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Eddie

03-29-2003 14:25:41




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I'm going to plant about 12 acres of corn this year. I have a 3010 JD, and I'm thinking about a corn picker to mount to the 3010. I want to pull ear corn instead of shelling it. What would you suggest I look for as in model# and make? Thank for any info in advanced. Eddie




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Bill

04-01-2003 05:29:50




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
Hey why dont you buy that massy harris self propelled picker in the photo classifieds this site; getting that thing to go would keep a guy out of the bar for awhile;;;;Bill



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ern

03-30-2003 20:36:07




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
it is all pretty well summed up below. mounting and dismounting a picker is not a fun job regardless if jd,new idea, international. you need to be patient when working/using whether pull type or mounted. haste can cause serious injury. had both a 237 and a new idea 319 over the years. the 237 was much better at not shelling corn at the snapping rolls and did a better job of cleaning. like the other guys said if you are really set on picking ear corn and want a mounted one, get yourself one already mounted and leave it on. if it has to be trucked home may need to remove or lower the elevator section. good luck.

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Ks

03-30-2003 16:04:01




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
If you can plant 6 rows of soybeans on out side edge. And down middle wont have to open field this way. You can harvest beans then pick corn. If you plant with 4 row would work same way. Where i live could plant milo. Then you could go pull type picker. Just a thought.



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tim[in]

03-30-2003 14:15:48




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
the choice is up to you. myself i am going to get a couple of mounteds to collect and use. i have ownedpull types and it takes a good bit of time and sore arms to open up a field.this is going around the out side and opening up the corners so you can make the turns from the end rows onto the main part of the field . unless you want to run over corn and try to pick it up later. the time spent opening a field also depends on the plant population and row spacings as someone said.in 30 inch rows i had to hand pick 3 rows for my one row pull type. i dont remember how many i had to pick with the 2 row i had later. if you enjoy messing with the equipment i would get what ever i wanted . life is too short to be unhappy or wonder what it is like to do something different! at least if you dont like it , you can sell it and get the other. i would keep both until i was sure of which one i liked the best. some guys would have the field opened with a combine and sell that bit of corn or feed it out right away. some would plant beans around the out side, or hay.in some areas where people want ear corn to feed the deer or squirrels you can make good money selling squirrel corn on the ear.good luck , be happy an dstay safe. shut it off and like someone said if it is plugged watch for tension if plugged. the newer style new ideas didnt have quite the plugging trouble the older style corn pickers of all brands did !and saved more shelled corn.that's what paid for my newer style 2 row.the shelled corn savings.in 2-3 years on a small acreage !!about 4-9 acres a year.

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tim[in]

03-30-2003 14:11:55




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
the choice is up to you. myself i am going to get a couple of mounteds to collect and use. i have ownedpull types and it takes a good bit of time and sore arms to open up a field.this is going around the out side and opening up the corners so you can make the turns from the end rows onto the main part of the field . unless you want to run over corn and try to pick it up later. the time spent opening a field also depends on the plant population and row spacings as someone said.in 30 inch rows i had to hand pick 3 rows for my one row pull type. i dont remember how many i had to pick with the 2 row i had later. if you enjoy messing with the equipment i would get what ever i wanted . life is too short to be unhappy or wonder what it is like to do something different! at least if you dont like it , you can sell it and get the other. i would keep both until i was sure of which one i liked the best. some guys would have the field opened with a combine and sell that bit of corn or feed it out right away. some would plant beans around the out side, or hay.in some areas where people want ear corn to feed the deer or squirrels you can make good money selling squirrel corn on the ear.good luck , be happy an dstay safe. shut it off and like someone said if it is plugged watch for tension if plugged. the newer style new ideas didnt have quite the plugging trouble the older style corn pickers of all brands did !and saved more shelled corn.that's what paid for my newer style 2 row.the shelled corn savings.in 2-3 years on a small acreage !!about 4-9 acres a year.

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jls

03-30-2003 09:04:45




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
find a pull type unless you buy one already on the tractor, and they are DANGEROUS- if it's muddy and wet you can pull stalks out of mud instead of snapping ears off and it plugs. they will plug with heavy frost on the stalks and weeds will really complicate things. Even shut off and disengaged there can be enough tension in the chains to grab your hand as you pull out the stalks, Dad worked construction 20 yr and never got hurt, spent 2 winters healing up from picking corn, I only picked corn 2 yr on less than 25 ac and lost a glove. I bale hay and buy corn.

