raised on farm outside baraboo next to devils lake, best time of my life but decison was made to sell for the lake state park brings tears when i go past, hard work in those days but honest work. picking ear corn a old bailer two man operation grew oats for feed and straw, mixed with hay and ear corn ground up cows loved it, keep the vids coming watch them all.
Those front mount New Idea Pickers work pretty good, we had a front mount international we put on our 400, we also had a couple 2 row pull behind New Idea pickers, seems like they usually worked pretty good also.
Had a JD mounted picker on our 630 2 cylinder tractor then moved to our first combine, JD 45 square back. Still have the 630 tractor and plenty of memories working with my Dad and Grandfather. First rule was shut the machine off before sticking your hand any where to fix something whether it was chopping silage or baling hay. Growing up in the early sixties on a dairy farm kept you busy. 😁😁
Getting a hard job done with what you have and making it work, you men make me proud for you. Outstanding video and love seeing all the different camera shots. Wow!!!
I do remember filling corn cribs just like yours with the corn picker just like yours. That was 50 years ago. Very nostalgic but I don't miss it much. I do admire you guys and how you farm. I remember filling the cribs and my dad being happy because the rest of the crop could be shelled and sold for profit.
First video I watched of yours was you harvesting and filling the cribs last year. Have thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos. Hope harvesting keeps going well. All the best 🇬🇧.
Picker is husking some really clean corn! Doesn't look like much shelling, either. New Idea had it figured out. Great video, and even brand new stuff breaks down. Y'all don't need a laptop to fix it!👍👍
I love seeing this older equipment running. I’ve never been around a corn picking harvest. We chopped all of our corn for silage, so picking corn is fascinating to me.
Love it! I did a lot of this growing up. We picked ear corn until the mid 90s. I mostly unloaded into our cribs. I don't miss running up and down the ladder checking things. We had a 2MH mounted on an M then went to a new idea pull picker. Going to share with grandkids🙂
Really nice footage. Thank you! I hope your farm can stay human sized and still support the families relying on it! That makes these days idyllic. No mega things required..no mega sized machines, no mega sized investments. I love your channel!
I disagree strongly with your statement "Really nice footage.". Showing video clips of farming equipment on RUclips bears a responsibility by the publisher not to show unsafe work conditions. If an operator choses to work unsafe, then let him do so, but do not broadcast such ill full behavior to the world. Adjusting the sprocket of the gathering chain with the engine running is Kamikaze at best, considering the age of the equipment more stupid.
@@ulrichpieplow3858 you completely left out his using the crescent wrench backwards. what's wrong with you? and, is it always raining wherever you are?
I'm 83 years old and remember our 2 row picker that threw the ear corn in a wagon, being pulled with John Dear 4020. It was easy getting the corn in the crib but very hard shoveling it back out. I still remember those the good ole days!
I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that much shelling. Corn is bred now for easy shelling. The way it comes out of the wagon is a dream. Back in the day the IH pickers had stripper plates like combines - way less shelling and for some reason their husking rolls did a lot better job, but your corn looks pretty clean. Standing on that picker was a dirty job, I can still feel the ITCH!
Really enjoyed all the angles and points of view you had. Almost thought for a moment that we would end up being put in the wagon. And the aerial views were great. Glad the fixes are working so far and hope they hold up. Received my T-shirt and its just like I thought it would be. Will wear it with pride. Thank you.
I remember when we had a 2 row picker. Then my Dad went big time, he bought the sheller attachment. We were big time operators then. We milked 70 cows back then
I remember my great grandpa’s big tractors where a super mta and a super md ta loved doing work with those old tractors and glad to see some of them still in use
This video brings back memories of picking corn with my dad,hand husking to open fields,filling cribs.Had a 2 row New Idea pull type and 4020 JD.Lots of fun.Tks again
Good to see harvest moving along. Turned in my absentee ballot a couple days after early voting started...wasn't sure where harvest would be by election day. We all have to be inventive in making quick repairs. Aaron, agree with your concern over hot work around chaff, etc. Corn silk can flare up in an instant. Your yield is much better than ours in Ohio. Rain at the right time is critical to final yield!!!
