Pitfall of Pull-Type Pickers, Opening a Field By Hand
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This field has open borders, so the end rows are easy to take off, but the field stair steps twice along the one edge, so to save driving , we hand pick two rows at the first reduction. I wish there was more picker footage, but it have been picking mostly after dark.
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That was Dad's reason for being so happy with the '48 M and 2ME picker he bought in 1961. It was a PITA to mount and dismount but he loved that he could choose any 2 rows to pick and not have to hand pick down rows. Love your videos.
I loved this video ! It sure brings back a lot of great memories as kid helping my grandpa . I want say he had 15 different wagons but only gravity wagon . He would pay me to shovel out the wagons . All his corn went to feed hogs . He raised them on a couple hundred acres of woods and pasture . One of these days i'm going to get a picker and plant out my back field in O.P. corn to show my kids what I did as kid . I want a New Idea mounted picker on a Farmall M like he had .
That Green picker is doing a great job pushing that Red tractor 😂😂😂😂.
LOVE IT, JUST LOVE IT
I love the music, Thanks for another great video Jacob & Brad! stay safe and i hope you your family and all your subs have a great thanksgiving!!
I remember when I was younger having to cut two rows (stalk and all) around the outside of fields to make room for the tractor towing the chopper. And if that wasn't bad enough, we had to pick the stalks back up and feed them into the chopper. Fun times LOL
That's why we have a self propelled chopper.
We did the same thing for years.
DPCCGM good for ya
You must be on narrow rows. A old tricycle front end tractor would go right over the corn with minimum damage. We could open a field than just come back over it from the oppiste way and the picker could pick up the down corn easy.
@@brianpatrick8787 He is on wide rows. If I remember right, that picker runs on 1000 RPM PTO. so he has to pull it with one of the IHs.
I plan on buying some more wagons and extra picker next year when a lot of people get out of planting corn because of the high price of fertilizer and seed. I like how that john deere picker works.
When I was a kid on the farm the only pickers we had were out hands! Can't tell you how many acres I pulled completely by hand. Then unloaded the wagon with a big scoop shovel by hand into the crib. Good times lol.
spent a lot of time with a new idea one and 2 row picker sheller!!! Good old days!!!!
Very Nice!! Most people would have just ran over those starter rows. I know it's expensive. But I would like to see you get the A/C and Heat back going on your 1086. I purchased a vacuum pump and gauges few years ago. With the help of the net and a few books. Learned to work on my own. Couple of tricks. If you don't know. 1) dust off, or similar. Stuff that used to blow the dust off computer eq. Is great freon. It's actually 152a refrigerant. Sold at any Walmart. 2) plan ole lacquer thinner. Works great to flush out the lines. Evaporator and condenser. You might be super great at A/C work. I'm just trying to spark your interest. If not. Keep you comfortable. Those long days and nights. I know how it is.😆
We usually start chopping stalks in august and give them to the pigs or cows a truck bed every day or two and it works pretty good. Not too much work all at once
Me doing hw: Oooo a farming video
everybody deserves a Boehm farm video break, good luck with your studies
I bet the new snap rollers and stripper plates got shined up nicely.
Good job on the rebuild !
nice smooth machine would be well proud of that ..a good purchase
The picker sounds great
When I was real little we had a 770 oliver with a 2 row picker then we upgraded to a 3 row 701 uni. I miss doing that as a kid
I was hoping for a peek in the wagon to see how all the work on the husking bed turned out. I use a snapper never could justify the cost of reworking a husking bed. Its ugly but goes into the grinder mixer all the same.
We had a snapper years ago. Carried it to a feed store. They would grind and bag it. 90 cents a hundred. If you brought your bags 😆
Thanks for the ride along. Stay safe.
Why the heck don't you open up the field with the combine
Too far to drive just to cut out one pass up the middle. Only took us 20 minutes to hand pick.
I was thinking same thing. If you said it was too far in video I missed it.
The field was open on all 4 sides. What did you have to open?
On that picker can't u disingadge the elevator for corners like a new idea?
I have the electric clutch straight wired with no switch yet. I would like a pull rope like the new ideas.
Jacob, i think that green paint is starting to grow on you. The picker seems to work quite well.
My one armed grandpa and I would go out with machetes and open up six rows by hand so he could then get his 8N and single row "binder" down the opening. We would bundle up the hand cut ones with twine and stack them on end in the middle. Then add (me) the bundles the binder would spill out and add to the stacks. Then we got to stack and haul them back to the barn.
For fun we would go the the neighbors farm where he had a picker like yours and "glean" the field of ears that fell through. Nothing like dragging a 5 gallon bucket through the mud and cold in Kansas in November when you're 12. ;)
That sounds like a real process.
what do you do with the ear corn?
Feed a little and sell a lot. I hope to sell 40 acres of ear corn this year.
I wanted to say Even if this is the only "Good" Footage you have of picking I'm sure others like myself would love to see some Late-night pickin in the dark! All Footage, in my opinion, is worth uploading. Hence why I won't Edit my Videos > Pause & play.
I think I'd just run over two rows or plant a lane in millet and vetch for the wildlife. Having a border of something the deer like better and will follow off the field might actually yield more corn. It certainly would where I live.
I was going to ask why you don’t skip a planter pass around the outside to get you away from hand-opening the field.... I skip a pass around every field so I can mow around it a couple times a season with the batwing... usually get crap yield next the the creekbanks and treelines anyway plus it makes turning the sprayer and combine around that much easier..... but I see where you said its a 4 acre field so if you skip a pass you’re losing a lot I suppose
Field has no border obstacles.
