Picking Corn After Dark! Corn Picking Breakdowns! Harvest 2023!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Today we are picking corn after dark. A mid afternoon breakdown set us back a couple loads for the day. But all in all we had a very successful day. The 686 International and New Idea corn picker keeps chugging along. If you haven’t already make sure to go watch what happened the rest of the day in part one and two. Thank you all for watching, Happy Harvest!
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What a satisfying sight; full corn cribs going into the winter. That was the thing that drew me into watching your videos, it was the picture of your corn cribs to promote the video. To me that's farming. Yeah milking cows, and bailing hay, but there's just somthin special about full corn cribs.
“We’ll get it”. Pops always knows what to say to keep everyone positive.
I love watching you men pick corn its a lost art you men have a great thanks giving and keep doing the tou tube
I have not picked corn for 50 years, but I still remember that smell, when you looked in the husking bed of corn, steel, and oil.
38 years for me. I miss it.
These videos are a good demonstration of why the "tricycle" front end was popular during this era of farm equipment. It makes maneuvering wagons and equipment so much easier.
Nice corn , that paid for machine still does the same work as a john Deere X1000 combine but a little slower and didn't cost 10000000.00 great video we still pick with a two row new idea 324 picker sheller cheap harvesting and the cows still love the corn 🌽🌽🌽
Ear corn is great feed!
Well done, great video. I worked on a 90 cow dairy farm in SW Wisconsin 75 to 78, picking corn in the dark seemed pretty common then. They had New Idea Uni System on that farm, it chopped hay all summer for the Harvestores, and then we put the combine head on it, and shelled corn to put in another, smaller Harvestore. Lots of people have a romantic idea of dairy farming, the work outdoors, the freedom of self employment, and on and on. But dairy farming is just plain hard work, 7 days a week without a day off. Summer is humid, and winter you have frozen drinking cups, manure spreaders that won't work, and on and on. I know from experience that it's not as easy as you guys make it appear, but I'm so thankful that you still have enough optimism and hope for the future that all of you are still doing it, day after day. I'm a little older than your Dad, but I think his work ethic would be a model for anyone these days. Thanks for posting!
Amen!
Couldn't agree with you more. My dad was like that.
Its still fun to do because of the reasons you mentioned.......for a weekend! Then I give it back to my dad who still loves his ladies after 40+ years.
@@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586 My Dad told me about hanging lanterns on tractors to disk at night, but by the time I came along, I became the one that would work until midnight, and do it tomorrow, and the next day...
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj Yeah, there is always a catch. Do you still have your dad?
Awesome share, I can almost smell the corn 🌽 😅😅😅.
Another great picking and grinning video 😅
Cobs of corn make me happy.
I think you could have put about 7 or 8 more cobs of corn in that crib. LOL! Look like you are on the home stretch. Great content and thanks for sharing.
Great video. Fall in rural Wisconsin is my favorite time of year. So many colors & of course harvest.
Excellent job and excellent footage. Never picked corn, but have certainly operated and worked on my share of combines and hay equipment. I still remember working with my dad working ground, harvesting crops and mowing, raking and baling hay. I remember one time about 40 years ago baling hay grazer with him and we had stopped to eat lunch. We had our one ton truck with the cooler on the bed setting underneath a large shade tree at the edge of the field. While I was setting on a 5 gallon bucket eating a sandwich, dad went over and got a large cup of ice chilled water out the water can and threw it on my back. Man did he laugh hard! He was ornery like that. I wish I could turn back time and see him again. I cherish those memories. Cherish every moment you have being with your brothers and your father, because you won’t always have them.
Hello enjoyed your video looked like a beautiful night. See you then.
Anyone ever use a circle of snow fencing when cribs got full? I did that a number of times. You can always make at least two tiers of snow fence cribbing as well.
When it was a good harvest, we always did that because it wouldn't fit in the cribs. I recall a third tier one time.
Same here@@markenge9348
Great video!! Also there isn't any better education than going up on a farm dairy farm!!
Great video. Brings back lots of memories. Hope all goes well. All the best 🇬🇧.
When I helped our neighbor back in the 70's, we would put a wheelbarrow under the elevator to collect the loose kernels. Then we would dump it in the grainery. His elevator had a 8hp Briggs and Stratton that run the paddles and he had a custom made shute to unload into. Didn't have I guess what you call a pre-loader. We dumped directly into the elevator.
Them snapping rollers got a make over… never saw that before. Evidently it works great 👍🏻
A blast from the past. The good ole days. My dad and I filled alot of cribs back in the day. Good job guys.
Totally enjoyed watching the video guy's 😊
We picked corn until 5:30 pm. Our hired picker had a mounted picker on a H lights work but yes kinda hard to see picking so unloaded the last 3 wagons called it quits. Went into the house got something to eat before the evening milking an chores.
