New Idea 323 1 Row Corn Picker

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2 жыл бұрын

The old classic way of picking corn. Today we are using a New Idea 323 corn picker to harvest some fresh corn for the milk cows.
Plus, I give an update on our short day corn.
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@carlreed2558 2 жыл бұрын

Old school picker

@kens.3729 2 жыл бұрын

Who would have “thunk” Old Relics of the Past still work and are used on the Farm ? Kevin! 😬👍

@bernardvonderheide1268 2 жыл бұрын

Grinding corn for cows brings back memories 😊

@Navajo-man 2 жыл бұрын

Hi 👋 ronda and Kevin that’s awesome video and drone and explain about corn 🌽 Kevin has lots brain storm ideas 💡 smart young man and has wonderful wife support and as always you and your families be safe lots of blessings to you all 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@markgreenough5327 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning to the Clay Family... Thank you for Praying for my brother in-law... Dan is doing very well.. Rhonda we can't do anything with God Pray.. And do well in are life... Rhonda you and your Family are True Christian family😻.. I love watching all your Cool videos... And in joy seeing the kids having fun ... We lean a lot be watching are Parents... God bless the family of Clay😻😻

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Great new about Dan!!

@nealreissig9072 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. That vidio. Brought. Back memories. That's how. We. Picked. Corn. In the. 1960s. Ronda. U always. Have. Awesome. Vidios. . thank u. . ur awesome.

@allanhover5008 2 жыл бұрын

Hello everyone and Mackenzie and especially the moomoos too

@rodmcintire7319 2 жыл бұрын

That Kevin is a regular MacGyver! He knows how to think outside the box and in doing so can pass it on to the boy's. The comments tell it all, we had one of those and never thought to modify it like that!!! Kudos to Kevin!!! And thank you Rhonda for all the great info on corn 🌽 and your ability to drive that drone and make all possible. God Bless you for your hard work, He love you and We love you too! What a Beautiful Family 👪 and a Blessing to your Viewers!! Thank you so much and be safe 🙏❤

@jeffreyvandervoort8324 2 жыл бұрын

My dad had a one row New Idea picker when he started farming in 1959. Pulled it with a Farmall M. I rode in the trailer catching the ears!

@ivankillins8407 2 жыл бұрын

i remember picking corn on the family farm about 50 years ago

@brentwoodrumfarms9236 2 жыл бұрын

in the early 60s my dad had a new 560 gas tractor with a 2 row mounted picker-when he came home at nite with his eye brows burned off we knew he had a rough day-that thing would catch fire in a heartbeat-chaff and gas fumes dont mix

@muhammadhakiminashahar4414 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing your story about working on a livestock farm

@jimlong527 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea, Smart Farming cost savings is a good thing. Farmers are smart Engineers, Welders, Plummer’s, mechanics, environmentalists etc.

@ronaldfeuerstein435 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video.. I still can remember the counts hours of picking corn. My favorite time of the year.. Nothing like the smell of the air of fresh picked corn

@JMo268 Жыл бұрын

It's nice he has the guts to switch the fingers for an auger. He must have a lot of knowledge to be confident in modifying machinery like that.

@phillipgoecke1585 2 жыл бұрын

Would have been great to see a tractor from the 50's pulling the picker great video keep them coming..

@davidwaddell8758 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Arces of Clay Family!👋 Great drone footage! Hope ya'll have a great week! Be safe and blessed! 😆❤👍

@daleroth236 8 ай бұрын

Corn in our neck of the woods didn't do so well this year here in northern Ohio. One year dad was out picking corn with our single row picker and came upon a stalk that was 15 feet high with three ears. Of course, he pulled it out of the ground and brought it to the house and placed it alongside the garage. It stayed there for about four days. Those New Ideas were pretty popular back in the day.

@wildbill5126 2 жыл бұрын

I love how Kevin and the boys put their brain's together and brainstorm new ideas and make new farm implements. Rhonda also cool how you explained the growing process, and your drone footage is top notch for sure. Another awesome video.

@eddie9027 2 жыл бұрын

Agree 110 % with Wild Bill

@jimcox6687 2 жыл бұрын

I picked with a New Idea 323 picker for twenty some years.

@johnnyholland8765 2 жыл бұрын

When I was about 12 years old I would help my neighbor with chores and one of those was to put ear corn into a corn "crib". He pulled a one row New Idea with an old H Farmall. Made for a long day but it got the job done. So been there done that. That was about 50 years ago. Slick modification on the picker. That is some good looking corn.

@boB7710II 2 жыл бұрын

I remember picking corn! When the corn is dry it slides out the box a lot easier!