It’s been muddy here in east central Missouri also
Not a JD person but going by the rebuild videos and this one, that picker is a pretty good piece of equipment, especially with the IH pulling it, 😉
love the music at the end "shuckin the corn"
Why would you do this instead just using a combine?
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This is different type of corn harvesting. A picker removed the ear of corn along with cleaning all plant material but the corn is not shelled. Meaning it is still intact w/the Cobb. The combine adds a step to this n shells the corn meaning to remove it from the Cobb as well. The main reason for all of this is generally the farm harvesting has animals and minus the explanation it is far better for the animals nutritional value to pick the corn as opposed to shelling for feed. This is why in-depth explaining is not being done here simply do to the many reasons to leave the feed in the state it is in or needs to be in for acheived goal. If confused let me know
Corn can dry on the cob. Probably too wet to store shelled corn
He has customers that prefer buying ear corn for what they use it for.
Wow 16 percent moisture is pretty good. In Michigan corn is still 40 percent moisture or more.
This field is an anomaly. I picked another field after this, I think it's under 30 🙈
Surprised there’s still corn that high moisture. 😮
Planted late and it's not been good drying weather.
Great videos. Keep them coming. Be safe.
Noticed you cab tractors have the doors off completely.Preference or need?
The doors go back on when it's cold. AC is a pain to keep working. And some didn't have working AC when purchased.
@@boehmfarm4276 Thanks I enjoyed watching having grown up and living on the farm for 18 yrs.
No break downs ,beat that felt good, nice video
I rebuilt the main gear box after this field. Then two wagon loads later, it ate the wagon elevator chain.
Ahh the joy of running old equipment. 😂
Hi y were you take off the corn for. From Andy in UK
Dad's corn is still in the field. Heard that yield isn't bad but 30 percent moisture is the norm around here.
Was this the OP corn? Was wondering how it turned out
This field was a few back yards away from the OP corn. I still need to climb in my uncle's crib to show it off.
When are you starting to combine?
I remember a neighbor hand picking the outside row of corn and leaving the stalks stand so he could tie his electric fence wire to the stalks so he could run the cattle out to graze. it worked for him.
That's a new one for me. A very creative idea.
It would be nice if you could find a good deal on a uni with the ear corn picking set up.
Somewhere, Iowa I think, there's a nice looking 701 uni with a picker. Has been in a barn but not run in ten years.
@@boehmfarm4276 we ran uni for 30 years because the LAND owner of one farm wanted his half picked. We end up selling the picker after we lost that farm only to buy it back at a farm sale 10 years later. We were the only bider and got it for 200 bucks. Sold it again for I think 2000 thousand. Lol. Uni was great system but they tend to catch fire if you don,t clean the engine screens when you changed wagons.
If memory serves you have a self propelled chopper? A lot of farmers would open the fields with the self propelled chopper
Yes, would be a great plan. But the travel between fields would be killer.
works good but sounds like a banjo
LOVE my green equipment but you got to check out a unisystem for silage and picking corn keep up the great work
He did film one in action.
you could get a 343 head for picker so it would take 3 rows. we have one on our john deere 55 combine
The only problem is we plant wide rows.
That would be a problem lol
Down rows ain't no fun but part of it , how did your Tommy Boy corn turn out
Considering that a bag holding ten ears of corn sells for five bucks at TSC, that picker could be a money maker. But be careful, something about pickers make men think they that their hands are faster than pickers and they are not.
That's the only reason I bought this thing. It has a real corn head.
On the plus side you probably didn't leave much on the ground, I had to do something similar one year when a neighbor's trash barrel set a cornfield on fire. I was surprisingly easy to see the corn against the ash. circa 1968-69 At that time there were still mounted pickers being used in the area that were willing to open the fields for us.
Great video
Seems funny with top of the picker being pulled with a so so tractor.ha ha thanks
The 1086 may not be pretty, but it's always my first choice.
My grandfathers 300 picker had a electric switch box that went back to the elevator to turn it off and on
This one came from the auction yard with some box that had a switch. We have it wired up with no switch, but I want one. I would rather have a mechanical clutch and a rope to pull; makes using a different tractor easier. I may want to pick with the 1466 or the 2+2.
@@boehmfarm4276 Could put a switch setup in each tractor with a 2 pin plug. They make 2 pin plugs like the 4 pin trailer plugs. Would not be all that pricey and then all 3 tractors would be ready to go with just one connection. Granted you would have that switch sitting there doing nothing most of the time.
PTO 540 or 1000?
1000
I remember doing that in order to pick corn good times
Great vid!
You will have to ask OLF to come and bale the stalks for you he’s had lots of practice now👍😜
You planted them a day after my birthday
Why don’t you bale your corn stalks
Remember anyone can pick corn when its dry :)
I missed the "Hello Boehm Farm Fans"
Shoot, I should have put that in there, even in text.
If your tractor picker an wagon are trailing right you can almost not run over any corn, Almost!!
I know you don't like JD, but is this really better
than harvesting with your JD 300 corn picker, really?
Just kidding. 😂 😂 😂
try opening a field of fodder beet by hand .......................
You are turning into a bto chopping three rows at a time picking two rows at a time
The only BTO I know of is the band Bachman Turner Overdrive.
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