Seems as though guys always wanted to stand up while running the picker. Have seen a few picker tractors that had farmer designed extensions on some of the controls so they could more easily stand up while running the picker. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing the video. Really enjoy them. Good looking job on the tensioner. Probably better than what New Idea put on it from the factory. Nice looking corn. Stay safe out there working on the farm.
i attended a christian boarding school and worked on the dairy. i was a feeder, dont know what our corn picker looked like, but i remember that we chopped our corn
Hope that bearing makes it till your done picking fix the ole girl up for next year. Boy I know its plenty of work but I envy you folks. I miss the old farming days especially harvest time boy your videos take me right back to those days! Keep up the great content .
Hopefully the roller bearing lasts through harvest. They are usually pretty common sizes so you don't need to rely on finding parts pickers to pick from, that often had the same problem. I have an industrial bearing supplier nearby and have bought bearing sets for the transmission in my 1955 Ferguson 35 plus mowers and so on. Mcmaster carr online carries bearings you can search through. Sometimes Amazon/ebay has what you need, measure what you have with calipers/micrometers (sometime are stamped with sizes). If you find them just order sets for both sides as the other bearings are likely in nearly the same shape.
you make me so homesick! I wish I had a dollar for every mile I've ridden an Oliver 1650 and an IH M! They were mainstays on farms back then. I haven't checked lately, but I may still have a few marks from that old waffle seat on the M. 🙂 We had one of the early four-row pull-behind corn pickers, Vern always complained that he wished he had never gotten rid of the old tractor-mount two-row like yours. I just came across this video, and you have a new subscriber! Thanks for the memories of farming as I knew it. (BTW, I have an idea you make just about as much money as some of the more modern guys who owe so much to the bank for the fancy equipment.
Great video Aaron. Those old pickers are quite the machines. Liked the close up shots of all the moving parts. Really cool. One thing about old machines like that, if you have a welder and some enginuity, you can always cobble something together to keep them going. Looks like your farms are really close together there. I'm guessing all dairy farms? Keep those old machines rollin' and stay safe out there!
Great to see the harvest going along and hopefully get through it without too many more breakdowns. Have you folks ever thought about a pull type picker or do youi like the mounted one?
We're all getting older and fatigued. Pickers are no exception unfortunately. One just can't keep things going forever but we try to do the best we can.
that anxious nervous feeling one gets when the bin is about to be full the mad rush climb down the ladder get auger shut off bcuz if corn spills on the lawn there'll be a mice problem for next 12 months my place there's a 4k bushel bin 10ft next to machine shed where combine is stored one season mice got in the cab massey750 destroyed the interior forever even though i had box of moth balls on the seat🙈
The true beauty of farming life. I'm have arrived at retirement age. My children are very successful in their own right. College educated and doing extremely well. Most of the farming I do now I do myself. When my children so up. They don't ask if they can help. They just do. What ever the task. Can it get any better?
A skateboard wheel with a spring is what you need for a chain tensioner. look at some minibike pictures or older motorcycles, you’ll get some good ideas.
You folks make me feel humble. Here if ya dint have at least a 12 row corn head. Or a 30 ft. Grain table. Your nothing. Baloney! I have a 6 row head. A 15 ft. Table and I generate more $ / acre. Yes I work twice as hard. But it hasn't killed me yet. We don't have the latest and greatest. But we have in our family a lot of respect. For each other.
Hi from nwpa our small dairy still picks about 85 acres this year with ni 325/327 been doing it every year since the forties! Wondering what your row width is on the planter and what works best for your picker?
