Remember having to hand pick corn with the 1946 John Deere LA n trailer then shoveling into crib. Then got a case 2 row picker n an elevator made picking n unloading so much easier. Always hated when it snowed. So cold. Miss those days. Got a nice set up.
@charlesleedy7561
4 ай бұрын
My uncle explained to me once why those 2-cylinder engines were unstoppable. Because it's only two cylinders the bore/pistons were much larger and the stroke much longer than those of 4/6 cylinder tractors. As he, and many other people, said: "that force has to go somewhere."
@hermantuinstra118
10 ай бұрын
This is the kinda farming that I grew up with. Nice to see the values of hard work and the rewards of it hasn't changed.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
l'm doing my best to carry on the tradition.🤠
@richardbailey7849
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your farm life , ❤we love it . Grew up in the Missouri Ozarks mountains . Raised on a beef cattle farm and sawmill that my grandfather ran . He would buy farms for back taxes owed and them log them with a team of horses. Love this way of life . Hard work but so worth it !
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
I agree Richard, It's the best way of life, especially for bringing up a family.
@gregjohnston9287
10 ай бұрын
Good memories of a 620 John Deere in Wisconsin in 1958. Biggest tractor on Pleasant Ridge at that time.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
A 620 can handle a lot of work.🤠
@Varietywork264.
10 ай бұрын
I like the way you have the golf cart decked out. Pretty good idea
@charlesterviel5748
10 ай бұрын
Good old johnie popper, duct tape an mech wire..😊u brought back some memories 😊😊
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Charles, good to hear from you!
@Irishsaxon
11 ай бұрын
You farm like me. Old equipment, slow pace, make it work. Makes me look forward to spring already and it ain't but Nov. 2. I'll be doing some fall plowing here soon. That will be good.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Hey Irish! l Love turning the soil too!
@bobbyblair1084
10 ай бұрын
Good job brings back memories
@rogercarroll1663
11 ай бұрын
Great video. Great commentary. Thank you for sharing.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words Roger!
@jeffferanec4526
11 ай бұрын
Looking good Bill, thank you for bringing us along.
@CuriousEarthMan
11 ай бұрын
nice work! Thanks for making this and sharing it! I like the string pickin' too!
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Curious Earth Man!
@joutdoorsmen23
11 ай бұрын
The ole red and green show LOL, the electric motors would be a lot better then them Beasts Y’all’s are building up there Bill, and yes 78 degrees today here Almost Heaven WV, God Bless Bill, keep them wonderful videos, and yes I’m always looking forward to them especially Tractor Church ⛪️
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Good to hear from you Joe!
@floridagunrat1625
10 ай бұрын
Love that old John Deere 620 you got. I've got an old 430 w from 1958 that I grew up on as a kid. Nice little spread you got there. Love seeing the cows in the morning fog!
@mikeherber8358
10 ай бұрын
I have a 530 not sure the difference what that diifrence is.
@floridagunrat1625
10 ай бұрын
@mikeherber8358 Cool! My parents bought an orange grove when I was a kid and the John deere came with it. I ran it for many years, bushhogging the Johnson grass and grading the dirt road in the orange grove. These tractors were a stop-gap design before the introduction of the "new generation" line was introduced. Basically, the difference was the size and horse power of the machine. My tractor has a wide front axle, but my understanding is that the "W" refers to "row crop/utility."
@staceygay6400
11 ай бұрын
You are a hard workin joker love it man
@tractortalkwithgary1271
11 ай бұрын
Full watch and a thumbs up 👍🏻 Bill.
@kswaynes7569
11 ай бұрын
Good feed for the cattle, good crop with cattle manure. Nubbins make feed too. We had temps in the 80’s earlier in the week but now in the high 50’s. Cold weather is coming.
@gregrhodes8451
11 ай бұрын
Enjoyed your video my friend
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Great to hear from you Greg! Glad you liked it.
@georgedeppner418
11 ай бұрын
Looks like a pretty nice day, Bill
@johnziegler3695
11 ай бұрын
Sounds like you're tractor was only running on 2 cylinders lol
@DaveH046
10 ай бұрын
Just gotta love the ol Johnny Popper
@ScottAlexander-k4j
11 ай бұрын
Still love your videos u make some good ones growed up doing what u do
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Scott! lt's a great way of life.
@markrand290
10 ай бұрын
I just found your channel. Remind me of all time good for you you got her done buddy looks good to me.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Mark, glad to have you with us!
@johnhenderson299
11 ай бұрын
Great video
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@deerejohn6074
11 ай бұрын
Good job!! Get ur done
@jeffblackwell6338
11 ай бұрын
Is that elevator a Sam Mulkay? That's what we have. Thank you again for the videos. Enjoy very much! God bless you brother!
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Yes, Thanks!
@hobert497
11 ай бұрын
Your tractors always sound well maintained...
