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Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a Woods

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Farmallb

04-02-2008 15:23:37




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Bros 1 row picker and a H, Dad had that outfit with a 4i8 H. He didnt like it as the corn would get hung up under that little croww elevator. He had 2 blocks of wood made and bolted them over the chain, but then He got a #24 mounted 2 row and the Woods sat for a couple years, then he sold it, We liked the mounted as we didnt have to open up the field at the ends and a couple places in the center, and that was the last work we had for the horses, round bout 1963

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gitrib

04-02-2008 18:32:22




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to Farmallb, 04-02-2008 15:23:37  
My dad purchased a Woods single row picker in 1946 since I had graduated from highschool I was informed I was going to pick corn and pay for it. He purchased right after the war and Woods shipped them out to dealer without any of the chains. If you could find the chain you could by a get a picker. The problem chain ti find was the 55K1 that made up the pressur apron over the husking bed. Pulled it with a new Oliver 60. We were in Iowa and had plenty of work. Ended up the day before Christmas in a blizzard. No Heat Houser. Custom cut Soybeans with a Allis 40 inch combine.Boy was that fast harvesting.

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tim[in]

04-02-2008 19:05:49




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to gitrib, 04-02-2008 18:32:22  
Picked with a new idea #7 in a blizzard and got pick up stuck. had to go get neighbors 4010 jd to pull it out, The jd had NO heat houser. THose heat housers might not have ben much but they sure helped in at least one direction!Wind blowing snow straight!Nephew wonders why i want to adapt a cab for my ac d 17. Doesnt think it looks "cool" without it. lolStill wish i had bout the ford 3600 when they cam out with a cab. If i ever buy a new tractor ,it will have it and the fwd . I gotten along good with thed 17 and the wd without fwd but that cab would be worth every penny. cant believe more guys didnt rig something up back then. Hard to do something the neighbors dont i guess.

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higgins

04-03-2008 07:53:11




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to tim[in], 04-02-2008 19:05:49  
Our Dad rigged up an outhouse lookin' thing with a transom window and tarp at the back on the JD G. It worked pretty good - better than a heat houser.



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tim[in]

04-02-2008 19:08:10




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to tim[in], 04-02-2008 19:05:49  
Also our wood bros around here didnt have the chain thing to move the corn. All had the spiral shafts with tire carcass on them. Might have seen one at sometime like that.



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tim[in]

04-02-2008 15:46:49




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to Farmallb, 04-02-2008 15:23:37  
I just wondered ,i never got to use one that much. Did that rotating snapping bar help or was just a nuisance and joke? My problem was the shell corn saver chain breaking that caused me so much trouble.



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gitrib

04-03-2008 11:55:56




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to tim[in], 04-02-2008 15:46:49  
That snapper bar worked except when the corn stock got extremly dry. it would break off the top of the stock and leave it collect in the cross elevater that carried the ears to the husking bed.



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tim[in]

04-03-2008 13:27:07




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to gitrib, 04-03-2008 11:55:56  
My n.i. #7 was bad about breaking off stalks no matter how much i adjusted it. But the manufacturers change in the angle on the newer superpicker stopped lots of that. I know because i would hook the old #7 to stretch its legs occassionally in the same field and day so the conditions were the same. The newer ones also shelled so much less too. If they had made the change decades ago when they knew there was a problem, then i think there would still be pickers being made and used. Always loved picking corn.Shelling is ok but just not quite the same.

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gitrib

04-03-2008 20:31:18




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 Re: Its funny how many peoples dads ec started out with a... in reply to tim[in], 04-03-2008 13:27:07  
I worked for New Idea spent a whole fall demenstrating the new model picker sheller across Iowa. I also serviced the pickers in the National Corn Picker contest.I remember we alway had a set of husking rolls that were well worn. We would place them in a new picker to eliminate the shelling problem if needed. Still was the best picker ever made



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