Corn Picking Tractors at the 2019 Half Century of Progress Show
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The Half Century of Progress Show features 200 acres of harvesting and plowing and over 1,000 farm machines on display. In this video viewers will 40 tractors and corn pickers in the corn harvest demonstration at the Half Century of Progress Show.
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To just imagine how much a corn farmer's life improved when these came out.
Brings back memories of being on the farm in the 50's.. elder farmer across the road had 35 acres of corn that he would use the excuse that he'd open the field by hand picking the first few rounds with the team of horses and then hire a picker to do the rest.. but three years in a row he couldn't stop picking by hand. Picked well into the winter until finally finished. He was 75 around that time.
Helped another farmer mount his JD picker on an old A JD. That was a learning experience not forgotten.
Great video of the old pickers and tractors. tks.
That John Deere mounted 2 row picker is what my Grandpa ran for decades. One of my first memories is of him picking corn. Those were the good old days.
Man, I love to see all the different brands, models and configurations of corn pickers. I grew up around many of those and drove several of the ones that were shown here. I really want to come to the next show.
*What an impressive lineup! I've heard of corn binders, but this is my first time seeing one in action. Thanks for sharing.* 👍
That's me on the Cub and binder! Also had my husker shredder there belted to my H to shred the bundles.
Its good to see antique farm machinery still working,very interesting and entertaining, the difference between many different types of tractors.i see that the combine is all three machines in one.I would have loved to see that steam powered tractor in person.Thanks for posting these videos,i find them entertaing and educational .
Very cool watching these corn pickers and the tractors pulling them doing the harvesting king corn. Somewhat relaxing to watch too. A cool show available every two years. If i lived closer I'd attend it. Enjoyed BTP Presentation🚜👍
What a lineup. I have heard of corn binders, but this is the first one I have seen working. Thanks.
Corn pickers of most popular makes. Mounted pickers from John Deere, IHC/Farmall, Allis Chalmers, Ford and New Idea. I HC made a 234 picker that mounted on a M or bigger tractor and Model 24 husker that mounted on a H or M that did not pull the husks off the ears. IHC found out the outer wheel bearings on the 460's was not heavy enough to take the mounted 234 pickers. My aunt traded her M in for a 460 but it was a later one that the dealer had that had the heavier outer wheel bearings into. You had to slide the wheels out to the end of the axle to mount the pickers on it. It is no wonder that John Deere took over the tractor maker with the 10 series tractor it was not only power the the 460 and 560 tractors just did not have heavy enough rear ends behind the motors.
Those were the good old days I remember them well
1958 John Deere 70 2 row mounted picker
Another great video. Good reminder of just how far the equipment has come. Always good to see the old equipment out in the field. The tractors with the mounted pickers looked like getting on & off of them to operate could prove interesting. Stay safe.
Brought back some memories
Love all of your shows please keep them coming GOD bless you
How sweet the memories!
Awesome lineup, great video
Marvellous collection of machinery , great idea to spread the cobs back as part of the show . 👍🇬🇧
Very Nice Video!! WE had a One-Row Woods-Brothers-Did pretty good job back in the 50"S-All are great to see aqain!!
These machines helped to feed many people
That looks like fun.
Great video, brought back many fond memories! I can still hear our two cylinder John Deere "putting" away.....music to the ears!
Thank you for watching. This corn picker demonstration is always fun to film.
Wonderful video BTP
Keep up the great work 👍👍
Thank you
Thanks for the video it is great
Fantastic!, I'm always struck by how crude and unrefined these machines are, compared to today's, yet knowing these were cutting edge when new, making the farmer's without one awfully jealous, thank you so much
When well-designed, crude and unrefined broke down less often and was easier to repair. Still true.
That AC at the 8 minute mark is an OLD machine.
Brings back memories, I can smell those dry corn stalks!
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Amazing machine's , all the different types, hard at work ! That's history & memories , stay safe !
Thank you for watching.
The one thing that blew my mind was seeing an International 234 picker on a John Deere tractor. Great video, this is a show that is on my bucket list.
Machinery got mixed and matched back then. Sales brochures for corn pickers and loaders often listed what competitive makes and models they would fit.
