Picking corn

Bob · Jan 18, 2020

<img src = "https://i.imgur.com/t82Ur1D.jpg">

(Found on the 'net with no further info.)

paul · Jan 18, 2020

25 bu yield maybe, and everyone made a living?

Nice pic. Lotta work.

Paul

55 50 Ron · Jan 18, 2020

I've seen that or something very similar in John Deere history books. An "A" (maybe "B") from the 1930s?

55 50 Ron · Jan 18, 2020

I thought "bang" boards were only used when picking by hand.

Roger Tomfohrde · Jan 18, 2020

They originally were but once built you never saw them thrown away. We eventually built bang boards all the way around to get more on a load. We called that style wagon a triple tank. Do not know why.

paul · Jan 18, 2020

How many pickers were off to the right? Thought maybe the pic got reversed but don?t think so. A few pickers and combines were ?reversed early on weren?t they?

Paul

old popper · Jan 18, 2020

That tractor is a model B, you can tell by the cast covers over the brake drums.

J. Schwiebert · Jan 18, 2020

Notice the John Deere on the radiator. Picture is not reversed

Mark Poss · Jan 18, 2020

4 Bolt B?

rlp in Co. · Jan 18, 2020

Looks like a heavy load for two horses, especially in soft dirt, but what do I know about how much horses can pull, or how much corn weighs.

jeffcat · Jan 18, 2020

Sharpen the picture just a touch. Boy what a miserable harvest by today's standards. Love the puzzled looks on the horses faces. Ahhh the good old days.

Northvale PA · Jan 18, 2020

Every improvement seems a huge leap over the more labor intensive methods beforehand. When I first started baling hay, we hand stacked on one wagon. Eventually got a kicker and 2 more wagons. Discbine over haybine. 4 Star tedder over a 1 row reel type. Powershift over synchro range. Someday the robots will replace me.

jeffcat · Jan 18, 2020

Wow you covered a whole lot of improvements. I can remember one old neighbor hand picking corn. Two horses and an old wagon. I can remember when we got the second self unloading wagon. Talk about BIG time!

muleman51 · Jan 18, 2020

Hadn't heard triple tank , always heard them referred to as triple boxes, same thing, three board high. if you took one row off you had a double box. Don't remember what they held for bushels, guess i could figure it out. We had one but it was only used for an end gate seeder. Dad drove the tractor, my brother and I kept the seeder full. It' fun to think back to the simpler times of the late fifties, maybe I'll retire some day so I can sit around ,drink coffee and talk smart.Hope somebody is around to listen. Jim

Moonlite37 · Jan 18, 2020

M Stepdad an IHC McCormick Deering picker somewhat like that one. It had a side hitch to pull a wagon. He had a local machine shop change the elevator to the rear so it would not knock down so much corn. I think it was made before WW2 and wasted a lot of corn by shelling

55 50 Ron · Jan 18, 2020

I think Paul is referring to there being more picker rows off to the right in the photo since this is a left-hand "cut" machine. Or maybe the fact that pull-type pickers and combines could be either left or right hand cut.

spacechem · Jan 18, 2020

I wonder how long it took to get the horses trained to walk beside the tractor. Or possibly the photo was staged as they changed wagons.

MtMan · Jan 18, 2020

I have been around and worked horses myself enough to know that a well broke and trained team of horses would do about anything their driver wanted with out much stress to the team about noise or working parts. If they were a green broke team, it may very well become very hairy and dangerous in a hurry.

SVcummins · Jan 18, 2020

Horses were meant to work not stand around in somebody?s pasture being over fed and doing nothing

fixerupper · Jan 18, 2020

Very early B with the straight frame brace. That could have been a picture of my dad custom picking corn when he worked as a hired man during the war. The difference is Dad drove an early 35 A. Dad ended up buying that A in 1950 and I still have it in the barn. If I remember right dad pulled a two row.

gab · Jan 18, 2020

My dad died from a heart attack when I was five years old but I remember setting in a wagon pulled by his team dodging ears of corn as him and a couple of my brothers opened up corn fields for the picker. Then the McCormick picker was pulled by an M.
I got a picture of the horses standing outside the barn the day they were sold.

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