New Idea Uni System picking Corn in Illinois

Video of a New Idea 800 Uni System power unit with a NI 737 husking bed and 844 corn head picking ear corn near Clinton Illinois.

[@bryancovert9821]

Castle Harvester bought and use a lot of the chassis to run them backwards as cabbage harvesters . Seneca Castle N.Y. is where they were built , they were great machines in my estimation . Mike , the Uni-System was also a great set up for its time . Keep up the good work Mike !!!!!

[@scruffy6151]

there was a neighbor that live about a mile from where was living at one in my life. now i know more about it. thank you Mike

[@jamisgood21]

Pretty neat...a farm down the road from me has two of these for picking sweet corn. He supplies the local stores with sweet corn here in Oconomowoc, WI.

[@crslyrn]

This video brought back some memories. My dad used to work for a seed corn company that used these to harvest with. Stay safe.

[@perryspradlin9356]

Mike thanks for a nother great video .My Dad and had a 2 row pull type picker we picked corn up till 1989 had 2 1500bu corncrib . I always like to pick corn we fed cattle makes the best cattle feed .thanks .

[@JoeKersey]

Wow, that takes me back. I remember a couple of fellows had two-row ear corn picking units where I grew up in SW Ohio in the early 1960s.

[@Derek_00Mustang83]

Thats awesome!!!! We use to have a 701 with a 292 straight 6 chevy motor in it. Picked 3 rows at a time

[@jamieshields9521]

First time seen New Idea in operation, great vid.

[@terrellfarms1]

Great video Mike. I always wanted a Uni when we were doing ear corn, just like this farmer for cattle feed. It was the "cats-ass" for ear corn picking.

[@FarmingDreams]

Didn't realize these were made in coldwater! Thanks for sharing Mike!

[@marvlenzner8474]

Tremendous, looking at buying one 👌

[@timerfarms113]

Nice video thanks for sharing Mike.

[@fredschultz6468]

Hi Mike, the M-M mule was just the power unit of their Uni Farmor system system which included a Combine, Huskor, Chopper with a Corn Head or a Pick up, a self propelled sheller, used the Huskor corn head and a pick up baler, the Uni Balor

[@PandaArmy-fy5zh]

Nice video sorry about the crash. You offered a lot of info I'm looking for a seasoned machine just like it THANK YOU.

[@oldfarmshow]

Thank you for the video

[@ISXCUMMINS565]

My father in law has 2 of them. Thanx Mike

[@JDrostAgricultureVideoNL]

Nice video

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Interesting stuff.

[@reimerdairy7080]

Thanks

[@charleshagenbuch6078]

I believe MM called it the Unifarmer. They had a picker, combine, baler, chopper and windower attachments. There may be more.

[@edwardsutherlin3582]

Charles Hagenbuch , I was thinking that they called it a mule. I may be wrong.

[@charleshagenbuch6078]

Edward Sutherlin They may have called the power unit a mule. I need to get around to some research!

[@fredcupp7358]

The neighbor used to have a TMR mixer on one.

[@cesmith4566]

Back when you were in high school that dealership sold farm machinery, now I don't think they do anything since cat bought them out and they quit selling Versatile! Nice video Mike

[@farmhandmike]

CE Smith. Yep no more Versatile there

[@cesmith4566]

It's a shame, I thought Nelson would keep it going but he wants to build. Cat hasn't changed anything, they got rid of anything not Agco

[@jamesberry4438]

We have one it is the 706

[@drkies]

Tractordata.c0m has the MM version of the uni and all production data.

[@brianpatrick8787]

Great machines but major fire traps if you did not STOP and clean the engine screens now and than. We never had trouble but we sold one to guy and he did not listen to us and tried to run it like his big combine and it burned up a couple weeks into the fall. Engine mounted under a fuel tank that sat behind the cab was not the safest design. If the screens were not keep clear the engine compartment overheated and the grain dust caught fire.

[@adamfinnicum2433]

Here are mine in oregon

[@vickipoe3925]

Can you still get parts from agco for them? It's a shame that no company still makes corn pickers.

[@wijo6234]

Oxbo makes big ones

[@paulvolk5446]

There are a few salvage yards that still have use parts and a at least one place that has a few new parts for the power unit shafts that go from the transmission to the final drive. Dad had the first Uni sold by Dinkel Implement in Norfolk Nebraska in 1965. It had a corn sheller attachment with a 2 row 40 inch head and a combine attachment with a 13' grain head. After that we did custom work and in '67 Dad traded the old Uni and bought two more. One with the combine, and both with shellers. Still a 13' grain head, one 4 row 40" corn head and one 32 row 30" corn head. In 1984 through 1986 the man who started Producers Hybrids [now AgReliant], Roger Herrick, hired us to pick seed corn with his 737 shucking bed and a 4 row 30" corn head. I got tired of swapping attachments and bought a TR85 New Holland combine in 1994 and used New Holland combines until I retired from farming in 2018.

[@Atomnyi]

Soviet Union should put this systems to mass production. US often ignores good ideas.

[@forrestgump1379]

Да, конечно!

[@mukeshpatel388]

I need this machine....im intrested in buying

[@drewl4762]

If you don't mind me asking where are you originally from? I'm around coldwater area that's why I ask.

[@farmhandmike]

I live south of Greenville Ohio but was born in Salem Ohio

[@drewl4762]

Mike Less awesome, love seeing the videos that are somewhat local

[@grantbelleville3828]

We have one of these pos we live in Ohio its a deathtrap

[@bustersmith5569]

Grant Belleville there that bad ? Most people like them !!