On our farm here in Southwest MI, we still us the equipment that my Granddad and dad bought new in the middle to late Fifties. (JD 50, 520, 620, 630, 720) with all the equipment that goes with it. Funny thing is most of my friends have all stepped up to the (NEW) equipment, and have to Barrow money to farm? Like you I can fix most problems that arise. Keep up the good work on you farm and channel. Respect from MI.
Hey Jeff! Sounds like you got a cool operation going there! I always look at it as the big guys with new equipment don't make much more $ than me if any, they do have more bills and headaches and are usually deep in debt, l couldn't stand that.
New subscriber I remember when I was younger We used to go to my grandfather's farm They used to cut it off by hand and pick it up put it on the wagon and bring it to the silo And chop it right there And Blow it right in the salon Then I got the update But it was fun as a kid I was brought up on a farm So stay safe stay healthy and have a good day
Hey, welcome! Thanks for subscribing, l remember my Dad telling me about cutting the stalks, carrying to the silo, and feeding them into the copper/blower. Went right from cutting tobacco to cutting corn.
I was only 5 years old then (1963) but I remember my Dad picking his corn with a 2-row mounted picker on a Farmall 560. I rode in the wagon. Dad switched to John Deere combines in about 1964.
My father had a New Idea single row picker in the 1950's. Said he ordered it and it was delivered unassembled. Perhaps it was less expensive that way? Pulled it with a John Deere 50. Good memories. Kept the corn in the same Co-Op corn crib as you showed. Come January or February the center would begin to heat so a gathering of the neighbors trucks and wagons would commence. Empty the crib into the trucks and wagons to get the corn mixed and then put it back into the crib. A vertical ventilator helped some. Adding wire hollow sections from the ventilator to the outside helped more but still didn't fully eliminate "The dance of the wagons and trucks".
They must have been picking it a little bit to wet. Once my corn is down below 25% I have no trouble with it not keeping. Maybe you are more south of me where it doesn't get cool.
@@danw6014 I farmed 64 miles North of Detroit Michigan, 1/2 mile West of Lake Huron, if you left any husk on the corn, it would rot and bushel basket size area in the crib. Did an awful lot of hand husking.
My dad and I used to pick popcorn the same way. Only difference was we used a 520 and a two row John Deere picker. Today I have a 520, 620, and a 720. My corn picking days are over and I don’t get much chance to run the tractors. Great memories though
Corn pickin' time was my all-time favorite. My dad's 2 brothers came to our farm with their Farmall M tractors and mounted pickers. There were 4 box wagons., 2 drivers and 1 at the elevator. We hauled loads with our WD Allis while our 1949 M was belted to the speed-jack. Those 2 pickers kept us real busy. Dad allowed me to skip school for just one day to be part of the crew. Thanks for your video; sure brought back some good memories!
My Dad used to pick corn by hand when he was a kid. I think that he said he was paid a Nicole per bushel and he would pick just under 100 bushels/ day. When I was really small, we had an A John Deere with a single row pull type picker. We eventually moved up to a 630 John Deere with a 227 mounted picker and then eventually a 237. We picked all of our corn as early as corn and then ground it up cbs and all for feed for the dairy cows and the hogs. That made for some good roughage in their feed. Thanks for sharing Bill. Sure brings back memories
Good morning if the farmers today had to drive the tractors they wouldn't know what to they have to much electronic driving stuff on a have a great day Mr Bill 👍
Good video. My Grandpa fed the ear corn to his hogs on the ground. He also had a grainery inside the barn, with a JD pto driven hammer mill. There was a sliding door that gave access to the pto. He always used the 2010 to run it. Pretty nice little set-up with scales for the supplement. He mixed all of his feed for the hogs and the cattle. There was a corn crib in the barn next to the mixing equipment. Still have the 2010.
