Great pics, thanks for sharing.

Seems like a LOTTA work to move the sheller drag from one crib to the next and the next, etc etc etc. Let alone the elevator to fill all those wire cribs.

Grandpa was Dad's extra help for picking corn before I was old enough. But Grandpa did't actually have a proper corn crib, couple wire cribs that took about a day to fill then move the elevator, wagon hoist, etc and get the crib ready to fill. And about 2 years before Grandpa quit farming he went out in the field about as far away from electricity as he could get to build a big long crib, had a pile of telephone poles, mostly snow fence and woven wire sides, built the sides up as they filled it, and moved the elevator, hoist, and speed jack about every day. Crib was probably 70-80 ft long, 12-15 ft high but only about 5 ft frt to back. With close to 160 acres to pick it wasn't hard to spend a month with all the delays.

When we picked at home our crib had inside elevator, crib held 8000 to 10,000 bushel, you could pick 2-3 days and not have to touch the chutes. And when you did have to move them, was a 5 minute job. Same way with the other 80 we farmed with the neighbor. The one barn was cribbed up for corn, held 7000-8000 bushel without touching a thing. Two pickers and wagons, picked all 80 acres in two easy days, half mile rows, one round, or two in the shorter rows, and unload without even unhooking the wagon from the picker.

Cool. What kind of pickers and wagons did you use?Bet that was something to see. I picked 16 acres with a one row and 3 different wagon after working on another farm and had a 20 minute drive each way. Heat hausers are a wonderful thing lol.I had a special wagon that the floor tipped up from being a flatbed and with a V shaped side on each side made ith with a rocking bolster running gear a perfect ear corn wagon.Wish I hadn't listened to folks about how hauling more  ischeaper and overloaded it once.=(..

Art thanks for sharing these pictures/memories. They are really awesome ! That seems like a lot of ear corn. Did you guys feed most of it or did you shell and sell most of it ?

From about November to August, every Saturday was cattle feed grinding day. Most of the winter and spring the corn ran out of the sides of the crib into the 16 ft Harvest Handler elevator into the Knoedler Burr Mill, grinder emptied into a 6 inch x 16 ft Mayrath auger and ran out to the cattle feeder, looked like a mini-corncrib 16 ft long by 8 ft wide with feed bunks on each side, and enough capacity for ground ear corn for a week for 30-40 head of cattle. When the corn stopped running we had to scoop the rest out. One year I remember running out of old corn and having to grind a little new corn waiting for the cattle market to improve. I think that was the year Dad had $17 left from the check from selling the cattle after paying off the loan from the bank to buy the cattle. We ground about 10,000 bushel of corn, and fed half a barn of alfalfa hay, had a vet bill or two, and burned a couple hundred gallons of gas in the M grinding all that corn, plus all our free labor. Dad always picked one of the better looking steers to butcher, we got half and the Land-Lady got half, so at least we ate well. I bet my Cardiologist never had steaks that good!

The 500 to 800 head of butcher hogs Dad raised ate all purchased shellcorn. Would have needed another 160 acres for corn to feed all those hogs. Land-Lady didn't believe in commercial fertilizer, so our corn yields were 100 to 125 BPA, now days those same hills yield 240 to 250. And the owner feeds 9600 feeder pigs to market weight of 250-270# each in two confinment buildings, gets new feeder pigs every six months. Instead of Me getting 5000-5500# of ground corn every couple days He gets a bulk semi-trailer load of 50,000# every week. What a difference 50 years makes!