Allis Chalmers Show: 2020 Corn Picking With The 1940 WC
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2020
- Our yearly video of picking corn with Andrew's 1940 Allis Chalmers WC and Model 33 Corn Picker for use at the annual Heatwole Threshing Show in 2021.
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As a child i live next to the allis Chalmers drop forge building by the rail road tracks in west allis, Wisconsin.
I saw alot of tractors on rail cars leaving the factory during the 70s being hauled by the Milwaukee Road. 👍😁
Back in the mid-90's I flew in to Milwaukee to the Briggs factory and on the way from the airfield to the hotel, the shuttle driver pointed out the vast expanse of bare concrete with just a few pillars left standing. Looked like the pictures of Hiroshima. He told us that was the old Allis Chalmers plant. For a guy who grew up on Allis tractors, it almost made me cry.
I love that thing. It looks like a medieval war horse riding into battle. And what a fabulous trailer! That must have started its life behind a horse.
,,, yup , originally horse-drawn to be sure. Also , , the wagon is currently set up as a "Trippel-Box", with the 3 12 inch wide boards stacked on top of the flatbed. You could fill that with cobcorn or cotton, or hay, etc, but not wheat for instance, that would be much too heavy. A single 12 inch board or maybe "double-board" (2 12inch) would be appropriate, especially for Oats and the like...
That's a neat piece of history, thanks for sharing.
I have a 42 WC I restored a few years ago, there are a few here in Northern Ireland but most likely WW2 lease/lend tractors more recently brought across from England. Great to see yours working, thanks for sharing.
Takes me back. My first tractor was a WC, a 37 unstyled that never had electric start. Neighbor gave it to me to free up space in one of his sheds, I was 11 or 12. Told me I could have it if I could get it started, I was never so proud as when I did. Loved that thing, made me a JD fan for life. The picker is a sweet find.
I remember back in the early 60s when I was a kid here on the farm they had a 33 picker they used on our 57 WD45. I still have the tractor but not the picker.
Great to see the old Allis still alive! I grew up on Allis Chalmers tractors back in the 1950's and 60's in Northwest Washington State. There was an Allis dealership about a mile from our farm and lots of Persian Orange tractors were in the area. I now own a 1957 D-14 I've had for years and a HD-4 crawler that I logged and did dirt work with. Most of our corn here is chopped for silage for dairy cattle, but in the middle of the last century(!) there were several canneries that farmers grew sweet corn for canning or freezing. I worked for a crop farmer just out of high school that grew a couple hundred acres. Spent my summer cultivating and side-dressing corn, then drove truck hauling it to the processing plant. They used a two row picker mounted on IH 806 tractors, two to a field. The first picked into a cart that dumped into your truck, about 2/3 of a load, then you drove alongside the other picker to top off. Fun and good memories for a farm kid.
My grandfather owned an Allis Chalmers dealership in Newark Arkansas. To this day I still look down on John Deere stuff.
I miss those days, this modern stuff to me is for the birds!
Great to see you keeping that sweet machine going
We had a 33 when I was a teenager, on a wd. I really liked it. And I was wondering at first why just 1 row then remembered it was designed for I thought 40 inch rows so you couldn't do 2 planted on 30s. You didn't want to get into foxtail, it wrapped/plugged up the snapping rollers
Just when I was getting old enough to help with shelling corn, most farmers were converting over from corn pickers to combines. However, there was one old school farmer who still picked corn and filled his corncrib when I was in high school. One year, I got to help with shelling the corn by raking ears of corn into the conveyor for the sheller. It was one of the more fun manual labor farm jobs.
Did you ever run into a nest or two of bumblebees???? They really liked our ear corn cribs.
@@sallybrown1459 No, I didn't. All I remember seeing were mice scurrying away.
I pride Andrew for stickin that out that’s how my paw paw use to harvest corn I thank god we have combines now makes life so much faster
And safer
I just bought a 1940 WC from my uncle, last time he had ran it was 25 years ago. I got it fired back up after a little work & drove it home at a blazing 10 mph
Thanks for the yesterday's memory.
Thank you so much for making these videos. I love Allis Chalmers. I’m so glad I found this channel.
My first picker was the same pair, 40 WC and same picker. The issues we had were that it didn't like the larger ears, they couldn't stay in the channel to the elevator and ended up on the ground, for one. Another thing, if the wagon gets too heavy the mounts under the tractor final drive would spring enough to drop the picker on the ground. One heck of a pain to get it back on the tractor. After a few seasons the main roller bearing went out and I junked the PITA! Like all mounted pickers, they are a fire hazard, the exhaust manifold is too close to the dry crop leaves. I got a newer version and used it for a few years, till I got an Oliver unit to mount on my 70 Oliver tractor. That machine was light years better!
Great video really enjoyed it God bless y'all 🚜
You need the engine side shields. But great video. Also, from the length of the spokes, the tractor seems to have a fairly rare set of 28" round spoke wheels. Love the old steel wheeled wagon too. When I was a kid, my Dad and Uncle picked into high wheeled wagons pulled beside an Oliver picker. Many of those WC tractors used on pickers were equipped with a Sherman under drive to slow the tractor down a bit. Low gear in the WC is a little too fast for the 33 picker.
Great video, I love Allis Chalmers ❤🚜
We threshed oats until 1969.
About 6 farmers worked together in central MN.
One year our normal threshing guy went out of business and we hired 2 brothers who had a threshing machine and a WD-45 on the belt running the threshing machine.
That WD-45 made that threshing machine "hum" and no matter how fast we pitched the bundles we couldn't slow it down.
I don't think the farmers worried so much about drying it down the way we do now. Most corn stayed on the cob and in a wire mesh crib. That corn was probably a little too dry for ear corn. Thanks for keeping the old stuff running!