I noticed the role of Mattick, that’s roll O-Matic on the front end of your 620. I grew up with a 1952 A what’s up Rolo Matic, that word Rolla Merrick doesn’t wanna work with the microphone what do you know what I’m talking about. We had a McCormick Deering one roll picker with a side delivery. Were used to 100 bushel flair box and we had the bolt a long tongue on it. The tongue one Anna U-shaped bracket with chains to hold the tongue to the corn picker. When it got full at the front, I had to stop and slide the tongue and refasten the chains so that we could keep going. And by this time all the cornfields were opened up when we filled the silos so we just went around and around the outside until we got to the middle and finish the field. On an average year we had 20 loads and a good year we could have 25 to 28 loads. And we have to build a third corn crib with wooden snow fencing, and we may get it as high as three fences. We did the same thing for silage using wooden snow fences, three high. We had two telephone poles in the ground in the barnyard for silage, and two in the ground by one of the corn Crips that’s cribs. Thank you for your tractor Church . I look forward to seeing you in heaven.
Had a few acres of corn picked it with a Farmall h and a new idea no7 one row picker and a old wagon with sides have to shovel in the corn house n shovel back in the mix mill but the cows sure love to eat it in the winter picker broke down last year picked some buy hand didn't mind the work but made sure got it up for this year harvest
I sure do miss those days but then again today I sat in a nice new JD combine and did 100 acres in 10 hours without the dust and out of the cold but it still ain't the same!! Love your videos and hope you keep them coming 🤞 God bless you and your family and our country 🙏🇺🇸🙏
in 1952 late 1952 my grandpa bought a new 60 and 227 picker really modern then before he used a model D 1936 that my brother still has and a new idea 2 row picker . with a wagon on back it must have taken an acre to turn at the ends.
Thanks for sharing the video Bill. I always enjoyed picking corn along with running the combine too. Miss farming full time and raising corn. Now days I just make hay.
The first picker I remember (born 1969) was a New Idea mounted on an A/C gas tricycle, not sure of the model. Never took the picker off, I don't think they wanted anyone to see a tractor that wasn't green.😂 I still have a NI 2 row narrow, 325. New Idea had the right idea for picking ear corn!
Hi Bill, The cold is coming....., thank you for your video, a JD620, the new idea and onward it works, easy and quick troubleshooting. Total love ! 👌 You also have a JD 2040, it was the European 1030 in 3 cylinders, the same unit displacement as your 2840... in short half a 2840 Quick question: at what maximum speed does the tractor travel? here 14.5 mph.....slow
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 You're close to Washington DC. I'm on Missouri, I noticed the landscape trees and everything see.s exactly the same. I'm in east central Missouri. Corn and lots of farming here too.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 East central Mo I love its great here, definitely a farming state, weather of all kinds, should be the same as there. We had 23 degrees last week.
60 years ago a gravity wagon???? All the money must have washed away here, I shoveled off flat racks of ear corn into drive through cribs into the 1990's. New Idea #7 and later a 2 row mounted NI........Traded for a 325 2 row pull type a few years back, but haven't planted any corn since to try it. I guess I just wanted a picker we should have had.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 Did you shovel them into drive through cribs through a row of flip down doors at the top? I haven't ever seen setups like that other than in my area. Then we ate our wheaties and shoveled them all back out again into the grinder/mixer later on. I guess these old guys here thought they could get a box big enough that they could take it with them?
I have a JD 50, 70 both gas and a 720 propane. All 60 plus years old. Also have a 2018 Branson 5220R diesel with only 1000hrs. Today the Branson wouldn’t start. It would crank but no start. Finally figured out the electronic fuel shut off solenoid wasn’t getting exactly 12volts to open and let fuel into the injection pump. I despise all the electronic crap they put on today’s farm equipment. About the only time the two cylinder JD’s don’t start is when they are out of fuel.
Kid in the 60’. The old couple had two white face mules to pull the corn wagons. In from the field to corn crib. Camera should have been nice to get a picture
My grandpa showed me a glove one time had a little tool horn thing said it was to husk the corn him and my grand uncle took 2 rows of corn each all day doing that by hand don’t remember what he called that glove tool though
Believe it was called a husking glove. My grandfather and his sons picked corn by hand. Threw the ears into a horse drawn wagon. Grandpa kept a sack attached to the wagon where he would put the biggest and nicest ears to be used for seed in the spring.
