I have to tell this long winded story. I was about 4 in ‘59. My Dad had a Co-op E-3 on the Case chopper. Middle of the field was wet. When he couldn’t pull it he would stop and hook the Farmall H in front with chain and take the slack out. I would get on the H and hanging onto the steering wheel push the clutch in. He would reach up and put it in gear and told me to release the clutch when he waved his hand. He’d get on the Co-op, wave his hand and off we’d go. I didn’t have to worry about steering as the tractor front wheels followed the rear tire rut from the previous pass. I distinctly remember asking him how I would know when to stop, he said if I stopped moving to push the clutch in. When we would get thru the worst he would push in the clutch on the Co-op and the H, unable to pull it all would start to spin and I would push the clutch in and hold it. He would come up, put it in neutral, get me off, get the H out of the way and continue to the end of field with the Co-op. And so it would go row after row. I’ve always remembered this like it was yesterday. And by the way, I have the Co-op and the H. I remember years later pulling with 3. Farmall 460, the H and the Co-op. That time he fastened a piece of sheet metal under the chopper so it would slide better without as much mud pushing up into moving parts.
@riveredgefarm860
10 ай бұрын
That's an awesome story I'm only 35 and my first tractor I drove was an H when I was about 5 we still have it and use it to pull hay wagons
@oldamericaniron5767
10 ай бұрын
@@riveredgefarm860 Thankyou
@jameskelley8839
10 ай бұрын
mid 60's we had similar conditions...single row Gehl chopper pulled by two 3010's in tandem....alongside, pulling a wagon were a IH 300 and Super H....doubt if we ever got the wagon half full, given the chopper wanting to go sideways. My cousin and I, both in our teens thought we could do more by hand chopping it and carrying it to a single stationary location.. a JD B would have been the rescue tractor. We did give up.
@BarnyardEngineering
11 ай бұрын
I remember falls like that years ago. Some of my first real tractor driving experience was trying to stay out in front of Dad through the mud.
@koreymartinson7238
11 ай бұрын
No way was the weather like this that long ago it's a climate crisis! Lol. Sorry I had to. Not like our weather patterns just go in cycles!
@br927
11 ай бұрын
years ago, I chopped corn that way-620 JD, NH 717, and pulled with an IH 500C! BUT never that bad!
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
Ya this year was especially bad we were doing first cutting hay along with 2nd
@markloomis1415
11 ай бұрын
I always put an old 10ply truck tire between the tractors to take up the shock on the chain. It acts like a rubber band!
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
That's not a bad idea thanks for the tip
@Countryboy316
4 ай бұрын
I remember those days
@kenhill3135
10 ай бұрын
We had multiple falls like that when I was dairy farming. A couple things we did to help keep the chopper straight and up out of the mud was 20 inch truck tires on the chopper and extend the left axle out far enough to get the chopper wheel running in the tractor's rut. Had to add on a couple feet of tube to get it out far enough but it really helps.
@richardjohnson5883
11 ай бұрын
We sure need some of your rain in East Tennessee. Some years the weather fights you every step of the way. Looks like a really nice 986 you have.
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
It was a rough year with the rain for sure. Ya the 986 is our "big" tractor on the farm excellent running tractor
@haulingit1793
11 ай бұрын
that john deere tractor needs new front tires real bad
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
Ya it does if only tires were affordable lol
@jamesbuck3818
11 ай бұрын
Yupp thats Soupy!.. Chopping corn with my Dad in VT with an Alis HD-8.... Up hlll...
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
Ya we almost had to use the HD6 but didn't come down to it thankfully
@crtomirrozman
11 ай бұрын
Old school. I remember from my childhood; the state farm nearby had similar choppers (Mengele TH2 and driven by Zetor Crystal 12045). Private farms had mostly 1 row harvesters made by SIP (Slovenia, former Yugoslavia). I used to take a bike and drove to the corn fields and watched. Today almost everything is done by 8 row self propelled harvesters. Usually the tractors needed to be pulled when driving on the sillage pit.
@everydaydave
11 ай бұрын
Call me silly but how do you harvest whole Cole, like corn on a cob?
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
So the corn chopper takes the stalk and the ears and shreds everything to a wood shaving size
@wolfeislandexcavating5426
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video Will you feed that to cows or stockers?
@riveredgefarm860
11 ай бұрын
your welcome!! this will be fed out to the cows over the winter before they head out to pasture in the spring
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