Fascinating to see how things were done in a less hectic age. Respect to the men and women who sat perched high up on usually rudimentary seats, exposed to the noise, dust and whatever blend of hot, cold and wet that the weather threw at them!
Very good footage! My dad's two brothers did our picking on our farm in DuPage County (IL) during the '50s and '60s. They picked with IHC 2 ME units mounted on an M and 400. We would haul in the loads with Allis WDs and made good time in 4th gear on the round trips to the crib and pickers. It was a wonderful time of year and help me learn the concept of teamwork. Thanks for the videos and the memories.
I was taken way back to an era of old fantastic John Deer's when suddenly a golf cart drove up lol! But wow how beautiful to see the tractors all running side by side and working the field again!
I remember the old mounted corn picker that was a all day job mounting it. Then dad got a New Idea pull one row corn picker, that was so much better, Eventually, he got a New Idea two row pull corn picker then he got a Little Giant gravity flow wagon and a new elevator with the fold down end, so we could just pull the gravity flow wagon up to it and open it up, we didn't have to shovel the gran anymore and was much faster, we were really moving the grain then! Eventually he got the Gleaner self propelled combine with a four row corn head. Quite a change, considering that I remember that one year we had a field that got flooded and when it dried out, it was still to wet for machinery, so dad hired a man with a team of horse4sdz and a horse pulled wagon to harvest that field. I was really impressed with the horses that would move up by themselves and the back board on the wagon so that when you shucked the corn, you could throw the ear against the back board, we could harvest about six rows at a time, when we were all working.
Those two row mounted pickers not only doubled your production but avoided the inconvenience of having to run over a row of corn that the single rows always smashed flat...You would also run over corn making turns at the ends of the rows. That was not an inconvenience for the old man cause us kids were free slave labor ..lol....We picked up tons of corn and it was all fed to hogs on the ground (no feeder required)...Sometimes if you would go pick up corn for a neighbor you could sell it at a local grain elevator for cash money...enough for a box or two of shotgun shells for rabbit ,quail or pheasant hunting..Farm life was good. Thanks for posting.
How do they pick up the stalks after harvest or do they just plough them in, how much would one expect to pay for a working example of a PTO driven picker?
Christopher Holmes This is regular field corn. This is how it was harvested 30 years ago. It would be put in a crib and later a crew would bring a sheller and remove the kernels from the ears. Today modern combines shell the corn in the field. Most of this corn is used for animal feed, ethanol and food items like corn sweetener.
When corn was harvested this way, pheasant hunting was phenomenal!...I sure miss those days.
My thoughts exactly.
Great for duck and goose hunting too.
Dad started working for Deere about 1950. He had a hand in the design and manufacture of corn pickers for several years.
Fascinating to see how things were done in a less hectic age. Respect to the men and women who sat perched high up on usually rudimentary seats, exposed to the noise, dust and whatever blend of hot, cold and wet that the weather threw at them!
Colin Gantiglew I remember when my Dad would sit on that tractor shucking corn all day. Now he wears hearing aids.
Very good footage! My dad's two brothers did our picking on our farm in DuPage County (IL) during the '50s and '60s. They picked with IHC 2 ME units mounted on an M and 400. We would haul in the loads with Allis WDs and made good time in 4th gear on the round trips to the crib and pickers. It was a wonderful time of year and help me learn the concept of teamwork. Thanks for the videos and the memories.
Looks to be a fun day to be there.
I was taken way back to an era of old fantastic John Deer's when suddenly a golf cart drove up lol! But wow how beautiful to see the tractors all running side by side and working the field again!
Excellent video. I like all colors of tractors and pickers so it 's all good!
Chris and Ernest. Don't know your particular situation but in Ontario we picked ear corn like this for hoog feed in the winter. Thanks for the vid.
Great video! 2:06 - 2:12 OOPS!!!
Rdk Truckie Yea, he got a little to close.
I remember the old mounted corn picker that was a all day job mounting it. Then dad got a New Idea pull one row corn picker, that was so much better, Eventually, he got a New Idea two row pull corn picker then he got a Little Giant gravity flow wagon and a new elevator with the fold down end, so we could just pull the gravity flow wagon up to it and open it up, we didn't have to shovel the gran anymore and was much faster, we were really moving the grain then! Eventually he got the Gleaner self propelled combine with a four row corn head. Quite a change, considering that I remember that one year we had a field that got flooded and when it dried out, it was still to wet for machinery, so dad hired a man with a team of horse4sdz and a horse pulled wagon to harvest that field. I was really impressed with the horses that would move up by themselves and the back board on the wagon so that when you shucked the corn, you could throw the ear against the back board, we could harvest about six rows at a time, when we were all working.
Those two row mounted pickers not only doubled your production but avoided the inconvenience of having to run over a row of corn that the single rows always smashed flat...You would also run over corn making turns at the ends of the rows.
That was not an inconvenience for the old man cause us kids were free slave labor
..lol....We picked up tons of corn and it was all fed to hogs on the ground (no feeder required)...Sometimes if you would go pick up corn for a neighbor you could sell it at a local grain elevator for cash money...enough for a box or two of shotgun shells for rabbit ,quail or pheasant hunting..Farm life was good.
Thanks for posting.
Never saw this being done before thanks for sharing!!!!
That's the way we used to do it... We had a Case RC and later an SC with a 1-row pull-type New Idea picker....Those were the days....
still do this almost every year but with a john deere 4040 and a john deere 300 corn picker
Loved it thank for doing that so we could see it.
Grew up in S.W. Ontario. Don't know what you use the ears for but it was mostly hog feed for us.
Any more info on the rig at 3:16 ? very interesting setup.
McCormick pull type corn sheller.
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How do they pick up the stalks after harvest or do they just plough them in, how much would one expect to pay for a working example of a PTO driven picker?
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did the 50 run to wagon in front of him.?
lol, ya, looks that way. Hopefully he didn't dent his hood.
I thought that 50 hit that wagon.glad to see he didn't.that was close.
Josh St.john I guess he was not paying attention.
Nice video
love doing it
No gulf carts !! lol!!
What type of corn was this? And what would you use the ears of corn for? The only time I know corn is harvest on the ear is for sweat corn
Christopher Holmes This is regular field corn. This is how it was harvested 30 years ago. It would be put in a crib and later a crew would bring a sheller and remove the kernels from the ears. Today modern combines shell the corn in the field. Most of this corn is used for animal feed, ethanol and food items like corn sweetener.
They need to put younger asses on those tractors. They'd probably det a whole lot more efficiency out of that equipment.