It’s just amazing how fast technology has moved along, as we watch these great machines, it great reminder of how life was so much simpler & life seemed so much better. I Remember pulling 2 grain wagons with open cab 1466, enjoying beautiful sunny cool fall days, hearing dryer running & great smell of corn drying in air!!!
My earliest memories of my childhood in the 1980's are with the 815 combine. Just watching this video takes me back to riding with my dearly departed grandfather and uncles while picking corn. That was a machine ahead of it's time, had power adjust seat, hydrostat, etc. Great memories.
It's quite amazing how the machinery has changed over the years. It sounds like you had an idyllic childhood, mine was similar, growing up in the country here in the UK.
For much of the early years picking corn "in the ear" was done because so much of the harvest was fed to livestock. In addition shelled corn harvested at high moisture needed to be handled differently that ear corn dried in the field. Ear corn was stored in inexpensive cribs on the farm to dry and to be brought to market at the time desired by the farmer. Shelling the corn in the field was limited by the lack of drying capacity for shelled corn on the farm. A commitment to a use a combine for corn was a commitment to, 1) building an expensive dryer setup on the farm and buying LP or natural gas in bulk, or 2) transporting and selling corn right out of the field to a local grain elevator with its own high capacity for drying shelled corn. Not all of those options for handling shelled corn existed for many farms. In addition, the growing season was shorter in northern corn states and dealing with high moisture shelled corn there due to changes in fall weather was a challenge. Finally, selling kernel corn directly at harvest time usually meant a lower market price per bushel for corn. The built-up capacity for drying and storage of corn on the farm now has allowed the farmer to achieve the best price per bushel in the months following harvest.
Heck, in 1975 my grandfather insisted that the corn on our farm be picked BY HAND. He was in his late 80s at that time. But the next year, and I believe my grandfather died before we picked corn again, my dad bought a used single row corn picker and, at that time, it seemed like such a luxury to have the machine do the work. Wow! Fast forward to today and our corn gets picked by a machine that picks several rows at once, with an air conditioned cab!!!
Great idea to follow the equipment progression. We used to have a 1947 Farmall model H with a 2 corn row picker - I can relate to the footage. Great job.
Back in the 60's all we had to use to pick corn was a pick up truck and lots of hands. But I seen those older tractors growing up but your video is the first time seeing them working. Thanks
Man that brought back some memories lol, we had 2 815 combines back in the day. One was a gas and one was diesel. The gas one was a bit scary to run when it was really dry lol
My Dad had a 2M-H mounted on a 400. Sometimes the field was two wet and we had to go and pick the corn by hand and put it in 5 gallon pails and then dump in the wagon. Fond memories!!
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It would be really cool if you did a video on the history of the axial flow and rotary design and how it changed the entire combine market! Not sure if you've done it already but your style of video would lend itself well to the subject I feel like 👍
Seeing this old combine reminds me of an incident when I was in high school ..... His name was Harry Shannon , I went to school with his 4 daughters .... he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad , but was also a part time farmer ..... when he did not come home from farming , his wife went to check on him .... she found his lifeless body , clothing wrapped up in the combine ......
As a future engineer, I would really love it if you showed each machine's cutting and separating mechanisms too. It is so incredible how far ag engineering has come in the last century. So I guess new video format idea: shop and machinery tour! Would be so incredibly interesting, insightful, and educational.
There is IHC and there is Case International. Please let’s not confuse this as being the same. I hope I’m still alive to see a 60 year old Case/International working like an 60 year old Original IHC machine! My favorite combine was the 403 and 915.
Dad always talks about the legendary 203 combine. He swears that was the best combine he ever owned until he bought the 6620 we have currently. When then 715 was a fairly new machine, him and my uncle got the bank talked into loaning them money to purchase a 715, hoping to be able to move faster and be more efficient. That’s been almost 50 years ago and I still hear about how much he hated that 715. Kinda funny to hear the stories about what guys liked and disliked for farm equipment lol.
Seems like the corn gets bigger and taller as the video goes too! Our farm had a 1460 for many years when I was a kid. Dad got a 2166 around the early 2000’s and then a 2577 about 3 years ago. All great machines
Ran a 815 with 20' straight cut head in wheat in North Dakota back in the early 80's. Ran a open station International with a pickup head in oat's in Wisconsin in 1977. Do not remember the model number all i remember is the paint was all faded.
Love the old equipment! 👍 Is it possible to see a video about the history of Bolinder Munktell, Volvo BM and Valmet, and how they become a part of AGCO?
I remember using our 706 with a picker. Ours was a wide front instead of trike. My brother rolled it trying to chase cows that were running down the road. When he hit the brakes that weren't locked together. Just missed his foot with the fender when rolling. Replacement tractor was a 1066 with a cab.
