plowing corn pics

Thats what my great grandad called it, plowing corn. We planted this corn way later than we really wanted to. The wet spring kept me busy with real farming activities. This field is 15 acres of corn that we will harvest and put in the crib. It is planted in 40" rows at a population in the mid 20's. We also have a patch of pumpkins again this year. We planted them about the first of July and they are growing like crazy along with what will be some late season sweet corn.





A Farmall M, Oliver 70, and JD B hard at work in the pictures above.



A view from the seat of a 1951 B pushing a 290 cultivator.



This tractor belonged to my grandad. Looks just like it did when I was a kid riding around on the step with him. You can see the corn from last fall still in the crib. Anybody want to come help shell? I'm sure I'll get some pics when we do it if ya cant be here. Oh, the bin is full too so bring a shovel.



This is my friend nick cultivating the pumpkins we have planted. This tractor belonged to his grandfather as well as the cultivator. This year we planted alternating rows of pumpkins then sweet corn. So as the planter was going across the field it was planting two rows of each. We will see if this works.



The corn in the background was planted on May 6th and is doing pretty well.

Waht do you have for a corn sheller and what do you power it with? What kind of drive; power take-off or flat belt? I shelled corn with a #6 John Deere PTO driven by Farmall 560D. We used M&M drags mostly to get corn from crib to sheller. Armand

Well I've got a couple shellers. We usually start by pulling my JD 43 up next to the door and let some run into it. When it quits running out we break out the MM 1200 pto drive machine. Have used several different things to run it, A, 60, 70D, 720D. Seems like if the corn is dry it doesnt take much power at all. Just picked up a JD 71 sheller in IA last weekend so may try to use it this year.
bill

Yep, "plowing corn" is what we called over in central Indiana. I once "laid by" 40 acres in one day with our '43 B and a two-row cultivator. Must have just been scraping the surface, as I remember running in 4th (maybe 3rd) gear. Had some rows with stalks missing when we picked it though...I wonder why.

Stan

Stan I had corn that did that also.

We called it Iron Desease.

Gary

You had to go 2 mph or less and my dad called it two row'n.

Gary,

I never heard it called that, but that would be right.

Stan

Bill, I might need some ear corn. Any intrest in selling any??? I'm in Galesburg.

Jim Thurnau