I see your Renk seed sign in front of your corn crib, I only live about 5 miles from the home farm. I use to help detassle corn for them as a kid back in the mid 80s. Are you guys located in Wisconsin?
Yeah I'm pretty much a new subscriber here you're only seen three of your corn harvest video so far but I'm impressed with that corn picker I can't say I've ever seen anything like that before I'm not a farmer I'm a city boy as you guys call us and I know how to farm works but seen some of this old equipment on RUclips just amazes me how they did it back in the day I belong to a couple other farm channels and they all use old well one uses old equipment the other uses pretty much new stuff and so it's fascinating watching the difference one of them I watch is called Laura farms she's in central Nebraska they just bought themselves a 16 roll corn head brand new one I can almost imagine what that sets them back but they don't pick any corn there they just harvest it and sell it in the market they don't have cattle or anything still fascinating to watch because their equipment is all pretty new stuff so it's just really need GPS and they don't all modern combines and tractors and grain cards all modernized but keep up the good work I'll be watching.
I think the next video may have it, but if you want to see them grinding it from last year, just go to RUclips and in the search area put in Grinding Corn During Harvest! and it should come up.
you can pick an old gleaner combine for scrap value way better then this tractor set up with the dual row..we used both on our farm back in the day but the gleaner won out faster and more efficient, and im from a 5th gen dairy farm in wisconsin
Great video. Did notice ears not making it into the wagon and all the shelling prior to the bin. Those acceptable losses or sweep through the fields for loose ears?
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raised on farm outside baraboo next to devils lake, best time of my life but decison was made to sell for the lake state park brings tears when i go past, hard work in those days but honest work. picking ear corn a old bailer two man operation grew oats for feed and straw, mixed with hay and ear corn ground up cows loved it, keep the vids coming watch them all.
I'm 71 years old and remember our 1 row picker that threw the ear corn in a wagon, now that was the good ole days!
Those front mount New Idea Pickers work pretty good, we had a front mount international we put on our 400, we also had a couple 2 row pull behind New Idea pickers, seems like they usually worked pretty good also.
Excellent footage especially the overhead shots
Had a JD mounted picker on our 630 2 cylinder tractor then moved to our first combine, JD 45 square back. Still have the 630 tractor and plenty of memories working with my Dad and Grandfather. First rule was shut the machine off before sticking your hand any where to fix something whether it was chopping silage or baling hay. Growing up in the early sixties on a dairy farm kept you busy. 😁😁
Getting a hard job done with what you have and making it work, you men make me proud for you. Outstanding video and love seeing all the different camera shots. Wow!!!
I do remember filling corn cribs just like yours with the corn picker just like yours. That was 50 years ago. Very nostalgic but I don't miss it much. I do admire you guys and how you farm. I remember filling the cribs and my dad being happy because the rest of the crop could be shelled and sold for profit.
This is how my dad farmed. It's nice to remember my days on the farm.
First video I watched of yours was you harvesting and filling the cribs last year. Have thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos. Hope harvesting keeps going well. All the best 🇬🇧.
Thanks for posting. The drone work was very cool
Remember growing up in Iowa. When it was corn picking time the smell of fresh picked corn bring back memories.
Picker is husking some really clean corn! Doesn't look like much shelling, either. New Idea had it figured out. Great video, and even brand new stuff breaks down. Y'all don't need a laptop to fix it!👍👍
I love seeing this older equipment running. I’ve never been around a corn picking harvest. We chopped all of our corn for silage, so picking corn is fascinating to me.
Love it! I did a lot of this growing up. We picked ear corn until the mid 90s. I mostly unloaded into our cribs. I don't miss running up and down the ladder checking things. We had a 2MH mounted on an M then went to a new idea pull picker. Going to share with grandkids🙂
Really nice footage. Thank you! I hope your farm can stay human sized and still support the families relying on it! That makes these days idyllic. No mega things required..no mega sized machines, no mega sized investments. I love your channel!
