Love watching the old ones running

Spent hundreds of hours on one of those machines. You sure got cold due to the fact that you were standing up with no wind protection. When it got wet we used a Case tractor with Case-O-Matic drive to push you when it got slick. We had a 4 cylinder and a 6 cylinder machines. Lots of memories. Thank You. 😊😊😊

I had one 30 years ago. Local guy bought it new. 4 cyl. Got hot after a while on my hills. It was fun. Picked for ground ear corn for cattle. Miss those days....

The shelling loss at the snapping rollers is what led to the demise of the corn pickers. But it still beat the heck out of hand picking! Farmers often put hogs on the field to clean up the corn left by these loses. Allis was one of the first to place stripper plates over those rolls for both safety and to cut down on shelling losses. All modern corn machines now have those. One neighbor who bought one of the early corn head equipped combines, hired out to help pay for it. Many guys would just want him to just open the field so they could start with their own picker. Well after seeing the difference in field losses, they would have him do the whole field as the difference in field losses would more than pay for the cost of hiring the combine! We always started picking well before corn got that dry, to cut down on shelling losses. An uncle of my wife had one of those Massey SP, I tried to buy it when he went to a corn combine, but he preferred to keep it and cut it up instead, A$$hole! Those came in 2 versions, one with a 4 cylinder motor and one with the 6 cylinder.

I remember them from when I was a kid,, there was always corn and cobs onthe ground,,, damn good fields to hunt rabbits and birds afterwards. Sure do miss those days

We had several two row pickers when I grew up. There was my father, my uncles, my brother and me.

back in the 1950,s i was 18 drove one of these a lot.was a pretty good picker.

Corn looks really dry and you can see it shelling when the cobs land in the wagon.

They were made in my hometown of Batavia New York! Great video!

That is neat machine.

Thats for sure!!! We also had a Massey Ferguson 510 Combine. It had the grease banks.

We had the same picker back in the 60's. It had a ton of grease fittings on it. The husking rollers in the back were no fun to grease.

Hogs and cattle were turned out in the field to eat what the picker left behind.

ernels off like a conventional combine.

Thanks for sharing I seen a old guy turn something like that into a homemade forklift it would lift a full size 60s model truck and car lol

Ear corn is great feed, except for no good way to mechanize handling it after you crib it. MM made the Uni Harvester, New Idea got the patent and called it Uni System. New Idea made the best pickers, both pull type and mounted. MH became MF, and dropped most of the non tractor machines. Good video.👍

I wonder if the variety of corn grown back in the day made a difference in how clean the end product was?

as i remember we could get 6to8 good loads a day

Unfortunately, a lot of farmers got injured trying to unclog the rollers when they jammed up, didn’t shut the picker down.

Is that 36" or 40" rows?