I always found picking/shelling corn to be enjoyable. It was always my favorite thing to do on the farm. Now I enjoy combining my corn just as much. Thanks for supporting my channel.
Great story on the equipment. We grew up around tractor-mount pickers and watched the transition to combines. I had an IH #1 pull type that worked just like your New Idea.
When I was a boy, we had an old IH picker, but I don't know what model number it was. Then my Dad traded it for the mounted Oliver picker we used on the Oliver 77. When my dad passed, I got the New Idea pull type picker and later, the sheller. Thanks for watching and commenting.
There aren't many shellers/supershellers around. My understanding is that they were primarily produced for the seed corn industry, back in the day. They are more gentle on the kernals, with few or none damaged. My neighbor was using it yesterday (sunday) and he said there is absolutely no cob in the wagon either. He is real pleased. Gonna try to get some footage of it working today.
Thanks Jan. My neighbor was up about an hour after I recorded that video and borrowed the sheller. He used it on Sunday and said it worked great. Going to try to get some video of it in the field today. Thanks for watching and commenting, my friend!
Thank you, Dave. I'm glad I built the Red Shed, but there's never enough room. If/when you build your pole building, make it big enough. No such thing as "too big".
Thanks for the tour Charlie. They were pretty good pickers. I still have a two row picker with an 8 roll husking bed. I used a NI picker with the smaller sheller - not the super sheller- the first 3 years I grew organic corn before I got my 3300 combine.
They definitely were (and still are) good machines. There are still lots of parts available for them, too. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
My first job was on a small dairy and sheep farm. We had two 324 New Idea pickers. One had a 12 roll husking bed and the other had the sheller. We ran both with a 4020 power shift. After the cribs were filled we would shell the rest. We stored the shelled corn in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and if we needed, kicker wagons lined with plywood. We would mix corn with oats whole and feed it to either the ewes or lambs. They chewed the corn so there was no need to grind it.
That's a cool memory! That's one of the reasons I make my videos. Because I use mostly older ( I like to say "classic" equipment) my videos often bring back fond memories for my viewers. Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you come back for more.
@@pagrainfarmer I enjoy the channel. I still pick corn on my farm. I like hearing other people's stories but I see different pickers and how people can keep them running. Also new to Oliver tractors as I have just aquired a Super 77 diesel primary as a cheap power unit for my PTO generator.
I did enjoy learning about those machines you don’t see too many people nowadays are using them I love to see you use them again but I guess you really don’t have a reason to but thanks for sharing
Actually, today I got video of my neighbor using that supersheller that was in the video. He came for it about an hour after I recorded the video. He has been using it for 2 days now and I went over and got footage yesterday (Monday). I am uploading it now and the video should be available later today (Tuesday). Thanks for your comments and for watching.
That picker sheller is cool. You just don’t see them very often. I always thought It would be awfully handy to have one as a backup in case the combine broke down.
That's exactly why I keep it - it IS my backup machine to my JD 4400 combine. Got video of it in the field working from yesterday. Video should be up today (Tuesday) at some point. My internet is slow for uploading.
Great video Charlie. I am redoing my grandfather's picker this winter. New idea 330 3row picker. It was alot of fun picking corn when I was a kid for our dairy. Now I just want to have fun and pick corn with my unit at half century progress show and if I can find a thrashing day near by. I miss the good Ole days. It never seemed like work back then like it does now. I really enjoy your channel Charlie. Happy Thanksgiving and can't wait to see the next video
Thanks so much for your kind words. I miss the good old days too, but these days aren't so bad either. I've never seen a 3-row New Idea picker in person - only pictures. Would love to see one in person. Glad you're redoing your grandfather's machine. Another that will survive. New video is coming up - working on the hillside hitch on my Oliver 66.
Man yeah Mr Charlie!! I loved the story of when you bought it, and bringing it by the window for dad to see...then hearing you tell his reaction 🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣 Now, I never knew they made a super sheller 🤔 You just set in motion a new world of opportunities for me here sir!! Now if I could find one of those, boy my life sure would be easy when I start doing some row cropping!! Hmmmm, the wheels are turning my friend!! Thank you very much for the tour and history behind them!! I hope you can possibly snag some video of them using that sheller if you get a chance!! Look fwd to seeing what's next my friend, and thank you for a great video sir!! 😁😁😉😉👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
The picker has not been used in almost 20 years. The supersheller left for my neighbors about an hour after I did the video (which was yesterday - Saturday) and earlier today they took it to the field and it worked well. I keep the supersheller as a back-up machine to my JD 4400 combine for corn. Both machines have always been shed kept, except for the last couple years since I built the red shed built and had to put more important equipment in. I'm glad the video gave you some ideas. And if you have any questions, you know how to reach me. Thanks for being here my friend.
