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john d - Not a new idea
01-19-2006 16:50:03
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Re: If this ain't a sweet idea, i don't know what in reply to Farmallkid From Ont,, 01-19-2006 08:13:35
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Back in about 1948 or '49, when I was a little kid, most of the farmers in our area pooled their labor and equipment at harvest time. My Dad had a Farmall H with a loader, one wagon, and a pull-type two row JD cornpicker. Charlie, who farmed next to us had no picker, but another Farmall H and two pretty good wagons. Another guy down the road a mile or so had a JD A, and a wagon. Dad and Charlie had been sharing work at corn harvest for a couple of years. They pulled the picker with Charlie's H, and used Dad's tractor and loader to lift the front of the wagons so they could dump into small elevator they had bought. This was in a day when most ear-corn around here was being SCOOPED into cribs. The third guy, Buford, showed up a few days before corn harvest one year, and said "I think it'd be a good idea if I joined you guys this year!" He had installed an elevator on his JD A. The boot of it was out in front of the tractor, and it ran up the right side of the tractor. He had the right rear wheel set out about as far as it would go, and had rigged not only a chain drive to run the elevator, but a hydraulic cylinder to raise and lower it! He could back the tractor up to a crib, set the elevator to fill through a hole in the side, or drop corn through a hatch in the roof.
With four wagons, dumping corn into the elevator with the tractor and loader, and a self-propelled elevator, the three of them picked corn and cribbed it at the maximum rate the picker could run!
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