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@tractortalkwithgary1271
11 ай бұрын
Looks like fun Bill
@tractortalkwithgary1271
11 ай бұрын
The corn did amazing here this fall Bill. We went more than 4 months with no rain. The corn averaged 193 bu / acre at 15.9% moisture content. The soybeans in one field did amazing. The other field where they were no tilled into sod weren’t worth the fuel to go after them. Barely 20 bu/ acre.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Hey Gary! Yeah, the weather conditions in our region varied greatly, we had great rains at the right times, others not far from us were dry. l'm glad the corn there did so well. l did not have a great experience with no till any time l tried it with my corn, minimum till is about what l can make work. lt was great to hear a harvest report from you!
@lukestrawwalker
10 ай бұрын
Wow you in Texas?? We went four months with no rain here... powderhouse!
@tractortalkwithgary1271
10 ай бұрын
@@lukestrawwalker , no sir. We are in Iowa
@lukestrawwalker
10 ай бұрын
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 wow didn't know y'all got that dry, what part of Iowa? I love Iowa, had a girlfriend up in Clarion back in the late 90's... Beautiful state. Got inlaws now in northern Indiana, helped on their corn/bean farm for a number of years
@tractortalkwithgary1271
10 ай бұрын
@@lukestrawwalker , we are up in the northeastern part of the state. We had several small rains all around us . We had .02 inches in 4 months here. The crops had to have survived on sub- soil moisture. We will see what next year brings us.
@oldfarmerdan
2 ай бұрын
Not real familiar with whole ear pickin", but remember seeing people throw them to a pen of sows once. Do you feed them to your cows also? What are the reasons for using whole ears, versus just keeping the corn kernels?
@CharlesEiker
10 ай бұрын
How do you get the corn to all go in the crib without a hood on the end of your elevator?
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
l guess l just got good aim. 😁Really, l'm thinking the electric motor doesn't turn it as fast so the corn doesn't get thrown far.
@bradlewis5496
10 ай бұрын
Why old machines run many years had to grease them? Not these dumb sealed bearings that burn out
@lukestrawwalker
10 ай бұрын
grease needle is your best friend with sealed bearings... sealed bearings are junk. They put one pea-size dollop of low-grade clear grease in them, that's it, usually up by the seal not even in the raceway or on the balls... no wonder they're junk
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
11 ай бұрын
New Idea made awesome pickers! Surprised that you don't have a mounted 2 row instead of a pull type. Isn't that a Sam Mulkey elevator?
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Good eye!
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
11 ай бұрын
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 I have some experience with "experienced" equipment. 😂
@turbodog99
10 ай бұрын
Non gmo is meaningless when the corn is contaminated by used motor oil
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
Ha Ha Ha!!!😄😁😆🤠
@tractortalkwithgary1271
11 ай бұрын
Hydraulic motors do a better job than a tractor pto too
@RobertMoore-gz4wy
11 ай бұрын
Good job bill. What population. Did you plant thanks
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
@@RobertMoore-gz4wy Hey Robert! You know l'm more of a mechanic than a farmer, almost flunked Ag. class in high school, l'm embarrassed to say l don't know what population, l can tell you the seeds are planted about 4 to 5 in. apart. On the silage l tighten up the distance a little.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
11 ай бұрын
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 42000 seeds/acre? Just a guess by the spacing, based on 30" rows. But if you are wider, # goes down.
@lukestrawwalker
10 ай бұрын
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 what row spacing?? On 40 inch rows we farmed on, there's 156,816 row/inches per acre, so dividing that out by 4-5 inches between seeds, that'd be about between 31,000 and 39,000 seeds/acre, figure 80% germination (multiply by .80) would give you about 25,000-30,000 plants/acre... Different row spacing is different of course-- 30 inch rows is (43,560 sqft/acre times 12 inches/ft divide by row spacing (30 inches)= 17,424 row feet/acre times 12 inches/foot= 209,088 row inches/acre). Divide row inches per acre by seed spacing in inches to get population. Divide row inches per acre by desired population to get seed spacing in inches. When we planted soybeans in 40 inch rows at 150,000 population, that was about a 1 inch spacing. Grain sorghum at 80,000 population was about 2 inch spacing, and cotton at 50,000 was about a 3 inch spacing.
@wcox4
11 ай бұрын
I take it you're a Red-Green fan as well???
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, it just slipped out!
@hm12460
10 ай бұрын
You just gotta love a John Deere 620.
@peteverhelst2088
11 ай бұрын
You sure you aren’t Canadian using duct tape the way you do?
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
What's that comment all aboot, aay?
@markrand290
10 ай бұрын
How about about three layers of cattle fence eight and some kind of a cable on each end of next year when you have this problem you could just hook it up to the tractor and pull that whole damn pile over to the gate opening You can thank me later I’m a regular genius
@lovedadonald.
11 ай бұрын
Sure makes me miss Aquasco and Benedict where i was raised but its way too damn blue there now and i wont ever go back there ! Our tractors we're always persian orange LOL ! I enjoyed your video and ill keep an eye on you from here on out. Fjb/letsgobrandon. TRUMP 2024 MAGA and proud to be an AMERICAN and not a commie democrap or rino.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Proud to have you in the viewing audience!
@lovedadonald.
11 ай бұрын
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 Thank you Bill, I subscribed to your channel and I'm all set. Cold weather headed your way, have a good weekend !
