Picking ear corn “The Right Way” with the new idea picker and IH 1486

[@GeorgeThomason-fn3wh]

Love what your doing. I wish my dad was alive to see your videos. This is the exact way we farmed when i was a kid and same equipment. Would love to do this in my retirement. I could easily buy all this equipment in decent shape with even some parts equipment. without costing a fortune, And do it all debt free. Great job!

[@gregoryfresorger6729]

I really enjoy your videos and the fact that you are using older equipment is awesome. Keep the video's coming

[@artillerest43rdva7]

it is nice to see the small scale farmers out there. good luck looking forward to the next season planting.

[@markblackwood3121]

Thanks for sharing. You run your equipment and your farm the way you feel best👍👍 Thanks for sharing

[@jimwhite1061]

Thanks for sharing, just good to see someone picking corn to grind once and a while.

[@sgast4264]

Overall I think the proof is in how well your cattle look. Who cares how old your equipment is, but something to be said for not having to pay the bank every month. You get’r done and thats what matters. Love your videos……keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!

[@craighass1305]

Thank you for your video. Wish more people could be like you. Keep farming. Proud of you.

[@adamstinshack]

Hay man keep doing what you are doing. I run old equipment too. Run it the way you know it needs to be ran.

[@thomashipps8418]

Hey this is my first time watching your videos , enjoyed your pep talk about your equipment, I love watching this old equipment operate,, tried and proved be safe

[@genedieball]

Work your equipment the way it works for you.Not all equipment works the same. I enjoy your videos Sir. Please keep them coming and most importantly Stay SAFE.

[@tdmehrkens]

Great job - I appreciate your heart and all your work!

[@genedewitt3992]

I like seeing run old equipment... You know what work for you... Just keep doing it.....

[@teresadroessler9872]

Very nice rubber paddles on husking bed, thanks for sharing

[@gregwilson9860]

Enjoyed your video, love Farmall tractors and picking corn.

[@carlheugel7472]

J like your videos brings back memories keep on keeping on thanks.

[@reidburnfarms2296]

AWSOME videos keep it up man 👍👍 love seeing another person who loves keeping old equipment running no matter how it looks can’t wait for the next one !!!

[@dobberaaron6658]

Your videos kick ass man your old equipment Die Hard that's why they keep on running everytime I watch your videos I learn something new thank you so much take me along the adventure take care God bless keep cranking out them videos

[@chrisweppler5629]

In the 1960 s we ran 1 row new Idea picker on a 165 massey then in 1976 we got a 9600 ford brand new I was 9 and ran 2 row new Idea picker about 150 acres per year of corn put it all in a corn crib. alot of good hard work. We picked corn up to 1996 Then shovel the cobs all into a 355 hammer mill and fed it to pigs and cattle. Good old farming. I hear you.

[@knappfarms]

Those 355 hammer mills are a hot commodity now just watched one sell on auction a week ago for 12k

[@allancundiff8027]

Some people think everything has to be and look perfect I always thought that as long as it runs and gets the job done we were lucky keep up the good videos like watching them.

[@knappfarms]

Yup I worry a little more about mechanical then I do cosmetically sound don’t get me wrong I would love to have everything painted up looking new but a feller could go broke just painting all our tractors

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video

[@keithgreene2469]

Love to watch you fixing and using that old equipment. The boys with the new stuff might not be able to work on ‘em by their self. Keep on keepin on !

[@boe4448]

KF, Thanks for the video and love the equipment and your operation. Got to love the know it all's and haters. Hell they are probably sitting down in mommy's basement and couldn't pick a ear of corn at a grocery store. Keep the videos coming. Boe

[@EdAnastasio]

People should really learn to open the mind and close the mouth. Nice job!

[@markspear836]

It your way of farming and thats the way it should be we are just along for the ride and enjoying it keep up the good work.

[@jefffirefighter12106]

I've been using John Deere 2-cylinder tractors and equipment my whole farming life, my farmer friends always tell me to up-grade to newer stuff, at least use equipment from the 60's. I just tell them it's paid for, and the livestock don't care how it gets from the seed bag into the field to their belly. Keep up the great way you farm, if you are happy and satisfied, they you farm don't let other opinions bother you.

[@knappfarms]

Yup nothing wrong with the old equipment

[@lindaloar5988]

always loved picking corn.we use to have a 3 row picker. New idea only made them one or two years.

[@knappfarms]

We use to have a 3 row but it got worn out and my grandpa sold it

[@brucepennington2524]

If it's picking clean then you're not going to fast. Love your videos keep up the good work.

