CLASSIC Corn Harvest

[@bggIntheField]

There is something about old equipment at work that just makes me happy.

[@chadwilliams2973]

This was when everyone was farming or had small farms. And everyone helped everyone .The good old days!!

[@brentreid7031]

Yes Sir you bet . Back when neighbour's were still neighbour's.

[@ponanikhoza1934]

And everyone knew where their food came from.

[@lindadanielson7849]

It was wonderful seeing all the old machinery still able to do the job. History

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@kirklothert3435]

Combines have come a long way

[@bigtractorpower]

They have. These were monsters in their day.

[@robertburt9071]

Brings back some great memories in Canada In the seventies

[@bigtractorpower]

Great times for combines.

[@tlspiker5341]

In southeast Ga. Rode a many miles on a puller

[@philipprebble7089]

Thank God for farmers .This old machinery works perty good . I remember as a teenager going out in a field to weld the front of a combine that had broken off with my father he was the only one around at that time with a portable welder . Early 1970s

[@brianbeck4539]

I miss the smell and sounds of my grandpa farmall 706, super m, and h. The sounds of each running, the cool fall air, grandma's cooking, and the cool fall air...the best parts of my childhood

[@peewee.3138]

Two things I’ve never seen before- a cabover Jeep truck and a narrow front Ford 4000 tractor. Great video of history.

[@bigtractorpower]

The Half Century Show turns up some very cool farm machines.

[@jefferylivingston9003]

I just LOVE this " reminds me of the good Ole days on our farm 🚜

[@gonerydin4225]

In my youth we had an IH 234 mounted picker on a 450. The 1206 is another of my favorites from 50 years ago.

[@blanecotie3359]

That Oliver combine shown in the beginning was very cool

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s a great classic.

[@glenmiller3333]

The case 960 is definitely my favorite!

[@davidprince828]

oh, but that Oliver.....LOL

[@mrourcanada8964]

That’s just awesome to see this machine still working away as they were intended to

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@94XJ]

That Jeep FC was absolutely gorgeous.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is one cool corn picking combo. You never know what will turn up at this show.

[@madtrapper8301]

I’ve never seen a Jeep FC before it is really a cool looking truck

[@MHTfueler]

Seeing the IH615 and the New Idea pickers brought back some great memories growing up farming with my dad and grandfather. Thank you.

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Great video! Love seeing all of the old farm equipment working! Takes me back to my childhood on the farm! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!

[@derrickzenner9300]

If we could go back in time and figure out a way to keep all of these companies in business. I'm really impressed with the speed of these old machines. I don't think I've ever seen an LP Oliver or a self propelled corn picker before. Cool

[@allenhollenbach4692]

You mean put a check in the destructive powe of labor unions, tax , and environmental law? Dissuade the American consumer from buying cheap imports?

[@ericnelson7320]

Almost all of the companies on the video are still in existence, in on form or another. They got bought out or merged with another small company and then got bought out and renamed, etc., but you can still trace their offspring, many to Champion.

[@ericnelson7320]

Or Agco...

[@nepaoutdoors8536]

Really liked the oliver 7800. looked like a beast

[@andylieffring3987]

Love the 1206 and the super picker and the narrow front Ford

[@bigtractorpower]

Both are cool combinations.

[@MrLuke2623]

That Jeep FC truck was a pleasant surprise

[@DarkVoidIII]

Are these older models able to handle today's high yield corn crops or did they have to plant varieties of corn suitable for these machines to harvest? I would imagine some of the smaller capacity combines would fill up fairly fast on a high yield corn field! :D I'm from Australia, love to see videos like this on KZbin, many thanks to the organizers who put this together!

[@onionfriend9799]

Awesome video BTP. I love seeing the old time harvest equipment

[@everythingtractors9332]

2:56 now this is a ture classic combine that i love

[@TerrellSpivey]

Haha!! My My My!! Amazing how far machinery has come!!

[@walterlaubscherjr2011]

Gotta love the classics harvest is almost here great video BTP

[@SimonKL11]

Great to see the old iron working👍😁 i like the corn pickers😉👍 Great video👍

[@AndreiTupolev]

What some fascinating machinery. Don't they look so small. The LPG powered Oliver tractor is particularly interesting.

[@General-Mayhem]

Now how does one get in that 856 at 1:30? Crawl thru the window? I remember helping friends pick corn with 2 row picker on a JD 730 deisel narrow front, we hauled wagons with a JD 3020 narrow front, and ran the elevator with a Farmall model H.

[@dannysowell9071]

Old school iron, easy to work on and maintain. Back in the day when electronics weren't cool.

