Great video! Takes me back 60 years, we didn't do it on a scale this grand, but just the same we still basically did it in the same fashion. Thanks for posting!
How well I remember those days. For me it was in the late 50s and early 60s. I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could. Those were good times. Life was so much easier and pressure was something I never knew anything about. Oh, and I can remember the smell of the air and the smell of the corn stalks when they were broken by the picker. I knew an old farm who just used a snapper because he wanted the husk left on for the ground feed. Good times.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing on a farm more beautiful than the sound of a John Deere. Big. Noisy and you know that thing is working for all its worth. The odern JD is too clean, too smooth, to complex. Get down and pull that flywheel. 3 four times and off it goes.. Damn, memories are made of this.
I remember my dad had a 237 on his JD 720 then bought a JD 4000 diesel in 71 and put the 237 on it, lot more power, i remember running that noisy machine, we wore ear protection running it, also remember going over to the neighbors and opening lands for them for their pull type picker, also, not enough warm clothes in the world to stay warm running that machine in late fall here in South Dakota
I pulled a New Idea Superpicker with my 4020 diesel, it was a great combo, and, it would just cruise 150 bushel corn. I used my really nice 530 on the elevator, and, pulled wagos with my 3020 diesel. Those were the days, simple rugged, dependable machines that would last forever if you maintained them well.
I recently subscribed, recognized your fine farm from photos in Green Magazine I believe. My family back in the day used JD60, 237 picker with Parker gravity wagons. Wagons were made about 18 miles away in Silver Lake IN., near our farm. We were early customers of the wagons early 60's. They were very efficient.
Just discovered and LOVE your channel!!! My dad used Farmalls of this era, but our dear neighbors were JD all the way. Have always enjoyed the sound of a good old "Johnny Popper". Keep up the great work in using these classic machines in your farm life there!!! ;o)
Awesome vid. The sound, youth experience of what it means to work and what will end up as food Forrest cattle or sow. , Did I mention the sound of the 720 with a little load? Brings back the yearnings of youth I bitched about then but look forward to in retirement. Restoring a 70 now as well as a 40 9N Ford. Thanks for posting
Where are you located? I was born/raised in central Minnesota and now live in cheese country (Wisconsin) and while I’ve traveled the world for work,what draws me backtrack my roots is the work ethic and smell of shit ( cow manure) that feeds our great county.
In the old days like this we had I.H. picker. Our good days we would 11 loads a day. My neighbor had a New Idea picker and he would get 30 loads a day. Still have a elevator paddle in my man cave.
I remember my dad talking to the neighbors when he got 13 loads in a day! 3010 diesel was our picker tractor…..still have it, restored……will run a MK 100 71 Westfield auger this fall.
Loved the days of ear corn. My dad had IH picker on560D and my mom's dad would unload. Every year he would go to the shed and get his haybuck tooth that had broken off to start and regulate the corn coming out of the wagon.
Back in the day ppl kept the corn in cribs and didn't take it off the cob. The corn would sit in the crib until time to feed and then you would grind up the cob and corn all together to feed out. It was alot more work with shoveling that everyone today has gone away from with the combines
