We had a 32 cow herd until Jan of 2019. Picked corn with a 2 row wide New Idea pulled by either a 666 Inter national or a 986 International. When cribs were full we used a 4400 John Deere combine to harvest the rest.. We sold it as is to whoever paid the most. We have 240 acres, 145 which is tillable. Currently rent the hay ground out and grow soybeans and corn for cash crop. We are in St Croix Co.
OWEN, we would like to wish you a blessed day on your BIRTHDAY... as for advise, just keep being a kid and have fun with life... keep working around the farm and may God Bless your family...
I am almost 70 years old. I remember picking corn by hand back in the mid 50s. We had a tool for removing the husk, and then we would use a cycle to cut down the stalks. The next step was to tie the stalks into a bundle and stand them straight up, these were Stukes (sp). Not done yet. We then had to put the corn cobs in the corn crib - by hand. I tell you; no one was happier than me when my dad bought a corn picker. The first year with the corn picker, it had snowed, and one field had a knoll on it. Dad had overfilled the wagon and it rolled over on the slippery knoll. We ended up having to throw all that corn into the wagon by hand. You guys have it easy compared to 60-65 years ago.
Cut my teeth on a pitchfork handle. Grew up in a small town surrounded by corn fields and cow turds. Always enjoyed ear corn picking, filling cribs, and never minded grinding feed or shelling corn. Video is nostalgic for me. Happy birthday Kiddo, take care and Safety First.
Back in about 1976 we picked corn with a 930 case and stored the cobs in the 2 sided storage with the center open as a storage for equipment. We used the same basic gravity wagons as you have and if my memory is good, it was a 1 row tow behind picker...maybe 2 but I seem to recall 1 row. We also built storage with snow fencing and stored corn in there as we got bigger, then we went to building a grain bin/dryer as we got bigger...then it was custom harvest as combines were expensive and didn't make sense for 200 acres of corn. I hated it then, but as an adult I'd go back to doing that, something about self sustaining is good
We used to pick a lot of corn with two New Idea 324s. One had a sheller on it. Our harvest used to get into cold weather so we got some shelling at the snapping rolls we would pick the fields closest to the barn last. After we were done we turn the sheep out for a couple hours every day. They would find all of that corn and pick at the fodder and grass in the fence row too. We'd eventually unroll round bales out there until snow became to deep and then let the sheep in the barn. We stored our shelled corn in our chopper wagons and then filled the gravity wagons. The shelled corn was feed to the sheep. I'll say this. To this day I have need seen cleaner corn than what came out of that New Idea sheller until now. I bought a Minneapolis Moline model D sheller that does just as good a job. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
In all the years (20+) that we used ear corn, except for 1 year we had to buy our ear corn. Our ground was heavy clay and by fall to wet to try and pick with a 1 row picker. We were lucky to buy our ear corn locally most years and we had 2 trucks to haul to the farm. A few times we had semis bring us corn from PA. On some wet years we would use our 715 Int combine with a grain head to harvest a bin or two and put it in a grain bin with a fan. Combine could go in more places than the tractor and picker.
As always, I find the way you operate your farm absolutely fascinating, with the mix of traditional methods and older equipment, and I get the feeling that though farming can be a precarious way of life, your approach to it seems to make it less stressful and more rewarding. I love your corn picker- it wouldn’t look amiss in a Star War’s movie.
The memories you are bringing back. My 1st picker was a Massey Harris Self Propelled. You were really up in the air. It also would catch fire often. The motor was under the picker. Then I bought a New Idea like your family has. It was mounted on a 720 LP JD We also had a Ford mounted picker mounted on a Ford 6000. It was a good picker. With 2 pickers running it really kept the elevator busy. I kinda miss those days but the 12 row is really nice and lots warmer and relaxing in the nice cab. Wonderful memories though. Thank You for bringing back those good ones. Picking corn in the mud was not fun. The front end would start going down then the back end would sinking then stuck. But the smell of a newly opened crib was still one of the best smells. You never forget 😅
The last time I picked corn was in 2006 if I remember right. I do miss it though, and I miss running the old MM sheller too. Miss the smell of a crib full of dry corn too. Don't miss chasing the rats and mice so much or having them trying to run up your pants leg. But the dogs made short work of them during shelling time usually. We had a huge wooden crib with an inside Ottawa cup type elevator in it that had 3 big overhead bins in it that held 5000 bushes of beans and around 4000 bushels of ear corn, back in northern Illinois where I grew up. Dad and his brother had a 2 row pull type New Idea picker, we pulled it with a 1030 Case tractor and had 2 end dump Electric wagons. Also we rented two other farms with other cribs and I remember using one old narrow elevator with a speed jack powered by an old worn out NAA Ford. Fun times for a kid back then.
