Corn Harvest in Kansas with Gramps and his Antique John Deere Combine [2021] County Line Cowpokes

Hey Cowpokes! Every year in the fall, we enjoy harvesting our corn. We don’t plant a lot of corn on our family farm, typically only about 50-80 acres. Since we don’t have a lot of corn to harvest, we are very lucky to be able to use our old John Deere 4400 combine that has been in our family for generations. As Gramps says in the video, we actually have two of these combines, and we use one of them to get parts to keep the other one running. Great-Gramps was offered some money decades ago to purchase his John Deere 4400 combines to use in combine demolition derbies. He was too sentimental towards the combines to accept the money and sell them. We are so glad he kept them! If you’re familiar with farming, you know that the corn that we harvest is field corn. It’s not sweet and it’s gotten dried out by the time we harvest it. Oftentimes, as you’ll see in this video, the corn stalks end up breaking off before we harvest our corn. The stalks get pretty dried out, and