@@Pennies_on_the_dollar I know they took corn off yesterday and I think they're working on it again today. If I have a chance I'll try to sneak over and grab some video - no promises though.
They are kinda rare. They were primarily made for the seed corn industry, as they tend not to crack the kernels like combines often do. They are gentle-er on the seed corn.
They haven't made them for a long time. I have noticed prices for the good used ones going up steadily over the last few years. And you are correct, the shellers and supershellers were a lot more rare. Thanks for stopping by.
Not that long ago you couldnt afford to try to buy a picker or picker sheller, Not you can buy a really good one pretty reasonable to cheap ! I've shelled a lot of corn but in my early years I sure ear picked a hole lot of it, Everyone ear picked corn to use as there feed needs. O the good old days I sure do miss them ! Bandit
Yep, I miss them too. But you know, these 2 machines have actually gone up in value over the years. I've picked a lot of corn in my life too. Up till I was 15 years old, we used a picker and flat bed wagons and had to shovel off every load of corn either into an elevator and into a round wire crib, or through the wall of a wooden crib inside one of the sheds. In 1970, we got the 2 gravity wagons we have now. My grandfather was 82 at the time and still shoveling corn, but he sure did like those gravity wagons. He just marveled at how you could just stand there and watch the corn run out into the elevator. They were good old time. Wouldn't trade them for anything.
@@pagrainfarmer As a kid we had to walk behind the picker to pick up any ears left behind and of course my one grandpa had to have the first 2 rows picked by hand around the field so he didnt loose any of it running it over. As I got old enough to run a tractor I got to run wagons from the field to the crib and I loved that job ! In hay it was the same way till he figured I was big enough to start stacking bales on the wagons , I hated that job ! LOL My other grandpa was different in the way he did things and I never minded working with him, His moto was work smarter not harder but he would still work hard. We baled hay and dropped it on the ground and to pick it up we had a neighbor that had a AC WD and one of the attachments he had was a bale loader that bolted to it so you could drive the tractor down the field and it would pick the hay bales up and put them on a conveyer and took them back to the wagon. With 2 guys on a wagon they could load a wagon in a hurry ! Most of the time it was me and him till everyone else got home from work then we would go out and pick it up. I would love to know what ever happened to that bale loader as it was the only one I ever seen around here but man did it ever work good ! You can tell witch grandfather I learned the most from ! LOL In a way I really miss those days and I miss being around the old timers that were around here at that time and I learned a lot from them about a lot of different stuff and I was like a big sponge soaking it all up ! There were guys that were really good at a certain things and you got to learn from them , That is something todays kids are really missing out on cause if its not on there phone there really not interested in it ! Bandit
@@banditfarmer1900 Yeah it's very different today. I miss those old days too. One of my grandfathers, my mothers dad, I got to work with quite a bit, until he died when I was 16 years old (and he was 83). He died in december and had been unloading hay with me that summer prior to his death. He used to put the bales of hay on the elevator for me and I would stack them in the hay mow. That last summer, my mother came out to the barn when we were unloading and said to my Grandfather, "Hey Dad, come down off that wagon and rest a while. I'll put the bales on the elevator for you". Of course, she meant well, but my grandfather loved to work and was kind of insulted. He was a very kind man and I never heard him raise his voice, and my mother was "his baby", but he looked down at her from the wagon and said, "Woman, get yourself back down to the house where you belong. I have work to do." And my mother, without a word, turned and went back to the house. Not exactly politically correct, but he was mad and just wanted her to know that he didn't need her stepping in for him. He used to come over almost every day and help us. He had a small farm of his own, but we were farming that, too. He had farmed all his life, along with having a job until he was in his 60's. He was the one I wrote about earlier that had always shoveled corn and marveled at the gravity wagons. I could stay on here all day and tell stories about him. I miss him and those days.
