Illinois Corn Picken Pictures 10-15-16

kruser · Oct 15, 2016

Thanks to Kevin Larkey for hosting this again!

Anybody want to help Kevin pick up?

Dick2 · Oct 15, 2016

I suppose that no one picks corn by hand anymore. I still remember doing that with a team of horses pulling the wagon. I can still hear the sound of the ears of corn hitting the backboard (sometimes called the bangboard), especially on a foggy morning where the sound was different and special.

Alan K · Oct 15, 2016

Thank you for posting pictures. Sure miss picking corn. Nothing like hearing the ears fall in an empty wagon on a crisp morning. What are the different models of the Oliver MM and Cockshutt pickers and tractors?

Frank 41 · Oct 15, 2016

Very good pictures. I do NOT miss picking ear corn. The year I got out of school, we started picking 30% corn and shelled it in the field. Then later we filled cribs. Then when all of ours got done, my old man sent me to Goldfield, IA to pick this new farm with the 560 with a 2MH. We stopped, leaving 8 rows of corn in 2 feet of snow on December 5, 1959. Driving it to Clarion to be hauled back home was a cold mother. But not as cold as when I worked for my brother, 83" of snow and 32 below zero a couple years later. IA is a good place to be from.

I will take my 9670 any old day and no corn dumps.

greenmech · Oct 15, 2016

My Dad picked corn by hand for years. Here is a pic. Ron Mn

NEKS · Oct 15, 2016

The only time I really picked a lot of corn was the first year I was out of high school. Think I picked every acre of corn dad had that year with a 2 HM picker on a 400 Farmall. Love running the picker, just hated the greasing.

8850dave · Oct 16, 2016

Looks a great time was had by all. I need to to get my 1969 JD 4020 gas and late model JD 237 picker up there. I used it to pick a load of corn a week ago but ran like crap when hot and then water pump starting leaking so another project awaiting.

SweetFeet · Oct 16, 2016

Great pics, Kruser!

My husband always cribbed corn for about 20 years. Two wooden cribs and one round crib. Used a JD pull-type. (Shelling corn in July is always a treat. LOL)

old-9 · Oct 16, 2016

Like this?

I remember a story about ny father in law getting the neighbors in a wad because he and his wife were picking with a child in the wagon. He had a good team didn't need a driver just talked to them. Today, probley go to jail for that.
corn picking by hand

Goose · Oct 16, 2016

The year after I graduated from high school, my dad got a job in town and turned the farm work over to me. He'd always picked corn by hand and expected me to do the same.

We no longer had horses, so I had to pull the wagon with a VAC Case. This involved alternately picking and getting on the tractor to pull the wagon ahead. I lasted about two hours and said this is nnalert. I went into town and rounded up a used single row pull behind picker. I thought I was in heaven, with a mechanical picker.

brutus49DC · Oct 16, 2016

Several states still have a hand corn picking contest with a national contest to follow. I guess I'm not so much into that and the horse thing but I did like picking corn with a tractor. We thought we had it made with our 970 Case and a 324 New Idea. I still pick a few loads every year to grind for my calves. It makes nice feed and it keeps me connected with my past. I have been using my #7 new Idea but this year I want to use my Minneapolis Moline SH one row. I also have a Case one row that needs new wood in the elevator. One friend restored a Wood Bros. picker and another a jd #10 one row pull type. I am thinking about planting a few acres of wide row corn next year and having a picker day. I suppose no one will show up as this is a busy time around here. I guess if they don't ,oh well! I still have the corn to combine.

NY 986 · Oct 16, 2016

The Amish do and old order Mennonites do also. Old style pickers and new corn varieties mean unacceptable field loss. I suppose if the horses could pull a JD 300 and power plant then they would do that.

Al Baker(pumpman) · Oct 16, 2016

We picked a lot of corn as a kid. Few years back Doctors told my Dad he had cancer. Gave him 6 months to a year. It was in Sept. so I went and bought a two row Oliver #83 narrow so Dad could pick one last time. Think he might have knocked down more than he picked at times , but I didn't care. I still pick a few acres each year just because. I love the smell, sound, the everything. God I miss my Dad. Would pick a thousand acres in the rain and wet snow with him if I could.

IowaJohn · Oct 16, 2016

I'm with Frank41. I last picked ear corn 30 years ago with a 656 and a mounted New Idea I think it was a 319 or some part of it was. Anyway I'm very happy to set in the cab and clean the air filters every so often. Don't miss ear corn at all.

Eldon (WA) · Oct 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 17:08:36 10/15/16) Thanks to Kevin Larkey for hosting this again!

Anybody want to help Kevin pick up?
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Great pics! I love the looks of the 2 row mounted pickers on tractors. It was always satisfying to open up the fields with our JD730 diesel and 237 picker. We also used an old one row NI pull type for years that dad paid $40 for at an auction. I tore apart an old 2 row MM pull type when I was a kid....we had things made out of yellow iron sitting around the farm for years! The last picker to be used was a 2 row pull type NI, it went thru a lot of corn!

oldsarge · Oct 16, 2016

BUT shelling time was good because the kids got to shoot rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

schrade · Oct 16, 2016

Just visited Amish country We saw a one row New Idea and power plant sit in field. Sorry no picture driving too fast. Also saw a Amish farmer using a corn binder.

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