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Macon Rounds 
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Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Location: Pittsburgh Pa
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 Posted: Yesterday at 10:38am |
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I have never seen side curtains on D series tractor.
Edited by Macon Rounds - Yesterday at 10:39am
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Tenn allis
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Joined: 24 Nov 2016
Location: Tennessee
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Posted: 10 hours 7 minutes ago at 7:08am |
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Late 60’s early 70’s when I was a lad my father had a couple D17’s the first was a gas with narrow front then he bought a diesel with wide front traded the gas for a 190 put the narrow front on the diesel so he could run the new idea picker. I remember that mounting the picker seemed like a big chore to my young self it did have side shielding for the engine compartment not sure if that came from Allis or new idea with the mounting bundle that would have came with the picker someone older or more experienced can tell. I also remember he’d put some screen wire over the radiator to help with the air sucking smaller corn fodder into the radiator and when it started getting hot he’d shut the key off for just a second and smack it with his hand to clean the debris collected there
The side shielding would keep corn fodder from getting around the exhaust and maybe starting a fire
Everyone in our area always thought that the new idea picker was a better one than other manufacturers
A good friend of mine still has one that his father had sitting in a barn that is mounted on a IH m it doesn’t seem as big as it did when I was a kid but I do remember they were picking machines
After we started the dairy dad quite doing a lot of custom picking for the community and sold the picker or maybe traded it for a new idea one row snapper it wasn’t the machine that mounted one was tho. It was slower and you couldn’t run as fast or it would overrun the wagon conveyor
Just some rambling thoughts and memories from bygone days
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Mnfarmboy
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Joined: 12 Sep 2009
Location: Edmond, Ok
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Posted: 8 hours 19 minutes ago at 8:56am |
We had all three, an Allis Chalmers mounted picker{don't remember the model} a New Idea mounted picker, both on a WD45 and a New Idea pull type with a twelve roll husking bed, Dad pulled the New Idea with our 185. I remember one year when Dad put a permanent hurt on his back when they were mounting the New Idea husking bed to the 45. Dave
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Mnfarmboy
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Posted: 8 hours 11 minutes ago at 9:04am |
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Mounted pickers did the job of opening the fields but you got really dirty sitting down in all the dust and husks. Dad enjoyed picking corn after we got the pull type New Idea and he could sit in the cab with the heater on.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 8 hours 6 minutes ago at 9:09am |
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I rather enjoyed operating the corn picker. We had a couple New Idea pickers. I don’t remember much about the first one, a one row unit. We traded that for a two row a long time ago. Ran it with several different tractors (sorry never an Allis!). I didn’t mind hauling wagons and unloading. But I sure don’t miss shoveling out the crib into the grinder. First we had a big wooden crib then as that fell apart we put up a wire crib on a concrete base. Was fine for a while but then the concrete sort of caved in, not a deep enough rat wall, so water and snow would lay there so there was always black mushy rotten corn to dig out of there. Use a combine and feed shelled corn now.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 4 hours 44 minutes ago at 12:31pm |
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Across the road neighbor from where I grew up had an Oliver mounted picker on an Oliver 88. One summer in the early 1970’s his D17 that was his baling tractor was out of service for several weeks, so he pulled the picker off the 88 for the first time, and baled 2nd and 3rd crop with the Oliver. He said it was such a pita to dismount that picker, he vowed to never to it again.
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