@@pagrainfarmer My dads dad I was close to more than the other one but I was in high school (11th grade) and bought a Gleaner A for $3500 (the loan was paid off in 2 years instead of 3 years) and it was the very first SP combine I had bought . We had an AC 100 sp combine one year and dad sold it. But my grandpa was amazed with that Gleaner A, He used to ride with me cutting beans and watched me and the combine work. It had a 13 foot head with a flouting cutter bar and hume reel and of course back then we didnt have really good level ground using old pull type disks and harrows so that flouting cutter bar really helped a lot. The first day I cut with it at the end of the day we were having supper he told dad that boy made that cutter bar dance acrossed the field ! He was impressed to say the least. He was proud of me for buying it and what I could do with it and he really couldnt believe I had it paid for like I did doing custom work with it. I have often wondered what he would think about me now and what I have done and have, He passed away when I was 20 and I do still miss him. But I still think about him riding with me cutting beans grinning ear to ear the hole time. When I bought the combine a flouting cutter bar had been around for about 10 years in 1979 and at that time you ether had one or a strait cut head or robot so it was something for that time and grandpa knew it too ! I really wish he could see everything now. Bandit
@@banditfarmer1900 I've had the same thought. My dad has been gone now for 33 years and my grandfather for 51. I like to think they would both be proud that I'm still farming and what I've done with the place and the equipment I'm using now. I, too, miss them both.
Very interesting my friend. Charlie thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Glad you enjoyed it SBF. It's always good hearing from you.
Thanks for sharing Charlie! Enjoyed watching!
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching, Cousin Scott!
Nice story on how you acquired the 2 pickers. I always enjoyed picking corn. In the late 90s we switched to high moisture corn.
I always found picking/shelling corn to be enjoyable. It was always my favorite thing to do on the farm. Now I enjoy combining my corn just as much. Thanks for supporting my channel.
Harvesting corn is and has always been my favorite thing to do on the farm. Thanks for stopping by.
Great story on the equipment. We grew up around tractor-mount pickers and watched the transition to combines. I had an IH #1 pull type that worked just like your New Idea.
When I was a boy, we had an old IH picker, but I don't know what model number it was. Then my Dad traded it for the mounted Oliver picker we used on the Oliver 77. When my dad passed, I got the New Idea pull type picker and later, the sheller. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I have a 323 picker. I would like to find a sheller, but don't see many around. Thanks for the video!
There aren't many shellers/supershellers around. My understanding is that they were primarily produced for the seed corn industry, back in the day. They are more gentle on the kernals, with few or none damaged. My neighbor was using it yesterday (sunday) and he said there is absolutely no cob in the wagon either. He is real pleased. Gonna try to get some footage of it working today.
This was super interesting Charlie, two great machines in running order, in fact a special collection to have, thanks for sharing it with us
Thanks Jan. My neighbor was up about an hour after I recorded that video and borrowed the sheller. He used it on Sunday and said it worked great. Going to try to get some video of it in the field today. Thanks for watching and commenting, my friend!
@@pagrainfarmer Whaoo, that will be awesome
@@jankotze1959 I got the video and am uploading it now. But my internet is slow and uploads often take 12 to 24 hours. Stay tuned.
Thanks Mr Pennsylvania yeah I need to build a pole barn too to put on my tractors and stuff away too LOL thanks for video nice old equipment
Thank you, Dave. I'm glad I built the Red Shed, but there's never enough room. If/when you build your pole building, make it big enough. No such thing as "too big".
Thanks for the tour Charlie. They were pretty good pickers. I still have a two row picker with an 8 roll husking bed. I used a NI picker with the smaller sheller - not the super sheller- the first 3 years I grew organic corn before I got my 3300 combine.
They definitely were (and still are) good machines. There are still lots of parts available for them, too. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
My first job was on a small dairy and sheep farm. We had two 324 New Idea pickers. One had a 12 roll husking bed and the other had the sheller. We ran both with a 4020 power shift. After the cribs were filled we would shell the rest. We stored the shelled corn in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and if we needed, kicker wagons lined with plywood. We would mix corn with oats whole and feed it to either the ewes or lambs. They chewed the corn so there was no need to grind it.
That's a cool memory! That's one of the reasons I make my videos. Because I use mostly older ( I like to say "classic" equipment) my videos often bring back fond memories for my viewers. Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you come back for more.