@analarson2920 2 жыл бұрын

Ingenious, tx for sharing, blessings. Such a beautiful color golden yellow, no wonder the natives viewed it as gold.

@jimmyjack6393 2 жыл бұрын

That brings back a lot of memories for me, we used to pick about a hundred acres of high moisture corn for the cows.. We had a new idea 708 uni harvester, with a four row head.

@patrickt4384 2 жыл бұрын

My dad had a 2 row new idea, we pulled it with a 706, I got to run it once!

@danne77sthlm 2 жыл бұрын

Its a rare treat to see these in operation, and clever way to remake it like that, so that its still work :)

@randysimon7633 2 жыл бұрын

Still have our picker i bought first year out of high school 323 1 row new idea we picked 50 acers every fall first with a allis wd 45 then i bought an allis 180 good seat and power steering dad thougt we won the lottery used 2 flat rack hay wagons with grain sides until uncle got done then used his gravity boxes then i bought our own

@williamrandall6472 2 жыл бұрын

That picker reminds me of equipment we had growing up on the farm

@gregverhasselt8357 2 жыл бұрын

Used to have a rare 3 row new idea. Fun as hell as a kid.

@gdsteyr 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man please look after your safety guys I'm not paranoid but please get some PTO guards on your machines. Over the years there's been some horrific deaths and injuries here in West Wales. Please stay safe you're a wonderful family and ambassadors for agriculture and the family farm.

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody goes near the PTO while running.

@stevensawyer5019 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job again Kevin love the drome work love u guys have a great week hope to watch u soon God bless you's

@jean-loup2186 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video, thank you to the farmer !

@cartercurrie6529 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy the knowledge that you and Kevin are sharing with us non farmers, it allows me to better understand what it takes to run your farm. Truly a great deal of work and dedication.

@beesonjim 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless the farmers!

@7viewerlogic670 2 жыл бұрын

Good mod to the picker.

@larryhayes3822 2 жыл бұрын

great video brings back a lot of memories thanks an god bless

@thesprinklerguy2598 7 ай бұрын

I remember going to the family farm when I was a kid... some of my best memories as a child. But time I was 13 my uncle stopped farming and rented the land to the neighbor. Now he passed away and one of his sons inherited the farm but lives 5 hours away and just lets it sit there for the most part as the people who were renting the land stopped paying. I'm here just crying at the fact it's not being put to use. I work 12hrs 7 days a week doing irrigation and would give it up to farm until my bones say nope and even then I'd still find a way.

@jamestauschek5424 2 жыл бұрын

One roll at a time. That seems like an eternity when viewing from above. It appears that patience is a virtual necessity in the farming business. That's a trait I sometimes struggle with on a personal level. You two always amaze me by how you go about your business takin' one day at a time and pushing forward with a strategic plan. Have a great week!!

@rodneywroten2994 2 жыл бұрын

brings back memories. lol

@mattstarr8203 2 жыл бұрын

one row picker reminds me of my friends mom and dad operation went the we're running their dairy farm

@renoflames 2 жыл бұрын

IMPRESSIVE....

@8110deere 2 жыл бұрын

that was a very neat video to watch you pick corn and grind it the cows will enjoy it

@treetopflyersofva2 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing what goes into dairy farming. I in joy watching.

@stevebinns9421 2 жыл бұрын

Definitly old equipment still being used today. Kevin did a good job of explaining the process. We took the chute of our wagons and used a corn rake to get the corn into the grinder. nice video

@timkrager4397 2 жыл бұрын

This brings back fond memories....I always enjoyed running the 323 picker....

@teddycrenshaw223 2 жыл бұрын

We used to pick corn for hog feed by hand when I was a young teenager. That's been a long time ago. 😁

@stephenpikaahu8883 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Rhonda another great video blessings to you and family from New Zealand

@46rambo49 2 жыл бұрын

the markets are nuts, the supply chain is broken, the prices for anything is approaching or exceeding double freed costs, all I can say is thanks JOE. use what ya got and works, now if they don't ruin the cattle market but a few around here shut down and sold off with the drought and with the JOE screwing up things. That's the cleanest I ever told that story, thanks for sharing God Bless ya

@heavyhauler79 2 жыл бұрын

The ending made me laugh, tough work on the farm and you got to have a little fun, but it keeps me coming back to watch.

@thr8061 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up, we had a NI 2 row picker that we used for high moisture corn. We had a Farmhand Grinder/Blower that we would grind most of the loads and blow into our silo. But in the meantime, we had a McKee (?) 3pt mounted grinder/blower. We would grind a gravity box load and blow into an old chopper box next to the barn. Once we filled, leveled and opened the silo, we'd quit grinding into the chopper box. Now, all we do is earlage with our SP Harvester as well.