My dad farmed with a Super MTA, bought it new in 1953. We used the same elevator, same J &M gravity boxes . Dad picked with a 706 gas and a 234 picker in the late 60’s, find memories of ear corn harvest. Many years we finished on Christmas Day in snowy conditions. Great videos, keep up the good work.
@@hturbo1007 thanks for the correction. I was kind of guessing on time frame for the super M purchase. Dad is no longer with us to ask. Makes sense though, it was after he got out of the Air Force and went back home to farm. Got to be a hard core farmall guy to know that!
Dad use ti pick with a AC 33 on a wd allis then he had 170 on aD17. Grandpa had a new idea pull type. When us boys started to take over dad bought a F2 gleaner. Ground ear corn best cattle feed ever.
Don't do drugs don't do what I did get into drinking and alcohol and running with the wrong crowd bud it took me 2 years to sober up and get clean yes my past still haunts me but I am growing out of it just don't start getting into trouble your young I'm 27 and you have more to live for and happy birthday Owen
You have so many views that I enjoy but especially the one looking down from one of your hills to see the barn and other building nestled at the base. Another one is your sunsets . Also wish to say Happy Belated Birthday to Owen and I hope he enjoys Drivers Ed. if that is what you have there. My worst moves were misjudging the amount of speed that would be too much for a curve. But I guess I was lucky, I heard another group had one person take out a mailbox and another scaring the teacher so much he had everyone go home early. Also had some difficulty switching to our stick shift car. Finally dreamed one night that I was having no problems coordinating things and from then on never did have any more.
My dad had a farmall 450 and the same new idea picker as your's. Sold it in 1979 I was 12 still remember using it like it was yesterday. My uncle bought a 403 combine and the rest is history. Now my cousin runs a 6088 case ih. Keep up the good work.
When you were talking about the electric fence it reminded me of a time, we had some city folks visiting the farm with two small boys, probably 5 years old and younger. The younger one was kind of a little devil, and he was over by the calf pasture which had electric fence around it, he touched the wire and surprisingly, when it bit him, he didn't scream or cry out but called his older brother over and told him he should touch that wire. Before I could yell at him to stop, the older brother grabbed the wire and got, and good jolt and the little brother fell to the ground laughing his head off. Needless to say, mommy and daddy weren't happy with him. But damn it was funny.
When the city boys came to visit and we were walking through the back pasture, my uncle didn't use an electric fencer. He just hooked it up direct to the power coming in to the barn. Then as we were walking along we had the urge to take a piss. It was then that we country boys challenged the city boys to see who had the best aim. Let's see who can hit the wire. My aim was always off but I was always laughing and the winner was always crying.
I remember as a kid that a single axel spreader was big timing it. Haven't used one or seen one in 20 some yrs. Love how your dad has saved his and gave them a new job. Great farm yard cart for sure
The best advice I can give is the advice my father gave me on my wedding day: if you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything, because even the tiniest change can have consequences you can’t possibly imagine.
I'm a 70 y.o. retired farmer from west central Illinois. The first 4 years I farmed we harvested most of our corn with a New Idea mounted picker on a Farmall M. I can't say that I miss picking corn that way.
I picked corn with my dad. We had a Super M and two row mounted International Picker. We used an Anthony wagon that had to lifted with a front end cable Jack to empty from the back end into the elevator that filled a wooden crib. Nice to see you’re still picking corn. Our other wagon was wooden with steel wheels.
First, Happy Birthday Owen!! I don't remember ever picking corn 🌽 in late October in my shirt sleeves. Super nice weather in October this year. So far this,November 17 at writing, has been cold and now snow. Glad your corn harvest has gone well. Thanks 😊.
Happy Birthday Owen and many more. Always a good time when harvest is done and your work days get a little bit easier. Father and sons make a great team may you all continue to be blessed.
I like seeing you still picking ear corn...to me it makes sense if your corn is going for livestock feed. The equipment and storage costs are so much cheaper.