@@pagrainfarmer I enjoy the channel. I still pick corn on my farm. I like hearing other people's stories but I see different pickers and how people can keep them running. Also new to Oliver tractors as I have just aquired a Super 77 diesel primary as a cheap power unit for my PTO generator.
@@danw6014 You'll like the Super 77. I have no doubt about that.
I did enjoy learning about those machines you don’t see too many people nowadays are using them I love to see you use them again but I guess you really don’t have a reason to but thanks for sharing
Actually, today I got video of my neighbor using that supersheller that was in the video. He came for it about an hour after I recorded the video. He has been using it for 2 days now and I went over and got footage yesterday (Monday). I am uploading it now and the video should be available later today (Tuesday). Thanks for your comments and for watching.
That picker sheller is cool. You just don’t see them very often. I always thought It would be awfully handy to have one as a backup in case the combine broke down.
That's exactly why I keep it - it IS my backup machine to my JD 4400 combine. Got video of it in the field working from yesterday. Video should be up today (Tuesday) at some point. My internet is slow for uploading.
Hey charlee i want you to know that you did a fine job on how the corn picker works Thanks Ron
Thanks Ron. I appreciate you stopping by.
Great video Charlie. I am redoing my grandfather's picker this winter. New idea 330 3row picker. It was alot of fun picking corn when I was a kid for our dairy. Now I just want to have fun and pick corn with my unit at half century progress show and if I can find a thrashing day near by. I miss the good Ole days. It never seemed like work back then like it does now. I really enjoy your channel Charlie. Happy Thanksgiving and can't wait to see the next video
Thanks so much for your kind words. I miss the good old days too, but these days aren't so bad either. I've never seen a 3-row New Idea picker in person - only pictures. Would love to see one in person. Glad you're redoing your grandfather's machine. Another that will survive. New video is coming up - working on the hillside hitch on my Oliver 66.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Man yeah Mr Charlie!! I loved the story of when you bought it, and bringing it by the window for dad to see...then hearing you tell his reaction 🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣 Now, I never knew they made a super sheller 🤔 You just set in motion a new world of opportunities for me here sir!! Now if I could find one of those, boy my life sure would be easy when I start doing some row cropping!! Hmmmm, the wheels are turning my friend!! Thank you very much for the tour and history behind them!! I hope you can possibly snag some video of them using that sheller if you get a chance!! Look fwd to seeing what's next my friend, and thank you for a great video sir!! 😁😁😉😉👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
The picker has not been used in almost 20 years. The supersheller left for my neighbors about an hour after I did the video (which was yesterday - Saturday) and earlier today they took it to the field and it worked well. I keep the supersheller as a back-up machine to my JD 4400 combine for corn. Both machines have always been shed kept, except for the last couple years since I built the red shed built and had to put more important equipment in. I'm glad the video gave you some ideas. And if you have any questions, you know how to reach me. Thanks for being here my friend.
@@pagrainfarmer Man I would have loved to see that thing work!! Thank you Mr Charlie!!! 😁😁😁
@@Pennies_on_the_dollar I know they took corn off yesterday and I think they're working on it again today. If I have a chance I'll try to sneak over and grab some video - no promises though.
@@pagrainfarmer That would be awesome, but I understand either way sir!! I really need to find me one of those things 😉😉😁😁
I'd love to have one
They are kinda rare. They were primarily made for the seed corn industry, as they tend not to crack the kernels like combines often do. They are gentle-er on the seed corn.
Good video, see the pickers for sale here occasionally, but not shellers. Price for the pickers is pretty high IMHO.
They haven't made them for a long time. I have noticed prices for the good used ones going up steadily over the last few years. And you are correct, the shellers and supershellers were a lot more rare. Thanks for stopping by.
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Thank you!
The picker with husking bed looks like the one I had the base unit is a 311 and the husking bed is 313
I think that’s what mine is too. Model numbers sound right. Thanks for the info.
Boy I would like to buy the sheller if you ever decide to sell it.