The first farm I worked on had two New Idea pickers, one with a sheller on it. We picked enough ear corn to feed 40 dairy cows plus heifers and dry cows and a handful of steers. The corn we shelled was fed to around 500 sheep. We stored the corn in chopper wagons and then filled all of the gravity wagons. The contrast between that farm and the 400 cow dairy I help out on today is amazing but I miss doing a lot of that old work. I don't care for tractors that try to do my thinking for me.
idk why but i like how the old machines work
Great video ...
Great video. Hope to make it to this event some day.
I never saw a corn binder actually working except on TH-cam, they were before my time. The corn pickers had a reputation for amputation of fingers and hands.
roy gunter .. AND, amputating arms, legs and extinguishing lives. The closest I ever came to disaster was when the husking bed suddenly pulled the winter glove off my right hand. After that I NEVER left the picker running when I had to unclog it!
roy gunter these pickers are all working great, very dry day and corn standing well. But when stalks were a little damp, or corn not standing well, oh my, always plugging, and then was very tempting to let the machine run whileunplugging.
@@jeanbrandt1993 we had new idea pickers. I never really had trouble with them plugging but in cold weather the stalks seemed to get brittle and load up the elevator that dumped into the husking bed. One of the pickers had a sheller on it and I have yet to see a combine shell corn cleaner than one of those.
@@jamesharber7820 Hard way to learn a lesson that was well-known to do just what you experienced. Try to unplug the gathering chains amid the snapper rolls. Some just had to learn that the hard way, unfortunately.
Corn binders were mainly used to make the corn shocks standing in the field to dry the corn allowing harvest to begin earlier in the fall. If chopping to fill the silo, we loaded the wagon right off the binder.. not let it drop on the ground and have to pick them up by hand as shown.
Similar binders were used to bind oats into bundles that were picked up and made into shocks for drying, later to be brought in and tossed into the thrashing machine. Was fortunate at 14 and 15 yrs old to be part of a thrashing crew of 6 farmers. Quite an experience.
Fantastic video as always! I'd like to see more of the corn shelling equipment/process.
Thank you for watching. There is good news. I made a 17 minute video on the corn shelling station. You can see it at th-cam.com/video/OfyvR6gT8AQ/w-d-xo.html
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Picked a lot of corn with my dad. He had an International 234 on a super M. We picked earn corn up to 1996 when my dad converted to combining all shel corn. Great video. Believe it or not; these machines were a blessing because before that the family, neighbors, and community would go out with a team of horses and a wagon and pick ear corn by hand and thrown it in the wagon. These machines were revolutionary in the farming industry. Lots of memories as a kid. No cabs on the tractors either; was super dirty work back the too. :) thanks for the great video!
Thanks for little history lesson. I still like pick corn by hands , use my old Chevy truck, super small farm ten acres.
Dusty, dirty work is right!! Especially those mounted pickers.
All these guys have no hearing. My dads ninety and used a IH 560 with 2 row New Idea. I would empty the wagons at the crib. Many good memories, bu boy took a toll on my dads hearing loss.
I loved the corn pickers ! So many awesome tractors and pickers ! The one picker at 10:25 looked like it would be real sketchy on any type of a hill . How long did it take them to finish this field ?
The corn still had to be shelled, haha. My grampa had a corn sheller hooked up to an old single piston engine that he kept on a small wagon. He also used the same engine to run the well pump if the power went out at their place.
No one was happier than me when my dad finally went out and bought a corn picker. Being a boy of 5 or 6 out in the corn field shucking corn and then stouking it, was not my favourite activity as a boy on the farm. For me, baling hay and straw, throwing those bales around on the wagon and then on to the elevator was far more fun then shucking corn by hand. Did I mention, my brother and I then had to fill up the corn crib - by hand. Nope, I can safely say I hated corn.
It’s amazing how far the technology is coming.
@@bigtractorpower I was too young (maybe 6 years old), to remember which single row corn picker he got. I just remember it ran alongside of the tractor, attached to the tractor. Although I saw a couple just like it in the video, I could not tell you the name of it. (This was back in the 50s. We did not even have an inside toilet yet. LOL)
Loved all this action with all the diffence old equipping still operating , thanks for the video
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Im 55 years old and this is the first time I've saw a tractor shocking corn.I remember the old trimmers back when I was a kid cutting and shocking by hand.
