I grew up with the modern combines. The old machines has their uses when you're in a hurry to get the crops in, and the modern machines is in need of service, which is rare
It's always cool to see any combines harvesting corn. Those old combines is for that nostalgia felling. I'm a bit more for the modern combines, but it's always amazing to see older combines. It's quite amazing how far we've come in making combines and corn headers. From these old combines and corn headers to the modern combines and their size and the modern corn headers with their folding mechanics. It's just amazing to watch any machines in action
love it,a 303 IH was our very first Self Propelled combine,before that Dad had a JohnDeere pull combine,and then look at where they had gotten to today, AMAZING ,
It's mostly because the government has pumped billions into the farming industry. If the USDA wasn't subsidizing I doubt we'd be seeing a lot of Fendt and Deere X9's.
Good video, thanks BTP. Where I grew up on the farm the only corn we had was for silage. So very interesting to see these machines at work. This was in the 1950-60s in southern Idaho.
Boy that 303 brings back memories. We didn't run a 303 but we had a 403. That was the first combine I ever drove. I couldn't imagine having to combine 200+ bushel corn this way anymore.
It was nice to see two 03 combines in the field demo this year. Unfortunately these combines can not keep up with 200 bu corn. When they were built 100 bu corn was big. They just were not built to handle the volume of modern corn.
Well some models yes, but that 303 with the cab shelled 180+ bushel corn last fall with a 4 row head at 4 mph.. our 403 also runs a 4 row head, and our 503 runs a 6 row with ease, barrowed an 8 row once and ran it a while on the 503.
Amazing machines of the past. How far have we come!! Back then there were a lot of small farms and now BIG farms but less of them. Big massive high efficient machines take care of mega acres. Thanks again for the nice video.
It’s been definitelly a great progress with maschinery. BUT, has it been so great progress in farmers life? Those days it was possible to have food on a table for whole family, with two row header. Now you barely get money to your huge debts with 24 row header. Who is the winner in this ”game”? All the respect still to those farmers, who have energy and commitment to feed us! Nice videos from you BTP...
My Dad bought a 1950ish Massy Harris corn picker new from Petterson Brothers up in Antioch, I never knew they made a Sheller attachment for one, ya learn something everyday even 69 years latter .
Really good stuff. I grewup/raised in eastern Washington and the Palouse hills, therefore every combine was the hillside version of JOHN DEERE, INTERNATIONAL, CASE/HARRIS AND EVENTUALLY CASE. These were the only brands that conquered the hillside design.
i think we should get john deere to amend the operators manual to say no texting and operating on the 730... ya know because of safety and what not....
Very cool seeing those old machines. We owned our fair share of them to, case 660, ih 715 and 303 and that JD only in 55 not 45. Have to say it was hard to beat that ole Ih 303. She sure was a bean eatin machine!
@@bigtractorpower Thank you for sharing them. I enjoy watching the old even more than the new. Growing up got my 1st tractor experience in an old JD 4020. Thank you for all of this. Now I live in the city, and your videos remind me how enjoyable life was growing up farming.
Big tractor power now I run a S670. Speaking of a jump! Not to mention that my first was a square back JD 95 with a gas engine and as a kid I remember a pull type IH driven by a gas engine and equipped with a sacker!
I remember seeing machines like these when my dad used to take us on weekend road trips past the corn and wheat fields of Kansas. You can occasionally still see one rusting away in a corner of a field. Wonder what the farmer of yesterday would think of the behemoths that roam the fields today and their behemoth price tags.
It’s amazing how combines have advanced. I really appreciate the farmers who have kept these classics going and bring them out to the show to share how they work. Because most are long gone rusting away or scraped.
Could you picture pulling into that 2900 acre field in western Kentucky with a two row combine and try to figure out how many weeks it would take you?😎
Could it be said that farmer's from this era had suffered more from long dusty hours in the sun unlike today's generation would be predominately financial stress.