We had a 706 with a wide front too. We also had an 806 with a narrow front. I remember coming home from school and dad was pulling the picker sheller and wagon with the 806 and I had to pull him through the field with our 255 MF attached with a long chain and an old tire to cushion the jerks. That was our 4 wheel drive. 2 tractors chained together. One spot we still barely got through. 86 was a wet fall in Michigan.
I like getting a chance to dig through the archives to share the way different machines relate to each other. I think I can do a similar John Deere and Allis-Chalmers/AGCO video.
Sorry if this is a moot point but have you ever done a cover of the pull-type combines? still i viable option for a small outfit today, even a cattle guy wanting to put up some feed grains.
What's happened on things like header loss and junk into the bin with the shelled corn through the years - how much cleaner and complete is it now ? Also have the machines had to be modified in design to handle different generations of corn strains ? What's different in them as far as the separation processes from early until present ? thx.
I always enjoy your videos but you continue to overlook the one question I’ve been asking you do you see in the future 1000 bushel combines being constructed and used what are your thoughts
They had a heavier steel pan that attached to the shoe with a rubber strip originally. It was supposed to keep the chaff from building up on the axle. Without something there the trash would stack up and then start to build up on the sieve
This type of farming left a lot of cover for animals. Besides being cheaper than the damn modern combine monstrosities, it seems humane from a wildlife point of view.
the newest IH I have seen with narrow front was a 1066. But since the 86 was just basicly an updated cab there could have been a narrow front 86 series.
It is still unclear to me what all this corn is used for, not everything can't be used for ethanol? In northern Europe we have almost no corn that is harvested.
Interesting, here in the states it’s our primary crop. Millions of acres. But it is not raised exclusively for ethanol. That is one use but another big one is for animal feed. It’s a main source of feed for beef, pork and poultry. Also a ton of uses in the food industry as well.
As one who picked corn on the cob in the early 1960s, I aspired to the tractor-mounted International 234 picker/sheller. Long ago, but vivid memories.
It’s just amazing how fast technology has moved along, as we watch these great machines, it great reminder of how life was so much simpler & life seemed so much better. I Remember pulling 2 grain wagons with open cab 1466, enjoying beautiful sunny cool fall days, hearing dryer running & great smell of corn drying in air!!!
My earliest memories of my childhood in the 1980's are with the 815 combine. Just watching this video takes me back to riding with my dearly departed grandfather and uncles while picking corn. That was a machine ahead of it's time, had power adjust seat, hydrostat, etc. Great memories.
It's quite amazing how the machinery has changed over the years. It sounds like you had an idyllic childhood, mine was similar, growing up in the country here in the UK.
The older combines are still my favorite to watch.
The corn harvesting equipment has sure changed in 60 years! What amazing new equipment.
For much of the early years picking corn "in the ear" was done because so much of the harvest was fed to livestock. In addition shelled corn harvested at high moisture needed to be handled differently that ear corn dried in the field. Ear corn was stored in inexpensive cribs on the farm to dry and to be brought to market at the time desired by the farmer. Shelling the corn in the field was limited by the lack of drying capacity for shelled corn on the farm. A commitment to a use a combine for corn was a commitment to, 1) building an expensive dryer setup on the farm and buying LP or natural gas in bulk, or 2) transporting and selling corn right out of the field to a local grain elevator with its own high capacity for drying shelled corn. Not all of those options for handling shelled corn existed for many farms. In addition, the growing season was shorter in northern corn states and dealing with high moisture shelled corn there due to changes in fall weather was a challenge. Finally, selling kernel corn directly at harvest time usually meant a lower market price per bushel for corn. The built-up capacity for drying and storage of corn on the farm now has allowed the farmer to achieve the best price per bushel in the months following harvest.
Heck, in 1975 my grandfather insisted that the corn on our farm be picked BY HAND. He was in his late 80s at that time. But the next year, and I believe my grandfather died before we picked corn again, my dad bought a used single row corn picker and, at that time, it seemed like such a luxury to have the machine do the work. Wow! Fast forward to today and our corn gets picked by a machine that picks several rows at once, with an air conditioned cab!!!
Very interesting. Neat history.
Great idea to follow the equipment progression. We used to have a 1947 Farmall model H with a 2 corn row picker - I can relate to the footage. Great job.