I disagree strongly with your statement "Really nice footage.". Showing video clips of farming equipment on RUclips bears a responsibility by the publisher not to show unsafe work conditions. If an operator choses to work unsafe, then let him do so, but do not broadcast such ill full behavior to the world. Adjusting the sprocket of the gathering chain with the engine running is Kamikaze at best, considering the age of the equipment more stupid.
@@ulrichpieplow3858 you completely left out his using the crescent wrench backwards. what's wrong with you? and, is it always raining wherever you are?
I'm very impressed with how you guys make the older equipment do the job. It's nice having things paid for and making you money ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Really nice video, Aron. Took me back to ‘68 - ‘72 when I did a lot of picking for our landlord.
I'm 83 years old and remember our 2 row picker that threw the ear corn in a wagon, being pulled with John Dear 4020. It was easy getting the corn in the crib but very hard shoveling it back out. I still remember those the good ole days!
This is the best video of picking I've seen Thanks.
Just gotta say love the old Oliver! I even went out and bought myself one after watching your videos
I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that much shelling. Corn is bred now for easy shelling. The way it comes out of the wagon is a dream. Back in the day the IH pickers had stripper plates like combines - way less shelling and for some reason their husking rolls did a lot better job, but your corn looks pretty clean. Standing on that picker was a dirty job, I can still feel the ITCH!
All the maintenance that has to be kept up with- oil changes, tires, filters, you guys amaze me!
Brings back a lot of good memories! Thank
Really enjoyed all the angles and points of view you had. Almost thought for a moment that we would end up being put in the wagon. And the aerial views were great. Glad the fixes are working so far and hope they hold up.
Received my T-shirt and its just like I thought it would be. Will wear it with pride. Thank you.
I remember when we had a 2 row picker. Then my Dad went big time, he bought the sheller attachment. We were big time operators then. We milked 70 cows back then
Love the harvest videos. And we do our own corn. Love to keep up with the other farmers in different states. You guy's hav3 a good one
Played the switching wagons dance many times myself. Neat to watch it from a drone
😂
Great day on the farm. Thanks for sharing.
They can make repairs on their own with out a computer update. Love the older equipment in this channel and how well maintained it all is.
I remember my great grandpa’s big tractors where a super mta and a super md ta loved doing work with those old tractors and glad to see some of them still in use
Your dad is one hell of a wrench. Just like my dad was. Treasure him as long as you can.
This video brings back memories of picking corn with my dad,hand husking to open fields,filling cribs.Had a 2 row New Idea pull type and 4020 JD.Lots of fun.Tks again
Thoroughly enjoy watching the older equipment work.
From very northern NYS.
Good to see harvest moving along. Turned in my absentee ballot a couple days after early voting started...wasn't sure where harvest would be by election day. We all have to be inventive in making quick repairs. Aaron, agree with your concern over hot work around chaff, etc. Corn silk can flare up in an instant. Your yield is much better than ours in Ohio. Rain at the right time is critical to final yield!!!
Aaron your dad did a great job running the corn picker
Great video Aaron and your dad
Who can believe a year has flown by!. Great share, I could almost smell that corn. Cows just love it, take care and all the best from Scotland ❤.
So glad to see the oliver back at work 🎉😊
Full circle. I started watching during last years corn harvest! You guys seem like family...
Seems as though guys always wanted to stand up while running the picker. Have seen a few picker tractors that had farmer designed extensions on some of the controls so they could more easily stand up while running the picker. Thanks for the video.
Good tunes . Making short work of the corn . Really good to see the old equipment still working . Great video fellas. 👍God Bless
Thanks for sharing the video. Really enjoy them. Good looking job on the tensioner. Probably better than what New Idea put on it from the factory. Nice looking corn. Stay safe out there working on the farm.
Love the vidios picking ear corn you dont see it much love them cow bells
"Great video! I loved the part at [3:50], really informative! Keep it up, can’t wait to see more!"
