November 23 Let's keep the 2018 theme going, mud. The best part of ear corn, it doesn't need much attention for storage. Pick it and forget it! Beans are still too wet. Dad is working on corn across the field.
My grandad had a rare Ford 2310 in the mountains of NC. We picked corn just like this! Watching this is like stepping back in time for me with my Granddad. They bought the 2310 new I think in 1981 or 82 had mechanical brakes that squealed and it was so weak lol I use to think it was the biggest tractor in the world when I was a kid. Thanks for posting this video good work Sir
Dad had a picker just like that back in the seventies. Picked alot with it. Even did some custom work. Ran it with a 150 Massey then a 165. Still remember riding in the wagon.
Man it looks wet! Talk about a pain in the butt! Reminds me of the fall of 09 in my area, always getting spinning and stuck, takes 4 times as long to do anything because of the mud, great video keep it up!
bought me a set of ratchet wrenches a few weeks ago and have fallen in love with them. very neat how you used the screw jack to tension the belt. mud farming is not fun... or at least not fun to me... but then we have to work with what the weather gives us. I enjoyed your video thanks for taking the time it took to make it and put it here.
Ratchet wrenches are the best for tight spots! But watch out using them for breaking loose. I think I wrecked the half inch using it to break a rusty nut loose.
Well at least you have rice tires on it makes it easier we have a j.d. 50 with a front mount 2 row do you have open pollinate corn or regular what is your rows on 38 or 32
if anything, plough side dual and some wheel weights on the left hand side rear of the tractor, more traction and counter weight to the picker.....which isn't such a big deal now that you have that 2 row lawn ornament...
Those are some neat pickers I have a Deere semi mount but mine comes around the left side. We did 35 loads this year with a new idea. I like picking especially the first and last loads lol.
@@boehmfarm4276 it seemed worse early as the ear shanks were tougher. By the end not as bad, my Deere has the spiral snapper rolls so it was aggressive as well. I wish pickers had stripper plates like a corn head that would cut down on butt shelling tremendously.
They're still pretty popular in less developed parts of the world they still make them new, places in India have new production reaper binders. Three point mounted. On small scale things like this just work better anyway. I can only imagine a big 20-30-40 ton combine getting stuck on these conditions.
My sump pump in the basement is running non-stop because I put “drainage ditches” in the 100 acres around the house with the combine. It seems that it’s all running toward the house now! With as much rain and snow as we have had I won’t be doing any bean ground tillage until April.
If you need that other set of rice tires JB come and get them and use them on the Ford, They got lots more meat on them than the ones on it and you might go a little better with them on it. Picking corn in the mud is never fun unless you like slip sliding away ! LOL Bandit
I'm looking for a set of 28L26s when I get my combine running. So I did grey struck the other day and used the 2910 with the bf Goodrich Silvertown rice tires to pull the wagon out. I clawed the whole way back using tracks I'd already made. The deeper tread just cut up the ground more than packing it down for the wagon to ride over.
Finding tires is the easy part, Coming up with the money is the hard part and finding a set on rims to fit your combine is the other hard part ! With 28L's on it you need to find a set of knife tire to go on the back so you can steer it so you can go ware you want ! I'll keep an eye out for a set of 28L's and let you know if I find any. Bandit
There was one manufacturer of corn pickers tat eventually made a self propelled multi row corn picker. And they can cost more than combines there age. Look up new idea unisystems.
Always hated harvesting in the mud. Corn looks pretty good. What population do you plant corn on? We have trouble with population in the mid twenties. Take care and have fun
I done a lot of number crunching with muddy conditions you will burn a lot more fuel just sluggin it threw and the way things are now it wont let up on wet for ya so good luck
Only harvest maize in the UK for cattle feed, don't have a hot and sunny enough climate to enjoy nice edible corn, and due to the size of the fields and farms the equipment needs to be bigger than this.
@@boehmfarm4276 the front doesn't sink. It just ball's up around and plugs the front tires. You steer with your brakes. The tractor has a lot of traction because the picker weighs two tons.
Jon the lamb We farm in midwestern Ontario. Got out of cow calf operation two or three years ago now we are just cash crop. When I’m out of high school I want to get back into cattle. Also total we farm about 200-210 between my dad and grandfather maybe 10 acres not workable.
