Picking Corn in South Central MN

Here is a video of us picking corn this fall.

Nice Video..........I enjoyed it alot

Looks like the Johnnie Deere needs to step it up or the old WD45 will get more eared corn in the crib. lol nice video.

Thankyou, enjoyed that.

Yeah it seems that the Allis picks the ears better and it cleans the husks off so much better.  The only thing is that the sound guard cab is nice and clean!!! The 300 husker seems to catch more of the kernels that fall off from being thrown around in the husking bed. 

That is one stout 45, in the 1970s I worked for several different farmers and one had one of those New Idea pickers on a farmall M. That picker was so heavy The M could barley pull an empty wagon in road gear.   

nice video and the 45 is doing a fine job in that good corn sure brings back a lot of memories David

The video sure brings back memories as I picked and cribbed corn for over 20 years. I had a New Idea 2 row picker and picked about 80 acres a year. The John Deere pickers didn't butt shell as much as the New Idea pickers did, but the New Idea did a better job of taking off the husks. Emptying the cribs into a Haban corn sheller was the hardest job of cribbing corn but it made good hog feed.

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Yeah the WD45 has more power than most.  When we rebuilt the motor we put D17 sleeves in and pistons and crank.   It has an Allis tricylce super single on the front that bolts right on when you remove the wide front along with a M&W super snoot.   It has 14.9 x 28 goodyears with fluid. It has a Char-Lynn power steering unit also on it.

wish dad would have used gravity wagons when doing ear corn, had to use wide flat bottom wood wahons with out hoists. used a speed jack coupled to a drive on hoist, had to refill it with oil about every 6th load, he used an old 2MH IH picker (what a miserable peice of equipment to mount and dismount!!) took all of a tube and a 1/2 of grease every moring to grease about 150 fittings! used a stanhoist elevator (stanhoist made them for AC too) it had about a 18 inch by 24 inch hole with small bars that allowed the shelled corn to drop out either into a box or on the ground so it wouldn't fill in between the ears of the crib. (faster dry down) we fed the shelled corn to the livestock from those piles under the elevator. that elevator would screech real loud as it ran! ear deffening! still have that elevaror! made a good slide when using it to put bales up in the mow. dad then bought a jd 227 picker that mounted on his 3020 jd, but we couldn't keep the tractor from over heating. it was easier to mount and dismount once we had the blacksmith heat the rear wheels with a large blow torch so we could move them out! had to do that everytime we wanted to move the wheels in or out! finally unloaded that worthless tractor to a dude that thought he was getting something great!! you know...it was a john deere!!! hahaha!! the schmuck! dad bought a self propelled combine, put up a 10,000 bu bin and lived the life of ease after that!! i moved the behlen bin to my place and use it for critters now! (coon proof) i really enjoyed your video too! brought back memories! thank you!

great video.  I assume you are "picking" corn for nostalgic reasons?

No we do this as a hobby.  We shell the corn off the ear with a pto operated corn sheller.  Its a White 1210 shellmaster corn sheller.  I will be posting video of this in the spring when that time comes around.  Have had a few people buy some pails for squirrels and also pheasants.  After the corn is shelled we sell the cobs off as well. Have people that ask to buy them to do many things with.  Used to sell them to a guy that mixed them in with his feed. 2 years ago sold them to a guy for erosion prevention and last year sold them to a farmer for putting under calf huts. 

 I remember catching the ones with husk on em while unloading into the elevator. Dad wanted it cleaner than the picker got it so the husk didn't retain moisture.
 A few years ago while running corn in the crib at our working fall show, the guy that had the sheller set up on the back side of the crib poked me and said to leave some of it on so he had some to blow in the pile. I guess old habits are hard to change.

Great video--- Thanks for taking the time to put it together!!