Picking corn

Geo-TH,In

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• Sep 7, 2023

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jm.

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Dover TN

• Sep 7, 2023

• #2

Not picking corn shelling corn, and here I thought you were a country boy >>>LOL hope you are doing OK

 

Pete in MD

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Central Maryland

• Sep 7, 2023

• #3

How about combining, that covers picking, husking, and shelling. Know a few people who say cuttin' corn to mean combining.

 

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55 50 Ron

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #4

Maybe call it combining corn as that would cover both picking and shelling.

 

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55 50 Ron

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #5

You beat me to it, Pete.

 

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Geo-TH,In

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #6

In 1955 my dad bought this John Deere.

Before the invention of the combine, farmers pulled a picker/sheller behind their tractors.

I recall man farmers calling my Dad's John Deere a self-propelled picker/sheller.

Is there anyone that was a farmer in 1955? I was only 6 at the time, but my long term memory is better than my short term memory.

My dad also had 3 grain dryers because the first two burnt to the ground making popcorn.

I'm doing well Jerry, how about you?

 

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flying belgian

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #7

Yes 55. I too call it combining corn. One of my nonfarming cousins helped his farming brothers with sobean harvest and he would call it picking beans just to iratate them.

 

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gtractorfan

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #8

Since you're on the subject of combines and corn I remember my dad saying how cheap corn was and how high priced combines were. Now a X9 goes around $1,000,000? How many bushels (profit margin) does it take to pay for one?

 

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4520BW

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #9

Hope to start next week.

 

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ss55

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #10

Today's large combines will probably harvest 10 to 40 million bushels over its life.

 

jm.

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Location

Dover TN

• Sep 7, 2023

• #11

Doing well and yes dad was farming and running an IH dealership in 55 so I was around and in it all.

 

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Geo-TH,In

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #12

Did they call them combines or self propelled pucker/sheller?
Maybe picking corn is a Yankee thing.

 

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SHALER

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #13

Interesting regional lingo. Round my parts, if a combine is in the corn field harvesting corn for grain, it is shelling corn. If doing the same in a wheat or bean field, it is running beans or running wheat. Mildly surprised that in southwest Indiana they are already shelling corn.

 

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Leroy

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #14

Here in Ohio never had or seen a pull type picker-sheller. Went from picking ear corn to shelling corn with a combine. There were shellers made for mounting on a mounted picker but never saw one either. And on farm all my life and monday I turn 80.

 

Vito

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #15

In my neck of the woods if they are cutting corn it means making silage.

Vito

 

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oldwrencher

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #16

I still run a 2 row mounted picker/sheller on an Ih 656 diesel. I have a shucking bed for it, but use a one row pull type picker because the units are hard to change. If i had a concrete pad, maybe not so bad. I only do small acreage

 

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bud from bc

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #17

Up here we call it corn silage

 

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504

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #18

West Central IL,the coen harvest is starting hard this week. Around Macomb they are just trying it,down around Pittsfield they are hitting it hard today.

 

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Smalltowner

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #19

Pic taken Aug 3 in north central Texas. Harvest delayed a week because granaries were full.

 

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J. Schwiebert

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• Sep 7, 2023

• #20

Leroy did you travel much? All the major players had pull type picker shellers and also shelling units for mounted pickers.