@bladestoe6568 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great family and such a smart man ! Kevin I could picture you and the boys on Shark Tank pitching ideas ! God Bless y’all from Texas , and god speed the kids ! Love y’all !!

@bradmoyer9737 2 жыл бұрын

The business acumen you guys exhibit in an ever changing market, the engineering and mechanical skills Keven and the boys posses, the hard work the entire family puts in to the homestead, all contribute to a shining example of the American dream at work and foretell of an operation that will become multigenerational. Blessing be on all of you🙏

@sawsurgeon 2 жыл бұрын

Well stated Brad! I really like Kevin’s Outside of the Box approach to problem solving. Bless’ns to ya, Tedd

@elamnissley4099 2 жыл бұрын

I am also running my new idea 1 row picker to pick corn to make dairy feed and was dreaming of a way to eliminate the husking rolls. Now I know !! Thank you so much.

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Hope he explained it well enough...

@jimmycurran5355 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video.

@alvinberning5258 Жыл бұрын

New Idea made a picker with out a hulking bed

@danw6014 2 жыл бұрын

The first farm I worked on had 40 milk cows and 500 sheep. We filled a wooden crib 8×14×60 plus 3 or 4 wire cribs. We ran a 324 New Idea to pick and then we had another 324 with a shelling unit that we shelled corn for the sheep. We used a 4020 diesel power shift to run both pickers. We stored the shell corn in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and kicker wagons lined with plywood.

@tomhall7250 2 жыл бұрын

I did that back in the 70s three big round corn cribs

@greghamann2099 2 жыл бұрын

We did too. Had 4 round cribs. You don't see those anymore.

@tomhall7250 2 жыл бұрын

@@greghamann2099 yup now I’m 61 driving truck till they find me dead in the sleeper.

@sawsurgeon 2 жыл бұрын

We still have one small round wire crib and a wooden one. Shoveled the last of what was left of our corn from the old wooden crib earlier this year. Stink’n rats were taking over! Bless’ns to ya, Tedd

@mikekuhn6216 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job on the auger in the husking bed; seems to work fine. My uncle Ed picked our corn with his Farmall M pulling a 2-row New Idea picker in the late '50s. When he traded up to a new Farmall 400, he bought a 2-row mounted unit (probably a 2-MH). I always enjoyed hauling loads of ear corn to the crib with our AC WD-45. Thanks for bringing back so many wonderful farming memories.

@mikalehtinen315 2 жыл бұрын

Jippii and wow, nice job and awesome video again. More such videos. Greetings from Finland.

@williammatzek4660 2 жыл бұрын

Rhonda pink is your color. Kevin your corn picker does what you need. It's simple enough you can work on it. It's not self propelled one less engine and transmission to keep up!

@andymoss3132 2 жыл бұрын

Hard work 💪

@markbyers6124 2 жыл бұрын

That so cool

@tenoaksranchhillcountrytex9776 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Love the older equipment and your modifications

@guydaubenspeck9206 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty good time with that old 323. Our last two or three 23s and now we have a 324 too row. We use your corn to feed our beef cattle here and we have a market for some for people to feed wildlife and so on so we still pick and shell both. In the fall we shell enough at the end of corn picking season 2 last through the winter and then to keep her food business going in the summertime and up until picking time will dry shell out of the crib with a portable sheller oh no we probably pick one we put through the combine still here

@joeskretkowicz3218 2 жыл бұрын

wow kev did christopher columbus help with modifications lol just kidding luv it

@dlmarquart 2 жыл бұрын

I think that short day is going to work good for your heifers and the ear corn 🌽 made good feed and thanks Rhonda and Kevin

@lathamindustries6316 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That is so cool!

@MrKonradWhite 2 жыл бұрын

WE LOVE NEW IDEAS :)

@roselinton8549 2 жыл бұрын

That was an excellent explanation and view on Tar Spot on the corn leaves ....that will give my husband a good idea what to look for in the near future in his corn .

@robertpsieving4401 2 жыл бұрын

That's the way we did all our corn in my younger days. We had a 2 row mounted picker on an old Farmall M

@davidvogel6359 2 жыл бұрын

We did ours with the picker mounted on a H. It was what we had but it was really too heavy so we had to go slow over the end rows and not bounce the tractor.

@Jim-tj5lq 2 жыл бұрын

Don't see very many corn cribs these days, One person on the wagon shoveling into the crib and one in the crib shoveling it to the back. So much fun when we were kids Really nice video

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@holtzroger 2 жыл бұрын

Simply and efficiently way.