[@jimseem1192]

Every farm I worked was different your doin a good job keep it up

[@randyholly2594]

Very enjoyable video!

[@jerrycalvert7680]

If it works for you. That is all that counts. Love the old equitment.

[@bradley7723]

You know your land, your crop, your equipment and what works best for your situation, that's all the matters. I do like that old equipment, let's see a new manufacturer's piece last that long. I had new idea fresh market corn pickers back in the early 80s and they worked just fine for my situation. Be safe

[@knappfarms]

That’s right in 20 years any tractor made in 2020 will be gone but our equipment from the 1930s-1980s will still be here and probably operational

[@tommyhumkey1044]

We do what we need to to get the job done. Keep um coming. You’re doing great

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

I farm in Western Pennsylvania about 40 miles north of Pittsburgh. We've been getting weather just like you had all winter, our operations are quite similar we are beef cattle and crops here also and we still pick a good for the corn. One strip of stocks left the disc down from last fall we've been waiting for weather to do that. Good to see you're running an old equipment we run a lot of red paint here a we pick was a 324 wydro

[@orinbeavers5941]

You keep doing what you are doing young man I love the old farm equipment and don't let people get under your skin if they don't like what you are doing then they can go watch something else but I love watching you and your family farm keep them videos coming 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@knappfarms]

I don’t let them get to me but I do enjoy getting them going from time to time

[@jimbressler1333]

So cool, old equipment has such a great mechanical sound, thanks for the video

[@makmak151515]

This guy looks like a typical tough farmer

[@delawarefarmer9003]

I like your big rubber flappers! I just find I get a lot of shelling and loss at my snap rollers when I have build-up in my head. But that's you equipment. Wish you the best

[@mathiggins4264]

Looking good guys be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska

[@rustytimm7205]

I don't see anything wrong with what you are doing. I'm proud of you. The old equipment is cool. How much would a new ear picker cost. Its about the money. I truly enjoy these vids. Thank you so much.

[@knappfarms]

I don’t know what a new picker would cost I think the only company’s making them are to harvest seed corn so I imagine they have all the added technically that would over price them

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Since NI went out of business, I didn't know anyone who was making a picker. JD made the model 300, and they still support with parts, but NI used alot of standard parts - bearings, chains, etc

[@rustytimm7205]

I watch pete @ just few acres farm. He doesn't have a corner picker but he has old beautiful Massey Fergusons. He could possibly help you. He a great guy.

[@brianzybura8633]

Thanks for showing a very pleasant corn picking video. Your Farmall 'A' reminded me of cultivating tobacco a long time ago--back in the late 1960s--early 1970s. with a Farmall 'A'. I practically lived on that tractor. All this happened up here in southern Ontario Canada. Yes, tobacco is grown in Canada---Google Delhi, Ontario Canada, if you so wish. I look forward to your future videos and hope you have a good day.

[@gggbon]

Good stuff!

[@CMTaylorTruck]

First video I have watched of yours, it’s a shame folks gotta be so ignorant, keep doing what your doing and no need to explain yourself to the haters or know it all’s!!! I’m all for folks giving advice on how to do things but they didn’t learn overnight either and you obviously got it figured out.

[@knappfarms]

Like you said I’m all for advice but they never seem to have any actual info to give it’s just your doing it wrong and they won’t explain how to do it right because they obviously don’t know

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Good grief. Some fine looking corn and some debt free farming! Great looking load of cow chow!

[@ryanross1739]

Looks to be doing the job just fine same one grandpa ran looks good

[@Wes-vz8eq]

As long as the corn goes in the wagon and not on the ground you're fine. We ran the same picker with our JD 4320 and it worked great for a small dairy farm

[@pcs2511]

There are Karens in ever crowd. And I bet you most of them are not farmers or have never stepped in cow sh-t. Thanks for keeping the old picker working.This is when farming was farming

[@hairymanonetwo]

At 5:21 By having the elevator over loaded as its shown here....your shelling more corn on the rolls. The corn can not get off the rolls quick enough ! This is where running your picker on 1000 rpms.....and engine half open plays a major part !!! With 250 bushel per acre corn......Im still moving at around 5 miles per hour. It works !

[@jasonwood9264]

Good old school farm equipment. New stuff is not the same

[@bairfamilyfarm1336]

I ran one of those pickers on an oliver 88 when I was about 15. I ran the pto at the right speed, but ground speed too fast, the result was stalks getting wound up in the snapping rollers. So, in your case you have good ground speed. However, I haven't seen the cobs gather at the bottom of the first elevator before, but my guess is high yeild. People need to remember, when this equipment was built, you might have had 1 ear of corn per stalk ever 2 or so. Not 2 ears on every single one, and our gleaner model F built in the 70s show that.

