Re: MOUNTED corn picker VS. Towed type.M Farmall.WHY ?

Posted by Siefring Red Farmer on May 10, 2012 at 09:07:07 from (144.191.148.3):

In Reply to: MOUNTED corn picker VS. Towed type.M Farmall.WHY ? posted by Mike1972chev on May 09, 2012 at 02:54:37:

I ran a NI mounted on a 300 for a couple of years while we could get corn shelled at our feed mill. The tractor+ picker is 100% noisier. There are all those chains and gears rotating and whirling along with the picker itself holding in the tractor noise.

Definitely dirty, hot machines to run with all that corn dust being stirred up and sent back at you by the radiator fan, especially on warm September afternoons in Ohio.

We broke the rear axle several times with the added weight of the picker.

Mounted pickers only came in wide row varieties, unless they were 1 row pickers. I think that lead to their disuse over the years more than anything else.

All that said, I think I would rather pick with a mounted unit vs pull type if I was still picking corn.

SRF

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