It’s just amazing how fast technology has moved along, as we watch these great machines, it great reminder of how life was so much simpler & life seemed so much better. I Remember pulling 2 grain wagons with open cab 1466, enjoying beautiful sunny cool fall days, hearing dryer running & great smell of corn drying in air!!!
Man that brought back some memories lol, we had 2 815 combines back in the day. One was a gas and one was diesel. The gas one was a bit scary to run when it was really dry lol
For much of the early years picking corn "in the ear" was done because so much of the harvest was fed to livestock. In addition shelled corn harvested at high moisture needed to be handled differently that ear corn dried in the field. Ear corn was stored in inexpensive cribs on the farm to dry and to be brought to market at the time desired by the farmer. Shelling the corn in the field was limited by the lack of drying capacity for shelled corn on the farm. A commitment to a use a combine for corn was a commitment to, 1) building an expensive dryer setup on the farm and buying LP or natural gas in bulk, or 2) transporting and selling corn right out of the field to a local grain elevator with its own high capacity for drying shelled corn. Not all of those options for handling shelled corn existed for many farms. In addition, the growing season was shorter in northern corn states and dealing with high moisture shelled corn there due to changes in fall weather was a challenge. Finally, selling kernel corn directly at harvest time usually meant a lower market price per bushel for corn. The built-up capacity for drying and storage of corn on the farm now has allowed the farmer to achieve the best price per bushel in the months following harvest.
Great idea to follow the equipment progression. We used to have a 1947 Farmall model H with a 2 corn row picker - I can relate to the footage. Great job.
There is IHC and there is Case International. Please let’s not confuse this as being the same. I hope I’m still alive to see a 60 year old Case/International working like an 60 year old Original IHC machine! My favorite combine was the 403 and 915.
Heck, in 1975 my grandfather insisted that the corn on our farm be picked BY HAND. He was in his late 80s at that time. But the next year, and I believe my grandfather died before we picked corn again, my dad bought a used single row corn picker and, at that time, it seemed like such a luxury to have the machine do the work. Wow! Fast forward to today and our corn gets picked by a machine that picks several rows at once, with an air conditioned cab!!!
Love the old equipment! 👍 Is it possible to see a video about the history of Bolinder Munktell, Volvo BM and Valmet, and how they become a part of AGCO?
My Dad had a 2M-H mounted on a 400. Sometimes the field was two wet and we had to go and pick the corn by hand and put it in 5 gallon pails and then dump in the wagon. Fond memories!!
Ran a 815 with 20' straight cut head in wheat in North Dakota back in the early 80's. Ran a open station International with a pickup head in oat's in Wisconsin in 1977. Do not remember the model number all i remember is the paint was all faded.
My earliest memories of my childhood in the 1980's are with the 815 combine. Just watching this video takes me back to riding with my dearly departed grandfather and uncles while picking corn. That was a machine ahead of it's time, had power adjust seat, hydrostat, etc. Great memories.
It's quite amazing how the machinery has changed over the years. It sounds like you had an idyllic childhood, mine was similar, growing up in the country here in the UK.
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It would be really cool if you did a video on the history of the axial flow and rotary design and how it changed the entire combine market! Not sure if you've done it already but your style of video would lend itself well to the subject I feel like 👍
Back in the 60's all we had to use to pick corn was a pick up truck and lots of hands. But I seen those older tractors growing up but your video is the first time seeing them working. Thanks
Seeing this old combine reminds me of an incident when I was in high school ..... His name was Harry Shannon , I went to school with his 4 daughters .... he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad , but was also a part time farmer ..... when he did not come home from farming , his wife went to check on him .... she found his lifeless body , clothing wrapped up in the combine ......
Dad always talks about the legendary 203 combine. He swears that was the best combine he ever owned until he bought the 6620 we have currently. When then 715 was a fairly new machine, him and my uncle got the bank talked into loaning them money to purchase a 715, hoping to be able to move faster and be more efficient. That’s been almost 50 years ago and I still hear about how much he hated that 715. Kinda funny to hear the stories about what guys liked and disliked for farm equipment lol.
Sorry if this is a moot point but have you ever done a cover of the pull-type combines? still i viable option for a small outfit today, even a cattle guy wanting to put up some feed grains.
I always enjoy your videos but you continue to overlook the one question I’ve been asking you do you see in the future 1000 bushel combines being constructed and used what are your thoughts
Seems like the corn gets bigger and taller as the video goes too! Our farm had a 1460 for many years when I was a kid. Dad got a 2166 around the early 2000’s and then a 2577 about 3 years ago. All great machines
As a future engineer, I would really love it if you showed each machine's cutting and separating mechanisms too. It is so incredible how far ag engineering has come in the last century. So I guess new video format idea: shop and machinery tour! Would be so incredibly interesting, insightful, and educational.
What's happened on things like header loss and junk into the bin with the shelled corn through the years - how much cleaner and complete is it now ? Also have the machines had to be modified in design to handle different generations of corn strains ? What's different in them as far as the separation processes from early until present ? thx.
This type of farming left a lot of cover for animals. Besides being cheaper than the damn modern combine monstrosities, it seems humane from a wildlife point of view.
the newest IH I have seen with narrow front was a 1066. But since the 86 was just basicly an updated cab there could have been a narrow front 86 series.
I remember using our 706 with a picker. Ours was a wide front instead of trike. My brother rolled it trying to chase cows that were running down the road. When he hit the brakes that weren't locked together. Just missed his foot with the fender when rolling. Replacement tractor was a 1066 with a cab.
We had a 706 with a wide front too. We also had an 806 with a narrow front. I remember coming home from school and dad was pulling the picker sheller and wagon with the 806 and I had to pull him through the field with our 255 MF attached with a long chain and an old tire to cushion the jerks. That was our 4 wheel drive. 2 tractors chained together. One spot we still barely got through. 86 was a wet fall in Michigan.
It is still unclear to me what all this corn is used for, not everything can't be used for ethanol? In northern Europe we have almost no corn that is harvested.
Interesting, here in the states it’s our primary crop. Millions of acres. But it is not raised exclusively for ethanol. That is one use but another big one is for animal feed. It’s a main source of feed for beef, pork and poultry. Also a ton of uses in the food industry as well.
They had a heavier steel pan that attached to the shoe with a rubber strip originally. It was supposed to keep the chaff from building up on the axle. Without something there the trash would stack up and then start to build up on the sieve
I like getting a chance to dig through the archives to share the way different machines relate to each other. I think I can do a similar John Deere and Allis-Chalmers/AGCO video.