@mfreund15448 2 жыл бұрын

Great drone footage!

@davidkettell5726 2 жыл бұрын

so peaceful out on the farm.

@tonyburelle6633 2 жыл бұрын

That was amazing what Kevin did to renovate that picker, I never have looked close at one before, but I know a lot of common sense engineering went into that, the ground corn should charge up the ration, what a great video, thanks

@roberthemphill8588 2 жыл бұрын

Used to do the same using an old Massey Harris 33. Thanks for the video. Good Wishes to your family.

@jeffferanec4526 2 жыл бұрын

Hello & thank you both so much for sharing this video & today's corn lesson, please farm safe + Bless U all!

@LtdES7638 2 жыл бұрын

Always a good watch, you do an excellent job explaining your farming. Thank you. Hope you have a productive season.

@anthonyvelez3788 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@michaelwuest9944 2 жыл бұрын

I hate to think of how many farmers got their limbs tangled and mangled in those machines!

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta use wisdom around all moving parts. 😬

@sawsurgeon 2 жыл бұрын

They don’t call them Snapping Rolls for nothing! We had a Moor-Man’s feed salesman years ago who I believe lost his arm in a picker. Yet another striking reminder to respect equipment! I’ve worked around dangerous equipment all of my life. Thanks to other people’s hard earned lessons, I’ve managed to keep all of my digits! Bless’ns to ya, Tedd

@michaelwuest9944 2 жыл бұрын

@@acresofclayhomestead Just don't be in a hurry. Don't let daily pressures rush you into cutting corners. Another bushel of corn is not worth a lost limb, especially around these older machines. I could tell you some pretty gory stories so just be careful.

@DJPLAST2 2 жыл бұрын

Hey young lady, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you are having a wonderful day! (I hope I got that right)

@lannydecamp7460 2 жыл бұрын

Grat idea

@allenhough684 2 жыл бұрын

I watched a lot of rows go through one of those, back in the day. That may even be a Parker grain wagon and that is what we had.

@tweek857 2 жыл бұрын

I remember picking ear corn we had a two row picker we used a hay wagon with side boards and a false end gate

@kanapodcreate7048 2 жыл бұрын

Hello,. Good morning., have a nice day.

@patkelly7999 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Ronda, Kevin and Sanders:):)

@alanm3438 2 жыл бұрын

It is always good to see you. Nice job on the video. 😀😀😀😀

@josephpuou96 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video 👍Aloha from Hawaii🤙😎🏝

@clydemarkham7915 2 жыл бұрын

Great video superb drone footage. Kevin has farm ingenuity. God bless this hard working family.

@robertcornell9308 2 жыл бұрын

That’s husking better than my bosses 6-row uni-picker! We used to have a Devil of a time just getting wagons unloaded! We also kept plugging the shoots in the crib. He had a wood crib with a roof and storage between the cribs. It had several openings along the peak of the roof and several shoots built between the trusses. If you place the elevator just right, you could fill both sides at the same time.😎

@bradbyington7926 2 жыл бұрын

Manufacturers built snapping units. I never saw one until we moved to Kentucky.

@harryfarmingvideo5328 2 жыл бұрын

Nice looking corn crop like the corn picker setup well done

@kennethcarlton2860 2 жыл бұрын

My dad told me he used to walk beside a horse drawn wagon and picking the corn by hand in the 1920's . I remember my grandfather having a hand powered sheller I thought was fun in the late '50's early '60's . When I was working for a large custom farmer we used combines so luckily I never had to pick corn by hand unless it was just a little ..

@markfin7225 2 жыл бұрын

Kevin, you seem to be clipping right along with that 1 row picker. Great idea on the modification. The drone footage is great, Rhonda.

@rwfoxtrot 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Someone may have already mentioned this but please please please have you hair braided up and out of the way when you are working near PTO shaft driven machinery. There are many many reports of young ladies with long hair (as well as the occasional young man!!) being scalped when their long hair gets wrapped up in top a running PTO shaft. It happens in a split second and the injury is permanent with no real chance of ever recovering your hair again. Take care!! Cheers from Australia!

@torbenjensen6382 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Norway

@acresofclayhomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Hello!!

@sallydickinson1408 2 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks for telling us about each little detail as I learned a lot from you thank you for sharing and your time be blessed enjoy and cant wait for next one

@michaelvogel2522 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the day the dealer stopped by our farm pulling a brand new 323 to deliver to our neighbor down the road and my dad asked him if he had another one, he did and dad said he would cut him a check as soon as he could deliver it, that was so cool, one of the best machines we ever bought, dads gone now, I wish I could go back!