I love the 1440 model combine. So many good memories of those machines. Half the farmers in my neighborhood ran 1440s
I have done this before it's what we have on our farm I love running it
Back in the 60's all we had to use to pick corn was a pick up truck and lots of hands. But I seen those older tractors growing up but your video is the first time seeing them working. Thanks
That's a lot of work and rough on the hands. I helped my dad do that in the wet areas. This was in the 80s
@@alexanderlapp5048 My was back in the 60's. And I use to love it but I didn't on a farm like my cousin did and they worked hard everyday.
Old relatable 815.. loved them all....
Love the old red's. Hard to believe that's how they harvest corn must have took them awhile good video 😉👍👍👍👍👍
Old school farming. That is the equipment I remember.
Man that brought back some memories lol, we had 2 815 combines back in the day. One was a gas and one was diesel. The gas one was a bit scary to run when it was really dry lol
My Dad had a 2M-H mounted on a 400. Sometimes the field was two wet and we had to go and pick the corn by hand and put it in 5 gallon pails and then dump in the wagon. Fond memories!!
Beautiful video great machine
Love the oldies
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Amazing harvesting corn 🌽
Beautiful countryside
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Love seeing different combine harvester and tractor + machines every year
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It would be really cool if you did a video on the history of the axial flow and rotary design and how it changed the entire combine market! Not sure if you've done it already but your style of video would lend itself well to the subject I feel like 👍
Seeing this old combine reminds me of an incident when I was in high school ..... His name was Harry Shannon , I went to school with his 4 daughters .... he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad , but was also a part time farmer ..... when he did not come home from farming , his wife went to check on him .... she found his lifeless body , clothing wrapped up in the combine ......
That's so sad
Love the historical stuff BTP!! History of farming is so interesting and an important part of the American story! 🇺🇸
As a future engineer, I would really love it if you showed each machine's cutting and separating mechanisms too. It is so incredible how far ag engineering has come in the last century.
So I guess new video format idea: shop and machinery tour! Would be so incredibly interesting, insightful, and educational.
Great video! Love watching the historic combines working! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!
Thank you for this !
Just to remind us all OLD REACTORS still worked just needs some TLC!.. Lots to be said for elderly . 😆
Awsome footage! Glad to see them out there! Thanks
That 815 is moving rite along in great condition also 👍👍
Great to see a mini chapter of corn harvest in the RED line Go RED POWER!!
There is IHC and there is Case International. Please let’s not confuse this as being the same. I hope I’m still alive to see a 60 year old Case/International working like an 60 year old Original IHC machine! My favorite combine was the 403 and 915.
😎😎👍Old Iron and going from old Iron to today Iron a great walk down memory lane!!!!!
Look at that 1440 with the 6 row head working hard. I love it
Great to see the red combines trough the years👍😉 Awesome😁👍
Dad always talks about the legendary 203 combine. He swears that was the best combine he ever owned until he bought the 6620 we have currently. When then 715 was a fairly new machine, him and my uncle got the bank talked into loaning them money to purchase a 715, hoping to be able to move faster and be more efficient. That’s been almost 50 years ago and I still hear about how much he hated that 715. Kinda funny to hear the stories about what guys liked and disliked for farm equipment lol.
The thirty two dislikes must be from the green combine owners! Love the red power!
Now this is awesome
Xbox_Clipz yes
Trystan’s Farm how’s it goin trystan
Xbox_Clipz it’s goin good
Seems like the corn gets bigger and taller as the video goes too!
Our farm had a 1460 for many years when I was a kid. Dad got a 2166 around the early 2000’s and then a 2577 about 3 years ago. All great machines
Love picking corn
Great footage of history..thanx
Ran a 815 with 20' straight cut head in wheat in North Dakota back in the early 80's.
Ran a open station International with a pickup head in oat's in Wisconsin in 1977. Do not remember the model number all i remember is the paint was all faded.
The 815 and 2188 are probbly the fastest I've ever seen corn being harvested.
That was really cool seeing all those combines my favourite would be the open station one that’s just really bad ass
Love the old equipment! 👍 Is it possible to see a video about the history of Bolinder Munktell, Volvo BM and Valmet, and how they become a part of AGCO?
Johnny Holmgren I doubt you will find any Volvo BM or Valmet in the US :)
tsint : Not in us, but all over europe.
My Father had a International 80 Pull type combine and his Brother owned a International 82 Pull type combine
Very nice.
I had a Farmall 450 with a 234 mounted picker/ sheller.
Very nice 👍👍👍
Go International...
Thank you Craig.
USE TO HAVE A 915 combine,then had a 1440.,Good combines.
Very cool. I hope to get a chance to film a 915 sometime.
First one I ever had of my own was a M234 picker/sheller mounted on my 560D... Not a bad machine, that..
Dad used to let me ride in the wagon when I was about six. He had a tractor mounted picker on a John Deere A. He would have been 107 today (9/13/20).