I really enjoy your videos back in the late1970's early1980's we had a landlord that had to have two cribs like yours filled every year. My dad was the only farmer in the area that could put up with this guy and every year we had to use this old guys two row Oliver pull type picker he did let us use one of our own tractor on it but we had to pull the wagons with his old farmall M and his massy Harris 44 with his8N ford on the hicker. So we could keep them running for him. I was so happy the old guy quit all together before I took over the farm when I graduated school. It was a pain when we needed to get our other harvest done but acres were hard to come by.
Used to help my Dad on the farm when I was growing up. He had a F20 with a 2ME galvanized picker when I was around 10 years old. When he quit farming he was using a M with a 2 MH picker. That was back in the late 60s and 70s.
Dad bought a IH 234 picker 15 years ago before we switched to narrow rows just so myself and my best friend could see what it was like to run a mounted picker. We mounted it on my M. It was a lot of picker for an M but it was a good memory. Gave the picker to my neighbor and he uses it to this day.
Growing up we had a International 400 gas we picked with, we had a 2ME IH mounted picker and a 2MH IH picker. We had brackets for a Super M, but I never saw it with a picker on it. We used dump wagons not gravity flow.
I like your videos I have never picked corn, I live next to a farm they had corn in the field this year. I grew up working in the potatoes. I love farming, watching from Idaho
Happy birthday Owen........best advice to give is to always be your own person and listen to the older folks they got old for a reason. Awesome video guys always enjoyable.
I actually know how that picker works. I ran it for my dad as a 16,17,18 year old, but never in short sleeves and I grew up way south of Wisconsin. Dad had that New Idea picker on a Super M and later on a 706 gas when he got the sheller. We used barge wagons rather than gravity.
I just love watching you guys. You have a beautiful farm, it really looks a lot like we have here in Southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Back in the 1960’s I was a boy on the farm, thanks for sharing.
i picked caorn by hand using what we called a shucking pin, its a metal thing as long as your hand is wide with leather loops for the fingers. i still have after all these years
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It pays to keep old stuff at times.
Happy birthday to the young man from Vermont
We had a 32 cow herd until Jan of 2019. Picked corn with a 2 row wide New Idea pulled by either a 666 Inter national or a 986 International. When cribs were full we used a 4400 John Deere combine to harvest the rest.. We sold it as is to whoever paid the most. We have 240 acres, 145 which is tillable. Currently rent the hay ground out and grow soybeans and corn for cash crop. We are in St Croix Co.
Happy birthday, Owen!
OWEN, we would like to wish you a blessed day on your BIRTHDAY... as for advise, just keep being a kid and have fun with life... keep working around the farm and may God Bless your family...
I respect this kind of life.
I am almost 70 years old. I remember picking corn by hand back in the mid 50s. We had a tool for removing the husk, and then we would use a cycle to cut down the stalks. The next step was to tie the stalks into a bundle and stand them straight up, these were Stukes (sp). Not done yet. We then had to put the corn cobs in the corn crib - by hand. I tell you; no one was happier than me when my dad bought a corn picker. The first year with the corn picker, it had snowed, and one field had a knoll on it. Dad had overfilled the wagon and it rolled over on the slippery knoll. We ended up having to throw all that corn into the wagon by hand. You guys have it easy compared to 60-65 years ago.
sure love watching the older equipment at work
Brings back memories.
Cut my teeth on a pitchfork handle. Grew up in a small town surrounded by corn fields and cow turds. Always enjoyed ear corn picking, filling cribs, and never minded grinding feed or shelling corn. Video is nostalgic for me. Happy birthday Kiddo, take care and Safety First.
You bring back so many memories, it makes my day. Thank you
Great ear corn harvest video!!! Happy 15th Birthday to Owen and sorry I missed out on the cake. John T
That's one awesome setup you guys have There
Back in about 1976 we picked corn with a 930 case and stored the cobs in the 2 sided storage with the center open as a storage for equipment. We used the same basic gravity wagons as you have and if my memory is good, it was a 1 row tow behind picker...maybe 2 but I seem to recall 1 row. We also built storage with snow fencing and stored corn in there as we got bigger, then we went to building a grain bin/dryer as we got bigger...then it was custom harvest as combines were expensive and didn't make sense for 200 acres of corn. I hated it then, but as an adult I'd go back to doing that, something about self sustaining is good
Fun to see. That is what it was like when I did it 50 years ago.
