Ill tell you a funny Brain, my uncle had a 60 John Deere that had that type corn picker that mounted on the tractor but it was old as can be but it still looked new because here in the mountains of northeast Tennessee there wasnt alot of corn but the corn picker came with the tractor when he bought the tractor from a farmer. The only time the corn picker was used was when we needed to pick our corn. We only had about 12 acres of corn. We had picked our corn for about 5 years by hand because that corn picker was so hard to get mounted on the tractor. My uncle happened to come by the farm one day when we were getting our wagon all ready to start picking corn. He ask where our corn picker was and me and my brothers and my dad held up.our hands. My uncle said oh no dont do that lets go down to my farm which was about a 30 minute drive from our place. So we went down there and he went to another barn on his farm and got the old 60 out and told us to meet him in the barn where the corn picker was. We went in the stall he told us and there was an almost new looking corn picker for the John Deere, the corn picker was hanging by chains in that stall and was covered in dust because when he bought the tractor and implements he took the corn picker off the truck and put it in his barn and i know he had them close to 10 years at that point and he had never even used it before. Needless to say it was a major job to get the picker put on the tractor but we spent about a half day getting all the sheet metal put on that old 60 and we greased up that picker then drove it about an hour to our farm and hooked up the wagon and picked that entire feild in about the time it took us to get the picker mounted on the tractor but since he never grew any corn on his farm he just told us to put the picker in our barn and when we needed to pick our corn every year. He would bring his 60 John Deere to our farm every year near corn picking time. We only grew corn for about 5 years after that and we all swore that it was eaiser to pick that 12 acre feild by hand than to mount that corn picker and after we turned that feild into a hay feild my uncle left his corn picker in our barn and never came back and got it and that thing hung in our barn in the way for many many years. Fast foward a bunch of years and my uncle passed away. We had that corn picker in our barn for that entire time and it never was used again. My uncle had even sold the tractor before he passed but never even thought about that picker and we ended up selling that thing just a very few yeas ago when we were tearing the barn down to build something new. I bet that corn picker never had over 75 hours on it and always looked new.
Thanks for another great video Brian. It was interesting and informative. Wow. Old ford tractor and ear corn picker. Don’t see that very often. Looks to be in real nice shape. Jay the owner has done a nice job with both these unit. Wonderful he opens the farm up in the fall for people to come and look at the farm life. Thanks to Jay for doing that. Good video. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
How wonderful the old 1966 Ford 4000 and with that 602 corn picker makes for an awesome duo. Great to see someone in my neck of the woods here in Missouri with the Classic Tractor Fever show. Thanks and have a great weekend.
Thanks. We had a Ford dealer in town. We had this picker on a WD Allis. We also had a Ford combine. Then dad bought a MM3496 and a New Idea pull type picker.
Did anyone besides me see how he got on the tractor? At least John Deere, International Harvester and New Idea gave the farmer a safe ladder to use in the back of the machine.