Thanks for the offer, but I have no plans to sell it at this time. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Not that long ago you couldnt afford to try to buy a picker or picker sheller, Not you can buy a really good one pretty reasonable to cheap ! I've shelled a lot of corn but in my early years I sure ear picked a hole lot of it, Everyone ear picked corn to use as there feed needs. O the good old days I sure do miss them ! Bandit
Yep, I miss them too. But you know, these 2 machines have actually gone up in value over the years. I've picked a lot of corn in my life too. Up till I was 15 years old, we used a picker and flat bed wagons and had to shovel off every load of corn either into an elevator and into a round wire crib, or through the wall of a wooden crib inside one of the sheds. In 1970, we got the 2 gravity wagons we have now. My grandfather was 82 at the time and still shoveling corn, but he sure did like those gravity wagons. He just marveled at how you could just stand there and watch the corn run out into the elevator. They were good old time. Wouldn't trade them for anything.
@@pagrainfarmer As a kid we had to walk behind the picker to pick up any ears left behind and of course my one grandpa had to have the first 2 rows picked by hand around the field so he didnt loose any of it running it over. As I got old enough to run a tractor I got to run wagons from the field to the crib and I loved that job ! In hay it was the same way till he figured I was big enough to start stacking bales on the wagons , I hated that job ! LOL My other grandpa was different in the way he did things and I never minded working with him, His moto was work smarter not harder but he would still work hard. We baled hay and dropped it on the ground and to pick it up we had a neighbor that had a AC WD and one of the attachments he had was a bale loader that bolted to it so you could drive the tractor down the field and it would pick the hay bales up and put them on a conveyer and took them back to the wagon. With 2 guys on a wagon they could load a wagon in a hurry ! Most of the time it was me and him till everyone else got home from work then we would go out and pick it up. I would love to know what ever happened to that bale loader as it was the only one I ever seen around here but man did it ever work good ! You can tell witch grandfather I learned the most from ! LOL In a way I really miss those days and I miss being around the old timers that were around here at that time and I learned a lot from them about a lot of different stuff and I was like a big sponge soaking it all up ! There were guys that were really good at a certain things and you got to learn from them , That is something todays kids are really missing out on cause if its not on there phone there really not interested in it ! Bandit
@@banditfarmer1900 Yeah it's very different today. I miss those old days too. One of my grandfathers, my mothers dad, I got to work with quite a bit, until he died when I was 16 years old (and he was 83). He died in december and had been unloading hay with me that summer prior to his death. He used to put the bales of hay on the elevator for me and I would stack them in the hay mow. That last summer, my mother came out to the barn when we were unloading and said to my Grandfather, "Hey Dad, come down off that wagon and rest a while. I'll put the bales on the elevator for you". Of course, she meant well, but my grandfather loved to work and was kind of insulted. He was a very kind man and I never heard him raise his voice, and my mother was "his baby", but he looked down at her from the wagon and said, "Woman, get yourself back down to the house where you belong. I have work to do." And my mother, without a word, turned and went back to the house. Not exactly politically correct, but he was mad and just wanted her to know that he didn't need her stepping in for him. He used to come over almost every day and help us. He had a small farm of his own, but we were farming that, too. He had farmed all his life, along with having a job until he was in his 60's. He was the one I wrote about earlier that had always shoveled corn and marveled at the gravity wagons. I could stay on here all day and tell stories about him. I miss him and those days.
@@pagrainfarmer My dads dad I was close to more than the other one but I was in high school (11th grade) and bought a Gleaner A for $3500 (the loan was paid off in 2 years instead of 3 years) and it was the very first SP combine I had bought . We had an AC 100 sp combine one year and dad sold it. But my grandpa was amazed with that Gleaner A, He used to ride with me cutting beans and watched me and the combine work. It had a 13 foot head with a flouting cutter bar and hume reel and of course back then we didnt have really good level ground using old pull type disks and harrows so that flouting cutter bar really helped a lot. The first day I cut with it at the end of the day we were having supper he told dad that boy made that cutter bar dance acrossed the field ! He was impressed to say the least. He was proud of me for buying it and what I could do with it and he really couldnt believe I had it paid for like I did doing custom work with it. I have often wondered what he would think about me now and what I have done and have, He passed away when I was 20 and I do still miss him. But I still think about him riding with me cutting beans grinning ear to ear the hole time. When I bought the combine a flouting cutter bar had been around for about 10 years in 1979 and at that time you ether had one or a strait cut head or robot so it was something for that time and grandpa knew it too ! I really wish he could see everything now. Bandit
@@banditfarmer1900 I've had the same thought. My dad has been gone now for 33 years and my grandfather for 51. I like to think they would both be proud that I'm still farming and what I've done with the place and the equipment I'm using now. I, too, miss them both.