corn farmer 1960

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Жыл бұрын

‪@avgeeks‬ i fixed the sound seen a lot of comments about the sound i earn nothing from this just trying to help out to keep this going

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@kevinolson7195 Жыл бұрын

One of the highlights of my youth was riding in the flat wagon behind the picker as the cobs came flying in. VERY IMPORTANT job to a five year old, spreading the cob corn in the wagon so dad could take a full load from the field. My idea of heaven will be to help dad like this again.

@donaldmack7213 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I would love to have a time machine and go back to those days!

@cmandrell Жыл бұрын

You and me both

@Mr-er6fg Жыл бұрын

Wish we were still in that era!

@ArmpitStudios Жыл бұрын

Me too. Just look at that stock trailer and semi! And corn picking was THE was to harvest corn. So much cooler.

@midwestmutineer7675 Жыл бұрын

Seeing those white faced herefords brings back a lot of memories!!!

@furthereast6775 Жыл бұрын

another big issue in this video is the thriving American small town. That is one of the biggest casualties of Corporate farming.

@robertnymand9889 Жыл бұрын

Brings back good memories for our farm.

@rookiefarmer702 Жыл бұрын

This is when life was good, then the computer and internet came and f%$@ed that all up. I remember planting with the old ground driven planters, now you have to have 5 monitors in your tractor. I miss the good old days can we please go back.

@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Жыл бұрын

Yes, you can go back to that any time you want to.

@rotunda57 Жыл бұрын

I second that. I've just lost 3 days work due to a malfunctioning DEF system on a new combine.

@johngnipper8768 Жыл бұрын

@@rotunda57 yes cause those combines will destroy the world without that piss tank . Hate that stuff!

@lennygerber5631 Жыл бұрын

Got to love the short cattle from 1950s not so today now we're shipping 1400 pounders if not more

@jacksperf8003 Жыл бұрын

Dam 600 acers in the 60s woulda been huge

@ralphllivrah9551 Жыл бұрын

Same size as it is today.

@jacksperf8003 Жыл бұрын

@@ralphllivrah9551 600 today is not really a "big farm" pretty common size today

@connerbrandl5103 Жыл бұрын

@@jacksperf8003 shit in Illinois and iowa those are smaller farmers

@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814 Жыл бұрын

I agree. It’s hard to think he could knock out those acres with that equipment. Didn’t even have a radio.

@jacksperf8003 Жыл бұрын

@@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814 but then my gpa was happy to have his corn planted memorial day and beans in by june 15th

@bradleylong1686 Жыл бұрын

Born in 1955/67 years old....this film is an exact replica of my life growing up on a small dairy farm in Michigan. What a work ethic my Grandpa and Grandma and Dad and Mom taught me. Love God with all your heart....work hard....finish the job...quit whining....don't put off til tomorrow what u can do today...be thankful. Wouldn't trade the life ethic for anything. Yet Mike Rowe reports that 7 million men in America are not working....and not looking.....spending 2000 hours a year on the screen.....2000÷52 weeks per year is avg 40 hrs week...what a pathetic replacement....the country is in deep weeds....and most Gen Z /Millennials don't have a clue.

@jerryhablitzel3333 Жыл бұрын

I liked the farmers back in those days. They were much more humble. Not as much of a fan today. Most farmers in my area grow grain and buy show calves for high dollar for the fair. Don’t raise so much as a chicken.

@jackwillie2729 Жыл бұрын

Your not along was born in 1954 put on a JD A at 8 yrs old then a JD4010 2years later dad had 800 acres of crops and cattle..was a hard life ...but looking back it rewarded me with the love of what God created

@deepmarsh Жыл бұрын

Did you inherit the farm?

@bradleylong1686 Жыл бұрын

@@deepmarsh yes....I'm the 4th gen.on the land. My 2 sons are 5th generation. My grandsons will be 6th.....if America survives.

@Haliotro Жыл бұрын

All good except the God part

@davidkimmel4216 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. The 1st corn picker I run was a MF self propelled like in the video. Thank You

@sirprancealott2003 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful - God Bless that family I hope they prosper on to today

@michaeldrevdahl2292 Жыл бұрын

so cool I was born in 1960. memories !!!

@johnruplinger2449 Жыл бұрын

The town they show is Sycamore, IL

@seththomas9105 Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I wondered. Figured IL. or Iowa.

@kevinbutton4580 Жыл бұрын

150 acres In a day was huge back them now we do 300 on a good day. Crazy how far we have come

@redclayfarm6490 Жыл бұрын

Not as far as they had come from the farmers of 60+ years before them.

@cleokey Жыл бұрын

We had 10,000 acres of corn upstate NY for silage to feed our milk cows.

@bradmorgan1234 Жыл бұрын

Planting 600 acres with that planter wasn't nowhere near as slow as picking with 2 row combine!

@justincase2830 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this snapper gaming.New subscriber.This was one extremely busy farm family!

@cmandrell Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@darrenwheeler4392 Жыл бұрын

No cabs no air conditions no heat

@jamiejones7730 Жыл бұрын

Well things have changed abit 15 arces a day now it's closer too 15 arces an hour.

@Rick-fx8lh Жыл бұрын

Closer to 15 acres per 15 min

@davepayne586 Жыл бұрын

i love the good olds videos its all moving to fast now,back then it all took its time,

@krismell5935 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunantly all the people in that film are probably dead...the grandkids inherited the land, sold it for a mint, and then promptly gambled it all away in Vegas...