Happy Birthday Owen ! 🤪😊🥳👍🍨🎂
We used to pick a lot of corn with two New Idea 324s. One had a sheller on it. Our harvest used to get into cold weather so we got some shelling at the snapping rolls we would pick the fields closest to the barn last. After we were done we turn the sheep out for a couple hours every day. They would find all of that corn and pick at the fodder and grass in the fence row too. We'd eventually unroll round bales out there until snow became to deep and then let the sheep in the barn. We stored our shelled corn in our chopper wagons and then filled the gravity wagons. The shelled corn was feed to the sheep. I'll say this. To this day I have need seen cleaner corn than what came out of that New Idea sheller until now. I bought a Minneapolis Moline model D sheller that does just as good a job. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday to Owen it nice to see him working beside big brother .
That side hill would be a little unnerving. Great video!!! Stay safe and God Bless
Your brother and you dad are good farmers and seem to be even better people pay attention to them
Really enjoyed the New Idea corn picker. FYI…they where made in Coldwater, Ohio. My father used to be the Director of New Idea.
Happy Birthday Owen , listen to your brother for guidance and enjoy your younger years while you can, you never get these days back again
Happy Birthday Owen, time to talk to Dad about getting your farm permit.
In all the years (20+) that we used ear corn, except for 1 year we had to buy our ear corn. Our ground was heavy clay and by fall to wet to try and pick with a 1 row picker. We were lucky to buy our ear corn locally most years and we had 2 trucks to haul to the farm. A few times we had semis bring us corn from PA.
On some wet years we would use our 715 Int combine with a grain head to harvest a bin or two and put it in a grain bin with a fan. Combine could go in more places than the tractor and picker.
Tell Owen happy birthday and a word of wisdom enjoy every day life goes fast
As always, I find the way you operate your farm absolutely fascinating, with the mix of traditional methods and older equipment, and I get the feeling that though farming can be a precarious way of life, your approach to it seems to make it less stressful and more rewarding.
I love your corn picker- it wouldn’t look amiss in a Star War’s movie.
Happy Birthday Owen! Continue to watch and listen to your brothers and dad, and you will have a great life. 💪
Glad to see the Super M. Grew up on the H but they also had the M and the C. Thanks for the video.
The memories you are bringing back.
My 1st picker was a Massey Harris Self Propelled. You were really up in the air. It also would catch fire often. The motor was under the picker. Then I bought a New Idea like your family has. It was mounted on a 720 LP JD
We also had a Ford mounted picker mounted on a Ford 6000. It was a good picker. With 2 pickers running it really kept the elevator busy. I kinda miss those days but the 12 row is really nice and lots warmer and relaxing in the nice cab. Wonderful memories though. Thank You for bringing back those good ones. Picking corn in the mud was not fun. The front end would start going down then the back end would sinking then stuck. But the smell of a newly opened crib was still one of the best smells. You never forget 😅
The last time I picked corn was in 2006 if I remember right. I do miss it though, and I miss running the old MM sheller too. Miss the smell of a crib full of dry corn too. Don't miss chasing the rats and mice so much or having them trying to run up your pants leg. But the dogs made short work of them during shelling time usually. We had a huge wooden crib with an inside Ottawa cup type elevator in it that had 3 big overhead bins in it that held 5000 bushes of beans and around 4000 bushels of ear corn, back in northern Illinois where I grew up. Dad and his brother had a 2 row pull type New Idea picker, we pulled it with a 1030 Case tractor and had 2 end dump Electric wagons. Also we rented two other farms with other cribs and I remember using one old narrow elevator with a speed jack powered by an old worn out NAA Ford. Fun times for a kid back then.
Sure brings back memories, my late Dad used a Ford 801 with a 1 row picker. I sure do remember riding on the tractor with him.
Love these videos. It's not all half million dollar combines and tractors. More like the farm I was raised on. Makes me wish I was back there.
My dad farmed with a Super MTA, bought it new in 1953. We used the same elevator, same J &M gravity boxes . Dad picked with a 706 gas and a 234 picker in the late 60’s, find memories of ear corn harvest. Many years we finished on Christmas Day in snowy conditions. Great videos, keep up the good work.
Super M TAs were built from February of 54 to December of 54 . Your father may have been mistaken on what year it was purchased.
@@hturbo1007 thanks for the correction. I was kind of guessing on time frame for the super M purchase. Dad is no longer with us to ask. Makes sense though, it was after he got out of the Air Force and went back home to farm. Got to be a hard core farmall guy to know that!