My goodness your dad looks so young and fresh. He looks more like your older brother. Hello from Ireland
i attended a christian boarding school and worked on the dairy. i was a feeder, dont know what our corn picker looked like, but i remember that we chopped our corn
nice to see farming well thank you
Wow, Aaron congrats on the channel growing so well!
I think I found you when there were under 100 subs!
Same here
Hope that bearing makes it till your done picking fix the ole girl up for next year. Boy I know its plenty of work but I envy you folks. I miss the old farming days especially harvest time boy your videos take me right back to those days!
Keep up the great content .
Hopefully the roller bearing lasts through harvest. They are usually pretty common sizes so you don't need to rely on finding parts pickers to pick from, that often had the same problem. I have an industrial bearing supplier nearby and have bought bearing sets for the transmission in my 1955 Ferguson 35 plus mowers and so on. Mcmaster carr online carries bearings you can search through. Sometimes Amazon/ebay has what you need, measure what you have with calipers/micrometers (sometime are stamped with sizes). If you find them just order sets for both sides as the other bearings are likely in nearly the same shape.
Barn yard ingenuity at it's best!!😊
I liked the drone shots and the music👍
LLove the drone shots!
Beautiful drone work!
you make me so homesick! I wish I had a dollar for every mile I've ridden an Oliver 1650 and an IH M! They were mainstays on farms back then. I haven't checked lately, but I may still have a few marks from that old waffle seat on the M. 🙂 We had one of the early four-row pull-behind corn pickers, Vern always complained that he wished he had never gotten rid of the old tractor-mount two-row like yours.
I just came across this video, and you have a new subscriber! Thanks for the memories of farming as I knew it. (BTW, I have an idea you make just about as much money as some of the more modern guys who owe so much to the bank for the fancy equipment.
Everyday is a new day to try to make things better...
❤😊NEVER TOO LONG !!!! MY OLD FRIEND BY ALBANY HAS A PULL TYPE NEW IDEA PICKER IN THE SHED. IT HASN'T BEEN USED FOR 20+YEARS ❤😊
Almost as fascinating as watching big farmers chop corn 12 rows at a time! Thanks.
Enjoy the ride!
I was born in 85, and I remember everyone around us running combines we still picked ear corn. I absolutely love picking ear corn.
wonderful video and I love the music.
Great video Aaron. Those old pickers are quite the machines. Liked the close up shots of all the moving parts. Really cool. One thing about old machines like that, if you have a welder and some enginuity, you can always cobble something together to keep them going. Looks like your farms are really close together there. I'm guessing all dairy farms? Keep those old machines rollin' and stay safe out there!
Good Job!!
Great to see the harvest going along and hopefully get through it without too many more breakdowns. Have you folks ever thought about a pull type picker or do youi like the mounted one?
We're all getting older and fatigued. Pickers are no exception unfortunately. One just can't keep things going forever but we try to do the best we can.
that anxious nervous feeling one gets when the bin is about to be full the mad rush climb down the ladder get auger shut off bcuz if corn spills on the lawn there'll be a mice problem for next 12 months my place there's a 4k bushel bin 10ft next to machine shed where combine is stored one season mice got in the cab massey750 destroyed the interior forever even though i had box of moth balls on the seat🙈
I was 14 when I started running a 2 row mounted picker on a Super 77 Oliver. Wished I’d thought about hearing protection back then!
The true beauty of farming life. I'm have arrived at retirement age. My children are very successful in their own right. College educated and doing extremely well. Most of the farming I do now
I do myself. When my children so up. They don't ask if they can help. They just do. What ever the task. Can it get any better?
Great video🎉.
If you ever need parts, there are places to go here in East TN that still have 2 row corn pickers!
A skateboard wheel with a spring is what you need for a chain tensioner. look at some minibike pictures or older motorcycles, you’ll get some good ideas.
Thanks for another great video my little boys love them!