@Winterascent Жыл бұрын

Well, they didn't have to gamble it away in Vegas. Maybe some bought Apple or Amazon stock when it was super cheap, and retired multimillionaires? lol

@AustinPierce7526 Жыл бұрын

That’s what going on my neck of the woods right now, it’s sad.

@chrism1648 Жыл бұрын

Don't know if I believe planting 150 acres a day with that setup

@robertnymand9889 Жыл бұрын

600 acres in 1960 was a big farm.

@dictatorofsalt5902 Жыл бұрын

my great grandfather did 560 in the 1950s with 2 8ns and a 9n

@duanehenicke6602 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how far apart corn use to be planted. Those were some damn good looking ears though. Wonder what herbicides were around back then 🤔

@PeytonHaffner Жыл бұрын

I thought they were some darn good looking ears also. Im sure it was probably just Atrazine.

@duanehenicke6602 Жыл бұрын

@@PeytonHaffner I know 2-4-D was around then. Not sure Atrazine goes back that far. 🤔

@glennspreeman1634 Жыл бұрын

an 8 row planter!! who'd a thought!!!

@NOSNY-nm2qf Жыл бұрын

the foundation of this country

@devonstultz4529 Жыл бұрын

When corn wasn’t drowned in round up

@alexbrown979 Жыл бұрын

Wow a 1960s BTO!!

@Wainfleetkx450f Жыл бұрын

1 plant every 3 feet? We’ve come a long way!

@rotunda57 Жыл бұрын

I don't think they were check planting, so the announcer just said it wrong. Common corn spacing was 36" BETWEEN rows at the time, with a kernel about every 10".

@seththomas9105 Жыл бұрын

@@rotunda57 Yeah it was probably 38" rows, but that seed population? Wow.

@cameronburgess2479 Жыл бұрын

I would have loved to do all that back then I wish the equipment never changed

@doctormcboy5009 Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@jackwillie2729 Жыл бұрын

Dad had this same planter ...we planted about 1200 acres ...never did 160 acres in one day but it was an interesting planter

@aidencrawford3487 Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say, you'd probably have to plant for 20 hours straight without stopping to plant 160 acres with that planter

@indygenesissoccerscheduler8543 Жыл бұрын

Yep - that hit me as too much as well. We still have a 60 John Deere tractor that looks like the one in the video

@clayed Жыл бұрын

Looked like two four row planters one attached to each side of the tractor

@rotunda57 Жыл бұрын

That's how you got 8 rows. The first 6 row planter came out in 1957, 8 rows years later.

@donaldwhite1928 Жыл бұрын

I’m 67 memories

@rageridersrx Жыл бұрын

a farmall h on a corn chopper thats awesome

@Mr-er6fg Жыл бұрын

Fox chopper. What we always ran.

@danw6014 Жыл бұрын

It had it's own engine so all the H had to do was pull it. We had a Gehl Brother's self-propelled from this era to open fields up. It was last used around 1999.

@johnalexander8589 Жыл бұрын

Yep that is the it was the way my grandpa and my dad and me done it

@TheSaskFarmer Жыл бұрын

wow when corn headers had 2 rows

@chargermopar Жыл бұрын

The real eye opener is how lean farmers were back then. Today all the older ones seem to be overweight or obese.

@majcorbin Жыл бұрын

IOWA dad joke of the day [Q] @ what time,do DUCKS wake up? [A] at the QUACK of dawn

@albransix Жыл бұрын

They don't mention the hay that the cattle will eat.

@kyfarmerman Жыл бұрын

Pretty Herefords

@troybermudez9269 Жыл бұрын

Im that funny uncle, is dinner ready?

@555Jordan Жыл бұрын

I had to chuckle at the picture prefect family and the meal served. Says a lot about the social messaging of that time.

@robertnymand9889 Жыл бұрын

Hill drop corn yet.

@starsfromheaven7382 Жыл бұрын

He cultivated so no weeds would grow, so why did he use weed killer when he planted?

@darrenwheeler4392 Жыл бұрын

Yea they plowed disced cultivated was no till back then an drill seed

@darrenwheeler4392 Жыл бұрын

Didn't see all black cattle Hereford was the ticket

@kevinkurtz9889 Жыл бұрын

I didn't hear what the yield per acre.

@hankelrod7315 Жыл бұрын

How in the world did they harvest 600 acres corn with some Farmall H’s & a Deere 720 when I get tired riding around in my Magnums with AC??? That’s the generation that built America!

@PaRoughandTumble Жыл бұрын

My farther said the best day on the farm that he remembered was the day when the F-20 came and the horses left.

@cdjhyoung Жыл бұрын

From my experience, 16 hour days and dry ones at that. You certainly don't waste any time on frivolities like a full night's sleep.

@cdjhyoung Жыл бұрын

@@PaRoughandTumble My dad once told me that the thing the farmers lost when the horses went away was that the horse knew when to quit. You could work a team of horses for maybe two hours, then they would refused to work anymore until they had a break, some grazing, water and a bit of rest. The farmer, if he was smart, did the same. Sundown meant the work day was over. Not anymore.

@555Jordan Жыл бұрын

@@PaRoughandTumble That seemed like a dream come true to them, but little did the understand the true cost of such conveniences.

@PaRoughandTumble Жыл бұрын

@@555Jordan The farm is still in the family. Pennsylvania did aerial photography every 10 years starting in 1937 its interesting to see the progress the farm made over the years. It went from a substance farm to a market farm and now back to a hobby farm/ substance farm. We still had mules and oxen we played with. But anytime real work was done in the field. I was on a International 866.