redgreen Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Red Power magazine. Cover pic is Super 'C' ahead of a one row picker. Bet that would take awhile to tell if you got anything done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dads706 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 But 'progress', if last harvest was a horse and wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Mule Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Funny story this reminded me of. Several years back a friend and I went out west to Colorado to prairie dog hunt on a ranchers land. My buddy hauled cattle for him so he sort of knew him. Anyway we got to talking and he told me how much ground they farmed. I forget now but it was a lot of acre of crops along with 10k acre for cattle ground or something. So he got to asking me what I did so I told him about our comparatively small operation. I let it slip that I still picked ear corn for cattle. He really didn't know what I was talking about so he asked what kind of machine I had to do that. I told him a new idea #10 1 row corn picker. He almost fell over backwards.. He said OOOOH MY GOSH did you say 1 ROW! I laughed and said yah. I told him I got along pretty good with it and was able to pick faster than the help could unload and farrow my 3 flair bed wagons. So now he is really intrigued. He asked about more of the details and was even more floored away. I didn't think we were that old school but I guess we are. So fast forward to now every time I still talk to him he asks how that 1 row picker is holding up and if I ever graduated to a combine. I do combine some but always like ear corn for cattle feed. So I guess like mentioned if that's all you got you get along just fine. When your used to a 12 +/- row combine and hired help a one row pull type picker may as well be pulled by horses to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlered166 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 the c and one row is better than a mule and a bump wagon. Progress!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdse25 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Still pick with the old 1-pr on the 560 here to fill ours and some borrowed cribs for cattle feed. Shell the rest. I must be really old school but my local mill still has a Sheller to run cob corn through. And I know a few locals who haul in a few tractor trailer loads a year. Actually there are quite a few thousand acres that still get picked in the counties around my chunk of eastern PA. Heck. When I was a kid I shoved the corn off flat wagons into the crib. Now just set up the elevators and oven the gravity box. Now that's progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
660 driver Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Dad got his too. I think the pic the wife took of a bunch of us at the RPRU with Dennis's phone is in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atilathehun99 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 6 hours ago, redgreen said: Red Power magazine. Cover pic is Super 'C' ahead of a one row picker. Bet that would take awhile to tell if you got anything done! 40 acres and a mule, 40 acres and a mule..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 17 hours ago, 660 driver said: Dad got his too. I think the pic the wife took of a bunch of us at the RPRU with Dennis's phone is in it. In the center by the staples! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Mule Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 4 hours ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said: In the center by the staples! LMAO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 mine still sits at home been here since I think Friday in it's protective covering been chopping fourth cutting. I had one night mowing until 11:45 the next night I merged till 12:20 ...... I am tired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtech Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 On 8/29/2017 at 1:51 PM, redgreen said: Red Power magazine. Cover pic is Super 'C' ahead of a one row picker. Bet that would take awhile to tell if you got anything done! Depends on how much you have to do! Lots of people had jobs running them and at the end of the day they owned their little patch of land. Today a few own them all and they will spend a half million or so to replace all those men with the one row pickers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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