Mounted Corn Pickers

Wondering if anyone's operating any mounted corn pickers? Picking with my NI pull-type and D-15 today got me thinking how much I'd like to have a mounted.

Yes, the dust makes sense...It'd be a lot easier to maneuver in the field though, and you'd never have to run over any rows to break a field up.

I just like the look of a mounted picker. There were 2 of them for sale this summer in MN for WC/WD's.

We started with a mounted AC picker, went to a mounted New Idea picker, then a New Idea pull type, Dad  got tired of the dust and dirt with the mounted pickers.  The New Idea pickers gave a less trashy load of corn.  I think he really enjoyed the heater/AC in the 180.  We always had a neighbor come in with his combine to open the fields for us.  Installing the pickers on the 45 was always a chore, it also tied up a tractor for the season.

Its a bear to put on! you need 2 people really.  

Looks good Don.  I'm always wondering why all the other brands of pickers had so much "high tin" and why they needed all that when I look at an AC picker which is "low profile".

WC7610 wrote: Looks good Don.  I'm always wondering why all the other brands of pickers had so much "high tin" and why they needed all that when I look at an AC picker which is "low profile".

We had a 2MH IH picker on a Farmall M for many years then, we got a 234 IH that was on a Case 830. We always left them on the tractor as we had plenty of extra ones to do the rest of the work. As was already mentioned the worst part was when you had a wet fall it was hard to get through the wet spots. There's a lot of weight on the tractor and can go down like a boat anchor if your not careful. 

If you mount it every year for 20 years you get faster! 

Dad had both an F20 with IH picker and a WC/WD with a 33 picker. The F20 never had the picker removed but he says he got pretty good at taking the 33 off. He claims 15 or 20 minutes to take it off or put it on. The IH had better capacity and the F20 would drive slow enough while the WC was too fast and he called the AC a sunshine picker. He says if it was damp out you couldn't go but the 33 didn't shell while the F20 and IH picker left yellow streaks in the field. He also said if you had down corn the 33 would get under the stalks and get it picked better than the IH. At any rate he was tickled to get his E Gleaner back in the mid 70's after a shed fire burned his WC and picker. He bought a MM pull type to pick some for feed and a few years later bought an Oliver pull type that was in better shape. If anybody wants these for near scrape price they are still on the farm. The MM and Oliver that is.

They turn the tractor into one mean looking machine -- like the way they look.

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That WD is sure moving along.

Dang, I would like to maybe pick a load with the 33 now! Will have to see, gramps has 30" rows. Not sure how the 33 would handle that, might have to lift the snouts all the way up so the stalk could bend?

 

Edited by Don(MI) - 27 Sep 2012 at 8:00am