[@hoopshalfpint5055]

They still aren’t cool.

[@JEDI-MAQUINAS]

Muito obrigado por mostra as máquinas

[@jerryjohns7358]

When you show older equipment, please show the model year. It’s interesting to see how much technology progresses each year.

[@bigtractorpower]

I often do show production dates and general specs when I show tractors. Corn pockets and combines are a little tougher to track down all the details on. I have a fairly complete literature collection on every major brand from 1960 though 2020. Tractor manufactures often print a new sales brochure on a tractor each year so it’s easy to track a production run from start to finish. With corn pickers the farm equipment manufacture often printed one brochure and never updated it again as the corn picker was a lower selling unit and had no changes. With combines models like the John Deere 45 shown in this video were produced from 1945 to 1969. Although the 45 in this video is a later 1966-1969. If I can pin point production I like to share it. If I am unsure I don’t like to guess. Over all all the machines you see in this video minus the corn belt corn picker loading the Jeep F11 were built from the late 1950’s through the 1960’s. Thank you for watching.

[@AndreiTupolev]

That little truck at 9:26 is the cutest ever 😊

[@johnnyholland8765]

Had a 45 Deere then a 403 International. Just right for a 300 acre farm. That was a sharp looking D17 with the big front tires. When I was 12 years old my neighbor had a 4000 Ford and a two row New Idea corn picker. Thought that was the biggest piece of machinery. Nothing like the behemoths of today.

[@bigtractorpower]

Allot of dairy farms when I was growing up in the late 70’s and early 80’s had combines this and also ran New Idea pickers. It was a neat time in farming.

[@davidself2991]

Enjoyed seeing the ol’ John Deere 45 EB combine in action… I just got a 95 John Deere I’m working on fixing up to do some small hobby farming…

[@bigtractorpower]

That’s awesome. The 95 is one of my all time favorite combines. I grew up around a 95EB. I hope to get to film a 95 for a full feature some time.

[@aaronskinner9224]

I love getting to see this old iron still putting in work. Thank you for your work and keep these great videos coming

[@duaneknap3334]

Now I have to ask my Dad which model Case combine he had when I was really young. The 2nd machine I remember was a JD 3300. Looked like they were harvesting wide rows, and I know my Dad switched to narrow the 1st year Case built narrow heads.

[@bigtractorpower]

These are 38 inch rows. Wide rows like these were common through the late 60’s and began to give way to 30 inch rows in the 70’s. I grew up around a Case 1060 combine that had a 3 row corn head. I hope to find one to film some day.

[@duaneknap3334]

@@bigtractorpower He had 3 row narrow corn heads squeezed down to 28" rows for both the Case in the late '60s and 3300 JD early '70s, he eventually went up to 29" rows in '81 when he bought a IH 800 planter and couldn't squeeze it down to 28". He didn't go to 30" until he switched back to a Case combine with a 1063 cornhead in '91. I had just got off the phone with him when I saw this, but will ask him what the model was on the Case combine next time I talk to him.

[@kcoers]

Great show! Taken tractors to the last 2

[@markreetz1001]

Great video. there were so many cool things to 'pick' from!

[@bigtractorpower]

That’s a little “corny” 😁. Thank you for watching. It’s fun tracking down these classics to film.

[@ericlakota6512]

Love that dirst jd 45 im a fan of tha cab on combine

[@treatylinefarms]

Thank you. It’s a neat little piece. I enjoy taking something a little different to a show.

[@kylekenan2321]

Best setup at 6:11 even though it's old footage. A Massey 510 would be cool to see too.

[@bigtractorpower]

The show needs more Massey, Allis and FORD. I wanted to share some clips and angles not show in previous videos to help promote next years show. It’s only 361 days away 😁

[@kelvingravel8699]

What a fantastic video thank you.

[@FAL0perator]

Thanks for the video BTP!

[@tonycoupland6281]

Always really great videos!!

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

That would be a neat show to go to

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s a great one. Well worth the trip.

[@armandkeller8831]

Love those D17's

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@everythingtractors9332]

@@bigtractorpower i love the wd45

[@bradhaenitsch1145]

Go big muscle allis. Where’s all the gleaners

[@ssnydertrucking1121]

We still use our 101 INTERNATIONAL combine to pickup alfalfa seed, red clover and oats.

[@larry4082]

BTP, you just hit a home run my friend! That 45EB is a spitting image of what we had. BTW, the video is mislabeled. It says it’s a 95.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice on you having a 45EB. I grew up around a 95EB. I just had 95 on my mind and did not catch that I typed 95 instead of 45.

