We had a Ford picker mounted on a D17. The reason my Dad chose it rather than an Allis or New Idea was that the front picker units did not shell the corn in the snapping rollers and also that it worked well in down corn. They had 2 gathering chains on one side and one on the other to bring in the corn stalks.
The husking unit on the back was another story. It could not keep up with the volume of corn as we had an 4 on each side husking rollers we probably needed 6 on each side. The husking unit was the worse part for us. as it was drven by shafts that had lugs on the front that fit into the belt drive wheels. This caused the drive wheels to wear and often they had to have the ears welded as they wore so bad.
We ran this picker for about 10 yrs and then it set in the shed until the late 90's when a sweet corn processer from Idaho came through the area looking for the front units. to pick fresh sweet corn and the rest of the picker went for junk.
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