The old966 and I started another years corn crop

Bruce from Can. · Sep 16, 2016

My Forty year old 966IH preformed like a champ chopping corn again today. Got the out side rounds off, and it doesn't rain I can go back at it tomorrow. I work away at it myself for the most part. Karl , my son helps out packing the bunk when he has time. Few days , and it will be all chopped for another year. Thing is , I like the visual screen a field of corn provides. Once it is gone..... we as so exposed to the road. Bruce

Wisconsin Cowman · Sep 16, 2016

No mud your drier then what we are.

JimB2 · Sep 16, 2016

Bruce, your corn crop looks better than some around here. Rain was very spotty this summer.
I bet there was lots of crud came out of the muffler on the first couple rounds.
I kind of miss chopping corn in September.
JimB

Moline_guy · Sep 16, 2016

Nice corn and machinery, I am surprised how green everything is there, it looks like the end of October around here. That is a nice grove of evergreen trees, none of those around our area. That looks like a super sharp black stripe 966, they have appreciated quite a bit the past few years.

Eldon (WA) · Sep 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 17:04:08 09/16/16) My Forty year old 966IH preformed like a champ chopping corn again today. Got the out side rounds off, and it doesn't rain I can go back at it tomorrow. I work away at it myself for the most part. Karl , my son helps out packing the bunk when he has time. Few days , and it will be all chopped for another year. Thing is , I like the visual screen a field of corn provides. Once it is gone..... we as so exposed to the road. Bruce

As a kid, I always loved cutting that last row and looking back at a nice clean field...same way now with my sweetcorn fields...soon as I get them picked out I mow them down with the 8' Bush Hog.

Tech 7 · Sep 16, 2016

Hey Bruce is that an 892 harvester? We used to stuff 250 acres of corn through one of those every year for a lot of years (tractor was green though)

Don-Wi · Sep 17, 2016

We've got an 892 that we've had for maybe 4 years now. We run it with an Oliver 1855. To split the fields we put our Massey 285 on it as it can straddle the rows better. Go down the middle in one or 2 spots, then turn around right away and pick up what we ran down. After that the 1855 can go back on.

Donovan from Wisconsin

8NHENRY · Sep 17, 2016

Nice pictures Bruce, I can almost smell the fresh cut silage.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 17, 2016

This Harvester is a 789 , next size down . Picked it up at a auction few years ago in near new condition for 5 grand . I already had a 892 at home that I was using . So I use the 789 to cut corn , as it is the newer of the two , even though it is smaller . I figure that cutting corn is a tougher job than chopping hay . We pulled 4 knives out of the 892 so that it would chop the hay a bit longer , and use it on hay now only . Changing heads was always a pain , changing harvesters is easy . Bruce

Bruce from Can. · Sep 17, 2016

892 is a good machine Don,they will cut a lot of corn for you. I to split the field
with the 966, then run back down and try to pick up bent over corn . The tires of the
tractor , harvester , and wagon all straddle the corn , so I can pick up most of the
bent down crop. I still plant 36 inch rows and I think that helps some too. I only
grow Silage variety corn , and from what I have read , it does better in wide rows
than in narrow . Better light penetration ,perhaps ,or maybe the plants being farther
apart the moisture works out better. Still plant 30,000 seed population .

Bruce from Can. · Sep 17, 2016

Funny how things change . When I was a kid , we never cut corn till after frost .I have vivid memories of freezing my button a open tractor in the end of October . Snow in the air so times , and Halloween candy in my pocket ,lol. Oh yeah , almost for got ...MUD.

Allan in NE · Sep 17, 2016

Good on ya!

Spent many a day doing just that on a 966!

Allan

rrlund · Sep 17, 2016

OH MAN! Don't you know better than start a job on Friday? You'll never get done. I'm holding off until Monday to start.

centash · Sep 17, 2016

Good looking crop and Machines! I always liked cutting corn, did so for forty years, always with a NH harvester. Sold all the silage equipment a few years ago when we downsized, but still get asked to help my brother and cousin...which I don't mind at All! Ben

Bruce from Can. · Sep 17, 2016

Was it Friday yesterday ? Didn't notice , let me know if there is going to be one next week too.lol

Donald Lehman · Sep 17, 2016

800 NH 2 row behind a S88 Oliver. Pulling false end gate wagons on the side with a 88 Oliver and a JD 50. A radio on the 88 so we could all keep up on the World Series! Allis Chalmers table type belt driven blower. 30 Cockshutt on the blower. Hook up the wagon jack and two men forking off the load as the end gate is cranked back. Memories that make you smile.

Yup, that's the Cockshutt with the hole in the block that we sealed with a wooden plug whittled out of a tree branch. Worked the snot outta that tractor blowing corn and the thing never missed a beat for years. Had to be the best $125 Pop ever spent in his entire life. Memories that made you smile for sure.

1955 Oliver on a 830 two row Oilver chopper. For all of it's faults, a 310 turbo with a straight pipe on full governor pulled down to about 2,000 rpms. is one of the sweetest sounds you'll ever hear. It's kind of like the Jimmys. It has a sound all it's own. Nothing else sounds like it.

jim buford · Sep 17, 2016

When I was a kid we picked corn in Oct and Nov by hand and pitched into a wagon pulled by mules then unloaded with a scoop. Can't get any more low tech than than but few things wore out except us.

rrlund · Sep 17, 2016

By next Friday I hope to be half done. Starting a job on Friday or working on Sunday,call it an old wives tale,but neither ever seems to work out.

Don-Wi · Sep 18, 2016

We like the 892. Never plug it in corn with only the 18 pulling it, but it runs just as easy, or easier, than the Fox did that we replaced. I think it's a few pounds lighter as well which helps in the mud. Not sure how much we'll chop this year. The whole farm is up for sale, and that's a whole nother story for another day.

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