Nice to see fellas, Hell I was using a new idea corn picker number ten fifteen years ago
When farmers were farmers. A breakdown today would last for a week or more waiting for parts. Love to see the old machinery still working.Thanks
Yeah, it's a different world today, thanks for the comment.
On our farm here in Southwest MI, we still us the equipment that my Granddad and dad bought new in the middle to late Fifties. (JD 50, 520, 620, 630, 720) with all the equipment that goes with it. Funny thing is most of my friends have all stepped up to the (NEW) equipment, and have to Barrow money to farm? Like you I can fix most problems that arise. Keep up the good work on you farm and channel. Respect from MI.
Hey Jeff! Sounds like you got a cool operation going there! I always look at it as the big guys with new equipment don't make much more $ than me if any, they do have more bills and headaches and are usually deep in debt, l couldn't stand that.
Brings back great memories when my dad farmed. He had a 620 like yours.
Thanks Michael, great to hear from you!
New subscriber I remember when I was younger We used to go to my grandfather's farm They used to cut it off by hand and pick it up put it on the wagon and bring it to the silo And chop it right there And Blow it right in the salon Then I got the update But it was fun as a kid I was brought up on a farm So stay safe stay healthy and have a good day
Hey, welcome! Thanks for subscribing, l remember my Dad telling me about cutting the stalks, carrying to the silo, and feeding them into the copper/blower. Went right from cutting tobacco to cutting corn.
I was only 5 years old then (1963) but I remember my Dad picking his corn with a 2-row mounted picker on a Farmall 560. I rode in the wagon. Dad switched to John Deere combines in about 1964.
l always enjoyed riding in the wagon.
Brings back memories from the early and mid 1960's. Thanks for the video.
Thank you Jimmy John! Good to hear from you.
My father had a New Idea single row picker in the 1950's. Said he ordered it and it was delivered unassembled. Perhaps it was less expensive that way? Pulled it with a John Deere 50. Good memories. Kept the corn in the same Co-Op corn crib as you showed. Come January or February the center would begin to heat so a gathering of the neighbors trucks and wagons would commence. Empty the crib into the trucks and wagons to get the corn mixed and then put it back into the crib. A vertical ventilator helped some. Adding wire hollow sections from the ventilator to the outside helped more but still didn't fully eliminate "The dance of the wagons and trucks".
I can't imagine having to do that "dance"!😲
They must have been picking it a little bit to wet. Once my corn is down below 25% I have no trouble with it not keeping. Maybe you are more south of me where it doesn't get cool.
@@danw6014 I farmed 64 miles North of Detroit Michigan, 1/2 mile West of Lake Huron, if you left any husk on the corn, it would rot and bushel basket size area in the crib. Did an awful lot of hand husking.
@@kswaynes7569 hahaha. I'm sixty miles west of Detroit.
Hey Bill,,very cool.
My dad and I used to pick popcorn the same way. Only difference was we used a 520 and a two row John Deere picker.
Today I have a 520, 620, and a 720. My corn picking days are over and I don’t get much chance to run the tractors. Great memories though
Corn pickin' time was my all-time favorite. My dad's 2 brothers came to our farm with their Farmall M tractors and mounted pickers. There were 4 box wagons., 2 drivers and 1 at the elevator. We hauled loads with our WD Allis while our 1949 M was belted to the speed-jack. Those 2 pickers kept us real busy. Dad allowed me to skip school for just one day to be part of the crew. Thanks for your video; sure brought back some good memories!
Hey Mike! Sounds like a fun time, it's great when families work together like that.
Lotta corn picked that way on the Eastern Shore...where I grew up!
My Dad used to pick corn by hand when he was a kid. I think that he said he was paid a Nicole per bushel and he would pick just under 100 bushels/ day.
