New Idea 1 Row Ear Corn Picker Harvesting Corn pulled by John Deere 60

[@benscoles5085]

🌽 and for 50 years I thought Wood Bros was the only one row corn picker, learn some thing new every day!!!

[@richardharms8748]

I'd rather watch the 60 then the combine. Thanks for sharing.

[@Thomasgarrick113]

Great video older guys showing young man how to fix things need more of this

[@budcunningham6732]

Its amazing how technology has changed farming . I see this harvestor , then I watch a video of 16-24 row combines today with all their sensors and computers and I am impressed I remember when my neighbor bought one if the first 8 row combines and we all thought it was massive ( yes , I am old). I made money while I was in high school baling hay and straw , plowing and raising steers for the county fair . I sure miss those days

[@JaymeGoetz]

I agree!

[@rogerglasco5941]

The old way of picking corn. I can remember walking behind a team of horses picking up corn back in the early 50's.

[@farmerbill6855]

That 60 model JD is sweet, sounds strong. #10 NI picker has some years on it, it's in great shape for as old as it is. Someone was proud of it and still should be. I always enjoyed picking corn. Picked a few acres for the calves right up to retirement a couple years back. Thanks for the look. God bless.

[@larrybruck2949]

That looks a lot like the new idea picker my dad had. He pulled it with a 44 Massey Harris. My brother and I would ride in the wagon for fun and pull husks off the picker missed. He fed out beef cattle and hogs with the ear corn. When he went strictly grain farming, my uncle used the picker, picking corn for his freezer beef. Thank you for the video.

[@AllanHunter-c2l]

I worked for a farmer in the early 60's he had the same type of picker wouldn't have anything else but a New Idea pulled by a Ford tractor, hated the John Deere. Would like to go back to those days.

[@Taxpayeroftherepublic]

That picker did a great job husking really clean looking corn

[@karljacobson1575]

That picker is in excellent shape looks like a new one!!!! Obviously been shedded it’s whole life!

[@jackgraham3393]

Had the same picker, only pulled it with a model 70. Used it for picking popcorn,, that we sold to be popped off the cob. Can't say ever had any problems with it, especially for as old as it was. Enjoyable to watch.

[@JaymeGoetz]

Thank you!

[@donnydenfeld2394]

Beautiful 60

[@JaymeGoetz]

Thank you! It was my grandpa’s tractor.

[@donnydenfeld2394]

@@JaymeGoetz I too have both my grandparents tractors. One a 560 Farmall and a 12-20 twin city. It's best to keep them in the family.

[@BillDalby]

My favorite John Deere the60 beautiful

[@Taxpayeroftherepublic]

And it’s great to see the next generation at the wheel from the previous generation and having interest

[@susandailylife]

The peacefulness of your farm is so refreshing

[@rolandemartin854]

Don't remember seeing a one row picker. We always had a two row. Can't remember what brand it was. Was tractor drawn also. Brings back lots of memories of early fifties when I was young boy on farm in NE Colorado.

[@rolandemartin854]

Also remember the old John Deer. The one that you open the petcocks on both sides to relieve compression and start by hand by spinning the big fly wheel on right side. Always thought they had a very unique sound.Not like any other tractor.

[@cliffordmarkell40]

Picking my hand with a wagon and a bang board I'm 80 years old we don't have a corn picker we had a bang board

[@clayatchison6667]

That bring,s back memories. My dad had a jd b and a woods brother,s one roll picker. Later he got a two roll mounted 227 picker on jd a. We were big timing then. And we had a 53 jd 70 gas. With 4 bottom either 12 or 14 inch plow. Now I have a John deere 70 gas. 1953. With 4 bottom plow. 14 inch I think. Not sure. 15:41

[@timothyreilly2666]

back in the mid '60s where I grew up in Eastern Iowa they had 2 row mounted pickers and when the neighbor bought the first cornsheller attachment it was a big deal; I remember having family get together at Thanksgiving and my uncle was still out picking corn after he came in to eat at noon dinner; it sure ain't like that anymore; anymore these boys are done harvesting about mid Oct in these parts in Eastern Iowa Cedar Falls Iowa (formerly Mt. Vernon Iowa)

[@JaymeGoetz]

Thanks for sharing your story

[@johnmaynard3445]

Ran that same picker with JD Model G in 1958

[@JimHerman-o3q]

This year I used my 2 row New Idea picker to pick ear corn. The yield was around 260 bushels per acre. I was told that a New Idea picker could never handle that amount of corn. Not true...I was still moving at 4 miles per hour and no issue ! Clean corn ! I bought myself a John Deere 6600 combine a few years ago. BY MYSELF I can shell more corn with my two row New Idea sheller then I can with the combine in a day. Can do 2 semi loads a day with the New Idea........the John Deere combine. Can only do 1 and a half semi loads. Reason ? With a combine......your always stopping to dump and then chase wagons . Now if I had another person helping..........hands down...the combine wins !

[@jimsmith9819]

when i was younger i drove a 51 John Deere that looked like that one, pulling a chopper to chop wheat stubble down, got a bit dirty

[@charlietanner6211]

would have worked better with the h on it good seeing old iron still doing it boy how we have progressed in my lifetime i remember hand picking corn with my gran dad in southern indiana

[@rolandemartin854]

Same here, on the hand picking. Only it was my oldest brother and I with a team and wagon. Remember putting screen shields over the horses noses so they wouldn't eat the corn. When wanted to move wagon, just say "giddyap" and then "whoa" when they had moved far enough down the row with out touching a line. All voice commands

[@PeteAndersen-e1s]

Lvlsd 😂loved the video

[@donalddewald8218]

That’s the way we picked corn with a 60 and a one row New Idea picker. It did a good job but it was slow going.

[@jamesolson9423]

The sign on the JD 60 states that it is a 1954. This 60 has all the markings of a 1956 JD 60. (1) The cast rear wheel centers. (2) Power steering. (3) A tachometer. None of these features were available in 1954 on JD 60's. That is a restored JD 60, & it is a beauty.

[@farmerbill6855]

60 model JD was only produced for two years. '53 and '54. Cast centers were standard both years although they were different. '53 had oval holes in them and '54 were round. '55 and later would have been a 620. My '54 has factory power steering and a factory tach/hour meter.

[@jamesolson9423]

@@farmerbill6855 No sir, The JD 60 was built from 1952 to 1956, & only the 56 model had round holes in the rear cast wheels. The 20 serious were built in 57, & 58. The 30 serious were built in 59, & 60 with the exception of the 730 Diesel, which was built in Argentina until 1970.

[@JaymeGoetz]

We went by the serial number. Grandpa stopped milking in 1954 so we think he bought it in 1954.

[@JimHerman-o3q]

Wow..... 40 plants per acre for population ??? Just need one more mechanic !!!

[@clayatchison6667]

These new tractor,s won't be running 60-70 year,s from now. 16:36 16:36

[@rolandemartin854]

And why you ask! Because of the software garbage they put into them will be outdated and unavailable

[@PeteAndersen-e1s]

I e eon 😂

[@kevintheilen9643]

Hey, you left out a very important part of the team- the wagon/ running gear! How 'bout at least a brief mention...