Good job young man!
Thank you for the video
There's just something about corn picking, it's just a great way to wrap up the year. Nice setup you got there.
Use to run a WC. Love to see that old equipment. Very nice.
Very awesome channel guys I'll be watching a bunch tonight I'd love to see that massey harris in the barn that's what I have but I lost my chances on a wc a number of years ago and seeing this makes me wish I had it
I'm telling you guys this, if I had next to unlimited resources, I would have a "farm" that has all the different eras of planting/harvesting. From turn of the century to current. I think that would be a sight to behold.
But for now, I'll stick to fixing up my 1956 WD45 that I saved from the crushers at the scrapyard I work at for $600.
Spoked wheels were from the unstyled WC and and also see the engine shields are missing. Another rare item is the metal fuel bowl the used for safety wben picking corn.
Awesome tractor I got a 1950 w d love the orange tractors
Now I need to find a 33 corn picker for my 1940 wc
Great vid! Hopefully you guys have a wagon hoist if you're going to pick a bunch of corn.
You guys are big farmers, we only had a one row picker! I think it was an Ideal brand. I learned to drive on a WD45 tricycle, plowing corn.
My neighbor had that set-up when I was a kid.
I have operated numerous AC-WDs and even more WD-45s, but never an old WC. Those hand brakes might make it a bit tricky until you become accustomed to them. For a small tractor it sounds pretty peppy. Take care and be safe out there.
We used pickers on WD 45, bought one at auction on a 38 WC, put it on a WD,
Hopefully you can find a planter that matches the planter someday.
My mentors Fred and Rudy were MN transfers to SW MI. the used the same set-up. For regular work Fred had a WD and Rudy had a 640 (I think) Deere. I spent hundreds of hours on the latter 2 tractors, or the Ferguson they used for utility stuff. They, wisely, kept me off of the corn picker! years...1954 to 1962
It's fun to play with but can you imagine running that ting for days on end yet in 1940 you would be styling
It sure beat doing it by hand.
I can barely remember my dad had a similar snapper on a 37 square front WC. I don't know why, but he got rid of it and bought a 1 row Woods Brothers picker.
Our family had a woods brothers picker as well
We had a 37 wc with a picker. Just thinking. This picker was designed for 75 bushel corn. About a third of that much corn moving up the elevator. No wonder it plugged.
Nice job young man, if I could return back to the farm I would use the older equipment. Simple hard working equipment made by hard working men.
Why dont you run the exhust through the proper hole? As a kid, my bro and me had to ride in the wagon and pick out the shucks and any stlks that came back into the wagon. e wore heavy coats, and dad had an old style safety helmet that resembled a WW 1 helmet. We would alternate turns going up front to snag and shuck ouot any shucks that came in with the corn. Dad picked with first a 1 row Woods Bros pull type, then went to a 2 row IHC fitted on our 48 H Farmall
In 1961 I got off the school bus and heard my Dad picking corn with a WD45 and mounted picker. I can still hear the moan of the fan. I was offended that He would start without me! Soon remedied, Minneapolis U's went by with various pickers. Diversity and choices. Sadly lacking now.
No auto steer to help keep you going down the rows? Man I love the old equipment especially anything Allis orange.
Bc
I have the same model corn picker we put on our wd, that we still use to this day. Those blowers sure are loud. How do you like hooking up the pto shaft underneath? That’s my least favorite part.. great video
We've only taken the picker off once, it wasn't much fun to put it back on...
What gear are you pulling while picking. Great video, well produced with all the different angles and shots. Maybe you should make a lot more. Don’t change a thing, I like the authentic sound. Can you hear me?
I'm not sure what gear he was in I'll ask him im sure he kept it low
Looks like the antiqe tractor from farmville
I had a Wd, Wc and a B loved them all. It's really cool to see that old stuff still going strong. One question , as authentic as that set up is, why a cut out hood and pipe for exhaust? I could donate $21.00 toward the correct exhaust and maybe a hood that isn't cut out. I know it's petty but I mean c'mon man lol
Yeah, that's the way it was when he bought it so he just left it that way
I actually saw more older Allis Chalmers tractors with a Ford picker mounted on them.
Allis pickers did NOT have a good reputation where I lived and you were more likely to see a Ford picker mounted on an Allis tractor.
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A step down sherman transmission would help, huh?
Oh good, you are wearing hearing protection with that straight exhaust.
Looks like ya have some Massey"s there to.
Yep the Threshing Club's main work tractors are a Massey Harris 20 and 33.
Question why is there two different back wheels
When he bought it the one rim was rusted out from the fluid so he borrowed a rim from one of the other tractors
Look nice spend the $40 and put a muffler on it when the flapper cap it would look cool and sound better for your videos
Go to fleet farm and get a muffler for that thing
Nobody takes a picker operator serious who still has all his fingers .
Why no muffler?
That's pretty much what it came with new, a strait pipe with a crimp in the end
How come you pick with one row at a time when you can do two at a time, is it because it plugs up quite a bit?
Yeah, I was wondering that same thing, an explanation would be greatly appreciated!
We tried last year to do two at a time but they're planted too close together. Also it likes to plug up. We're hoping to find an old check row planter so we can plant some the right width.
What are you going to do with that corn
They have a threshing show every August and will be ran through a sheller then
Won't that alis pull two rows
i would say cold minnesota but i feel like i would insult my self
don't make em like they used to!!
Back in the 1960's when I was young, we had a couple feet of snow. Having no other way to clear the snow from our 1/8 mild drive, my father drove the Allis Chalmers WD with the corn picker similar to this one down the road. It worked extremely well to clear the snow.
Thanks for bring back the memory!