My dads first new combine was John Deere 95B squareback ran it from 1957 till 1968 when he bought a Massey Ferguson 410 we traded it off 1981or 82.. the last year it broke 2 strawwalkers which I changed out in the field by myself. I bought a MF 550 THAT year we use spike tooth cylinders because we raised rice which is hard to thresh..
Great history. Thank you for sharing. I like combine history. Growing up my neighbor had a 95EB when I was a kid and then went to a 6600, 6620 Titan II, 9500, 9570STS and currently runs an S660.
Early 80s my neighbors had me finish up corn. They were in a 20 acre field with an IH 303 2 row 30 in. Put me across the road in a 30 acre field with my 6620 6 row. When I finished that I went ahead and did the 20 acre field behind that one. He was still in the same field. Told him I was finished and he said do the 20 in the back. When I told him that was done too he gave me a look of disbelief and said “You May as well finish this too and he went home!
A combine can harvest other crops such as soybeans, wheat, oats, barley, milo, and others with a few different settings and a different header. A picker/sheller is limited to just harvesting the corn cob and shelling the corn off the cob.
This corn is basically a prop to show how the machines work. It is sprayed with salt water two weeks before the show to dry it out. The corn was at 30% during this harvest.
Here in Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) was everything colective. That meaned you harvested your fields and went to help other groups aroud, sometimes even far away (since harvest at Slovakia was sooner, combines moved like 400 kilometers, then same thing was made by slovakian groups) . In every village was some group of agricultural workers, even in those smallest (i mean smallest, like 5 houses calling them self a vilage) and everyone HAD TO WORK, else he commited crime. We had no food import (i mean basic food), only export, had 100% needs of our country covered. Everything was centralised, that meaned each country of Warsaw pact was producing something. Eastern Germas were making good combines, we were making Tatra trucks and Zetor tractors (50-160hp), Russia was manufacturing Kirovets tractors (heaviest, 300+hp, hydraulic steering...)...so you have always enough replacements and spare pars. In those times you could see like 10 combines on one field followed by army of tractors for carting, later replaced by Liaz and Tatra trucks. ruclips.net/video/Eg_v1gCEm4g/видео.html
I would say these combines were built for 75 to 100 acres. There were bigger 3 and 4 row combines at the time and even a few 6 rows like IH 503 and JD 105. For the show they encourage 2 rows so there is enough corn to harvest for all the combines.
@@davehughesfarm7983 I'm aware of this, and it still happens. Neighbors of mine all pitched in to get my renters crops in after he had 2 children diagnosed with life threatening illnesses
My grandfather did in the late 50's and early 60's farming 300 acres of soybeans and 700 acres of corn. He used a Case 400 on a mounted picker, and this went to a MM corn sheller then to a Case batch dryer. Used a hoist where wagons were raised to dump the eared corn to the sheller. Also had a self propelled Case 1000 combine with a 2 row head. This corn was dumped into trucks. It took about 7-8 men to do all of this. When he went to a 4 row combine(John Deere 105), it was quite the big deal. Harvest always went into mid-December and he marked Dec. 2 as the target date to get things done. Add another 3 men and tractors to use 3 bottom plows for the primary tillage. I was a young kid, but it was a special time.
@@farmerboy8940 when I was 8 ( 1976 ) I was plowing with a John deer model 40 1953 with a 2 plows , I don’t remember how many acres , but it was over 75 .it was long and boring hearing the toff toff toff of that loaded 25 HP 2 cylinders .
In Ontario, these are not classic, they are what farmer still use. Have customers still running ih 15 series and lots of 4400 and 6600 deere s. How bout 410 and 510 massey. Case 960 and 1060s.
The first piece of farm equipment I ever rode in as a kid was a Case 1060. BTP has a good summer in 2020 and an 1160 and 960 were filmed harvesting barely. BTP also filmed a 1968 1660 in wheat. I hope to find older Massey’s to film. It’s sounds like you are in a great area.
