10 Corn Pickers That Were Decades Ahead of Their Time
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Before the combine took over, inventors built corn harvesters so advanced that many farmers didn't know what to make of them. Some could pick and shell corn in one pass. Others let one machine harvest multiple crops. One even drove itself decades before self-propelled harvesting became the norm. Most disappeared, but their ideas shaped the future of agriculture.
In this documentary, we explore the forgotten history of the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Corn Picker, Minneapolis-Moline Uni-Farmor, New Idea Uni-Harvester, Rosenthal Cornbine, International Harvester 234, Ford One-Row Picker-Sheller, John Deere 227 with No. 50 Sheller, Pull-Type Picker-Shellers, John Deere No. 300, and the legendary Two-Row Mounted Pickers that transformed American farming.
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Had a husker at first
Had a sheller later
Pulled with a 190 xt allis
In 1970s
10 Corn Pickers That Were Decades Ahead of Their Time
True Machines
25,245 views
Before the combine took over, inventors built corn harvesters so advanced that many farmers didn't know what to make of them. Some could pick and shell corn in one pass. Others let one machine harvest multiple crops. One even drove itself decades before self-propelled harvesting became the norm. Most disappeared, but their ideas shaped the future of agriculture.
In this documentary, we explore the forgotten history of the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Corn Picker, Minneapolis-Moline Uni-Farmor, New Idea Uni-Harvester, Rosenthal Cornbine, International Harvester 234, Ford One-Row Picker-Sheller, John Deere 227 with No. 50 Sheller, Pull-Type Picker-Shellers, John Deere No. 300, and the legendary Two-Row Mounted Pickers that transformed American farming.
If you enjoy vintage farm machinery, classic tractors, agricultural history, and forgotten farming inventions, Like, Subscribe, and turn on notifications for more videos every week!
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True Machines does not fully own the material compiled in this video. It belongs to individuals or organizations that deserve respect.
We use under Copyright Disclaimer, Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. "Fair Use" is permitted for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, and teaching. scholarships and research.
For any commercial/general/copyright inquiries
Contact : deepheavy700@gmail.com
I remember picking corn with a mounted picker was a very dirty job on cold windy days. I got so much dust in my eyes that they were very sore. Combines with climate controlled cabs made that job so much better.
One of the features of early corn pickers is- most of them did "not" have stripper plates above the snapping (or stalk) rolls. That caused a lot of kernel shelling on the ends of the ears, which then went on the ground. One reason for not having stripper plates was that snapping rollers removed more of the husks and residue so the ears were cleaner going into a storage crib. But not having stripper plates caused increased kernels losses.
Combines solved that problem since they use stripper plates. The combine removed all of the residue in the cleaning sieves after the cylinder had shelled the corn.
But the major advancement was storing shelled corn in a grain bin after drying and careful aeration. Ear corn storage in cribs had rodent issues and more spoilage risks. Then we had to rake ear corn out of a crib into a corn sheller's dragline I sure don't miss that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!