[@knappfarms]

This is a great comment you have good insight I never thought to mention how much higher the yields are today then they where in the 70s

[@bairfamilyfarm1336]

@@knappfarms We farm ground that doesn't get the specialized treatment that my co-workers give their ground. Just a blend my dad puts in during planting (potash and MAP maybe?), and manure we spread in the fall. So, yeilds are probably lower than they should be, but the hybrid has changed enough that yeilds are higher than they used to be. Last year we had a terrible yeild but it was still getting ahead of what the old gleaner's cylinder could take when using the 4-row head.

[@hairymanonetwo]

Ive used this picker for years !! Cheap running....spend 300 dollars on it ( a gear box repair ) in 25 years. Key !!!!! When this picker is left outside for just a few days a film of rust can build up on the snapper rolls in front of the picker. If you try to pick corn with even a tiny bit of dew on the stalks the leaves will instantly cling to the roll....and it will build up and break a roll ! This can happen as quick as moving it 15 feet. The rolls are hard to find and expensive ! Always allow the dew to come off first ! The sheller unit.... not the super sheller.. ( by myself ) I could pick two semi loads of corn a day...and have them loaded on the semi. With my 6600 John Deere combine....I cant do that ! The reason ??? Chasing wagons ! Have to take wagons out in various areas of the field .....then go get them again. No need for that with the two row ! Pick until the load is full....finished !

[@Cattleman0311]

Grind your cow chow, pick your corn your way and the hell with the haters.

[@JoseLopez-sv1qv]

You are doing a great job man

[@farmerbill6855]

Just has so many husks because it's missing the blower on the husking rolls. You're correct though, doesn't matter if you're grinding it for feed.

[@knappfarms]

Yeah that blower was locked up

[@farmerbill6855]

@@knappfarms mine did that too, I had a hell of a time getting that pulley off of the shaft. Ended up melting it off. Sadly a new one was better than a hundred bucks. Sure helps cleaning up the corn though. That's a good old picker. It's surprising how many parts Agco still carries for those.

[@jamesmarsh4957]

i have a IH 674 and it has the 2 pto shafts , i would not say your going to fast at all you go as fast as the machine will take , i have herd a lot about the New Idea there old kit , well made kit and you prove its still good , they not made like tat anymore

[@carrollmccoun110]

My only experience with corn is with combines that removes the corn from the cob. I do have experience with making cow feed. And the cob, the extra shucks, and few extra stalks do add the extra bit of filler and a small portion of protein to the feed. If I could find the property to put together a feed lot I would want my main ingredient to be hold eat corn. I am somewhat new to your channel but it is very nice to learn and see older equipment working. Hey, if it works, don't fix it. I enjoy watching.

[@knappfarms]

I really do believe it makes a Better feed and a full square meal thanks for the comment I hope you get your feedlot

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Ear corn provides fiber, so you can use less or no hay. We would get over 4lbs average daily gain on steers, 0 hay, rumensin, calcium carbonate, distillers, and trace mineral in the mix. Ralgro implants helped get the gain as well.

[@petercahill3859]

Good job. You have a good one ,

[@thomasmalone9929]

I got a couple of 309 pickers. And gravity wagons .would love to get a couple more of these gravity wagons more harder to come by where we are. Good looking set Good luck.

[@knappfarms]

Gravity wagons are easy to come by here but dam are they expensive for how many we have around

[@Plowboy4960]

That's the problem with today's society people want to hate and say you're doing it wrong but you doing a good job and a good video

[@rebelgaming7718]

Nice video brother looking good on the corn from last year do some silage videos to

[@OldRedTractors]

I love the old IH equipment. I own some too, as well as use it. Just found your channel. The videos are good, keep them coming

[@davidlieurance8194]

always loved picking corn

[@toddmann2256]

Love your content. I use the same type of equipment you guys use. Don’t worry about the armchair QBs, those of us that know what you are doing understand why you are doin it.

[@knappfarms]

I might just steal that armchair QB comment 😂 that’s a new one

[@bryonjames1737]

I can’t believe you don’t wax your equipment 😂 everything looking good keep doing ur thing

[@knappfarms]

😂

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Neat video 👍🌽

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

What model NI picker is that? The "fingers" over the husking bed are more like flaps, and a 325 has finger type rubber on the shafts. Or is that an update? You run what you have, and you run it the best way for you.👍

[@neilkratzer3182]

Doing alot better. The husk is going to build up in that picker because of the wear on the rollers. Not your fault on that part. I can see alot of wear on that husking bed, just one of those things on an old picker.

