Picking Corn in South Central MN
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Topic: Picking Corn in South Central MN
Posted By: Wingnut87
Subject: Picking Corn in South Central MN
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 12:13am
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Here is a video of us picking corn this fall.
I know it starts off with the John Deere but I do promise you will see the Allis's we use.
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Posted By: Nathan (SD)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 3:41am
| That has to be a pretty stout WD45 to roll along at that speed with that kinda work load. |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 6:29am
| Nice Video..........I enjoyed it alot |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:42am
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Great video. Thanks for posting. God Bless. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:57am
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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.
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 8:05am
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Nice - thanks a lot! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 8:26am
| Thankyou, enjoyed that. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 12:52pm
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Looks like you was having fun. I always like picking corn as long as there was a machine involved. I wonder if shelling was a bigger problem this year since the corn dried down so fast. The old ear pickers at our show shelled off the butt end a lot cause the corn was dry and the stalk still had a little green from the ear down.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Wingnut87
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 1:11pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 2:33pm
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That was a great video - thanks for taking the time to make it and share it. Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Mike(SEIN)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 4:37pm
| 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. |
Posted By: David KY
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 5:12pm
| Nice video. Enjoyed watching . |
Posted By: acdave63
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 6:55pm
| nice video and the 45 is doing a fine job in that good corn sure brings back a lot of memories David |
Posted By: Jack(Ky)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:10pm
| Nothing smells better than new ear corn. Thanks for posting.JP |
Posted By: Rayhowling
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:20pm
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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. |
Posted By: Wayne (IN)
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:35pm
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That was really cool. Thanks! Just curious, how many acres of corn do you harvest on the ear? Do you also have corn that you shell? Is the ear corn primarily for feeding?
Thanks again!
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Posted By: Joe/NC
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 7:48pm
| Great video, thanks for sharing! |
Posted By: LannyMTN
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 8:13pm
| Great video. I have spent many hours on a rig like that. Thanks. |
Posted By: Wingnut87
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 8:53pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Wingnut87
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 8:56pm
| We shell out all of our corn that is in the cribs and sell it to the elevator. We have a White 1210 Shellmaster corn sheller. We only pick about 40 acres of corn on the ear. Thats enough back breaking work for me!!! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 9:01pm
| 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! |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 6:52am
| Great video -- really enjoyed watching it. Good music selection to go with it. Thanks!! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 7:25am
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great video. I assume you are "picking" corn for nostalgic reasons?
What do you do with ear corn now a days?
I do know it is like gold if you have a market for vending squirrel feed :-)
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 7:30am
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Great work! Made my day just watching it! ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Wingnut87
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 7:37am
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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. |
Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 7:52am
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My Dad did about 5 acres every year...went into a boarded up hay wagon. The "fun" part
was we had to hand clean every ear that still had a husk, and take away the "nubbins". Start at the front of the wagon, work to the rear. Wagon was on a hill next to the crib. Just shoveled it in.
Never could figure the sense of hand husking every ear. Dad said it looked cleaner.
When we got to the last ear on the wagon, Dad would jokingly say "Thats the one we have been looking for!"...
Ahh the memories...
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 8:21am
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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. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 8:43am
Sounds like you didnt have too many with husks on. I would guess about 20% of ours still had a husk on it.
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CTuckerNWIL wrote:Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 3:40pm
| Great video--- Thanks for taking the time to put it together!! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 4:33pm
After seeing you elevator I thought I'd post a shot of my AC elevator that I load out eared corn with.
  ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2010 at 4:50pm
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Now that I can see the thing, nice video! |