Posted by LA in WI on January 12, 2014 at 11:15:54 from (64.251.222.21):
In Reply to: Corn Picker posted by Dave8N in Pa on January 12, 2014 at 09:11:46:
1. Those old IH pickers were known for picking "dirty corn" back in the late 1940s to the early 1960s before combines became the dominant harvester; corn cribs had a lot of husks sticking out of the sides during storage.
The heavier pickers (2ME and 2MH) built for the M Farmall were much better pickers. The light-weight #24 for the H was a real "dirty" picker.
2. I remember that farmers had a remedy when the rollers got so worn and smooth and started picking dirty....they would literally weld a "bead" lengthwise on the rollers and that made for cleaner picking...for that season, maybe.
For the farmers who did not know how to weld, or were too cheap to pay for the welding, they would wind "chicken wire" around the rollers but that was basically a 15-minute solution.
3. I grew up on mostly IH equipment in the 1950s and drove several models of IH mounted pickers on both the H and M, but it was grudgingly acknowledged by "IH lovers" at that time that JD made a better picker. They did.
However, the New Idea pickers, both mounted and pull-type, were really the best for picking clean and for pure performance. If I recall correctly (at 77 that is questionable), NI made two models; one had 8 husking rollers and the other model had 12, and the latter model was very popular. It got to the point in Iowa those days that NI pickers on all brands of tractors were the most popular in some areas.
4. What Gene Bender says is also true. Seed companies abandoned traits for corn picking years ago. I remember the seed company I worked for had a very high yielding hybrid in the 1970s and owners of combines loved that hybrid. I got a call from a farmer about that hybrid so I went to his farm. He was trying to pick it with an old worn out Woods 1-row pull-type picker and he had to drive in low gear and that was still too much volume for that old machine to handle.
Dave, sorry, but it is what it is. Maybe try the welder? Or look for a NI picker? LA in WI
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