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Leroy

03-30-2003 07:41:38




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
You will not find any good John Deere 227 or 237 pickers out there anymore, to old, last made in the mid 60's, 227 not to hard to mount but you had to have the correct brackets, lifted it self on but would take a day to mount, New Idea made mounted pickers later but are hard to find and not worth the job of finding for that acreage, you put a 1 in front of that 12 it would be a different story, find a good 1 row pull type, New Idea, Oliver No. 5, two best ones to look for and if you have to husk out by hand to get threw the field to open it uou will still be done sonner than with a mounted picker and those mounted pickers will only work with 40" row corn and you probably want to have 30" rows as that is all the custom spray applicators are set up for

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acorange

03-30-2003 06:34:21




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
Yeah, what he said about mounted pickers. Get yourself a New Idea pull type and save your self the hassle of a mounted unit. Unless you want a excuse to buy another tractor and then buy one with the picker already mounted and working and then "LEAVE IT ON!" LOL



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Benthar

03-29-2003 19:48:59




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
I would highly recommend a pull type for the small acreage but if your heart is set on a mounted unit look around for one that is already married to a tractor that someone didn't want to go through the hassle of removing from the tractor
I'm guessing it will take longer to wheels moved out and picker on and off and wheels moved again than it will to pick the corn and that doesn't include any trips to the emergency room. PS dont forget you need a narrow front to fit in the mounted picker
good luck becareful

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Benthar

03-29-2003 19:48:50




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
I would highly recommend a pull type for the small acreage but if your heart is set on a mounted unit look around for one that is already married to a tractor that someone didn't want to go through the hassle of removing from the tractor
I'm guessing it will take longer to wheels moved out and picker on and off and wheels moved again than it will to pick the corn and that doesn't include any trips to the emergency room. PS dont forget you need a narrow front to fit in the mounted picker
good luck becareful

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tim[in]

03-29-2003 17:57:48




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
if you are wanting a mounted type to fool with as well as work, i would thing a new idea mounted with he sub frame they have would be a lot easier to mount than the jd picker.i dont know much about the jd mounteds but from what i have seen they looked complicated to mount where the new idea has a standard sub frame that you mount first then hook the 2 parts of the picker too. good luck and let us know what you decide. and remember, never work or adjust or lube it when running. all equipment is dangerous when running.

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bill

03-29-2003 16:41:37




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
You could find a 227 mounted pretty cheap, but if all you have is 12 acres I think it be easier if you had pull type, less hassle ,should be some pretty good ones out there reasonable;;; my cheap advice,,,Bill



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Okla/Kans Bill

04-03-2003 20:45:33




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 Re: Re: corn picker ??? in reply to bill, 03-29-2003 16:41:37  

I raise 8 acres of corn. I will plant Sudex grass all around the field, so as to even out the irrigularities at the ends of the field ( on 2 sides, opposite the direction of the rows) between 2 to 4 mower lengths on those sides and around 2 to 3 lengths on the ends. This makes for long (mostly) and straight rows to pick. It also gives me ample room to come out of the field, and back in so that Im not swiping down corn when entering or esxiting a row. It also utilizes all 4sides for a hay crop. I figure 2 acres of hay. I will piock out 2 or 3 center rows, bring in my cub farmall and cart, and piock up the corn in piles. Pile it in a center row then Ill drivew over it with the cub and stop with tractor one one send of the pile and wagon on the other. Thatll take alot more gas, but for one man, its easier, gives me a chance to get a bit of rest, cools down my F-30 and is just more enjoyable than comine out of one row and immeadiatly ging back into another, over and over. Just my thoughts of what I do. Like they said BE CAREFUL. anybody my age knew somone 40/50 yras ago who had a hand/arm taken off by a picker. Heck, my unce had a finger shortened by a hand sheller

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bill

03-29-2003 16:41:32




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 Re: corn picker ??? in reply to Eddie , 03-29-2003 14:25:41  
You could find a 227 mounted pretty cheap, but if all you have is 12 acres I think it be easier if you had pull type, less hassle ,should be some pretty good ones out there reasonable;;; my cheap advice,,,Bill



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