@@ericdotseth788 you're welcome and thanks. My favorite is the M series.
Great video
New idea 2 row picker……always likes doing that
Dad must be exhausted, that was a very long day on the picker.
Happy Birthday Owen!!! Always stay a country boy it is the best way to live.
Love seeing the old iron working like it should
Dad use ti pick with a AC 33 on a wd allis then he had 170 on aD17. Grandpa had a new idea pull type. When us boys started to take over dad bought a F2 gleaner.
Ground ear corn best cattle feed ever.
Don't do drugs don't do what I did get into drinking and alcohol and running with the wrong crowd bud it took me 2 years to sober up and get clean yes my past still haunts me but I am growing out of it just don't start getting into trouble your young I'm 27 and you have more to live for and happy birthday Owen
Happy birthday! Glad to see ya again
Happy birthday, Owen! Stay safe and God bless.
real farming here!
You have so many views that I enjoy but especially the one looking down from one of your hills to see the barn and other building nestled at the base. Another one is your sunsets . Also wish to say Happy Belated Birthday to Owen and I hope he enjoys Drivers Ed. if that is what you have there. My worst moves were misjudging the amount of speed that would be too much for a curve. But I guess I was lucky, I heard another group had one person take out a mailbox and another scaring the teacher so much he had everyone go home early. Also had some difficulty switching to our stick shift car. Finally dreamed one night that I was having no problems coordinating things and from then on never did have any more.
My dad had a farmall 450 and the same new idea picker as your's. Sold it in 1979 I was 12 still remember using it like it was yesterday. My uncle bought a 403 combine and the rest is history. Now my cousin runs a 6088 case ih. Keep up the good work.
Happy Birthday Owen have a great day 🎉
Beautiful shot of the picker heading into the sunset. Thank you for the great videos
HAPPY birthday young man!
When you were talking about the electric fence it reminded me of a time, we had some city folks visiting the farm with two small boys, probably 5 years old and younger. The younger one was kind of a little devil, and he was over by the calf pasture which had electric fence around it, he touched the wire and surprisingly, when it bit him, he didn't scream or cry out but called his older brother over and told him he should touch that wire. Before I could yell at him to stop, the older brother grabbed the wire and got, and good jolt and the little brother fell to the ground laughing his head off. Needless to say, mommy and daddy weren't happy with him. But damn it was funny.
When the city boys came to visit and we were walking through the back pasture, my uncle didn't use an electric fencer. He just hooked it up direct to the power coming in to the barn. Then as we were walking along we had the urge to take a piss. It was then that we country boys challenged the city boys to see who had the best aim. Let's see who can hit the wire. My aim was always off but I was always laughing and the winner was always crying.
I remember as a kid that a single axel spreader was big timing it. Haven't used one or seen one in 20 some yrs. Love how your dad has saved his and gave them a new job. Great farm yard cart for sure
Enjoy your special day!
Happy Birthday, Owen!🎉
Happy Birthday young Man and cool video!!!!!!!!!
❤❤❤ good crop happy birthday😊
I used a NI 323 picker for about 25 yrs
I like the corn pickin videos, Trinity dairy was runnin a 6 row Uni in his last video, the corn was flyin!! Happy birthday Owen!
The best advice I can give is the advice my father gave me on my wedding day: if you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything, because even the tiniest change can have consequences you can’t possibly imagine.
I'm a 70 y.o. retired farmer from west central Illinois. The first 4 years I farmed we harvested most of our corn with a New Idea mounted picker on a Farmall M. I can't say that I miss picking corn that way.
I picked corn with my dad. We had a Super M and two row mounted International Picker. We used an Anthony wagon that had to lifted with a front end cable Jack to empty from the back end into the elevator that filled a wooden crib. Nice to see you’re still picking corn. Our other wagon was wooden with steel wheels.
Happy belated Birthday Owen! Fine, honorable young men are our treasure. What would Dad do? Should be your north star.
My grandparents were homesteaders and I was the oldest grandson, so guess who got to pull corn by hand every fall? Hard work, but I had fun doing it.
First, Happy Birthday Owen!! I don't remember ever picking corn 🌽 in late October in my shirt sleeves. Super nice weather in October this year. So far this,November 17 at writing, has been cold and now snow. Glad your corn harvest has gone well. Thanks 😊.
