Boy I can remember doing corn picking like that. I like the picture of the AC 190 mounted picker. My neighbor had one on a D19 Diesel and it was a good picker. Not one you could push much,trash could pile up on top of the snapping units and would be on top of the operator real fast if he never kept an eye on it. Best picker I ever had was a Ford mounted on my D17.Worst was a Case pull type with a side elevator.When corn started to exceed 130 Bu.per acre I always ran out of crib room so we set up some snow fence round cribs out in the field and shelled them out with a King & Hamilton sheller which was set up on a KB7 IHC.The old IHC had a straight pipe which came up thru the hood and was about 6' tall. You could not hear around that power house.Shelling time was a good neighbor time ,Every body pitched in from farm to farm.All the women went into a competition mode to see what the shellers thought was the best set table except for my good friend and neighbor to the east of us.His wife died young and he had no one to take her place so he had the local restaurant cater his meals he furnished.The self propelled combine ended the neighborlieness it seemed. Land grabbers were another factor in the demise of the family farm.Our family farm now is run by a Farm Manger and farmed by a cash renter and is just another number on the SWCD map. Some of my sisters have not visited the farm in 20 years,a couple have their Lawyer pick up the yearly dividend check and they [the lawyers] argue with the Manager which makes communication with him by the rest of us dicey at times.I had 8 sisters and 3 brothers,
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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