Not in this field. It was plowed an hour after the corn harvest demonstration was complete. Here is the plowing that takes place with 40 tractors. Video ruclips.net/video/c04pwbo8CnI/видео.html
The design of these harvesters from the 1960s is very archaic to me, the engine without any cover, which in hot weather can be the reason for a fire, narrow header, little space for the operator. For me it is archaic and strange that in the USA, in a technologically developed country, in the 1960s no larger and more efficient harvesters were produced. At that time, in Europe, Claas, Clayson, Fahr, Fortschritt or Bizon produced much larger, nice looking and even safer harvesters for the operator.
They offered other model combines that were bigger, the show prefers demonstrations with smaller machines to make the corn shelling last 4 days at the show.
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It was still possible to harvest 16 rows of corn at one time, you just needed 8 machines. So cool to see all this old equipment still running today
The vintage combines are always my favorite part of the farm shows. They are the ones I grew up with.
I grew up with the modern combines. The old machines has their uses when you're in a hurry to get the crops in, and the modern machines is in need of service, which is rare
Always good to see the old combines out in the field. Good reminders of just how far the equipment has come over the years. Stay safe.
It's always cool to see any combines harvesting corn. Those old combines is for that nostalgia felling. I'm a bit more for the modern combines, but it's always amazing to see older combines. It's quite amazing how far we've come in making combines and corn headers. From these old combines and corn headers to the modern combines and their size and the modern corn headers with their folding mechanics. It's just amazing to watch any machines in action
Great Video, Love the older models of combines. Traveling back in time.........
It is always a great show to see classics like these.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane
Thank you for watching.
love it,a 303 IH was our very first Self Propelled combine,before that Dad had a JohnDeere pull combine,and then look at where they had gotten to today, AMAZING ,
It still amazed me how far farming has come.
It's mostly because the government has pumped billions into the farming industry. If the USDA wasn't subsidizing I doubt we'd be seeing a lot of Fendt and Deere X9's.
Great video! That Masey looked almost like the one my dad had. Thanks for sharing!
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That's really cool to see those old combines working. Great video!
Yes, I agree your words.
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Good video, thanks BTP. Where I grew up on the farm the only corn we had was for silage. So very interesting to see these machines at work. This was in the 1950-60s in southern Idaho.
Glad you enjoyed seeing the combines. Forage harvesting is one of my favorite times on a farm. What type of chopper and tractor combos did you see?
@@bigtractorpower That was to long ago and it was a custom outfit. Thanks.
Boy that 303 brings back memories. We didn't run a 303 but we had a 403. That was the first combine I ever drove. I couldn't imagine having to combine 200+ bushel corn this way anymore.
It was nice to see two 03 combines in the field demo this year. Unfortunately these combines can not keep up with 200 bu corn. When they were built 100 bu corn was big. They just were not built to handle the volume of modern corn.
Well some models yes, but that 303 with the cab shelled 180+ bushel corn last fall with a 4 row head at 4 mph.. our 403 also runs a 4 row head, and our 503 runs a 6 row with ease, barrowed an 8 row once and ran it a while on the 503.
Excellent video from the great progress show.
Well done as usual BTP 👍👍
Amazing machines of the past. How far have we come!! Back then there were a lot of small farms and now BIG farms but less of them. Big massive high efficient machines take care of mega acres. Thanks again for the nice video.
They also had a Allis Chambler Gleaner Baldwin Model E that they didn't show in this picture but I remember seeing it cuz I was at the show
It’s been definitelly a great progress with maschinery. BUT, has it been so great progress in farmers life? Those days it was possible to have food on a table for whole family, with two row header. Now you barely get money to your huge debts with 24 row header. Who is the winner in this ”game”? All the respect still to those farmers, who have energy and commitment to feed us! Nice videos from you BTP...
Wonderful to see some of the other colours and brands other than JD. Brought back a lot of fond memories!
I try to cover all the brands I can. Massey, New Holland and Gleaner prove to be harder to find from the 1960’s.
@@bigtractorpower, wonderful. If I had the cash I would restore a few.
Even back then the case combine cut the corn really nice and neat.
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My Dad bought a 1950ish Massy Harris corn picker new from Petterson Brothers up in Antioch, I never knew they made a Sheller attachment for one, ya learn something everyday even 69 years latter .
