Corn Picking with Ford and Wood Bros
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2011
- Corn Picking with a 1939 Ford 9-N and a 1953 Dearborn-Wood Bros. corn picker. The corn is being picked near Waterford WI. on a windy November day. Danica Hulbert is "helping" her "Grandpa Jer" Jerry Hulbert with the corn picking. Later, the corn is unloaded into a 1920's crib using an IH barge wagon and a JD elevator powered by a case 830 running a Winpower generator. Video by Jason Hulbert, Danica's dad.
Great video! Enjoyed seeing this old equipment in action, and it brought back some great memories of corn harvest forty and more years ago.
Things are so different today, and very seldom for the better.
Beats the heck out of hand picking which we did up to the 70's. Always had a few acres for grinding corn w a hammer mill. Cow and hogs ate it all
Grew up with one of these, Dad ranit behind a JD A, and a IH H, and at the end a David Brown 1200(overkill HP haha). We had a little Kills Bros gravity box for it. Upgraded to a two row New Idea. I was pretty little when we ran this unit, but I still remember those crazy drive belts on the back, long twisty things.
I have a Wood Brothers one row picker. It is an old gray one from before Ford Dearborn took over. I have had it to our local fall show to pick corn and used it here at home for ear corn to burn in the wood stove.
There is no gear box on a Dearborn picker. A "V" belt with a twist runs the snapping mechanism and a single bevel gear runs the husking rolls and elevator. Simple and cheap to manufacture. Advertised as being the most "popular" picker in America. There was a reason. But, could't handle the high-yielding hybrids of the later 50's. Still fun to play with!
Yes my dad was around 1 too. If got crowded it would plug in the elevater.
We had one for a while.I got to use it once but had trouble with the shelled corn saver chain breaking.I want to try one again in the future.It was supposed to be one of the cleaner husking pickers and won a lot of contest.I thought my neighbors shelled as much in the row as my #7 new idea. have to get one and get them both fixed up and adjusted up and try them.Good reaswon to collect another picker! ;) Awesome video! I've watched it before and had to watch it again.
Awesome video
Thanks, glad you liked it
Jerry
We had an old co op picker when I was a kid. It was also a left hand picker. Don't see many of them
Very few sold in our area. Weak dealer network. Wood Bros was most popular. It worked well (for the yields of its time} and was relatively inexpensive. Mostly small dairy farms in our area.
It shells the least of all the pickers I use. Leaves quite a few husks on, but for feeding the cobs it was ok. I think it may have been the cheapest picker you buy in the 50s. It was advertised as the most popular picker in the US.
Many updates were added to old tractors through the years. It does have the left brake and clutch pedal next to each other. Not a good idea if you have only one left foot. I have since sold the tractor to someone who wanted to restore it.
@@muskegoboy I hated that arrangement especially when backing up a trailer. Did that Ford also have a 3 speed gearbox with an overdrive?
Dwight L the 9-N has just the standard transmission. 1st gear is a little too fast in heavy corn. Backing a 4-wheeled wagon with a picker is like trying to push a rope around a corner.😂
@@muskegoboy That describes it very well.
Is there a gear box on the PTO shaft about in the middle of the machine? Or does the shaft run all the way to the back before the power is turned 90 degrees?
No gearbox on the PTO shaft. It goes all the way to the back of the machine and a belt transfers power. There is a set of right angle gears on each side to run gathering chains but they are open with no "box' .
We have two 8ns it would probably pull it pretty nice
gotta git me a 9N . add to small , growing collection .
That's not a 9N. It's painted like an 8N for starts, but 9N's didn't have running boards. It might be a 2N also.