Cool Corn Picker: Allis-Chalmers All-Crop and D17 Tractor
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In this video viewers will see a 63 hp Allis-Chalmers D17 tractor harvesting corn with a 2 row All-Crop combine. The video shares history of about farms moving from corn pickers to corn shellers.
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Love Allis Chalmers!!!
Go big muscle allis
When I was a kid we used one of these. My grandpa donated the combine to the historical society in Jewell County Ks. In Mankato Ks. It’s still there.
I really like those Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment from that period. Thanks for sharing
Great video. D17 was my grandfather's big tractor before he passed away. Great to see those old tractors out there working
My dad had a D17 on their farm for raking hay, and various other tasks. Used it almost every day. I’m looking one for myself to mess around with and restore.
When i was a kid, the farmer across the road used an old international open cockpit combine for 300 acres. It only had a four row head on it for corn. He used the same equipment the whole time that i knew. 20 years or more. Seems like today the farmers get new equipment continually. I believe that with enough care and maintenance one really wouldnt need much more than this for the right sized farm.
I like seeing that Old equipment work still pulling corn by hand in southeast Tennessee when that thing was built
Love the sound of that straight piped 6 cylinder diesel engine.
This is so cool. Grandpa had an AC dealership and the farm was all orange. Spent many hours riding on the fender tool box of a D17.
Chalmers and Stratton, the two kings of Milwaukee's heavy industry!
Stratton was nothing compared to Allis Chalmers back in the day
My Dad had a 66 All-Crop.Good combine. Reliable, easy to adjust and repair and greasing it wasn't bad either. Ours had a dual wheel on the grain tank side. Don't know if that was a factory option or not. Recall that the rim was not orange so probably the previous owner installed it on his own. Also had a windrow pickup attachment for swathed grain.
There was a dual wheel AND a tandem wheel option for the AC combines.
its nice to see some old combine harvesters actually working, thanks for showing this
Love this video. I Love your videos of anything Allis Chalmers /AGCO or any of the Brands owned by AGCO. The Allcrop with a cornhead is very Rare to see nowdays other then at a Show. Thank you for videoing it.
Wow, Very cool! Something you don't see often.
I would like to thank you for taking your time explaining the difference between Western Kentucky farming vs Central Illinois farming in the massey-harris tent today
Cool seeing antique AC machinery at work. I'm no farmer however i see that field corn for livestock is much shorter in height compared to human sweet corn plants. Have a restful weekend with kin🚜👍
Maize for silage (dairy corn) is currently towering at almost 3m over here in the Netherlands. Taller than sweet corn over here this is a pretty bad field. Probably why theyre holding this field day there tbh.
You sure you didn't get the two mixed up. Seldom is sweet corn taller than field corn.
@@dwightl5863 I'm not at 100% but I do know that my corn for silage atm is freaking towering. It's gonna break a record this year and I should say that I live in The Netherlands which doesnt have the best climate for sweet corn. I've hauled sweet corn of the field to the factory the past 2 years but they were extremely dry so I can't really compare it to this years maize silage.
Sweet corn is almost always shorter then field corn, but that has to do with it's purpose and how long it takes for the cobs to show up. Sweet corn is usually a "short day" variety that grows to maturity faster then field corn because the cob is intended to taste good so flavor is more important than yield. Field corn like this was either planted early and put in as exceptional short day corn for the specific purpose of this show(so it would be dry in time) or has been a victim of poor growing conditions, and simply grew stunted and that's all the bigger it got before "time's up" and it started to die off and dry. I am willing to bet the owner or club that puts this show on sacrificed a lot of yield and put in a very short day corn so it would be ready for the show.
The scientific mumbo jumbo for coran variety is "growing degree units" which in short means it needs so many hours of warm days and sunlight to reach maturity. Different variety require different amounts of units, which is just easier to group as calander days required, which in turn gets grouped by region. Back 25 years ago when I was involved in growing silage corn and field corn to pick for grinding for feed, we planted anything from low 70 days to mature as a double crop meant for silage(we would then mix it with late crop hay to keep energy levels decent in the feed while putting it in the silo) to low 90's day corn for picking. Comparitively, down in Iowa where they had a little bit longer growing season, they would put in 105-110 day corn, up to 120 even. I have no idea what they put in nowdays, but I do know in my neck of the woods they push waaaay to hard for yeild and end up harvesting in the middle of winter or pouring 100% of the harvest through propane powered drying units because the corn isn't ready.
Further, if the purpose is to make silage for animal feed, a farmer may plant a variety that matures in 85-90 days, but is made to grow super huge and be 12 feet tall at time of harvest because the purpose is volume of plant matter.
When I was younger,my neighbor had a D-17 and a AC D-19.
This D-17 looks like it just rolled out of the AC factory brand new B.T.P.,very impressive 🚜⬅(AC-220)
That's pretty cool corn picker ! My grandpa had a New Idea 2 row mounted picker on a Farmall M .
We called that kind of a wagon a flare box and the barge wagon was wider but not as tall sided as that. However keep the videos coming with the sounds of the machines working and the excellent views and explanations. I usually go to the summer farm toy show in Dyersville Ia and see you filming the new toys and the parade. Thanks for the memories.
I remember growing up in the 1990s in Western NY State and my grandpa had a New Idea corn picker, that he pulled behind a John Deere 620! My brothers and I used to ride on top of the corn in the gravity flow wagon once it got about half full and husk it!
The Cat crawler doing row crop work is an unusual sight, usually it is high standing row crop tractors working in corn fields.
We used the New Idea pickers. One had a sheller on it. We picked ear corn for milk cows and shelled corn for the ewes and lambs. We stored the shelled corn in our chopper wagons and gravity wagons as well as on kicker wagons lined with plywood.
