Where Do All The Ears of Corn Go at the Half Century of Progress Show?
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The harvesting demostration at the Half Century of Progress includes classic tractors and corn pickers. In this video we will take a look at how the corn is processed after the ears are picked.
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I have no idea why but it’s very satisfying watching the husks and cobs pile up to be hauled away.
Great video. I grew up on a farm and saw a lot of that equipment rusting in the tree line. Never knew what it sounded like in action until watching your video.
Out of all the videos on big tractor power!!! That’s my favorite one. I enjoy all the old farming equipment that was a time we’re family’s came together kinda wish it was still in the area life was simple
New Idea manure spreader just like we had. So cool to see equipment I grew up with. Thanks as always!
Great Video coverage and thorough explanations. I live here in Southern California now but grew up in Tuscola Illinois. I have Family over to the west of Rantoul in Gibson City and Sibley. Thank You very much for all your coverage and Videos. Schools in the inner City need to see these Videos. Kids need to understand where the Grains come from.
Great video! I love to see how they used to do things years ago. Those lawn tractors running augers have to be the smallest tractors I’ve seen here on BIG tractor power.
Yes, that's right.
We used the cobs in the cook stove for quick heat. Used them also for water tank fires in the winter to thaw the ice off cattle watering tanks.
Outstanding vid. Now I’ve seen what my Grandfathers, father & uncles were talking about. Cheers.
An absolute great video! Thanks Jason, brought back some good memories while growing up on the farm in the 50's and early 60's.
Times were so much simpler I would of liked living and seeing that era
Noel Hohberger It was hard work! But we all worked together!
Maybe not simpler.... but the scale was smaller, and farming felt personal. Now it is run like a factory. Efficiency is nice but something has been lost, hard to put into words. Maybe.... community? Enormous factory farms nowdays.... well let's just say you don;t rely on the neighbor kids to come help bale hay anymore.
I have the same feelings over here in western europe.
Very interesting. Maybe some day before I leave this world I can attend the farm progress show. Thank you for sharing
Funny. My memories of picking & shelling ear corn involved a lot of snow and frozen fingers. : )
I think that is much more common than this 95 degree day.
Yea but killin all those rats and mice were enough to keep me warm and I remember some cold days on the D19 and a 2 row mounted love the smell
The name of the game is to see who can get the most pieces of equipment involved to do a simple job eh? A very good way to demonstrate the functions of many pieces of equipment at once.
That's what I was thinking, seeing all that eq. involved. Pretty cool video.
But thats the way it was,farmers would not only share equipment but also the work. Not so much anymore.
Great video. Really enjoyed seeing the new-to-me items: hit and miss powering an elevator, garden tractors running equipment, the one-wheel power head for the elevator. Ah the old days of drags and shellers. It was a lot of hard work, but neighbors and friends helped each other. Talk about a sense of community. Well done video dude, your videos are some of the best.
Well, there is the old story about the use of the cobs. Where you head to the out house carrying 3 cobs, 2 red cobs and one yellow. You use a red cob then the yellow one to see if you need to use the other red one.
I haven't heard that statement for years. :)
I think the last time I heard the 3 cob to the outhouse I was in three corner pants and sucking on my thumb
This was a super fun video. I remember corn picking when I was a kid and it was such a fun time of year. Although combines have made the work so much easier and faster.
It is interesting how spread out the corn shelling process is. Combines absolutely revolutionized the corn harvest process.
A ton of great memories doing this with my dad when I was a kid
It was a great time farming. Thank you for sharing.
Boy the video brings back memory’s of watching my grandpa harvest his corn in the late fifties and early sixties on his farm in Iowa
Best football off season workouts I ever had was shelling corn. Getting into the corn crib, raking it after it had sat for months on end and onto the conveyor was hot and hard work. Between baling and shelling, I always came into the season in shape and stronger.
Loved it!!! Our family still harvests corn in much the same ways as portrayed here.
Man this brings back my childhood, this was the funnest days of my life... kids now days dont even know what they are missing out on because us as adults have changed technology so much, i like the old fashion way....
we shelled corn like that into the late 80's early 90's. remember many a cold day shelling to make feed for the pigs
So did we. We ran a 971 Ford with a 2 row picker into the mid 80’s. We ran a pull type 2 row new idea picker for a few years. Then we upgraded to a new idea uni. Man I couldn’t keep up u loading wagons with the uni. And a 4 row head.
Big tractor that’s some nice ear corn 🌽 has good color to it yeah❤️🇺🇸🐝👍🏻
Great video as usual BTP
Great to see old farm machinery in action.
