Shelling a little corn

Tom OConnor · Nov 22, 2017

The boys were shelling the field behind my house today. Just took the opportunity to take a few pictures.

larry@stinescorner · Nov 22, 2017

Nice pictures!

tractorguy2 · Nov 22, 2017

I was expecting to see a corn sheller belted to a tractor. Nice picture though.

WI Dan · Nov 22, 2017

How many 45s would equal that one S series?
Impressive!

WI Dan · Nov 22, 2017

Or...is your pulltype a 42?

Tom OConnor · Nov 22, 2017

Thanks for the complement Larry. This will probably be the last year to see this view as we have just sold this house and we are having a new home built just east of Phoenix. Next year we should have an entirely different view, something like these new pictures.

cumminspuller · Nov 22, 2017

Tom, are you taking your collection to Phoenix with you? Or were you able to get it in the museum you mentioned to me before? Did you get the 205 corn head all finished up restoring that you got from me? Thanks for the pictures. Majority of the corn is done here. Lot of cotton and beans still left in the fields.

Tom OConnor · Nov 22, 2017

I have tried for the past several years to get the collection in to a museum but have not been able to do so. I am crowding eighty years old and it would take about seven or eight semi loads to move them out to Arizona and I really do not have room for them out there. They are all going to the Mecum Spring Auction next April in Davenport, Iowa. I would have loved to been able to keep them all together but most museums are completely full or do not want all John Deere equipment. I did get the corn head finished and I will post some pictures of it. I thought it really turned out well.

big tee · Nov 22, 2017

Nice pictures, You have got to be one of the best painters in the world! You can make that Deere green shine---Tee

Tom OConnor · Nov 22, 2017

There are some far superior products on the market today than Deere had to work with sixty years ago and I have some great team help on all of the things restored. Dan Yeck and Henry Delbridge are the one's that deserve the credit not only the painting but making parts that are no longer available.

gtractorfan · Nov 22, 2017

Where will it end?-- the size increase. Will there be 24 row 30" headers? The grain cart in the pictures looks like a side dumper, don't think I've seen one used for corn before.

fixerupper · Nov 22, 2017

(quoted from post at 15:09:36 11/22/17) How many 45s would equal that one S series?
Impressive!

That Deere is capable of probably 5000 bushels per hour if everything clicks right. My 105 averaged 500 bushels per hour, but I'm thinking it could do 600 if I unloaded on the go and had a 643 corn head on front instead of that power robbing gargantuan 635. So that's 8.3 105's to one Deere like the one we see. How many 45's? Maybe 18 if a 45 could do 275 bushels per hour. Your results might vary!

NY 986 · Nov 22, 2017

I am going to undertake a couple implements in terms of reconditioning and I could only hope to do as well as you did. Maybe I will get lucky and experience a windfall so I can buy a couple of yours when the sale happens.

Tom OConnor · Nov 22, 2017

The grain cart is a Richardson and when you have to dump out on the road it is much faster than a auger wagon. With a little practice you can really dump three hundred bushels in just a couple of minutes. There is also a camera mounted on the wagon with the screen in the cab of the tractor that lets you see what you are doing and how full the truck is. Don't let me mislead anyone, push a hydraulic control the wrong way at a certain time and you can make yourself a real mess.

WGM · Nov 23, 2017

If it ain?t green you ain?t farmin?

cumminspuller · Nov 25, 2017

Thanks for the pictures Tom. It did turn out well. You do excellent work. I hate you weren't able to get them all in a museum. I'm sure they will Dowell at Mecum though. Moving just things you need to live is good chore from Michigan to Arizona much all that equipment!

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