American Pickers ( IL style )
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Topic: American Pickers ( IL style )
Posted By: Eddie(IL)
Subject: American Pickers ( IL style )
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 7:47am
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We were having a lot of fun yesterday here in e. central IL., with family and friends out to watch the ol' man working his 1948 Wood Bros. picker that we just got working. I don't think it was really designed for the yields nowadays, and even in low gear we had to stop occasionally to let it clear itself out. My grandfather had a 2-row Ford picker mounted on his WD, that I can still remember him using, but this was first time of actually picking myself. I have to admit that I was "scratching my head" at all the excitement the ol' man was having when he found this thing, and his repeated quote of...( by God, I'm going to pick corn again before I die! )...I guess we checked another one off his bucket list yesterday! Too bad he didn't remember how his mother taught him to share...I thought we were going to have to start throwing corn at him to give us a turn at it! I was especially glad to see my grandaughters there to watch all this too...except for the part of us big kids fighting over who gets to play with it next! lol
Never pass up a chance to make memories like these...
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Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 9:27am
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Ya know what? I beliveve I like this version better. ------------- 1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500 |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 9:36am
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Great pictures Eddie! ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 10:14am
| I always miss picking corn, always loved the smell, the time of year my grandpa smoking his pipe with half& half tobacco |
Posted By: Max(ia)
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 11:26am
| That's the way with us old guys. We know it's closer to the end than the beginning, so we want to go back as much as we can.... We had a Woods picker, but pulled it with an F20 Farmall. Thanks for the pics. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 11:56am
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Thanks for posting pics. Love to see orange at work.We used a New Idea 2 row pull behind picker with a wagon just like that one.My brother and I would argue over who "HAD" to pick corn.Now we would argue over who would "GET" to pick corn. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 11:56am
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We pulled our Woods picker with an 8N Ford. ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: Eddie(IL)
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 12:11pm
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I managed to get us an original operator's manual for the picker, (which was a big help), and it had an 8N pulling it on the front cover. Our 45 wasn't showing much strain during this exercise...lol, but the hand clutch and p/s were sure nice to work with.
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Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 10:09pm
| You would never get me off of the picker either. That is one of my/our next purchases. Good clean straight ones with no rot are really rare around here . |
Posted By: mtanut
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 4:02am
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Neighbor has a New Idea 323 he wants to sell, my dad wants me to buy it. I still have a crib, but hard to justify it when I am already tight on storage.
------------- I have a 185 Allis, 6060 Allis, Model K gleaner, SMTA ferg 35, ferg 20 (paps first tractor, Allis B (wife's)John Deere 240 skid loader and a bunch of the usual farm stuff. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 6:56am
If your picker was originally red, it is a Woods Dearborn. That would be post war after Ford Dearborn bought out Wood Brothers,1947 I think. That's why there is a Ford tractor on the manual. The manual was redone after Ford bought the company. I have a Wood Brothers picker that was originally gray, which would be pre Ford. Not much is different. Ford even took all the ruuning gear off and made a 3 point hitch version with the same parts. I also have a manual and a copy of the original assembly instructions. 180 bushel corn will go through if you slip the hand clutch a lot on the 45. BTDT I had fun with mine twice last year. I picked the 2009 crop off in March  and picked the 2010 crop off in October.  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Eddie(IL) wrote:Posted By: d17brown
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 7:00am
| i remember running the d19 with a new idea mounted sheller, that was in 83 -86 it is a wonder more fingers and toes wernt lost, and a dirty job as well, but it beat the alternative method, nice pics and your daghters wont forget them |