Cole Younger
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These were parked here many years ago. They look cool in the snow and add rustic character to our Fulton co. farm.
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Anonymous-0
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maybe to you ..imho ,..it serves as a testiment to rural life and values that are no longer practiced and are neglected ,, i think wewere a better society back when the paint was new on those pikers ,, but what do i know , i am just a dumdirt farmer that makes it go
Janicholson
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I think they serve as a testament to the belief that they will be needed next fall. Or the next .... Our faith in the new 4 row head on the Combine is not 100% and the family's need for cob corn might become real again. Nice reminder of selling my dads MH2 while they still stood on their "kick stands", and finding all the sprockets and bolts in the wooden box in the machine shed that went with it. Jim
Jim,
You mentioned "cob corn". As a native Iowan, I moved to Wisconsin in '73 and when I first heard that term I could not figure out what it meant.
I once told a WI farmer that it is called "Ear corn" and he pointed to his ears and said "Ears are up here"!!
South of the tundra, as a youth, I always heard of "cob corn" as just "corn". The corn minus the cob is "shelled corn".
Also, I once met a farmer who was from Iowa and he purchased a farm NE of the twin cities in WI. He said he realized he had moved too far north when he rounded a corner of the barn and came face-to-face with a bear!!!
Now I love Wisconsin, as we did not have lakes to fish in only a few miles from home back in Grundy Co. Fishing the Beaver Creek for carp and snags was not really much fun.
Also: as a youth I planted corn with a JD290 powered by our mighty IH H. Then picked it with a 2MH mounted on a '52 SM. On that picker, my uncle said he got so cold he would drink 1 cup of coffee and p.. 3 of them!
LA in WI
You mentioned "cob corn". As a native Iowan, I moved to Wisconsin in '73 and when I first heard that term I could not figure out what it meant.
I once told a WI farmer that it is called "Ear corn" and he pointed to his ears and said "Ears are up here"!!
South of the tundra, as a youth, I always heard of "cob corn" as just "corn". The corn minus the cob is "shelled corn".
Also, I once met a farmer who was from Iowa and he purchased a farm NE of the twin cities in WI. He said he realized he had moved too far north when he rounded a corner of the barn and came face-to-face with a bear!!!
Now I love Wisconsin, as we did not have lakes to fish in only a few miles from home back in Grundy Co. Fishing the Beaver Creek for carp and snags was not really much fun.
Also: as a youth I planted corn with a JD290 powered by our mighty IH H. Then picked it with a 2MH mounted on a '52 SM. On that picker, my uncle said he got so cold he would drink 1 cup of coffee and p.. 3 of them!
LA in WI
tomstractorsandtoys1
Member
I agree with your thoughts.Around here everyone watches his neighbor so if he goes broke they can rent his farm before anyone else does.You never tell how much rent you pay as they will go offer $20-30 more per acre to get it away from you.The big farmers with 12 and 24 row planters do not even have time to wave as they pass by.
Goose
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I can relate to that!
When I was in my teens, I was working for a neighbor picking corn. I was picking with an A John Deere and pull type picker, and he was handling the loads. It was cold, windy, and I was freezing on the tractor. Towards noon, the neighbor disappeared for a half hour and when he came back he had a comfort cover for the tractor. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
When I was in my teens, I was working for a neighbor picking corn. I was picking with an A John Deere and pull type picker, and he was handling the loads. It was cold, windy, and I was freezing on the tractor. Towards noon, the neighbor disappeared for a half hour and when he came back he had a comfort cover for the tractor. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
farmalldairy
Member
I to this day pick ear corn for my dairy cows. I pick 30% moisture ear corn to grind and put in a bag for winter. Then I fill a round crib later to grind out out in the summer. This is done with a 234 international picker on a 560. Plant with a 450 diesel and 7000 jd 4 row planter.
Paul from MI
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What I seem to remember most is shoveling all that corn into a wooden crip. We used barge type wagons, and only had one round metal crib to be filled with an elevator. The rest were all the old narrow wooden type, and every shovel full into them meant one shovel full to unload them later on. I am surprised that I wasn"t born with a #14 grain scoop on the end of my left arm instead of a hand. And yes, in Ohio we called it ear corn.
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