Got started combining corn

super99 · Nov 5, 2009

yesterday after work. Moisture is much better than I expected, Wettest was 21%, dryest was 19%. Seems to be yeilding very good. It was cold and windy here is NW Ill. Wish I had gotten the rear window replaced in the tractor cab!!! Chris

Nancy Howell · Nov 5, 2009

Best thing you said was "after work". So pleased your back to work, that you"re now able to get your corn in and the moisture level is down. Good for you!

IaGary · Nov 5, 2009

Cold here yesterday as well Chris. While I was sitting in that climate controled combine cab I was thinking back to when we ear picked most of our corn. My job was to haul in with a 460 to the crib.

Nothing more refreshing then hauling corn at 9:00 am on a 32 degree day with the wind blowing cornstalks into your face.

I'll keep my cab.

Gary

omahagreg · Nov 5, 2009

My farming experiences are minimal, BUT, my Grandpa had a picker accident in about 1980. Dad and I went to finish picking for him. I can honestly say, there is nothing as 'refreshing' as driving a WD in 30 degree weather! LOL Greg

smallbale · Nov 5, 2009

want good used machine cheap,neighbors caught fire last night,so much for having fun and I forgot the weiners. I will finish today.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 5, 2009

Gary, you forgot about the pain when those frozen ears of corn hit your knuckles when your dad made you shoval it to the rear to fill the wagon.
All the time you knew that when you got to the crib, you had to clear a hole by hand so you could get started with a scoop shoval.
Those old fabric gloves just did not help much.
Course, when dad ran that old 2 row picker...he never slowed down...he had to run full bore cause he had to go to work in the morning and this had to get done.

Goose · Nov 5, 2009

Once when I was in high school, I was helping a neighbor pick corn. I was on an A John Deere with a one row picker, and he was hauling with a B.

It was a cold, windy miserable day, and I was about to freeze on the tractor. I noticed the neighbor left for a little while and when he came back he had a heat houser for the tractor.

I thought I was in heaven with that heat houser on the tractor.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 5, 2009

30 degrees is warm in Mn, haha. I took the last load of beans out of the drying bin to town, closer elevator was full so I went 20 miles with my Case 830ck (no cab) it was 30, windy and foggy when I left, could have used the pickup, wasn't bad on the tractor. I remember picking corn in 0 weather with no cab, brrr!

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