Is it "shocking" or "shucking"? My family always called it "shucking".
@@herrunsinn774 Two different things. Shocking is the tying together of bundles of corn stalks with the ears intact on each stalk. Shucking is the removal of the husk around each ear of corn that is separated from the stalk.
The item that caught my eye was toward the end, the apparatus that took the power from the tractor wheel and turned it in to the equivalent of a PTO. Had never even heard of something like that.
I was there, and it was quite a show!
It’s an awesome event.
Wow that a huge selection of corn pickers. I half-expected to see a Uni Harvester.
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BlTW, 199,000 Wow!! Great job!
Thank you for watching. It’s amazing there are so many tractor fans. Only 660 subs as of this post to 200K.
I like how these harvest the whole corn and not the bushels
Corn shocks standing in corn fields were once a common sight during harvest. This method of drying corn (Zea mays) was replaced once mechanical harvesters appeared on the scene. Today corn shocks are more commonly seen in fall displays that may also include pumpkins, gourds, and straw bales.
Harvesting has come a long way. Seeing shocks stacked up is a pretty sight in the fall.
That was really great, my three favorites are the Fordson Super Major, Ford 5000 and the Farmall Cup with the binder, thanks for sharing
It was a neat line up. The Ford 4000 narrow front was my favorite this year.
@@bigtractorpower I thought it was a 5000, but you are right it is a 4000
@@bigtractorpower mine too. Even had the Woods Bros. (FORD) picker to match. I can't remember that model number? 201 or 401 maybe ??
Never seen a set up on a JD spoke wheel A that allowed the picker to have live power at the 11:30 mark, so apparently they must drive the picker from the flywheel with a disconnect clutch and also I seen the steering wheel looking adapter hanging on the left rear of the picker that has an extension to still hand crank the tractor. I would say that #25 two row mounted picker is by far the oldest John Deere mounted picker I have ever seen. We had a 137 mounted on a A and maybe on our 70 diesel. I remember dad remarking those were a son of a gun to mount,,,,,,,,,,,,,, so after that we got a 45 round back . GOOD VIDEO !!!!!!
The Half Century Show is always exciting to attend. You never know what might show up. It’s a great opportunity to see farm machine history in action.
that old corn binder reminds me of the old hay balers were U would have 2 pick up every bale off the ground and put them on the hay wagons 😮😮 I still remember those days just like it was yesterday all of these years later back U had 2 work it didn't get done by looking at it a another story the stove wood is the same way that's right 👉 😮 U guessed it 😮😮 real work OMG 8 13 2O23
Some of my neighbors have come around to the classic ways and chisel plowed their bean ground before planting corn there in a few months.
Very cool!!
great video :0
It's pretty bad that I'm only 40 years old and watching these videos from this show I've used at least a couple of pieces of equipment in every one. Hell this one alone I grew up with 4 different ones and that's not even counting the tractors lol.
Can anyone recall seeing a picked field and being able to determine what model of picker was used. John Deere would lay the stalks over differently than an IH picker. Strange but true.
Was the binder tractor a IH OR Farmall? Dads 1964 IH cub low boy was a wonderful Mower and snow plow and it was Hydrolic a lot were not.
How cool would it be to see them and cultivators to one row plow and even a hand crank. And water cooled with out a water pump. Sweet memories !!
Looks like the majority of pickets was the New Ideas. What we used too
We used to pick with a 4010 and a 237. Oh the memories
It’s kinda like watching that one movie, Jurassic Park.
Not a computer on either one of them but they all seem to work anyway. Just think these were the state-of-the-art when they were new.
Where are the UNIs the self propelled that are still used today to harvest seed corn that farmers plant next year.There are a few farmers who still use them because they like ground ear corn for cattle feed.
We had a 705 uni Diesel with the 727 husking bed & a 4 row 730 snapping roll corn head, Dad kept me busy at the crib unloading wagons.
I would have to say that the Oliver was the most Efficient and faster corn picker did not hesitate just kept working nicely
I remember cutting one stalk at a time, bundling it, shocking it and then husking one ear at a time while field mice scurried for cover. Somewhere, I still have the corn knife and husking hand (I forgot the name of it).
