Vintage Corn Picking Video

I posted this on the Farmall & IHC forum but thought some might like to see it on here.

Some 8mm film converted to DVD. My grandfather shot this in 1964 during harvest.
There is a small segment with my great grandfather operating the picker. Also, there is a short segment of the school in Van Cleve, IA that was hit by a tornado in the early 60s.
There are two Farmall 450 tractors and a 2MHD picker with sheller unit.

Thanks and enjoy!

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Thanks for the video. Nice to have family history recorded. Steve

Brings back memories of running a mounted picker. I can relate to watching the stalks feed into the picker.

Very nice. It would have been about 1967 Dad bought his first(and the one he would have until he died) self propelled combine. It was one of the last Gleaner E's. A neighbor still has it.

Good stand of corn. I didn't know IH's picker sheller used that kind of wagon elevator instead of an augur.

was there ever a 4 row mounted made?? how about 4 row pull type????

Priceless, thanks for sharing.

Pretty sure there was a three row narrow picker.

very nice,,,enjoyed it!

My grandfather hand picked with a team of horse pulling a wagon, things have changed.

Thanks for the video. 1964 doesn't seem that long ago but it WAS 51 years ago. Does anybody know if that picker could have had knife rolls and stripper plates? Was that an option in the early 60's? It chewed up the stalks better than any ear corn picker I remember.

During that period of time dad was picking with a two row Minneapolis pull picker behind a 630 Deere. We hauled in with a 51 A Deere and a 51 SC Case. The Kewanee elevator was powered by a 35 A Deere with a flat belt going to a Stanhoist speed jack that would pick up the front wheels of the wagons. Dad had the belt real loose so it would throw off if the corn built up in the spout and plugged the elevator. After a wagon rolled off the front of the hoist dad put hoists under the wagons. I remember tightening the flat belt a bit so I could run more corn up the elevator without throwing the belt. The spout up in the crib was stretched way out to the far corner of the crib and didn't have much slope so it overloaded and plugged and built up and REALLY plugged the elevator. Dad came home with the picker and a full wagon wondering why I wasn't coming back out to the field with an empty and there I was half way up the elevator reaching underneath pulling out ears. When he saw the tight belt he figured out what happened. I left it loose after that. Father knows best! LOL

I remember the school got blown down. Both my parents went to high school there, and my older sister went to kindergarten there. She went to Haverhill in 1st grade. I didn't go to kindergarten, because the bus did not come past our house that year to get older kids. My parents still live about 4 miles northeast of there.
We had an Oliver picker sheller mounted on our 706. The green machine was a P.O.S. Built too light, and the dealer in Marshalltown carried hardly any parts. However they could ship next day by Greyhound from Omaha. He used that until about 74. A good thing the 706 had lots of gears, because you just about had to set stakes to see if it was moving.

Vermeer made 4 row wide and 6 row narrow (30") pull type pickers. They were set up to pull two wagons behind and the elevator had a ram to swing from one wagon to the other. Somewhere in my stack of stuff I have an article with pictures of them.

Thank you for all the replies. I have some more converted 8mm film that I might put on here.

I helped with that for a few years before we got a 1-row picker. Before I was big enough to pick the ears, my assigned job was to yell at the horses if they reached for an ear of corn along the way.

Great stuff Thanks for posting I really enjoyed it.