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Home made corn cob picker

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Iain Gibson

02-20-2007 22:40:29




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G'day Guys,

Iain from AUSTRALIA.

I grow a few acres of corn each year and currently hand pick it to run through my thresher. I have not seen any pickers for tractor mounting however... A comb that narrowed on a horizontal plane to leave a space between for the stalk (just enough space to move without binding)- It would then rise up on an angle where by the comb would seem to rise up the plant as the tractor proceeds forward and eventually hit the cob. As the cob is much larger and cannot fit through - it breaks off and is left sitting in the. I guess eventually then a conveyer would move this towards the back to a bin. WOuld the picking mechanism work do you think? Or just pull the plants out of the ground? Even something that just brok the cobs of the plants allowing me to hand transfer them to a bin whilst someone drive would be fine.

Appreciate any thoughts.... would be run on a TEA20

Kind Regards, Iain.

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paul

02-21-2007 09:24:08




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
Nope, won't work. The stalks will pull out of the ground.

You would need gathering chains to pull the stalk up your 'ramps.

Then you need augers (called snapping rolls) below the ramps to pull the stalks down - so the ear breaks off.

That would be the regular corn head.

--->Paul



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mj

02-21-2007 09:15:03




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
third party image

This is a pull behind.



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ih2444

02-21-2007 06:23:27




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
Home made corn pickers used to be called children.



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Crem

02-21-2007 11:37:52




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to ih2444, 02-21-2007 06:23:27  
My dad told me many years ago that his brother was one of the fastest corn pickers around but when he threw the ear in the wagon,he missed the wagon a lot of the time. :o))



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Nebraska Cowman

02-21-2007 04:04:41




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
No. It wouldn't work. Even with gathering chains in the "comb" the stalk would break off indiscriminately and soon plug the mechanism.



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Tx Jim

02-21-2007 02:58:27




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
The 1 row corn snapper that my Dad used when I was a kid had gathering chains to pull stalks to rotating rollers to pull ears off. Then an elevator chain moved corn to towed wagon. I think without rollers you model will pull stalks up. Tx Jim



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monomechanical

02-20-2007 23:56:43




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 Re: Home made corn cob picker in reply to Iain Gibson, 02-20-2007 22:40:29  
Iain:
I may not understand your question. There are some alternatives to mounting a corn picker to your model tractor. I've posted a link which will, I hope, lead you to a photograph of at least one possibility: a pull behind picker. (The photopgraphs are on this site.) Don't know how easily secured one may be in your area. You may be required to move to the states to get a picker!!!!

http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ferg&th=47970

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