Oh i bet the farmers of the pre industrial era thought this was the height of laziness.....little did they know we'd be in machines that drove themselves while watching a moving picture show about these very machines, lol.
YES they had the corn pickers U would put on the tractors they later on they had the pull behind corn 🌽 pickers 😊😊 there was a difference when U didn't have 2 cut corn by hand all day no more 😊😊 OMG 8 13 2O23
To the Oliver @ 1:54 .......Please raise the snout a little. It's making me nervous seeing it plowing the corn stalks
Gotta love the classics😍 did they have a guess as to how dry it was or what it was yielding
This crop is more of a prop to show how this harvesting works. It was sprayed with salt water a few weeks ago to dry the stalks out early. Not sure on yield but I heard it was 30% from the operators. Again it’s just to show and not really a focus for production.
I figured was just curious
Puro Masorquero...😉
This pleases my brain. Such great looking machinery. So much galvanized sheetmetal! But jeez, what’s with all the Gators and other 4-wheelers running around? Can’t people walk any more?
This event takes place on 250 acres it’s really impossible to walk the whole thing in a reasonable amount of time to see the different equipment in action. As a result it is full of golf carts and ATVs.
@@bigtractorpower I had a feeling it was big. I still think it's odd that everyone drives right up to the action. Everybody was walking all through the Midwest farm progress show when it was held outside my hometown in Iowa in the '70s, and it was enormous. Sure, not right through freshly worked fields, but still.
The spoked wheels at 12:00 look the part! Last time I saw spokes was on a steam engine
I dare say if corn was still harvested that way there probably wouldn't be a surplus every year...........
yes but lots more people would be living in poverty so
Jason, those corn stalk bundles would be gathered and then run through a husker/ shredder to remove the ears and the stalks would be used for feed or bedding. I've seen more New Idea shredders than any other. Maybe my Indiana location or maybe they were better than others and therefore more popular, I don't know. Thanks for posting!
I made a video on the shellers they have at this show. It is posted at m.th-cam.com/video/OfyvR6gT8AQ/w-d-xo.html New Idea built its products in Cold Water Ohio. That may be why there were so many in Indiana. Proximity to the factory. New idea made great machines.
In my area of central MN most corn shredders were Rosenthal
I remember my uncle harvesting with a Super M & a IH corn picker
My uncle won the D21 that Heritage Iron Magazine was giving away!!
Ow man he's gonna love that work horse
Y las matas que tumban con el tractor despues se bajan a juntarlas ?
Es mas lo que tumban que lo que juntan amigo no creo que aiga sido muy eficaz esa maquinaria se ve que hacen un cochinero
We just chopped the corn never picked it, nice video, love the old machinery
Question: what happens to the stocks after, are they plowed under?
They shred the stalks with a flail mower or a batwing and then plow.
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Not anymore here in north central Tennessee I have a good friend farming a few square miles I’ve tried to convince he’d have a sizable yield increase if he’d at least go with a shallow till to no use.
Can you do a video of a Massey Harris super 27
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These corn pickers weren't in use in my area...how long would it take to take all the picker parts off the tractor ?...thanks
Not being a farmer what is the difference between the 3 different front ends on the tractors. 1. Wide, 2. 2 wheel narrow, and 3. single wheel front end.
I have always wondered what the advantages/disadvantage of the three were.
The double wheel narrow configuration was popular back in the 30's through the 50's. A single front wheel was considered an economy version of the double. There were several reasons why the narrow front was used, I have heard stuff like reduced crop damage during things like cultivating, improved visibility, shorter turning radius(you used the brakes to help turn the tractor sharper then the wheels would turn even) Wide front has taken over as it is considered to be more stable on hills, with heavier loads, and just in general with how big tractors started to get in the 50's and 60's. Many of the original wide fronts on old tractors were 3rd party designed kits to swap out on narrow front tractors. I am not sure any of the old IH H's or M's ever left the factory with a wide front, but they are out there because farmers put those swap kits on.
@@davenhla Thanks for the info.
@Douglas Rohr Thanks for the info.