[@georgeanguiano9937]

Thank you for taking the time to explain everything we sure can use the info have a great day !!!👆🙏🦾

[@georgeanguiano9937]

On the lighter side things and in the immortal words of Taylor Swift. "🎷📻🎶 Haters are going to hate , hate, hate ,hate , hate so shake it all 🎷📻🎶 🤣😎 have a nice day !!!

[@knappfarms]

😂

[@burrridgefarms]

I was just surprised that it was going through the picker at that speed. I had a 2rn that was 1000 rpm and it was goofy to run, it liked to plug up the throat but it's narrower then the wide row throat. I noticed that you don't have the beater bar behind the gathering chains that would help keep the throat cleaner, but it was an option. I think that corn is pretty clean for not having fan on it too. Keep up the good work 👍 If I had footage of me round baleing I'd get alot of the comments like you got, sometimes you just have to, get er done.

[@danielhaertling1493]

Those stalks piled up on the head is from really dry/ripe stalks. Nothing you can do if its January. Its your machines and your corn but if I were running it I would try a lower gear still. It may help with the stalks breaking off. I was always taught those stalks should pull straight down more or less. If they bend over toward the front its too fast. Also I raked alot of hay with a farmall A.

[@hermanbarriga7802]

That’s pretty cool I’m my self I’m going to start looking for a picker in the Illinois area

[@knappfarms]

If you find the right one you can pick them up cheap some people think they are made of gold some people just want them gone we wait until someone just wants it out of there way and takes a good price

[@josephbrown4031]

Your doin a good job

[@donwhittaker2116]

My hat is off to you. Farming is a 24 7 job it's not for sissies.

[@aaronwood8134]

Like how all you share your pastor land and your equipment how many head cattle you got

[@philipquandt8976]

We had a brand new same style New Idea in the mid sixties and as brand new we had the same problem and the picker was only 10 hours old It does not matter how fast or slow you go

[@donaldmiller2654]

I have a saying that could be apropriate "THOSE THAT THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL ARE ANNOYING TOO US THAT DO "

[@joebrown8973]

Just found your channel like the old corn picker what year is I was raised up in the fifty and I remember these old corn picker

[@knappfarms]

Not sure on exact year this one was made it’s hard to find information on these they aren’t like the tractors where you can just hop on tractor data

[@joebrown8973]

When is your next video coming out

[@knappfarms]

I’ve been trying to upload every Saturday morning

[@markmortensen4341]

Enjoy the videos. Don't worry about the haters they're going to be around no matter how hard you try to make them understand.

[@John-lg4wi]

You just need to slow down before you get into trouble so get real

[@markmortensen4341]

@@John-lg4wi You probably have never ran any farm equipment in your life. So just leave the snarky comments on some other channel.

[@knappfarms]

Get into trouble? 😂 what are you gonna do yell at me

[@knappfarms]

@Mark Mortensen I enjoy getting them going like this John feller here

[@smartypants381]

Do you have trouble finding parts for the picker?

[@knappfarms]

We have a extra parts picker for anything major but as for bearings we just measure them and get something the same size

[@homeroelizondo1829]

Great equipment, we still shelling corn by hand with a sack on waist so imagine

[@knappfarms]

Yeah that’s rough we pick a fair amount of sweet corn by had it’s not the best job always scratched up and itch after

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

I keep hitting the wrong button I'm a growmark wrapped in our area and we have had good luck what's a variety known as 53 r85. It's tanswell it picks clean and it also works well in the combine

[@knappfarms]

Glad you found the channel I’ll have to look into that variety of corn don’t know of any growmark seed reps around here

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

@@knappfarms only been in Indiana once in my life that was 40 years ago in the FFA coming back through from the national convention I don't know how close you are to Bloomington me being a little bit in the dark on the geography of your state we are based in Bloomington Indiana. Growmark started out out there and they're big in the midwest I guess I work for a farm co-op from the Northeast it was once referred to as Agway our crops division was sold to growmark about 15 years ago

[@knappfarms]

Bloomington is about opposite end of the state from us but that’s interesting you traveled through to go to national convention I assume back when it was in Missouri now it’s held in Indiana

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

@@knappfarms yeah I stretched out a little bit it was over forty years ago now I get to thinking about it it was November 78. We came through there and stopped at the race track in Indianapolis on the way home. By the way I like to see all those red tractors on your place. We run 9 here the three main ones are a fifteen-year-old McCormick a five-year-old 75c Case IH and a 385 loader tractor that we used to feed bales rest of them are older but they all run and they all get used

[@knappfarms]

