We have a small five-acre field of pure muck down by our pond, that is often too wet to plant in Spring and too wet to harvest in Fall. Many years we picked it by hand after the ground froze enough to hold the wagon. Dad talked about being fast enough to have an ear in the air at all times, but I was never able to come close.
The neighbor has been harvesting for us with a JD 6620 combine, and could float right over the field most years. He upgraded to a much heavier 9610, and made one round last fall, lucky to get back out. We left the rest of the corn for the deer.
This Summer, I went to brush chop the field, and saw a lot of corn still in the shucks. I borrowed a New Idea Model 310 from a neighbor to harvest the corn. It took me three days and several hundred dollars to bring the picker back from ten years of sitting in the swamp, but it picked surprisingly well. I saved about 300 bushels of ear corn to grind for the cows, and relived some good memories. Way better than hand picking!
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