When I was really small, we had an A John Deere with a single row pull type picker.
We eventually moved up to a 630 John Deere with a 227 mounted picker and then eventually a 237.
We picked all of our corn as early as corn and then ground it up cbs and all for feed for the dairy cows and the hogs. That made for some good roughage in their feed.
Thanks for sharing Bill. Sure brings back memories
Thanks for sharing your memories, Gary.
Good morning if the farmers today had to drive the tractors they wouldn't know what to they have to much electronic driving stuff on a have a great day Mr Bill 👍
Very nice 620. That 323 looks cool
Good video. My Grandpa fed the ear corn to his hogs on the ground. He also had a grainery inside the barn, with a JD pto driven hammer mill. There was a sliding door that gave access to the pto. He always used the 2010 to run it. Pretty nice little set-up with scales for the supplement. He mixed all of his feed for the hogs and the cattle. There was a corn crib in the barn next to the mixing equipment. Still have the 2010.
Very cool!
I noticed the role of Mattick, that’s roll O-Matic on the front end of your 620. I grew up with a 1952 A what’s up Rolo Matic, that word Rolla Merrick doesn’t wanna work with the microphone what do you know what I’m talking about. We had a McCormick Deering one roll picker with a side delivery. Were used to 100 bushel flair box and we had the bolt a long tongue on it. The tongue one Anna U-shaped bracket with chains to hold the tongue to the corn picker. When it got full at the front, I had to stop and slide the tongue and refasten the chains so that we could keep going. And by this time all the cornfields were opened up when we filled the silos so we just went around and around the outside until we got to the middle and finish the field. On an average year we had 20 loads and a good year we could have 25 to 28 loads. And we have to build a third corn crib with wooden snow fencing, and we may get it as high as three fences. We did the same thing for silage using wooden snow fences, three high. We had two telephone poles in the ground in the barnyard for silage, and two in the ground by one of the corn Crips that’s cribs. Thank you for your tractor Church . I look forward to seeing you in heaven.
Had a few acres of corn picked it with a Farmall h and a new idea no7 one row picker and a old wagon with sides have to shovel in the corn house n shovel back in the mix mill but the cows sure love to eat it in the winter picker broke down last year picked some buy hand didn't mind the work but made sure got it up for this year harvest
Thank You Again !!!.
You bet!
We had john deere 120 side mount that when on the 50 I still have the 50,they sold pickers years ago I remember riding with dad when we had it
I sure do miss those days but then again today I sat in a nice new JD combine and did 100 acres in 10 hours without the dust and out of the cold but it still ain't the same!! Love your videos and hope you keep them coming 🤞 God bless you and your family and our country 🙏🇺🇸🙏
At least you got your memories!
I do like the roll- o- matic front spindle setup, that was a great feature on those two cylinder tractors
Still pick corn here. But not the same way we used to grow corn. Now I Notill into cover crops.
in 1952 late 1952 my grandpa bought a new 60 and 227 picker really modern then before he used a model D 1936 that my brother still has and a new idea 2 row picker . with a wagon on back it must have taken an acre to turn at the ends.
Thanks for sharing the video Bill. I always enjoyed picking corn along with running the combine too. Miss farming full time and raising corn. Now days I just make hay.
I'm dad had the full mount jd on the 70 diesel.
Looks like fun, we had a couple gravity wagons, would take those off and put hay wagon beds on,
Miss those days or rather nights after school picking only we had an 8n ford !
Good to hear from you James.
What was it that Hank Williams said in one of those old songs, "the tires are fare but the air is showing through".
The first picker I remember (born 1969) was a New Idea mounted on an A/C gas tricycle, not sure of the model. Never took the picker off, I don't think they wanted anyone to see a tractor that wasn't green.😂 I still have a NI 2 row narrow, 325. New Idea had the right idea for picking ear corn!