I have a sales add for the picker dated 1955. It had to be a big machine back then.
I wish the farm equipment manufacturers would make small affordable combines for the small farmers like the ones here. Fun video to watch!!
Me too...
neat combines
Really good stuff.
I grewup/raised in eastern Washington and the Palouse hills, therefore every combine was the hillside version of JOHN DEERE, INTERNATIONAL, CASE/HARRIS AND EVENTUALLY CASE. These were the only brands that conquered the hillside design.
I remember as a boy when 4row machines 1st come out. They seemed huge!
So glad we've advanced beyond this. 50 acres was a lot back in those days.
Yes it was. It’s neat seeing how it was done.
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Thank you Craig.
Great video of combines
Thank you for watching.
Very cool video.I smiled when I saw the Ih 615 on the beginning because we ran a 615 on our farm
Neat old machines still getting it done 👍
They are nice classics to still see working.
Outstanding vid BTP!!!
Great Job again. Thanks for posting
Didn't see a one illegal in that field, great video 👍👍
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The Massey Harris and MM is very cool but I can not choose a favorite, they all are fantastic, love the JD 3300 MUST MENTION
Love it. I can relive my formative years in these videos. : )
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Nice video B.T.P..
No reverseable feeder house on these old antiques,so I hope these guys had a good day.
I think everyone ran fine with out plugging. Belts are always an issue to watch.
@@bigtractorpower Belts are cheap and easy,drive-shafts are UNGODLY expensive and very time consuming to fix.
Great video!
The guy on the JD 730 made me laugh being on his phone. You know that wasn't being done when the tractor was new!
i think we should get john deere to amend the operators manual to say no texting and operating on the 730... ya know because of safety and what not....
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Very cool seeing those old machines. We owned our fair share of them to, case 660, ih 715 and 303 and that JD only in 55 not 45.
Have to say it was hard to beat that ole Ih 303. She sure was a bean eatin machine!
It is in the name, you know?
By dad had a 403. Brings back memories.
Boy, how I miss hunting squirrel and pheasants in and around corn stubble like that!
I just love these farming videos 😎
Thank you for watching.
Great video! They almost look like toys compared to the ones we got now.
I always like getting to find classics to share. The big new machines are fun to film but seeing a 50 year old machine working is always cool.
@@bigtractorpower Thank you for sharing them. I enjoy watching the old even more than the new. Growing up got my 1st tractor experience in an old JD 4020. Thank you for all of this. Now I live in the city, and your videos remind me how enjoyable life was growing up farming.
É uma pena q no Brasil não tem esse tipos de eventos 🇧🇷
Nice video! Nice see american agriculture at. Work
Glad you like it. Thank you for watching.
Big tractor power now I run a S670. Speaking of a jump! Not to mention that my first was a square back JD 95 with a gas engine and as a kid I remember a pull type IH driven by a gas engine and equipped with a sacker!
To bad this MM combine was on this bad corn @8:14 , nice video !
Damn nice Case at 4:50
10 years on a 7720 - nice combine.
I remember seeing machines like these when my dad used to take us on weekend road trips past the corn and wheat fields of Kansas. You can occasionally still see one rusting away in a corner of a field. Wonder what the farmer of yesterday would think of the behemoths that roam the fields today and their behemoth price tags.
It’s amazing how combines have advanced. I really appreciate the farmers who have kept these classics going and bring them out to the show to share how they work. Because most are long gone rusting away or scraped.
Would love to see a sugar beet harvest video someday
I like to see the smaller combine harvesters of days gone by, more interesting, than the big Bruts of 2020!
Could you picture pulling into that 2900 acre field in western Kentucky with a two row combine and try to figure out how many weeks it would take you?😎
Could it be said that farmer's from this era had suffered more from long dusty hours in the sun unlike today's generation would be predominately financial stress.
Great vídeo!!
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Would like to know more about that moline combine..do you have a video about it?
7:50. A propane powered combine.. Hank Hill will be impressed.
