Cost: Mounted was probably less expensive than pull type pickers.
Ease to operate: Easier to stay within 1 to 3 inches of the row looking forward into the rows with a mounted picker, especially on contour planted hills, and in muddy conditions. Front mounted cultivators were popular back then too. Pull types may have been more popular in flat country. I muddy conditions sometimes picking had to be delayed until the fields froze.
Trade-offs: Mounted pickers put the operator in the center of the dirt and the noise. Mounted pickers were a lot nosier than a tractor alone. Mounted pickers tied-up the "big" tractor until picking was completed.
Most farmers needed to work with a neighbor during harvest as the sons were in school most of the day. The home farmer hauled wagons and disked end rows while the visiting farmer ran the picker.
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