Re: Mounted corn pickers

Posted by IH fan on January 05, 2010 at 21:36:34 from (70.250.254.17):

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

I was raised in NE Iowa in the heart of "corn country" and I can honestly say I never heard of a fire on a picker... I suppose there were some though. Our tractors always had screens enclosing the sides of the engine and enlarged air intake screens on the front for the radiators. Dad had a fire extinguisher mounted on both of his JD 227s (along with a box for an Iver Johnson .410 on top of the husking bed), but never had to use the extinguisher. I do know farmers that had lost fingers, but not nessesarily in corn pickers, and I don't know that mounted would be any more dangerous than a pull type. We did eat a lot of pheasant while picking corn for ourselves and neighbors.

And cabs were unheard of at that time, or I would probably have prefered a pull type.

This post was edited by IH fan at 21:40:14 01/05/10.

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