I just got a John Deere 30 pull type. I was going to harvest beans with this year😳
Did you get video of the JD 40 on tracks? Also, it was nice meeting you there on Saturday.
My dads first new combine was John Deere 95B squareback ran it from 1957 till 1968 when he bought a Massey Ferguson 410 we traded it off 1981or 82.. the last year it broke 2 strawwalkers which I changed out in the field by myself.
I bought a MF 550 THAT year we use spike tooth cylinders because we raised rice which is hard to thresh..
Great history. Thank you for sharing. I like combine history. Growing up my neighbor had a 95EB when I was a kid and then went to a 6600, 6620 Titan II, 9500, 9570STS and currently runs an S660.
We're still using a 615 IH!
Rebuilt a used 303 for my DAD 1962, boy were we big time.
Very cool.
@@bigtractorpower I was 16 yrs old
My first self propelled combine I ran was a IH 205 dad got. I was 12 and thought I was on top of the world!
Early 80s my neighbors had me finish up corn. They were in a 20 acre field with an IH 303 2 row 30 in. Put me across the road in a 30 acre field with my 6620 6 row. When I finished that I went ahead and did the 20 acre field behind that one. He was still in the same field. Told him I was finished and he said do the 20 in the back. When I told him that was done too he gave me a look of disbelief and said “You May as well finish this too and he went home!
A 6620 is a solid machine. Big jump up in the 80’s from combines 20 years before. Great history to read.
What's the difference between a picker-sheller and a combine?
A combine can harvest other crops such as soybeans, wheat, oats, barley, milo, and others with a few different settings and a different header. A picker/sheller is limited to just harvesting the corn cob and shelling the corn off the cob.
@@ljkck3578 That makes sense, thanks.
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Do you know what row spacing that corn was planted on? I don't think those antiques would work very well on modern fields with 30" spacing haha
Our 303, 403, and 503 runs 4 rows and 6 rows just fine on 30" row 180 -200 bushel corn.
I would love to see a Gleaner A or C2 at the show.
I have an A and might try and get it out there from Maine for 2021
That would be awesome if you were able to get it out there
Mark I hope you can bring it. It would be great to see Gleaners at the show.
I agree. I would like to see Gleaners, a Sperry New Holland and Ford.
How did they manage to have mature corn to harvest the last week in August this year?
Think he said in an earlier vid it was desicated down but was still a bit tough in spots.
@@piperdoug428 thanks!
This corn is basically a prop to show how the machines work. It is sprayed with salt water two weeks before the show to dry it out. The corn was at 30% during this harvest.
Were these corn combines able to harvest other grains as well?
Just change the heads and setting of the combine.
@@dwightl5863 I knew newer machines that is the case, but I wondered on these classic machines.
I remember when I was growing up back late 50's to early70's cutting corn and having make corn shocks on 2-3 acres all buy hand.
Here in Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) was everything colective. That meaned you harvested your fields and went to help other groups aroud, sometimes even far away (since harvest at Slovakia was sooner, combines moved like 400 kilometers, then same thing was made by slovakian groups) . In every village was some group of agricultural workers, even in those smallest (i mean smallest, like 5 houses calling them self a vilage) and everyone HAD TO WORK, else he commited crime. We had no food import (i mean basic food), only export, had 100% needs of our country covered. Everything was centralised, that meaned each country of Warsaw pact was producing something. Eastern Germas were making good combines, we were making Tatra trucks and Zetor tractors (50-160hp), Russia was manufacturing Kirovets tractors (heaviest, 300+hp, hydraulic steering...)...so you have always enough replacements and spare pars. In those times you could see like 10 combines on one field followed by army of tractors for carting, later replaced by Liaz and Tatra trucks.
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Imagine trying to harvest 300 acres with one of these two-row hogs, let alone some of these thousand acre farms
Back when it was farming, rather than an industry
I would say these combines were built for 75 to 100 acres. There were bigger 3 and 4 row combines at the time and even a few 6 rows like IH 503 and JD 105. For the show they encourage 2 rows so there is enough corn to harvest for all the combines.