I love the D 17
More of these old corn picker videos please.
If you want to see and ride along with a mounted new Idea picker,check out two of my videos
Jon, we used to be a Allis-Chalmers dealer and my favorite memories of that time was driving a D-17 powered by propane (?) fuel cells pulling a 3-bottom integral plow at a demonstration event . I also recall another one set up as a fixed display on a treadmill equipped with a 4-row front mounted self-steering cultivator . It used curved wands and micro-switches for row centering but I don't recall just how they drove the ( conventional ) steering . But I do recall the fuel cells and tank occupied the space where the motor normally sat . Might be an interesting research project if there's still others alive that worked on them !
There's youtube videos of the fuel cell tractors, I watched them some months back. The old AC and Oliver videos showing R&D are very interesting.
Dont see many left hand header equipment.
Cool Vid, there's actually a small farm near me still using one.
Love that setup, d17 and a allcrop
It is a stand out harvest team.
thanks for taking time to talk to me and my son scott and also meeting jake while you where filming his white 4 wheel drive love your videos on allis and gleaner especialy the old ones
It was good to meet you. It was a great event. It was fun getting all these tractors in one video.
Ahh the good old days!! Looks fun
Nice video. I miss those days. We went from ear corn to combine while dad was farming
I miss those days too. It’s always neat to find these classics.
And now,it's all gone! No fields plowed,no crops planted,no harvesting.A few cattle/ranching outfits. All the farms are chopped up into 5-15 acre "homesites" so investors can build houses for "flipping". That raises the cost of land/taxes for those of who remain. Reminds me of the three dog night song "Cowboy". Listen to the words,and, see if you agree!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Plus, you could get money for the "corn cob" premium also with ear corn.
My grandad talked about picking corn by hand when he was younger. He said it took 3 men a month to pick 40 acres by hand. The machines in this video were huge technological advances in their day. And now we can pick 40 acres in a few of hours. What's next? : )
Great great video BTP
Cool
Thank you for watching.
awesome man.
Thank you b
Nice find!!
I agree that is cool
Ive watched almost every video since i subscribed about a year ago
Hey Big Tractor Power I have a question about the d17 series tractors. How can you tell whether a D17 has a gas or diesel engine in it? Let me know in the comments when you figure that out.
I have the exact same barge wagon and had to frame with four by fours underneath it the same way, I added 16-inch sides to it and it carries 110 bushel
Wow very cool. An AC barge wagon is a rare item these days.
Now this is cool
I have one , how rare is it? I used it last year.
Orange power!
I'm still mad that my dad sold our New Idea 708. That was a good picker.
Hi big tractor power
Plus, the farmers could get a premium price for corn cobs
also. They were used for animal bedding and other things…
nice
Short video, But still good ! 🇺🇸
Unfortunately traveling and being at the show means limited internet service. It took 2:30 minutes to upload this under 5 minute video. Short but hopefully informative.
@@bigtractorpower I am not complaining ! 🇺🇸
Hello
Nice video. But I should get used to seeing it cuz CZcams shows it over and over and over again thanks CZcams.
Thank you for watching. This video always amazed me. It has gotten a ton of views. For some reason the youtube algorithm really likes this one.
@@bigtractorpower nothing personal I like the video but I'm just tired of you to s*** I watch a lot of CZcams and I'm just tired of this s***.
God I need to get back to the farm
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That corn seemed awful low for harvesting. Why are the stalks so short?
Dry weather and late planting. This field is basically a prop to show how the machines work.
It was a short season hybrid (80 day, I think)and a year of crazy weather patterns.
I wonder if my 1939 Ford 9n cold pull that
It would on flat ground I think. I have seen videos of people running square balers with them, this would be similar power wise I think.
@@davenhla i dont think mine would anytime soon im having some mechanical problems with the tractor
Thanks, BTP! Just recently I was wondering if they ever made a pull-type corn picker-sheller, and lo and behold you post this video. So I did an online search for the All-Crop and found this neat period Allis-Chalmers promotional film about them (probably from the 50's). Here is the link: czcams.com/video/R3UFEyHiB0Q/video.html The heads were interchangeable just like on a modern combine, and you could switch from a grain head to a corn head. Thanks again! P.S. -- I just found another video of the All-Crop picking corn, and it does a very good job of showing the close up action of the head and other parts of the combine as it is working in the field. Here is the link for that video: czcams.com/video/RUO4efv9AlY/video.html
The cylinder bars, cylinder and sheet metal didn’t stand up well to corn. Corn would beat the rubber off the rotating bars and the corn itself would wear through the sheet metal plus many other “overstressed” parts failures. Then came the much improved Gleaners. Been there, Done that. What ever happened to tractors that last 75 to 100 plus years? I know of a 1953 Ford Jubilee that’s never been apart, no new clutch, no head gaskets, no anything except maintenance, ever.
Wow that AC needs a muffler!
Is there anywhere to meet you?
I am just going to be out and about filming. I have a BTP film crew T-shirt and hat on.
No wonder farmers were deaf back in the day 😅
Long loud days for sure.
He has no muffler on his tractor. That drives me nuts, chrome straight pipes are put on old tractors for show. Real tractors being used daily you didn't take a muffler off unless you couldn't afford to replace it, nobody that operated a tractor for 12-20 hours a day 7 days a week during harvest or planting would want to listen to that drone. Growing up, Dad and myself would use cotton balls in our ears even with the big muffler that was on our 1030 Case. But chrome straight pipes get the nod for old tractors nowdays for whatever reason.
I wish agco still had an orange tractor😒
I had a All-Crop 66 with a spike tooth cylinder to run my navy beans
Gleaner combines, its not by accident they're called the "Silver Seeder"
Darwin C, only by people that know nothing about combines or how to run them
@@douglaskattau9241 exactly