This video was very educational and well worth watching 👍👍
On the farm I grew up on corn was picked to feed cattle. Corn was shelled to feed hogs because they won't eat the cobs. The ear corn and the shelled corn was ground using a hammer mill drive by a belt. It took two trailers to keep the corn separate, we had hog feeders and if you put ground ear corn in them the hogs would not be happy and it would be an even bigger mess than they made of the ground shelled corn. The cattle needed the added ruffage anyway and ate it with no problems. We had a sheller, I think a Case, and it was slow, I think it had been adapted to use a pto hookup instead of a belt. The farm went to corn headers on the combine when I was a very young boy but I do remember the sheller. There weren't any cobs on the farm to get rid of or shucks from the ears either, they all went through the hammer mill and into feed for the cattle.
Great history. Thank you for sharing.
Love the 730 on the sheller that thing probably just sips fuel on there
This was great! I'm sad I forgot about the show. I recall harvesting and shelling like this when I was little in the early Eighties. It was so fun!
Another great great video again BTP,, thanks again 👌
Thank you! I've always wondered about what they did myself. (no response necessary) thanks
Glad you caught this,Jason. I'm not going to get free to go there. Too many things to do right at this exact time. Thanks for putting this on!! "I'll have another."
A very good video again,good job💪👍👍
It’s an interesting process. I am thankful the show has the equipment to show the old shelling process.
Great video👍👍...love seeing the old ways.And im thankful for the new.!!!
Thank you for watching. The classics are neat. The modern machines can really move the harvest along.
This vid was cool to watch. I recognized some of the equipment that was used, but never knew what it was used for nor knew what its purpose was. I never got to ask my grandfather about it before he passed.
Wow BTP!! Loving this video! That red Chevy C60 sure is pretty. And all the comeradary is great! This was Rural America in the days when neighbors worked together on a seasonal basis. You just don't see this anymore.
Seeing the way it was when I left the farm for better makes me realize how much WORK there was to getting the Corn done to go to the elrvator !! I forgot how much was envolved !!
This is a show I really need to go to. I'm only 48 years old but this was very similar to the way we had to do it when I was little. We used a John Deere 43 sheller, later we upgraded to a Mini Mo 1200 sheller, then we really thought we had something.
Badger chopper boxes! Best silage wagons ever made! Proudly in WI! last almost forever, made of marine grade plywood for the floors and sides. The ones I see here are 1960's era design. I grew up with a 14' just like these(had a roof on ours) that my grandfather bought new in the 60's. Was in fine functioning shape after yearly use for hay and corn silage right up till the end when we had our auction in the late 90's.
Seeing the cobs flying out of that JD manure spreader gave me a good laugh! Like an out of control popcorn maker or something, cobs flying everywhere! Not quite the same pattern you would see from actual manure haha, but it's nice to see something of that vintage in action, equipment for that purpose now days is monolithic in comparison, so much so it doesn't hardly resemble it's ancestors anymore.
I sure enjoyed this video. Was thinking about attending, it was pretty hot this week. Writing from Central Illinois.
Progress is amazing, but there was something to be said for the way it was. Neighbors would come together to help each other. They would travel from farm to farm to harvest etc. If one got hurt, the rest would come together to help. It may have taken 7 men to harvest a field of corn, but they all knew each other and were probably really good friends and cared about what happened to their neighbors.
Today, people stand by and watch their neighbors be robbed and shot, and do nothing but video it on their phone. Sometimes progress has a price.
Factory farming may be more cost effective, but something has deffinatly been lost. Farming used to be more personal, more community..... more..... satisfying? The late 60's was a golden era IMO, enough technology to reduce the workload but not so big as to take the human factor out of it. Then the race for efficiency and size and speed began and we haven't quit. Now we will see google/robot/GPS tractor-bots raising our food. I am actually a bit fearful of agricultures future.
Farmers helping each other for harvest was the best, plus the wives also got together and lunch would be like a smorgasbord and thanksgiving all in one, but no nap eat and get back to work, there were chores waiting at home too.
Fascinating
Thanks for all the great videos 👍
Really liked this video - especially seeing how the equipment is powered. Was really surprised to see garden tractors powering a good bit of the corn operation
That tractor up on one wheel powering that one conveyor that just looked DANGEROUS!
It’s interesting. It was the way they ran a pto powered implement years ago.
I thought it looked cool though !!
That device allowed farmers to run a PTO powered implement with a tractor that wasn't equipped with a PTO. Standard 540 PTO was a development of the 40's/50's. There were tons of old tractors from the 30's and 40's and even into the 50's that the PTO was optional at time of purchase. Even in the early 60's, some of the biggest tractors didn;t have one unless ordered with it(they were designed for tillage work) so that device allowed a farmer to take, oh for instance, a 30's era Case model SC or VAC or maybe an older C or L model that didn;t have a PTO and put it to work at harvest time.
Excellent video Jason, and very interesting to see how corn was harvested and the corn kernels removed from the cob.