That's why anyone looking for a good tractor to restore should look for one with a mounted picker. Usually that's all they ever did cause most guys mounted it once and never took it off again cause of the work involved in it so naturally low hour tractors. Plus the grill and sheet metal is good shape since it's all protected.
Crazy to think that corn probably got planted with autotrac and a high speed planter
It is planted with a Kinze box 3600 planter.
Didn't notice and new idea mounted pickers
There are several New Idea mounted pickers. One @ 8:40 and two more @ 16:34.
@@JDMan522 I must have missed them
Love the combination picker/sheller at 16:35. The shelled corn is market ready. What is the technical term for this picker/sheller combo machine?
Love the videos and I'm hoping you might help. I am looking for a Leyland 2100 tractor for parts. Have you seen one or could you direct me to someone? Thank you
Are those 30 inch rows?
I have to wonder. What would the farmer's of yesteryear think of todays Combines.
They could not have imagined a GPS guided 500 bu combines.
My granddad farmed with horses and sold his farm and retired to town when he amassed somewhat less than a combine would cost.
Lot of mounted pickers to tractors, only one self propelled, it was the moline. My dad might of had one like that, but it was before my time. I only remember the Uni 701, I actually used that machine but then we went to narrow rows and sold it to buy a pull type New Idea 2 row...///
You missed the 1950 Massy Harris self-propelled corn picker at the 3:13 mark, also had a M&M early uni before New Idea took it over.
Forgot to add my Dad had that Massy Harris when I was 4 years old when he quit shredding corn.
@@poppie1946 Yeah you are right. We never had anything Massey Harris that's probably why it slipped past me..//
@@poppie1946 those Massey pickers like that one were notorious fire starters! Engine mounted underneath the machine a couple feet off the ground with all the chaff and fodder falling on too it. Bad design for sure.
Hey do u mind if i use this video in a presentation for one of my classes at my highschool?
I noticed a few of the pickers had cobs tumbling down the conveyors, and sometimes off the side. I wonder if that's because of modern corn producing more bushels per acre than the old pickers were made for.
Yes it could be. When these pickers were built 100 bu per acre was a big crop. Also this may have just been a crop loss issue picking corn like corn headers shell corn today. Plus this is just a demonstration and with all the pickers running one after the other they are running wide open.
About the only demonstration missing to really put into perspective how important these machines were, would have been a group of 15 people with baskets hand-picking ears and carrying them to a wagon.
I have talked to farmers who were very young in the 1930’s who hand picked their families corn crop. The picker was a big advancement. .
Or a wagon with a bang board
Joshua Smith . Joshua, “Bang board”. Wow! I’ve not heard that term for FIFTY years, but I can remember our family utilizing one. We got a Case one row picker...with husking bed...when I was 7 or 8 years old. I began running the picker when I was only 8 and the neighbors joked that it looked like our Case SC was driving itself across the fields. :) Great memories!!!
Lol you mean the cobs are sent to a towlet paper plant to distribute to homes in town 😁
My amish neighbor still uses a binder and throws it through a recutter on the silo.
That is a neat process to see. Hard work.
When a corn pitcher goes on an old tractor like those if it's not a pull type it stays on.
When these corn pickers were knew they definitely took them on and off I would imagine most cases today it’s definitely a classic combination just for the ease of display
I love the old school equipment but I wish you could tell us what we are seeing like what brand and model
Thank you for watching. I wish I good tell you as well. I try to be very through on historical facts which requires enough time to narrate the footage. Unfortunately this event only allows for 12-30 seconds of filming time for each machine before it passes by. There are hundreds of people lined up behind me pushing forward to see the next machine and I work very hard as I film so you never see them.
bigtractorpower - I thought it went by so fast because of your editing skills, I understand. I’ve been a long time fan of your channel and I’m interested in some early equipment. I farm close to 400 acres and can’t afford a new fendt ideal but I like finding good working pickers and combines on a smaller more affordable scale, anyway thanks for mixing the old with the new and keep plowing ahead!
At least he rotates every fall, corn to wheat to beans back to no till corn.
question, I notice most all are picking ear corn. New Idea has some shelling. Who made the first corn sheller?
I would guess New Idea or International Harvester has the first sheller attachment.