Picking Corn at the 2019 Half Century of Progress Show in Rantoul Illinois

Video of all the corn picking action from the 2019 Half Century of Progress Show in Rantoul Illinois.

[@bigtractorpower]

Great video. Glad you got to see the chopper. They did not run that Saturday.

[@m.webber5118]

Thanks Mike! Lots of memories atop a 706 International, surrounded by a 2 row mounted, New Idea, picker! Once ear corn was done we would, take a day, (a big one at that) and take the husking bed off, and put the sheller unit on. Ran them both a lot, fond memories! It a was so cool, and big. For it’s time. Thanks

[@allenhollenbach4692]

Cool to watch and show my kids. I do not miss the work of servicing the tractor, flipping the wheels and putting the picker on. Also dont miss the itchy black dust all over and in my nose. Dont miss taking the picker off and washing everything or tucking the picker back in the shed. Also don't miss pulling corn that was a little tough out of the wagon. Guy I worked for had a gray Uni system. Had a harvester, the corn picker, and a snow blower for it. All lots of work. Shelled corn with the combine is so much nicer and more efficient. I appreciate these guys bringing this stuff out to show for everyone.

[@crslyrn]

Another great display of how it used to be done. It's good to see just how universal the old farm tractor really was back in the day. Stay safe.

[@mikebulcher7491]

That mounted 227 john deer corn picker reminds me of when I first started helping my dad farm thanks for the video mike. (I like to see that stackhand wagon video some day.:)

[@thr8061]

I always enjoyed picking corn with our New Idea 324 (2x36") corn picker with our MF 265 tractor. Our MF 1135 was on the Farmhand grinder/blower. We picked high moisture corn, ground up & blew it into a small 14' x 40' silo for our dairy herd. I would easily pick 20-25 loads (we had 10 325bu E-Z Trail & Killbros gravity wagons) each day and then spent most of the evening finishing up grinding it all.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Another great video! I didn't make it to Rantoul, so these videos make up for it.

[@chadshafer8095]

Great Video, Love the corn pickers....

[@SchnelleKat]

I was so amazed to find the 1206 Running that New-Idea 4-Row! Be Lucky enough to see a 3-Row!

[@cesmith4566]

Man the mounted pickers put the operator right in the middle of the machine, with no touch screen or monitor to watch, I wonder how we survived! Thanks Mike

[@eddiebalentine7938]

Great video. I didn't know about shellers, there was just pickers around here when i was growing up.

[@markreetz1001]

Great video Mike! Are there any problems with row width and some of the double and triple row implements? I noticed at times the stalks were being tipped out while the harvester was running through. Or was that just operator error?

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Great Job, I got to run a pull type Minneapolis Moline back in the late 70's and always wanted to run a mounted one , Maybe some day.

[@pierrickrehel7314]

Very great video!👍

[@wysiwyg654]

I have fond memories of growing up in semi-rural southern Wisconsin where many of the family farms used equipment like this up until the mid 1990's. Unfortunately all of those farmers are gone and their land has become housing developments.

[@wysiwyg654]

@@tombroger5930 western Waukesha county outside of North Prairie. Enjoyed watching the farmers on the way to school every morning. Whatever farmland is left around there is rented out to commercial operations.

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Ole WD and the chopper my favorite...👍👍

[@samuelwalch9264]

Nice to see that old iron at work

[@canvids1]

Mike I grew up as a kid in the 40's and 50's in Southern Ontario Canada. I never seen corn done like this. I was cut while stalks where green and bundled. brought to the farm and chopped, blown into silos. My question is cutting it like in your video what happens to all the stalks and trash left behind in the fields??? Could some one clue me in thanks.

[@jasonbertrand3295]

Either take a rotary cutter and mow them. Or just plow them under.

[@nickkercheval2704]

That was fun. The one with the dump system was interesting. I think it was a “flat land” machine. Too bad there wasn’t a New Idea Uni In there.

[@rafbressana9988]

Nice vid mike 👍

[@AaricHale]

My grandpa ran a Farmall M with a 2 row mounted New Idea picker.

[@shawnfox8002]

I wish I could have seen more of the forage harvestor

[@davidandrews8631]

Were the corn pickers permanently attached to the tractors?

[@farmhandmike]

They were removable.

[@billsmith8739]

What was the make of the corn picker with the bin on top of it???

[@farmhandmike]

A McCormick Deering.

[@lukebrunke7619]

I saw my boss

[@clintonemmert5184]

Old farm tools, lot of the younger farmers would not like it at all.