Corn pickibg

Got started picking last night. Had the 200 hooked to the new idea 323 everything seemed to go smooth for the first evening. Has anyone else started picking yet and if so how's your progress coming? I'm going to try and get the wife to take some pictures today or tomorrow so I can post them. If anyone else has some pictures of their outfits in action let's see them.

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Edited by allisbred - 10 Oct 2020 at 6:32pm

Picked all day . Got 6 acres done . Corn is yielding fair, 120 to 130 bushel. Still too thick for my mounted picker. I think they made a under drive transmission for a wc. Wish it would fit my wd 45. Spend the whole day with my hand on the hand clutch. I like the visibility of a mounted picker but I could do without the dirt and the noise

I found that these old pickers wont handle todays corn ----- stalks are different and break off and plug the picker so its bred for combines only---dont matter how much stalk goes in them.

Todays corn stalks will stobb a tire if hit right,, oh how the times are changing ! 

Edited by Kansas99 - 12 Oct 2020 at 9:00am

Kansas99 wrote: T-bone that was probably what the yield monitor was showing. My dad always said the A gleaners had the best bin full sensors, when the bin was full the grain ran over the front right down the crack of your azz.

By yield monitor, I'm picturing an old guy in bibs and a straw hat at the end of the field, saying, "Yep...looks like about 120-130 bushel crop. Spttt."

That would be great. I think I may have seen what your talking about on the two row pickers but haven't seen that on the one row before.

hi all just like to know what do you do with the corn cob after they are picked i am guessing dry the cob and shell them and feed them to cattle .we don't grow much corn here in nz most of the maize here is cut for silage and feed to milking cows

ya'll ain't run the most miserable mounted picker until you've run an old "2MH" picker! they would pick anything and as fast as you dare went...but the driver paid the price!

Up until about 4 years ago, we would pick ear corn and grind the whole ear, mixed with oats, minerals, molasses, and mineral salt for grain for feeding the steers. Our old crib was getting in rough shape, floor undermined and caving in, holding water, would rot a lot of corn. I was getting plenty tired of shoveling too. Now I used shell corn for the grind, and I throw in either some wheat straw or some lower grade hay as filler.

klinemar wrote: The last crib of ear corn I measured had 1 1/2 feet of shelled corn in the bottom of the crib. Corn now is hybrid for shelling not picking. I have shovelled my share of ear corn! For a farmer with cattle ear corn was a cheap way of storing and cattle can utilize the cob.

Yep! Our seed guy, several years ago, said something to the effect of "OH! You're picking some of this?" And he had a hybrid he offered that was still more/less conducive to being picked for various reasons. That of course is gone now, and I don't miss it!

Thanks, interesting! I always kind of wondered how it converted back when we picked, but I never looked it up. Thanks again.

allisbred wrote: Tbone95 wrote: Thanks, interesting! I always kind of wondered how it converted back when we picked, but I never looked it up. Thanks again.    There is a formula that my father has had in the shop based from weight with a moisture deduction. It works out close to what what we have measured with combine.

Yes, I would have imagined so! Back when we picked....We would grow a field of corn, chop most of it, Dad would leave a guesstimated amount on the edge of the field to dry down and pick based on how good the corn looked while chopping. We never ran out of corn to grind for feed and we never sold much. When I began trying to grow the farm and grow more cash crops, I began to ask to see where we were as a baseline. Things changes so fast.....never got around to that detail. Man what a year.

clarkscreek wrote: That would be great. I think I may have seen what your talking about on the two row pickers but haven't seen that on the one row before.