I was surprised at how involved garden tractors were in powering some of the equipment.
East American Trains I was thinking the same thing.
Back in the 50's & 60"s there were no garden tractors. Usually a smaller tractor like a Ford or IH C or H would power the elevator. I dumped hundreds of corn loads as a kid on our farm.
Historically they weren't, it just happens to be a great, cheap way to power some of the equipment now. Those front belt drives for the John Deere 110/112 are very rare though.
@@michics100 I'm assuming you mean there were no garden tractors being used. The economy and jim dandy tractors started in the 40s (or one of them did, the other may have started in the early 50s). Lots of garden tractors by the 60s ,but my dad would agree about their use - they had a case VAC for what he referred to as a "wagon tractor - quick and handy with no real power".
Something I have always wondered about old belt driven equipment, what keeps the belt from sliding off the flywheel on the tractor? Do you have to get the tractor perfectly positioned for the belt to stay on, or is it simpler than it looks?
The belt is twisted so it doesn't come off. I have an early memory of belt power silo blower on our farm before switching to p.t.o. powered blowers.
Great series of videos this week. I especially liked this one,nice to see all the equipment in use. Also nice camera work. How cool to have an antique manure spreader and actually get to use it!
Really cool ! I was wondering what they did .
It's amassing they got the corn in in time to have it dried down enough to do this harvesting this time of the year this year.
Great video. Almost like being there. Actually I'm here at the show now. Just visited that display. Saw more in your video.
King Corn. What a labor and equipment production needing many pieces of machinery and the people it to to preform a task. Looks like they were having fun and I'm sure they're happy it's every two years. Enjoyed Corn Episode🚜👍
Awsome thank you. Brings back a lot of memories.
That John deer lawn mower gives a whole new outlook on lawn tractor
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I would to interested to see a cost analysis in todays dollars which is more cost effective!
The machines of today is more effective and efficient. The drawback is that they're more expensive. And they do shorten the time out on the fields. Old machines are cheaper to buy, but the downside is that they aren't as effective or efficient. Old machines are good to look at though. Especially if they're in good shape. Even i, who's a modernist likes to look at those older machines, as they make me appreciate how far we have come in terms of technology. And you do have to consider the drawbacks with both modern machines and old machines. It's each to their own, but you must consider pros and cons with both old and new, as both do have their own pros and cons. Either you can go for efficiency, effectivity and less time out on the fields, but having it more expensive to buy new equipment. You can also have it cheaper, but must be out on the fields for longer with less effective and efficient machines. It's all up to you. Where i live, we do have both old and new, even if the new stuff is in greater numbers
Thank you for making this video, I always wondered what they did with the whole ears of picked corn.
Its a neat process and line up of machinery.
We picked ear corn and stored it in cribs to dry out naturally. We then ground the whole cob in a feed mill for dairy cow feed.
In Cissna Park IL . Just a ways north east of there they used to have there town fair called Threshermans Reunion. They used to put on nice working display of threshing machines.
I don't not know if they still do it.
Yeah great video I really enjoyed watching!!!
The rate of progression is remarkable really! Buts that's the joy of technology and innovation for you
Amazing equipment back in the day 👍👍👍👍
Thanks!Those were the days!
Oh I spotted a John Deere 2510!
Neat to see those garden tractors in action!
This was very cool to see.thank you for giving me the link in answer to my comment on the other video.i was surprised on the equipment they used to shell the corn
It sure is a process. It’s amazing to see all the working pieces needed that a combine accomplishes inside one machine.
Back in the day my dad would pick his corn also with 2 row New Ideal Corn Picker. We would into put it into the corn cribs..next June we shoveled it out and hauled it. The reason why he did that was at the time he could get money for the corn cobs also. They would make stuff like animal beding, etc. Do they even take ear corn anymore???
Most farmers don;t bother, combines are so big and fast it's easier to hire it done. The little bit of ear corn I see around here is kept just to send off to the feed mill to grind for animal feed for dairy farms. But really, I haven;t seen a full crib in a coupe years, pretty well anywhere. Factory farming has just taken over.
Good video as usual every time that show comes around I always have something going on maybe someday I'll be able to get there
One more thing: God bless all of our grandparents and past generations of hard-working American farmers. Look at how much work that generation had to put in compared to modern day… And you very rarely heard them complain
Thanks for the great video BTP. Will have to go and see it one day.👍😀
The trick when spreading cobs with a spreader is to first line the bed and rear with husk - both to prevent leaking out the back and cobs from getting under the chain (which would eventually stretch and break)
That’s a nice looking Ford grain truck , we had a rusty old white one hah
Never realized how much capacity some of the old shellers had.