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
@@lovedadonald. 👍😁
@stewcrane3441
10 ай бұрын
Like others here this takes me back to my growing up on the farm (central western Indiana and the 50s) days. I have cultivated two row corn and 2 row picked it. Ears, not Kernels. Ground up makes nice Hamburger and Ham Sandwiches. Smallest picker I had seen was 2 row till this. Living history. Keep it greased. Like many here, I have also hand scooped a lot of ear corn from the crib, to the crib, around the crib (out of the way). Our feed (corn) chopper was run off the tractor but stayed in the barn blew into a holding bin. Piggies (hogs) liked it. So did the chickens. I'm 78 now and wonder how much scoop corn I could handle.
@rollienewton2192
10 ай бұрын
I'm 78 and from South Western Indiana and we had about the same setup on the farm as you. Maybe start a go fund me so he an get a 70 year old 2 row picker. What a step up that would be.
@nathanalmond8280
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing the video Bill. I always enjoyed picking corn growing up. Miss it. I like feeding ear corn. Be safe working.
@drknockers5716
10 ай бұрын
Love your video
@jvin248
10 ай бұрын
Corn looks great! I like you are using open pollinated corn and no external inputs. I found heirloom corn like Reid's Yellow Dent I've grown has 3x the protein content of most hybrid/gmo corn and generally more nutrition, so it's great for the livestock.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
Thanks! lt's great to hear from other guys who are keeping the old superior corn varieties going.
@lukestrawwalker
10 ай бұрын
Yep modern hybrid corn bred for max yield of starch, for energy/fermentation. Protein is what you BUY to add with it (soybean meal) LOL:) OR you can go with the hierloom stuff that produces the way it was intended to...
@alan-dr8uo
10 ай бұрын
Rember getting off school bus and seeing a wagon load of corn by the corn crib dad picked before work i had to shovel off hit a loose nail from time to time didnt like it but i would go back to it in a second
@richardwilkens4577
11 ай бұрын
Aleast you didn't have to spend a bunch on seed
@sarah_farm
9 ай бұрын
Honestly, I've always been watching all your videos and whenever I watch, it's giving me a calm and relaxing vibes and a positive energy. Also, your videos help me relieve my stress. Always take care and so is your family. Thank you for always giving us these wonderful videos ❤
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
9 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy watching. I think you are feeling calm and relaxing vibes from my faith in God and Jesus Christ. You would like to watch this I think. goodandevilbook.com/english/ or goodandevilbook.com/languages/
@ronzezulka6646
11 ай бұрын
Hey Bill,,,good to see harvest turned out well. Corn looked great.
@dwalke26
11 ай бұрын
That 620, don’t sound like that picker strained it very much at all.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
11 ай бұрын
1 row on dry ground, that 620 had a cake walk. I'm sure it would holler if it was not as perfect of weather. 👍
@willcojak9650
4 ай бұрын
I like greasing better than fixin burned up bearings'
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
4 ай бұрын
Amen brother!
@dundonrl
10 ай бұрын
Keep on a pickin & grinnin..
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
10 ай бұрын
Ha Ha, l'll keep goin' as long as l'm able!
@jamespeacock7202
10 ай бұрын
Exactly how I was raised up. Almost same equipment
@TNJohnDeeretractornut
8 ай бұрын
Real good way to go
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
8 ай бұрын
Thanks Reuben, good to hear from you!
@marvincook4543
10 ай бұрын
"Ps need a New Idea 325 Two row .."NON Roll "HuskingnBED "
@StanleyHeinzelman
10 ай бұрын
A 325 is a,narrow row picker , a 324 is what would work here, but the 323 probably is his best choice for his operation. I started with a NI number 10 picker, then a 324 . My last picker i used was a JD 300 , now that was a great picker, but would not fit this great video. Oh , wonder why the dogs were around the crib , it was game time, rats !!!
@kcoers
11 ай бұрын
Good idea about running an electric motor on the dump!
@bradleyhughes6853
11 ай бұрын
What model of New Idea is that picker? Looks very similar to one I have seen in pictures, from before my grandpa traded his New Idea for the 101 semi-mounted picker that we still have.
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Hey Bradley, l honestly don't know what model it is, I'll see if l can read it on the serial # tag.
@midwayfarms
11 ай бұрын
Good video God bless
@meandthemrs7403
11 ай бұрын
You've got that "new" equipment. My grandpa used a 60 with a mounted JD picker. Was there any difference between the 60 and the 620, other than the yellow stripe?
@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
11 ай бұрын
Yes, they did a total revamp on the engine.
@kswaynes7569
11 ай бұрын
@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 Used more gasoline too but put out a little more effort than a 60.
@meandthemrs7403
11 ай бұрын
Didn't know that.@@so.md.dirtfarmer2226
@cjklemm08
11 ай бұрын
Corn looks good
@nathanburgess4928
11 ай бұрын
👍👍
@markwickk
10 ай бұрын
Old school farming..fix and repair daily..but thats ok...keeps you razor sharp..be safe..
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