Yup. Corn picking means breakdowns in the dark. I know. It happened to me in the 70s.
Great video always a pain when you have to stop and fix but at least you got it going again.
The farm I worked at in 75-76-77 first had an M Farmall on the Sweet Corn Picker for Green Giant in Le Sueur Mn !!!! And then they got a 560 Gas then a 706 German Diesel was the last tractor in 1976 !!! 77 They got Rid of the two row Pickers and went to the New Idea UNI HARVESTOR AND PICKED 4 ROWS !!!!
Yes Mexicans with trucks would follow them around.
Hi. A tote bag tied under the elevator on a pallet or hangin on the forks works great to catch all the shell corn. Sure safes some shoveling. Nice weather for picking.
Hi,Naaman. Corn BIG BANG. 🤗🤗Thank You.
I've never been a big fan of picking after dark but I bet about a third of all the corn I've picked has been in the dark. At least now I have LED lights on my 4020 and I also use magnetic work lights that I set on the tractor fender shining right down on the snoots.
Everyone takes their share of the load to keep things moving. Despite the breakdown, things were up and moving in short order.
love seeing that picker at work on your fantastic IH 686 , every one gets break downs but you soon got her up and running , Fab vids as always
Thanks for another great video. Great to see your cribs full, plenty of feed for winter. I always enjoy and look forward to your next one. Stay well be safe.
Great video! Picking by moonlight 🌙.
Have a great day and keep up the great work.
Like how you guys save every kernel and cob you can. Feed is the biggest cost on any livestock operation. Seems like so many farms waste so much feed these days.
You brought back some memories.. thank you 😊🙏
Nicely done Aaron
You guys work very efficiently together ,it’s good to see family make it look easy . Great video . What a view
They look nice
Thanks so much for sharing the video. Enjoy watching y'all pick corn. Y'all have a beautiful farm. Hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving.
How many bushels do the cribs hold young man? Thanks for bringing us along 👍👍.
Enjoy this time of the year. With picker and unloading wagons. How many loads does it take to fill crib?.
Memories. Thank you
Enjoyed watching all the corn picking. Just curious do you see birds or crows in the winter picking on the sides of the cribs.
My favorite time of year on the farm filling silo with corn silage and picking corn not hot not cold beautiful weather knowing in a month or so it's going to start turning into winter and I hated winter on the farm 😅
I enjoyed the video 👍
You guys do a great job!
Great video
I am amazed at how much you guys are willing to do what it takes to complete the job. Again you guys are a great family and I appreciate all your videos and efforts to bring us along. Your dad is really a sharp man
You have to be careful with corn pickers! I know of 2 people who lost all or part of thier hands in them. They only plug when you are in a rush, and then you forget about safety. Be careful, God Bless, and great video!
I grew up in the 50's & 60's and I knew at least 2 that lost arms in pickers, also. It always happens when stalks get jammed in snapping rolls and farmers try to clear them out with the rolls turning. My cousin always did that but was lucky all his life. Another farmer who was also a state congressional rep lost his arm. Maybe you know who I'm talking about. Name starts with G and rhymes with easy.
Cool vid. Looks like you've kept your dept load way down. You can survive anything!
Love the video
One of the neighbors had a few fingers missing and some others that were crooked from getting caught in pickers. He used to come over to our place to get a game of baseball going in our pasture.
Because all tractor lights were removed, this reminds me of taking the risk of driving one of these units on public roads at night - basically no light unless you count a single small lantern. Fortunately not a busy road. Back in the day it would not have been easy to rig up something equivalent a modern LED light kit.
Could you tell me who all the pictures are of on the wall of the shop?? I just noticed them if you have explained the in a previous video let me know. Thanks.
good looking corn what is it yielding looks awfully dry can you still get parts for those pickers
NI used many common bearings, chains, and so forth. Sometimes you have to be creative though.
Super robota 👍
Do you put an sheep netting electric fence around the corn field so you run your duck / hens/geese out to pick threw the corn that got away ?😊
How many loads can you get in a day
pickin
A real farming family.
I was raise very similar to you all and I loved it
Congrats on the new barn space. Keep the good videos coming.
How do you keep the corn dry
Saves
I wonder why you don't attach some boards to the sides of the elevator base to eliminate spillage and the need to use the skid steer to Clean up all the spillage?
I bet you catch “HELL” trying to find parts for that equipment due to the age of it.
U aught to paint them silo caps to look like your baseball caps
TH-cam, leave me alone.
I was answering a 🤬 poll from TH-cam, not commenting on the video. 😳🙄
Thanks for the great video,but you should put the safety stand down when working under the picker
Not as beautiful as Ireland
Thats his home......👍🙏And a beatiful one at that !!!!