Good luck picking corn Gierok Farms
On that chain tighter. Put it on the inside of the chain pushing it outwards. That's what we had to do with ours. It was simple and easy.
have you ever considered getting a 234 Ih mounted picker? they have deck plates and would reduce your shelling by 75%
Love the drone shots. Can we get one from a higher altitude that shows more of the countryside?
I saw that Oliver tractor. Wow, I haven't driven one of those in years.
You folks make me feel humble. Here if ya dint have at least a 12 row corn head. Or a 30 ft. Grain table. Your nothing. Baloney! I have a 6 row head. A 15 ft. Table and I generate more $ / acre. Yes I work twice as hard. But it hasn't killed me yet. We don't have the latest and greatest. But we have in our family a lot of respect. For each other.
There were times when I was a kid the picker broke down and we're all in the field hand picking into a flat wagon.
@@jvin248 YEP, done that alot before my uncle got a picker.
😂😂all the rubber fingers are gone on the feeders over the husking bed !!
She goes really well …!
Still think the IH 234 was better …
Hi from nwpa our small dairy still picks about 85 acres this year with ni 325/327 been doing it every year since the forties! Wondering what your row width is on the planter and what works best for your picker?
I see your Renk seed sign in front of your corn crib, I only live about 5 miles from the home farm. I use to help detassle corn for them as a kid back in the mid 80s. Are you guys located in Wisconsin?
Yeah I'm pretty much a new subscriber here you're only seen three of your corn harvest video so far but I'm impressed with that corn picker I can't say I've ever seen anything like that before I'm not a farmer I'm a city boy as you guys call us and I know how to farm works but seen some of this old equipment on RUclips just amazes me how they did it back in the day I belong to a couple other farm channels and they all use old well one uses old equipment the other uses pretty much new stuff and so it's fascinating watching the difference one of them I watch is called Laura farms she's in central Nebraska they just bought themselves a 16 roll corn head brand new one I can almost imagine what that sets them back but they don't pick any corn there they just harvest it and sell it in the market they don't have cattle or anything still fascinating to watch because their equipment is all pretty new stuff so it's just really need GPS and they don't all modern combines and tractors and grain cards all modernized but keep up the good work I'll be watching.
Great video, sorry to see the breakdowns. It's either too new or too old. Everybody has breakdowns.
We used a m IH with a 2me with minansoda rolls
Love old school farming
What do you do with the picked corn? Do you grind it for cow feed or something else.. if you said previously, sorry I missed it. Great videos!
I think the next video may have it, but if you want to see them grinding it from last year, just go to RUclips and in the search area put in Grinding Corn During Harvest! and it should come up.
Great videos, what is the model of the International tractor that the picker is mounted on? Also loved to see the US flag flying at 11:24.
Picker reminds me of my late Uncle Carl, lost all the fingers on his right hand dealing with one like that. Farmers, be careful out there.
Were you saying “dad” or “Dan”? Dude looks young enough to be your brother
Need a barge wagon for all the shell corn- corn must be very dry the way its shelling at elevator.
Which corn seed u r showing and what average u available.plz ans
you can pick an old gleaner combine for scrap value way better then this tractor set up with the dual row..we used both on our farm back in the day but the gleaner won out faster and more efficient, and im from a 5th gen dairy farm in wisconsin
they want the cob in the feed
It's nice to see FARMALL tractors instead of John Deere
Great video. Did notice ears not making it into the wagon and all the shelling prior to the bin. Those acceptable losses or sweep through the fields for loose ears?
Hello from România! Can you tell me the size of the crib and how many bushhel off cobs do you put în one crib!😊
I believe those cribs hold approximately 1000 shelled bushels.
I do wonder would yall ever switch to a picker with sheller or just get another picker
So do you grind the corn as needed?
I’m gonna be hearing the corn picker in my sleep tonight.
Show us the new red calf!
Hi Gierek farms from Indiana