up to the point where it would take a half hour of pocket knife work to get it turning again. I'd like to find that old piece of junk where ever it is now and run over it with a bull dozer.
Do you bale the corn stalks afterwards? Or do you just bush hog them and plow them down?
This use to be the norm back in the 50-60,grandfather had a small farm same set up double for corn picket and all the eqpt to go with it, planters for wheat, corn clover
And listen to the tiktok guy, you don't want to support that crap