[@larry4082]

My Dad put a swamp cooler on top of the cab for air conditioning. Every time we got a little sideways, you’d get a face full of some funky smelling water. Lucky we didn’t get legionnaires disease!

[@thebeast8285]

Good job as always 👍

[@markhayes9114]

We had one of those good machine but the head sucked you did alot of backing up in lodged corn!

[@ronpatterson5483]

Simpler & better times!!

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@jankotze1959]

The Ford 4000 and that old truck was eye catchers, nice video

[@everythingtractors9332]

I remember you

[@jankotze1959]

@@everythingtractors9332 thanks, good to know somebody remember me, have a nice day Warren

[@martenkerkhoff6600]

9:10 is a very incongruous sight. I think that's the right word

[@XGalaxy4U]

Look at those kernels flow. That's what I need is a corn picker. The cows love it. How in the world does it do that?

[@jamesbuck3818]

Was that a 450 Farmall working with the J.D MDL95 Combine! LUV IT! OOH.. AWESOME seeing the Super H & the IH 3 QTR, TON...

[@cecilkoselke7878]

Hey, James. Just watched this, and yes very cool. But that truck is actually a Jeep FC180 I believe. We had the 1/2 ton version short bed, an fc150. 1960

[@garywesterman6347]

I bet the payment on that old JD is a lot less than on a new Lexion. The price of grain is the same no matter how much the combine cost

[@farminginthe5706]

Awesome video it’s been a long time coming from a 2 row to 8-12 row combine now

[@bduff007]

Any Gleaner Es? If I had a trailer big enough I’d get it there

[@bigtractorpower]

This show needs Gleaners big time. 👍👍

[@keithkinna2164]

The cat D2 totally cool! Never seen one, that I can remember. Great vid as always.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is a very cool picking combo.

[@mfreund15448]

@bigtractorpower You missed the Jeep FC??!!??!! Like a dream truck to me!

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s one of the coolest corn haulers I have ever seen. 😁👍👍

[@benscoles5085]

my Father used a one row Woods Brothers corn picker for all his corn, took forever to pick a field, but at least I was driving a tractor,

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

No wonder there used to be so many pheasants, lots of cover and food left over vs today nothing missed or gone to waste.

[@danvanhoose6783]

Was thinking the same thing.lots of stubble left for wild life.

[@darrenpickens7147]

I'm surprised i didn't see any New Idea Uni-Harvesters.

[@donaldtulloss3274]

Did they plant in 36in rows

[@ericnelson7320]

Mostly 38 and 40, to the best of my knowledge.

[@BGrasmick2000]

1:30 Love the Farmall/International setup. Is there a John Deere equivalent that a 20 series tractor would run?

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

A Model 237 Picker with a Model 50 Sheller Attachment is probably the closest Deere setup you could get

[@CK-yi6pc]

Great video,,,, some of these machines do an awful job, easy to see why they were replaced quickly..

[@Ellison89Brett]

Carl Kayser how can you tell they do an awful job without looking at the grain they harvested or the ground behind them?

[@jspafford]

Is that like a combine for little people?

[@wcox4]

You labeled the first two John Deere combines as "95" when they were showing "45". Did you just get excited for the "9" key, or were they rebuilt to 495 standards??

[@treatylinefarms]

It’s a typo, it’s a 45EB that’s pretty much original. It’s my combine.

[@BRHood]

I love the Jeep truck

[@kipfeatherston4310]

Miss seeing those Gleaners here. Maybe next time

[@calvary1808farm]

That Ford 4000...didn’t expect to see that.

[@bigtractorpower]

Me either. It was a nice picker combo to get to film. I hope more people bring blue FORD tractors to the 2021 show.

[@brianrutherford3229]

Great vid but what do they do with the corn cobs after theh pick them?be fun to see what they do after the cobs get picked if you can video it

[@bigtractorpower]

Very good question. The short answer is they have two corn shelters running and they truck the grain out and spread the cobs back on the field. The long action answer comes in this 17 minute video I made on it posted at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZfcp4VsnLlrd7M

[@antiquarian3942]

I like the guy driving the JD 730 LP tractor and steering with his leg, as he's taking pictures on his phone! =) Always love your videos my friend. - Dave

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@korritaranis672]

Sad I didn't see either the corn picker (attached to a Ford 901 Powermaster) or combine (a Massey) I grew up with.

