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Macon Rounds 
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 Topic: Pros and Cons of corn pickers
Posted: 8 hours 56 minutes ago at 6:37pm |
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Looking to purchase a 2 row mounted corn picker.
Ill be picking less than 5 acres each year....
My disire is to have a D17 gas tractor under a 190 model corn picker....
My second choice would be a D17 with New Idea mounted picker....
What is your thoughts fellas....
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dkattau
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Posted: 7 hours 32 minutes ago at 8:01pm |
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Storage of ear corn is a con if you’re not set up for it.
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Macon Rounds
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Posted: 6 hours 45 minutes ago at 8:48pm |
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That's not an issue...
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DrAllis
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Posted: 6 hours 9 minutes ago at 9:24pm |
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Pick your poison. There would be 10 times (or more) New Idea's to find used parts for. The Allis would have the benefit of stripper plates.
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Posted: 6 hours 3 minutes ago at 9:30pm |
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We had a New Idea mounted on an Oliver 880 when I was growing up.
Later we had a self propelled Case combine, open station!
"In the weeds" always sat the two row pull behind picker. Never knew why it was parked, and especially not used when the Oliver broke the fancy helical gear set first used on the 880 to cut trans whine.
Homesteading or smaller farm I'd try to locate a pull behind picker. Easy to hitch and go.
Mounted pickers are great for "opening a field up" in the outer rows. But those outer rows are eaten by deer and poor yield because of grass and trees. I'd plant a cover mix band around the field and use a pull behind picker.
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Posted: 4 hours 39 minutes ago at 10:54pm |
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Grew up on a single row New Idea picker. I admit the mounted 2 row pickers are neat but I can see where they would be quite noisy and dirty to run. Although compact compared to a pull type, the pull type are easier to work on and don’t tie up a tractor for a length of time. Most that were mounted, stayed on that tractor due to difficulty on mounting and unmounting. Wish dad had went to a 2 row picker but a single row kept us busy unloading a wagon one scoop at a time into the elevator to the corn crib. Good times…gravity wagons were to come years later lol.
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Posted: 3 hours 15 minutes ago at 12:18am |
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How about a Uni-Harvester? Neighbor had a 4 row unit.
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