Hey Rex thanks for telling a bit of your story! I just find a fascinating connection with past generations of farmers when I go to antique power shows. That was a pretty good plowing machine you ran!

Thanks for the great feedback! If there are any other things that you ever wonder about go ahead and ask. Maybe I can do a video on it!

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Our neighbor used to help us cut soybeans with a 1480 pushing a 1020 grain table. I was always super impressed with that rig. He could run circles around dads 7700 John Deere.

Modern Gleaner combines have a “transverse” rotor which means that it sits in there the other way. They also have a “pre-cleaner” accelerator ahead of the chaffer. I’m not certain, but I bet the model F was a “walker machine” as opposed to a more modern rotary combine. This just means that instead of a rotor that carries the crop all the way through to the chaffer, it would have had a small transverse cylinder right behind the feeder house that would thresh the crop against a small concave and then a set of straw walkers to move the straw to the back. Here is an animation of a conventional combine with straw walkers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLOFY8qgp722mo0.html That is how my dads John Deere combines worked when I was a kid. Here is a cool video on the modern gleaner combines with the transverse rotor: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMWngcKUl6q-YIE.html It bums me out that you didn’t get to farm. I also didn’t get the chance to take over my family farm because dad rented it out and got a job in town before I graduated high school. That is why my brother and I both work full time for other farmers and have our own hay and cattle operation on the side.

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Thanks for the reply. I will check out those videos on the combine operations.

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Ah yeah the tulip town 👍

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Thanks! It was a lot of work.

Thanks a lot! When we make maple syrup you can tell me if we are doing it right or not!

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Thanks for watching! The principle of sowing and reaping applies to every part of our life.

Thanks for the encouraging words! We farm about 1700 acres including some custom farming. Thanks for subscribing!

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Great question! It takes about 10 minutes. I remember it being a two or three hour affair when I was a kid.

Just to be clear you are wanting to see a video of how the corn head rips the ear off or the stalk? I think I could help if I understand correctly.

Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch actually i wasn't clear on how the machine itself removes the kernals from the cob. I understnd the demonstration you showed with the antique , but the footage inside the machine with the drum turning etc sort of lost me. The cobs go in and tumble, fans blow out the waste and somewhere in there the kernals are removed. Im just not clear how. I'll watch the video again. Maybe i missed something. Anyway thank you kindly for the responce!! Very much appreciated. 👍

Oh ok! So yes you are correct it would be impossible to get that footage because the rotor area is completely encased in shrouds and if I put the camera inside the shrouds it would be pitch dark. If I left the shroud off it would spray corn all over the place. You probably also would not be able to see through the dust and debris anyway. Basically the rotor spins around and there are so many ears of corn crammed between the spinning rotor and the stationary concave grate that something has to give or the ears of corn wouldn’t it through. The first thing to give is the kernels coming off the cob. The front of the rotor is shaped like a screw so it is constantly cramming more and more ears into that gap. That’s why everything eventually makes its way out the back.

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 oh!! Now that definitely adds some clarity to the picture and of course now it makes perfect sense. Thank you for the clarification on the subject. I look forward to more of what you post on your channel. Excellent content!! 👍👍👍

I’m pretty sure it would just make mush... I have seen a guy put the ear of corn on a drill and run it through one of those round corn cutters and it’s pretty slick!

Good question! That requires a different machine. If you want the corn left on the cob you have to use a corn picker instead of a combine. Much simpler machine.

Thanks! actually every crop has chaff. The corn is no exception. You have to blow the little bits of leaf and stalk and tiny chunks of cob out the back and keep the kernels. That’s what the sieve and chaffer do. Sift out what you don’t want 👍

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Okay, got it! Thanks much and good luck to you guys!

The upper one should be closed as far as you can without losing grain over the top of it. You will have to check on the ground to see if you are spitting any grain out. The bottom one should be closed just far enough to keep chaff and debris from entering the grain tank. Anything that gets through the bottom one goes into the grain tank. Anything that can’t fall through the bottom one gets dumped onto the top one again.

Thanks! I will do my best to have the equipment tour be next weeks video. I really wanted to get the rest of the washing done before I filmed the bigger machinery but if we don’t get any nice days to do the washing I may just have to show you the dirty equipment!

@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Great! Dirty or not I am looking forward to it!!!

Yes indeed the same machine can do both.

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I drove a combine in the field once and did not like it for one minute

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The combine is a different machine to use and is top-heavy