[@gibco25-offical56]

Now that’s ultra classic 👌

[@miguelangelvalderrama1808]

My favorite one is the John Deere 4400, which didn't appear in this video 😐

[@bigtractorpower]

I have not filmed at 4400 yet. I hope to. I have filmed a 3300, 6600 and 7700 plus a 4420. Hopefully I can find a 4400 sometime.

[@melissacarignan1118]

Love your videos, keep it up

[@remmiemax3624]

"Iron"y in action @ 8:54...Classic "iron" and a modern cellphone...LOL.

[@andrewinbody4301]

Are the older machines any more or less efficient than todays giants?

[@piperdoug428]

New machines will use less fuel per bushel harvested and i'm sure the old iron set right will thresh as clean a sample but thats where the comparison ends.

[@jeremymurphy7320]

5:30 and after...some poor person has to shell that stuff(which was me for a few summers in high school in the late 80's in NW Iowa), hopefully right after it's hauled in from the field and not after it's been all but dynamited out of a wire crib after sitting for a couple seasons.

[@alenollstibe]

This combines are must appear ALMACO machine for experimental harvest! Here in Brazil have this one

[@carloscordova1351]

Nice beatiful 😱👍

[@dcoslet1]

That’s a 45 Deere not 95 love that show and this video

[@jaksmith6465]

does anyone still make 2 row combines ?

[@bigtractorpower]

The only 2 row modern machines are specialized seed plot combines. They are very expensive.

[@mrih1586]

Liked, Just for my education. Why was the John Deere 70 rig labled a corn picker even though it was shelling? Thanks in advance.

[@derrickzenner9300]

Shellers were considered an attachment to the corn picker.

[@ericlakota6512]

We have allis d17 i wish it was a d19 like the orange and we have a few older fords dads 80 and never sold one tractor even though we have 20 tractors and we still buy modern tractors at 10:20 that red pucker with bent down shute dose horable job knocks down more corn then any thing inless that is the idear only to pic the corn

[@Mr.Badger69]

Good stuff did you get any video of an 8n Ford yet

[@bigtractorpower]

No 8n tractors yet. It’s on my wish list as it’s an important part of tractor history. I did show a New Holland 8n Booker in a recent video.

[@ericnelson7320]

We pulled many a wagon with our 8N! It has a drawbar that we would raise to shift the weight more on the rear when pulling was hard. Many, many times I had to steer using the brakes because I was running the front end up in the air! Good times!!! My mom (at 89) still is on the family farm and still owns the old 8N.

[@Mr.Badger69]

@@ericnelson7320 those 8n's are good tractors I have a 9N and its pretty good too

[@udo5479]

Finest Old Iron....

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s a great show for the classics.

[@garywest8901]

Great vid. B T P . Thanks.

[@timberhills1778]

Awesome video 👍

[@rjm10031952]

I shelled corn with a Gleaner C. 4 row

[@jeanbia95]

Don’t often see a 2 row mounted picker on a cab tractor.

[@bigtractorpower]

This is the only one I have ever come across.

[@tlspiker5341]

That's the ones I know. The 2 and 4 row and pullers

[@MrTGleaner]

Do you know what Module that Massey Harris SP Corn Picker sheller is!?

[@bigtractorpower]

I do not. I have sales literature on it and it is simply called a Massey Harris Self Propelled Corn Picker. The sales literature makes no mention of a model number and this harvester had no model number on it.

[@MrTGleaner]

@@bigtractorpower Must of been experimental! I don't see anything on the internet on them but the cob pickers. My only question is why the heck dint they put a grain tank on that beast! Could of killed the Uni picker sheller I bet!

[@Andrea-kt1gm]

I did not no that there were Oliver conbines

[@davidsonchristophersone7065]

You need to check your combine models before you put them on. The two John Deere combines were not a 95EB and a 95. One was a 45EB and the other was a 45 standard.

[@bigtractorpower]

I hate that I messed those up. I grew up watching a 95EB and just auto typed it in. I know it’s a 45EB but just went to 95 by default.

[@calvinellis1891]

I would hate to start out cutting several thousand acres with these old machines.

[@NuaB-wd4wv]

It starts on my birthday

[@bigtractorpower]

Happy Birthday. 😁👍👍

[@NuaB-wd4wv]

Thanks, 😁😁 awesome videos

[@sick069]

It only has like 3 of the pointy things imagine how slow that would be

[@bigtractorpower]

Those are corn snouts. They run between the rows of corn. Two Chains inside the snouts pick the ears of corn.

[@sick069]

@@bigtractorpower oh yeah thats what i meant

[@escanora6618]

No sensors., No circuits, no electronics, no gps? This Harvester Will continue working another 50 years

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@SebastianWarth]

Good Video!!