Loved to see this again- especially the tractor-drawn pickers. It was the way it was done a long time until combines took over but these machines worked fine and still do the job on smaller operations that can't afford a combine.
Those mounted pickers, what a filthy job to sit/stand in the middle of all the flying dirt all day. Trailer type at least it is all behind you, but you are still at the mercy of the wind. Fortunatly, dry corn smells nice, We used gravity boxes not dump wagons when we did this when I was young. Had an ultra old single row picker that got upgraded to a newer 2 row New Idea later. New Idea must have sold a billion of those machines haha, they are everywhere, even still.
Love the Oliver mounted pickers. We had one and also a New Idea pull-type. The New Idea seemed to do a better job of cleaning the ear and had fewer breakdowns.
An MM Uni-picker! I used to have one of those but it got damaged by a careless hired man and I scrapped it back in the 80s. It did a nice job but I had trouble with the flat belt drive on the transmission when the load got full or it was muddy.
Thanks for showing your video. I really liked watching the corn pickers and tractors in action. I am curious to know where this show took place. I hope corn pickers can be used today somehow. Where I am I don't see anybody using one. I really liked the MM. Brian from southern Ontario Canada.
The Half-Century of Progress show takes place in Rantoul, Illinois, in the United States. Corn pickers actually can be useful today, given you have a means of shelling the corn if the picker does not already do it. They are a great alternative to a self-propelled combine, especially New Idea and International Harvester pickers. They were primarily used in the United States, due to farms generally being smaller than they are in Canada, but they were used a bit in Western and a small bit of Eastern Europe.
Can someone tell me the brand of the left hand side single row picker behind that little Ford at the 15:26 mark? that is the unit i grew up with, but ours sat outside and was less red and more rusty haha.
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Loved to see this again- especially the tractor-drawn pickers. It was the
way it was done a long time until combines took over but these machines
worked fine and still do the job on smaller operations that can't afford a
combine.
Awesome video. Hats off to the people that sacrifice so much time and money to keep these pieces of history running.
Those mounted pickers, what a filthy job to sit/stand in the middle of all the flying dirt all day. Trailer type at least it is all behind you, but you are still at the mercy of the wind. Fortunatly, dry corn smells nice, We used gravity boxes not dump wagons when we did this when I was young. Had an ultra old single row picker that got upgraded to a newer 2 row New Idea later. New Idea must have sold a billion of those machines haha, they are everywhere, even still.
Those picker-sheller combos are pretty sweet looking. Never saw one before
True relics of days gone by at their finest.
I would not want the job of ploughing that field after all that mess left behind.
Great video thanks for posting.
We'd just let the stalks "weather out" awhile then cut 'em up
with the disc harrow. They plow in easy after that & make
good humus for the soil.
That's when you let the pigs clean it up
Love the Oliver mounted pickers. We had one and also a New Idea pull-type. The New Idea seemed to do a better job of cleaning the ear and had fewer breakdowns.
Great video. Thanks for uploading it. Someday I hope to get to this show.
An MM Uni-picker!
I used to have one of those but it got damaged by a careless hired man and I scrapped it back in the 80s. It did a nice job but I had trouble with the flat belt drive on the transmission when the load got full or it was muddy.
Thanks for showing your video. I really liked watching the corn pickers and tractors in action. I am curious to know where this show took place. I hope corn pickers can be used today somehow. Where I am I don't see anybody using one. I really liked the MM. Brian from southern Ontario Canada.
The Half-Century of Progress show takes place in Rantoul, Illinois, in the United States. Corn pickers actually can be useful today, given you have a means of shelling the corn if the picker does not already do it. They are a great alternative to a self-propelled combine, especially New Idea and International Harvester pickers. They were primarily used in the United States, due to farms generally being smaller than they are in Canada, but they were used a bit in Western and a small bit of Eastern Europe.
Thanks for posting Lots of memories
That was a wood bros ford dearborn picker behind the 8 N ford, THose and the new idea pickers won most of the contests back in the 50s
Its an impressive event to see.
This is so Cool!!! Congrats!
John Deere pickers picked dirty corn. MM and NI picked the cleanest.
Can someone tell me the brand of the left hand side single row picker behind that little Ford at the 15:26 mark? that is the unit i grew up with, but ours sat outside and was less red and more rusty haha.
Wondering that myself! Never saw a left-handed one before.
Actually, we'd probably be better off if we were still picking ear corn.
MEN at work. Our grandsons will look back in a-maize-ment.
Where did this take place? I'm from NE Iowa and most farmers still picked on the ear when I was a kid. Dad had a NI 101 & then a MM.
This takes place in Rantoul Illinois at Chanute air force base. Every other year. 2017,2019, etc.
were was this at
I remember picking ear corn at 15 degrees not as pleasant as this vidio.
The day this was filmed on in November was in the high 60’s. Great opportunity. Normally there could have been snow out there.
what's the row spacing?
40" was the standard in that era.
Lol. Left handed picker for the southern NASCAR types that don't know how to turn right.
What do you mean half century?
+knightrider1545 -- I think that means, how long it's gonna take picking one row at a time. :)
If you haven't found out by now, the equipment featured is 50 years old.