Posted by IH fan on January 06, 2010 at 09:54:08 from (70.250.254.17):
In Reply to: Mounted corn pickers posted by couv on January 05, 2010 at 14:07:46:
LA in WI said: (quoted from post at 12:16:57 01/06/10) I was raised in central Iowa (Waterloo area), and farmers out there mostly used mounted pickers for several reasons:
LA in WI
I was 50 Mi. NE of Waterloo and 50 NW of Dubuque. The mounted pickers with husking beds beside the driver were almost like having a Heat Houser on the tractor... much warmer than a pull type unless you had the HH on it. Also the second JD 60 Dad bought had a Char-Lynn PS on it and that was a very good hand warmer. The platform of the tractor was heated by the tranny, so with warm headgear and coveralls, it wasn't bad. We too opened a lot of fields and also custom picked.
Dad worked off the farm as a carpenter at that time and work was slow when the weather was cold, so he did custom picking during the week. I ran it a lot after school and weekends and in '60 I had graduated and had some ground rented from the local banker in addition to farming Dad's.
From '56 to '58 we only farmed 100 acres with a Super C and I pulled a Woods Bros. single row picker with that. '59 and '60 we rented extra ground and Dad got his second '60 then, but I did much of the farming from '56 thru '60 while he carpentered.
When I left for the USAF in Jan. '61, he sold the 60, 3x14 plow, 10' disc and 227 picker to his brother who farmed near Manchester, because my younger brothers were too young.
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