Yup our newest is tractor I believe is the 1086 then we have the 1496 1066 and 856 followed by a bunch of 560s and a 460 couple A’s a C a Cub I’m sure I’m forgetting something

[@LVFFarmVlogs]

I need to build rubber paddles like yours. The fingers in mine are about all gone! Brittle stalks, build up in head. They will clean out a little faster at end of row if you lift the head up all the way, not really an issue. You aren't selling corn, a little trash is fine, it makes a better turd then a snowball will! Lol

[@knappfarms]

Yeah we had the same problem with the finger wasn’t one left in the husking bed we looked into getting new ones and you would have more in fingers then the picked so we improvised with some conveyor belt

[@dennisjulius5970]

Keep doing you don't worry what others thinks

[@josephbrown4031]

That was my favorite job, picking lol

[@knappfarms]

Harvest is probably my favorite as well idk what I prefer combine or picker

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

No matter what a videos subject is, there will always be someone who thinks they know better and for some reason feels it's their obligation to chime in to point out so called mistakes. The weak part about them is their only personal experience is watching other videos which is kinda sad. It's your equipment, your animals, your farm, if someone doesn't like your methods, they can pound sand....

[@jimbressler1333]

Those that can't, inspect

[@danielmercker7369]

I like the old school way

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Not to many people do ear corn now days, I gotta neighbor that does a little bit.

[@jamesberg3106]

No need to defend your method. Just do what you know to do

[@badger1132]

Narrow row or wide 30" for picking corn ? Your opinion on 60" row? The IH still operating nice.

[@knappfarms]

This picker is a 38” row we are picking 30” rows so have to be exact never had any experience with 60” rows

[@badger1132]

I have been reading about 60's and how more sun exposure leads to a equal yield or even more bushels pet acre and a cover crop chokes out weeds, and leaves pasture for grazing.

[@knappfarms]

To me it seems hard to believe that you could increase yeild with half the population of plants but the cover crop down the rows seems like a good idea for grazing

[@robertrussell4466]

I'm using a farmall h and a new idea no 7 one row picker n a flat wagon with sides got to shovel it off but it gets the job done have picked some buy hand when picker broke down the cows off mine how it got picked or ground my mix mill had a bearing go out haven't got fixed yet been grinding with a old craftsman wood chipper it takes longer but it grinding ear corn into chop

[@mikeyc1928]

I noticed you don't have auto-steer on the 1486 or AutoTrac RowSense on the picker. Very nice video.

[@knappfarms]

I believe I can count on one hand how many times I’ve been in a tractor with auto steer 😂

[@markenge9348]

Like the thermal. It would be interesting to watch more to see what cows do in the dark and also what night predators might be around. Who knows? You might be able to solve the mystery of bloodless mutilated livestock.

[@knappfarms]

We have taken care of a few coyotes with them but can’t put those videos on this channel KZbin doesn’t like it when I stray into the firearm world but once I get some more videos I might make a hunting channel I’ll announce it on the channel whenever I do

[@hairymanonetwo]

Pick your corn at around 23 % moisture....yah wont have the corn booging up in the elevator. I always start picking corn when its around 25 % . Almost no shelling on the rolls

[@keithrobinson1331]

Buddy don’t worry about the comments it is what it is!!!

[@normanknapp6041]

You should pick pick ear corn with the 560 put it in first gear with the ta back you go to damn fast with that 1486. If you put the hoods back on the 1486 it will be more aerodynamic and you will get better fuel mileage.

[@ralphknapp5375]

Yea what he said and get a hair cut you hippy

[@Yehaw356]

The 1486 all had the 540/1000 but the 1586 only had the 1000 but people would take the ptos out of 706/806 or 1206 and put it in there 1586 so they could also have the 540 love the videos keep it up

[@DUCKDONKEY]

Most people that criticize on here are ding dongs. If creators wanted your instructions, they’d ask for it.

[@ethanlee9441]

You need some husk so the corn can dry more in the crib

[@ethanlee9441]

@@toriblack6334 ok i guess

[@ethanlee9441]

@@toriblack6334 do i know you the name sounds familiar

[@ethanlee9441]

@@toriblack6334 beaver dam Wisconsin

[@ethanlee9441]

@@toriblack6334 just let me know when you do because I get a lot of scammers on my email

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Had to come back and add this I forgot what my real reason for the message was. I am a growmark

[@MartinKomon]

Lol I think n k the same way

[@atomicwedgie8176]

RPM's = Revolutions/minute(s) = wrong Example 1000 RPM's RPM = Revolutions /minute = correct Example 1000 RPM Just thought you would want to know the correct terminology. Good vid!

[@peteredelhofer6852]

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