Being ahead of the curve.......we had a two row.....🤠
A progressive huh?😁
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 😂😂
Great video and job Bill really cool info, God Bless
I enjoy your videos
I run a JD rear mounted picker with a JD B was a trip
I Love To See The Old Fashion Way Of Harvest
No better feed for finishing cattle on cell feeder than ground ear corn.
Hi Bill,
The cold is coming....., thank you for your video, a JD620, the new idea and onward it works, easy and quick troubleshooting. Total love ! 👌
You also have a JD 2040, it was the European 1030 in 3 cylinders, the same unit displacement as your 2840... in short half a 2840
Quick question: at what maximum speed does the tractor travel? here 14.5 mph.....slow
Hey Eric! There are some tractors here that have around a 30 mph gear.
Very exciting. What state are you in? Looks similar to my area.
Hey Casper! We are in Southern Maryland.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 You're close to Washington DC. I'm on Missouri, I noticed the landscape trees and everything see.s exactly the same. I'm in east central Missouri. Corn and lots of farming here too.
@@casperbecker3794 Hey Casper, yes, l'm much too close to DC. We in intend to move to Tenn. if we can find a place.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 East central Mo I love its great here, definitely a farming state, weather of all kinds, should be the same as there. We had 23 degrees last week.
60 years ago a gravity wagon???? All the money must have washed away here, I shoveled off flat racks of ear corn into drive through cribs into the 1990's. New Idea #7 and later a 2 row mounted NI........Traded for a 325 2 row pull type a few years back, but haven't planted any corn since to try it. I guess I just wanted a picker we should have had.
Truth be told, we were using a flat wooden hay wagon with sides on it up 'til about 1970.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 Did you shovel them into drive through cribs through a row of flip down doors at the top? I haven't ever seen setups like that other than in my area. Then we ate our wheaties and shoveled them all back out again into the grinder/mixer later on. I guess these old guys here thought they could get a box big enough that they could take it with them?
@@tpfromcentralpa1692 We shoveled it off the wagon into that same corn elevator l still use.
How many of you old timers remember hitting a nail when shoveling those flat bed wagons? My back and hands hurt thinking about those good ole days.
@@jmit5650 Yeah, that would jar ya!
I have a JD 50, 70 both gas and a 720 propane. All 60 plus years old. Also have a 2018 Branson 5220R diesel with only 1000hrs. Today the Branson wouldn’t start. It would crank but no start. Finally figured out the electronic fuel shut off solenoid wasn’t getting exactly 12volts to open and let fuel into the injection pump. I despise all the electronic crap they put on today’s farm equipment. About the only time the two cylinder JD’s don’t start is when they are out of fuel.
Kid in the 60’. The old couple had two white face mules to pull the corn wagons. In from the field to corn crib. Camera should have been nice to get a picture
No pictures, but great memories!😄
Picked a lot of it
Us kids would follow the picker with a burlap sack picking up stray ears.
Yeah, my dad had me do that for him into my adult years. 😆
Do you sell any of your non GMO corn?
Hey Kevin! l have sold some when l had a surplus, but l didn't grow enough this year to sell any , sorry.
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 ok if you would keep me in mind if you raise more next year please.
@@kevinjones4718 Will do.
Those pigs aren't shy
I guess they take after me.😆
They did not have gravity wagons
They had wooden wagons with sides
You are modern farmer
We had a wooden wagon when I was a kid, but there were gravity wagons around then.
My grandpa showed me a glove one time had a little tool horn thing said it was to husk the corn him and my grand uncle took 2 rows of corn each all day doing that by hand don’t remember what he called that glove tool though
Believe it was called a husking glove. My grandfather and his sons picked corn by hand. Threw the ears into a horse drawn wagon. Grandpa kept a sack attached to the wagon where he would put the biggest and nicest ears to be used for seed in the spring.
@@dwightl5863 Thank you very much you’re right that’s what it was called I appreciate it
Them tars look purdy good alright to me
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Thanks bill when I first started I picked with 37a and a woods brothers 1 row
Yep there round and still hold air good tire
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I still have John Deere 100 snapper