Going to take a while to fill that brock bin. I'm guessing from the pics its around 150000-200000-bushel bin. May be bigger I can't tell how many rings tall it is or the diameter.
@bikerguy5829
9 ай бұрын
I live right by the old Moline in Hopkins Mn Grandfather ran the painting dept there
@georgepruitt637
6 ай бұрын
Better save them cobs for the privy !!! Remember, 2 reds, then 1 white cob.
@eeengineer8851
6 ай бұрын
Looks like the later 200? or was it a 1200 model MM sheller. Similar to the older E model. Neighbor had a E. We had the smaller D and it would take 2 men shoveling flat out fast as they can to keep it full. Those larger ones like this one, probably 4 men, haha.
@daveb3357
9 ай бұрын
Hey im not trying to be a pain the backside or a smart alleck but why does anyone pick corn now days with the advances in combines. I mean the obvious thing is they only have a picker and this set up and have done it for years, but with the quality of combines you would think thier yield would go up.
@danw6014
8 ай бұрын
I pick all my corn with a New Idea picker and store it in cribs. I feed freezer beef, lambs and broilers. It's a lot cheaper for me to grow my own corn than it is to buy it. I had a hard time finding people to shell my corn and then I had to store it at the mill which cost more money. I also have a sheller that if I want to sell some of my corn, I can shell it out. The cost of owning and operating this equipment is a lot lower than new equipment especially if you are small. My personal opinion about grain samples. These old sheller as well as our New Idea picker with a shelling unit did a much better job of clean shelling than a new combine. Same goes for the old AC All Crop combines.
@daveb3357
8 ай бұрын
@@danw6014 Thank you VERY much for taking the time to explain that to me. That makes complete sense why you do what you do. Also thank you for taking my question as I intended and not as a smart ass comment, I was completely sincere when I asked. I grew up on a dairy farm and all our corn was combined, but we had to hire it done as dad didnt have a combine and not enough acres to justify buying one. Have a wonderful day and thank you once again. BTW its been 30 yrs since I have even thought about corn cribs LOL
@danw6014
8 ай бұрын
@@daveb3357 John Deere's new X9 1100 combine is $1,400,000 without the heads. I grew up working on dairies and still milk twice on a 400 cow dairy. When I started working there were sixty dairy farms in my county. Now there are six.
@eeengineer8851
6 ай бұрын
My family did ear corn until the end when Dad retired after the '97 season. Couple of reasons: - Ground it right from the crib for cattle feed. Dad had dairy and later just beef cattle. They got fed silage and ground cob corn along with hay or pasture. - No drying costs unless maybe some electric for a vent fan in the crib for a while after harvest if it was a little too wet. - equipment is cheap to acquire as few are using it so many good used machines around for a low price. Sure this is labor intensive and if there is no storage for the shelled stuff you have to do it when you want to sell and more work than augering out of the bin. For a smaller farm its not such a big deal.
@keithkuckler2551
6 ай бұрын
I picked mine, and, shelled it with a 1200 Moline and a 4020 John Deere diesel. I did it for two reasons. First, i did not have to use a dryer to dry the corn, I let nature do that over the winter, shelled the corn in the spring, second, I fed ground ear corn to my cattle. In the old days, my grandfather had used the cobs for heat, and, in the wood cook stove. If you have ever seen a pile of cobs burn, you can appreciate how much energy was left in that cob after you shelled the corn. It was a lot more work, but, we did not use fossil fuels to dry the grain.
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