Happy birthday Owen, My oldest sone is also called Owen. It is a very old Irish name meaning John.
Happy Birthday Owen!Hello from Romania!!!
I loved the corn Pickin videos guys. Great to see a lot of people working together and getn er done. Heck Yeah!❤️🇺🇲
Happy 15 years Owen & many more!
Happy Birthday Owen and many more. Always a good time when harvest is done and your work days get a little bit easier. Father and sons make a great team may you all continue to be blessed.
I like seeing you still picking ear corn...to me it makes sense if your corn is going for livestock feed. The equipment and storage costs are so much cheaper.
Looks like you need to build another crib.
It sure is nice to see people picking cob corn brings back many memories
I really enjoy your videos back in the late1970's early1980's we had a landlord that had to have two cribs like yours filled every year. My dad was the only farmer in the area that could put up with this guy and every year we had to use this old guys two row Oliver pull type picker he did let us use one of our own tractor on it but we had to pull the wagons with his old farmall M and his massy Harris 44 with his8N ford on the hicker. So we could keep them running for him. I was so happy the old guy quit all together before I took over the farm when I graduated school. It was a pain when we needed to get our other harvest done but acres were hard to come by.
Happy birthday Owen.
A late Happy Birthday- this is one of my favorite videos. We had a Farmall M with at that same picker. All the gravity wagons too..
happy birthday Owen this is a great channel that your brother has your Dad is great also.
Used to help my Dad on the farm when I was growing up. He had a F20 with a 2ME galvanized picker when I was around 10 years old. When he quit farming he was using a M with a 2 MH picker. That was back in the late 60s and 70s.
I pick corn with a John Deere 300 corn husker and just got it this year and already rebuilt the wagon conveyor and picked about 200 bushels with it
Happy bday owen enjoy your teen year they are the best years
I love the "Virginity Rocks" sweatshirt.
Great video taping, esp- at 18:19, masterful shot!
Dad bought a IH 234 picker 15 years ago before we switched to narrow rows just so myself and my best friend could see what it was like to run a mounted picker. We mounted it on my M. It was a lot of picker for an M but it was a good memory. Gave the picker to my neighbor and he uses it to this day.
Growing up we had a International 400 gas we picked with, we had a 2ME IH mounted picker and a 2MH IH picker. We had brackets for a Super M, but I never saw it with a picker on it. We used dump wagons not gravity flow.
Loved you video watching with my wife geraldine we live in limerick city ireland it great to see what country life looks like love from ireland
Neat...have a small farm too that used to be dairy still doing hay, corn and soy beans now. We used to do ear corn the same way.
I like your videos I have never picked corn, I live next to a farm they had corn in the field this year. I grew up working in the potatoes. I love farming, watching from Idaho
i really like the different camera angels keep up the good work
100% Perfect Video! Thank you so much!
Good stuff guys👍👍👍👍👍👍
Happy birthday Owen
Another great video! You have a wonderful family! Thanks!
Happy birthday Owen........best advice to give is to always be your own person and listen to the older folks they got old for a reason. Awesome video guys always enjoyable.
You make a good family team.
Hey Owen Happy Birthday buddy, I was 15 way back in 1955 and still hanging in there. Great video everyone and thanks so much for another great video.
Happy 15thOwen you will grow up fast enough don't wish for it any faster as you get older you will understand that as they say all in it's own time.
Happy birthday Owen thanks for the great videos, have a great day
I loved the picking videos! Brought back great memories of farming with my Grandpa. Thank you for sharing.
I actually know how that picker works. I ran it for my dad as a 16,17,18 year old, but never in short sleeves and I grew up way south of Wisconsin. Dad had that New Idea picker on a Super M and later on a 706 gas when he got the sheller. We used barge wagons rather than gravity.
Happy belated birthday Owen. Keep working hard, it builds character and will insure success and happiness. Hope you have many more.
Happy birthday 🎉young man. You are living the good life! 😊
I just love watching you guys. You have a beautiful farm, it really looks a lot like we have here in Southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Back in the 1960’s I was a boy on the farm, thanks for sharing.
I’m about 70 miles Northwest of you (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
i picked caorn by hand using what we called a shucking pin, its a metal thing as long as your hand is wide with leather loops for the fingers. i still have after all these years
Could you hand pick 10 bushels per hour?
Happy Birthday Owen. God Bless You.
May you have many many more.