The guy who now farms my ground took his 25 yo son, who now farms with his Dad, to the HCOP show and spent the day because he wanted his son to realize what came before the GMO, 24 row, GPS, 600 horse tracked tractors that they use today. They spent the entire day and the son learned a lot of things and probably (I hope) looks at farming a little differently now. 👍
This show is a great opportunity to see living history.
Those were the days to be alive and always full of energy 😃
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I love that Old Farmall using the rear tire to run the cob elevator into the Cob Hurst we use to call a manure spreader a terd hurst lol
Im kinda suprised there aren't some hog or cattle growers that dont try to get the husk and cobs for bedding.
I grew up in the south near the Florida line in Georgia. I can tell you the cows would not even try to used the sucks for bedding. Our corn was "in the suck" so when we shelled corn we got lots of sucks and cobbs that went straight to the cows. They would stop grazing grass to eat the sucks. Loved them. If I was running the site as soon as the show was over and the area was cleared, I would hook up the rakes and bailers and bale every bit of the sucks and cobbs. The cows won't eat the cobbs but they would pick of the last grain of corn.
Very good video of the history practices,
We used shell corn with a Minnie- Mo D and E. We also had a JD 71.
I always wondered what those 4-wheeled galvanized contraptions were. Now I know.
Another great video from BTP
Yep that show is on my bucket list of shows to attend
It’s well worth a trip. I hope you get to see it.
Back in the60s we to take all ertd corn to equity and add oats etc,to it for feed for the beef steers
Cool Video
Love this show I think it’s better then the farm that comes after
As always a great Video !
I've been tempted to get our family farm running again like it was in the 50s and 60s. We even still got most of the equipment.
If you treat it as a hobby or second job, and don;t expect to make a living doing it, you can succeed. Seed price vs market price will leave you scratching your head how to cover the other costs otherwise. IMO, I would love to see a resurgence of small family farms in this country. I think the factory megafarm idea has gotten out of hand.
@@davenhla I would treat it as a hobby. I already know it wouldn't profit much, if any. I'd even save some seed back to dry, and plant the next year like my grandparents did. We still got the conveyors and bucket elevators in the crib too.
what a great vid sights and sounds of the past well when i was a kid ha ha ember the taste also dusty corn Thanks again
You won’t find many new modern combines that can leave the cob whole like that old machine does 😎
Only for 2 reasons.
1 they have straw choppers on that smash the cob.
2 the operator doesn't know how to set the machine
The reason really is they ran a CAGE sheller like the New Idea Uni system used in later years, NOT a cylinder rasp bar like on all combines , the Cage Sheller system in much gentler and dies not pound the corn off the cob but sort of rolls it off, as a young man raised on a dairy farm after morning milking and chores were done I worked for two grain company's, one had a John Deere Sheller mounted & powered by a Chevy 292 in line 6 and the other company had a Minneapolis Moline Sheller powered a minneapolis-moline 4 cylinder diesel motor mounted on a Chevy truck, people back at that time knee what work was.
Needs names and descriptions of what we are looking at in order of ears to crib , crib to shelter , corn to storage, cobs to dispose or back to field eat.
Great Video
Have never seen a pto wheel drivin before pretty cool
Thank you loved it
My grandpa and uncle are on there way to the show right now
200 Farmall looked nice.
Here a idea go to Buckley Michigan steam and gas show it's the third weekend in August
Fascinating
Thank you for watching.
How did we not lose 2/3 of farmers to horrible accidents, that machinery looks downright medieval to operate safely. But how awesome is it to see these guys keeping tradition alive!! Which is soooo needed right now. For me at least.
That and the steam tractors are the best part
Great that all this equipment is being saved from the salvage yards. It is a good thing that most of this equipment was used through WWII and later through the 50s and early 60s. Otherwise the war machine would have salvaged all the steel and we would not have any of the old equipment we see today.
great Vid BTP
Wow I did not know they take the cobs and spread them back across the field
Cobs could be used for bedding animals,they just gotta go somewhere with them so...
I thought back years and years ago tires turned when I pulled a old horse drown manure spreader that somebody in the family changed the hitch on.
There's the ear corn. I just watched Mike Less's and he had the shellers. Yeap I miss the ear corn ,my dad had a few of the models you are showing here...///
Wow Jason you got a lot of really cool footage here. Some of this equipment we had on the farm when I was growing up like the new idea corn picker. And then some of the other stuff just looks downright dangerous lol.. I sure would love to find a 540 PTO adapter for the front of a garden tractor though that’s pretty neat. Also the farmall tractor using it’s rear wheel to drive a PTO I thought was interesting. You would think long periods of doing that would be bad for the differential? Really cool video though thank you!
I can honestly say I had never seen the rear wheel/PTO setup either. Those tractors have been around for over 50 years and the running of that PTO setup didn't put stress on anything. Rarely heard of differential problems of any kind.