Re: Mounted corn pickers

Posted by soybeanjoe on January 05, 2010 at 20:15:34 from (66.213.171.108):

In Reply to: Mounted corn pickers posted by charlie M on January 05, 2010 at 14:07:46:

Back in the day mounted pickers far out numbered pts. As a kid growing up we had either a &20 or #24 on an H. Wasn't anything more than snapping rollers & an elevator, didn't have a husking bed so left the corn pretty "dirty" We did pick quite a bit of pop corn for a local company with it just because of not having a husking bed, did cracck the hull of the kernal as bad as a picker with husking beds. Stress cracks would cause the kernal not to pop. I only ran it once or twice.

Last couple years we put up ear corn we used the neighbors 2MH on our SM in exchange for them using our tractor to pick some ear corn. With the 2MH you sat down inbetween the row units with chains moving on each side of you where as with the #20/24 you sat more up above the units. I can only remember running the 2MH once

Use to be when pickers were common you saw a lot of farmers with missing fingers or hands from getting them caught in the pickers. My uncle that raised me got his hand caught in the #20, really tore it up but luckily he didn't lose any fingers but that hand always gave him problems after that. He was in the barnlot with the picker & was having problems & had the belt pulley engaged & his foot on the clutch. He reached around to do something & his foot slipped off the clutch. he was wearing leather gloves, the kind that had a steel ball on the leather thongs to tighten the gloves & the steel ball caught in a moving part pulling his hand in.

I cal also recall sveral guys that were burnt in picker fires. Good friend of my uncle was severely burnt with 3rd dgree burns over much of his face , arms & upper torso. I know he was very adamant about keeping the picker cleaned off & always ran spark arrestors on the mufflers.

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