It does seem to pick pretty well.. At the first, it wasn't doing such a clean job (more operator error than fault of the picker). It was doing a little butt shelling at first, but the first round or so we used it on the corn was "spotty" (I'd guess they ran the last pass to clean out the planter, so it was kinda thin). Every now and then, it'd break some of the stalk off and send that up with the elevator, I'd just try to catch it before it went to the husking rolls.
I'm not so sure if it'll ever get a cosmetic restoration.. but I'd like it to be mechanically restored.. I'm a real big fan of playing with my toys, so I want to be able to play with it.
It's starting to shine up a bit, but the best we can figure, it's sat since probably 1970ish.. It spent most it's time indoors I'd guess to say, but myself, I don't have a shed tall enough to house it (even if I take the elevator down it's still just a little too tall), so I been keeping it covered with a tarp since I picked it up.. Not the best way to store it, but it's the best I got right now.
I'm venturing to guess it's around a 53-54.. I never did check to see if my massey data book has any serial numbers for the picker, but I know it's a later one, as it has the 6 cylinder Continental opposed to the 4 cylinder. I too have a sales advertisement for one, I found it when I was looking for ads for my 33 Massey, and I had to have it. There's one of these old pickers in a barn around the corner from my house, and as a kid the looks of it was fascinating.. Said some day I would have one.. and now I do. Grandpa said there was a few of them in our neighborhood back before my time..
I'm from Maybee, MI (Southeast corner of the lower peninsula of Michigan). Would be pretty neat to take it to a harvest day or something of the like. The machine I now have was on display at Fulton County, Ohio fair a few years back, and at the sale I bought it from, a gentleman asked if I'd let them show it again. I said by next time, it'd drive itself off and on a trailer, so I guess so far I'm keeping my word LOL.
Sorry to be long winded, just wanted to try to answer everyone's questions..
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