People worked together back then..Local Neighbors would make rounds harvesting each others stuff..
@@bigtractorpower thanks for the info, but I was aware. This was more of a "if we never went beyond that" comment
@@davehughesfarm7983 I'm aware of this, and it still happens. Neighbors of mine all pitched in to get my renters crops in after he had 2 children diagnosed with life threatening illnesses
Where are the Gleaners?
Do they do hay baking demos?
Was this whole field planted in 38-40" rows?
It is planted on 36 inch row I believe. All the corn is planted wide for the classic combines and corn pickers at this event.
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That s real farmers not what we have today
Yep, you won't see these guys texting while driving. Ooops .. 7:38. That was funny to see.😉
Imagine back in time advertising a 1000 acres land with a single combine 2 rows at walking speed how long it would take ...
My grandfather did in the late 50's and early 60's farming 300 acres of soybeans and 700 acres of corn. He used a Case 400 on a mounted picker, and this went to a MM corn sheller then to a Case batch dryer. Used a hoist where wagons were raised to dump the eared corn to the sheller. Also had a self propelled Case 1000 combine with a 2 row head. This corn was dumped into trucks. It took about 7-8 men to do all of this. When he went to a 4 row combine(John Deere 105), it was quite the big deal. Harvest always went into mid-December and he marked Dec. 2 as the target date to get things done. Add another 3 men and tractors to use 3 bottom plows for the primary tillage. I was a young kid, but it was a special time.
@@farmerboy8940 when I was 8 ( 1976 ) I was plowing with a John deer model 40 1953 with a 2 plows , I don’t remember how many acres , but it was over 75 .it was long and boring hearing the toff toff toff of that loaded 25 HP 2 cylinders .
The guy on the 730 needs to quit texting and cutting. Lol
He was getting his phone put to film the combine. You can see him turn around and start to film.
The fellow with the pull type jd combine looks like a time traveler using a smartphone. Just saying!
He was filming the combine too. 😁
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Must get hot in those cabs with no ac
In Ontario, these are not classic, they are what farmer still use. Have customers still running ih 15 series and lots of 4400 and 6600 deere s. How bout 410 and 510 massey. Case 960 and 1060s.
The first piece of farm equipment I ever rode in as a kid was a Case 1060. BTP has a good summer in 2020 and an 1160 and 960 were filmed harvesting barely. BTP also filmed a 1968 1660 in wheat. I hope to find older Massey’s to film. It’s sounds like you are in a great area.
Mostly sun flowers.
The pheasants will gladly eat the leftover corn. Quail as well.
Not in this field. It was plowed an hour after the corn harvest demonstration was complete. Here is the plowing that takes place with 40 tractors. Video ruclips.net/video/c04pwbo8CnI/видео.html
Sadly a friend of mine is hired all the time to clear yards and crushing these era combines is his every week job.
PIPER DOUG I didn't need to know that.
That is sad to hear. Many are probably beyond repair today.
303 international almost 55 years old
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615 international combine uhm
I wonder why ppl buy tiny combines rather than big combines other than price
Well 50 years ago this combines were big. Price and and acres needed to be covered are determining factors.
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Hi. Thanks for watching.
Should check out youtuber Cole the corn star he lives on a farm and has a lot of old machinery. Cool video
The design of these harvesters from the 1960s is very archaic to me, the engine without any cover, which in hot weather can be the reason for a fire, narrow header, little space for the operator.
For me it is archaic and strange that in the USA, in a technologically developed country, in the 1960s no larger and more efficient harvesters were produced.
At that time, in Europe, Claas, Clayson, Fahr, Fortschritt or Bizon produced much larger, nice looking and even safer harvesters for the operator.
They offered other model combines that were bigger, the show prefers demonstrations with smaller machines to make the corn shelling last 4 days at the show.
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And he had a 234 picker mounted on a 400 tractor
Where the Gleners?
That is a good question. I highly encourage people to bring Gleaners out. I would like to see a Ford in the demo too.