G W.
What's a great memories with your Dad. Good times or Bad about growing up on the FARM people's well always Remember! I'm so glad you have your!😂
Mai Mclean The best thing is, as I sit in my easy chair, I’m looking at the field it happened in. I still own it. I farmed it up until 2002.
Very very nice jason
I remember using our 706 with a picker. Ours was a wide front instead of trike. My brother rolled it trying to chase cows that were running down the road. When he hit the brakes that weren't locked together. Just missed his foot with the fender when rolling. Replacement tractor was a 1066 with a cab.
We had a 706 with a wide front too. We also had an 806 with a narrow front. I remember coming home from school and dad was pulling the picker sheller and wagon with the 806 and I had to pull him through the field with our 255 MF attached with a long chain and an old tire to cushion the jerks. That was our 4 wheel drive. 2 tractors chained together. One spot we still barely got through. 86 was a wet fall in Michigan.
@@alexanderlapp5048 that was the year that we put 2 tractors on chopper to get corn done. Yeehaa. I am from Michigan too. Mcbain near Cadillac.
I like the ih 234 picker with sheller
Great video!
Great clips B T P. You have quite the collection. Thanks.
I like getting a chance to dig through the archives to share the way different machines relate to each other. I think I can do a similar John Deere and Allis-Chalmers/AGCO video.
bigtractorpower Look forward to them. Thanks for all your hard work..
My late grampaw would see them machines out there in the corn field and he would say " Pickin' and Shuckin' boy Pickin' and Shuckin'.
My favourite 2188!
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Alot of cool equipment, idk how some of the farmers harvest corn without a grain cart with some of these big combine
I have a 1420 axle flow dose the job for me 🌽👍
Sorry if this is a moot point but have you ever done a cover of the pull-type combines? still i viable option for a small outfit today, even a cattle guy wanting to put up some feed grains.
What's happened on things like header loss and junk into the bin with the shelled corn through the years - how much cleaner and complete is it now ? Also have the machines had to be modified in design to handle different generations of corn strains ? What's different in them as far as the separation processes from early until present ? thx.
Case IH 2188 and 2388
I always enjoy your videos but you continue to overlook the one question I’ve been asking you do you see in the future 1000 bushel combines being constructed and used what are your thoughts
tribine.com/
Has a 1000 bushel combine.
Purple Monkey Dishwasher Do you think that’s even a possibility
I liked the small INTERNATIONAL 815 and the green big tractor with 8 wheels which i couldn't watch the brand 🚜
Were the tin sheets that covered the rear axle factory on the 70's 815's?
They had a heavier steel pan that attached to the shoe with a rubber strip originally. It was supposed to keep the chaff from building up on the axle. Without something there the trash would stack up and then start to build up on the sieve
This type of farming left a lot of cover for animals. Besides being cheaper than the damn modern combine monstrosities, it seems humane from a wildlife point of view.
Ive ran a 1440 good machine. COMBINED A LOT OF BARLEY, NOT MUCH CORN
What do they do with the corn cobs when they aren’t shelled
We used to grind corn cobs and all to use for cattle feed.
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Case international 1688 group up with one and there’s one down the road from me
Anyone have any information on the last narrow front IH produced I heard it was an 86 series
686 was last narrow front tractor produced by IHC. It was basically just a 666 with a new decal
Onion Friend are their any photos of it out there? Thank you for the info
I had both a 686 and an 86 Hydro and I recall in the operators manual there being an image of the single front model
the newest IH I have seen with narrow front was a 1066. But since the 86 was just basicly an updated cab there could have been a narrow front 86 series.
I believe that the tractor-mounted International 234 picker/sheller was faster than the Massey Ferguson 205 combine we had.
My grandpa used a 1440.
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Thank you for watching.
Where's j i case company of harvesting?
I have a video of a Case 960 harvesting corn. I will work it in a combine video sometime.
Mostly this equipment explains why old farmers can't hear.
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These big machines depend on a tiny computer, not the farmer to control them, bad idea!
It is still unclear to me what all this corn is used for, not everything can't be used for ethanol? In northern Europe we have almost no corn that is harvested.
Interesting, here in the states it’s our primary crop. Millions of acres. But it is not raised exclusively for ethanol. That is one use but another big one is for animal feed. It’s a main source of feed for beef, pork and poultry. Also a ton of uses in the food industry as well.
tsint.... most corn is grown for livestock feed. Some for human consumption
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You talk about case IH in this video it's not case IH it's international when it starts out
International is part of Case IH’s history.
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Why leave out the 50's? Would like to have seen the older equipment.
I have not filmed a 1950’s IH harvesting corn. I would like to if I can find one.
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