1953 New Idea Farm Equipment Film No. 20 Mounted Corn Picker

Silent 1953 16mm film showing the New Idea number 20 mounted corn picker on a Farmall M tractor with title cards giving information about the picker.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Them ears are the size of baseball bats. Excellent crop by 50s standards. Farms were so much more beautiful back then. Old wood barns and farm hoses have way more soul than anything built today.

[@greggergen9104]

Back then they went with much lower number of plants per acre.

[@farmerpete]

Cool! I've never seen a #20, although I've had a 305 and a 319. Running a mounted picker, what a dirty job that was.

[@wcooman1694]

I know my dad really liked the mounted picker concept. He thought long and hard about getting one, but in the end, he went with a trailed two-row unit instead. The tractor for the mounted unit was a '72(?) Ford 4200 (row crop) w/wide front end. Dad figured it would be too hard & involved to switch back-n-forth. Not to mention, the added safety the wide front provided on our sidehills.

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jefffirefighter12106]

Our family Dairy ran a John Deere 227 mounted picker on a 720 Diesel for years, as a matter of I still have it in the drive through corn crib Dad & Granpa bought it New in 1958. We haven't used it for a few years now, have the shelling unit too.

[@charlietanner6211]

keep that baby picked a lot of corn with 227 neighbor had one on a jd one yr corn so good couldnt go maybe 150ft before stopping to let hopper clean out still have my dads a227

[@anthonylentini6278]

great video

[@frankwurth5375]

Back when a new tractor and picker could be bought for under 9K. Monster size equipment and the mega cost to buy it is what killed the traditional farm and the machinery builders that relied on those many customers.

[@jamespimental6919]

Can't control the population if the small farms stayed small and local! Now we eat poison and call it "food "

[@ottoneidlinger4938]

Nice video. Thanks J and L

[@theda850two]

You know, these audio less videos are beginning to grow on me, we all can use 7 minutes of quiet time :)

[@joeorsborn9794]

First picker I owned was one like this,did a great job !

[@danw6014]

I believe if we still picked ear corn, we'd still have New Idea.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Pretty neat machine. I’d rather watch this silent, old film than a modern one with speed-zooming and overly dramatic digital music.

[@dreisternehof]

works properly! Thank You for sharing this video!

[@charlietanner6211]

never saw one like this

[@danielheckmann4898]

Nice👍🏻

[@tonymartin4255]

not a genetically modified ear amongst them yay for the 50's

[@genebonjour5545]

Corn looks better then as compared of today's hibred.
Gmo sucks