does anyone know if there are any of these still around. i had one and had to give it up when we moved from home farm. this is the one from the 50s. my neighbor had one on a minnie moline ZB and custom picked for us or opened up the field since we had a n.i.#7 pull type. wish i had kept it now. it was the last one i ever saw that was complete.
Up here, thats all I can find is the NI pull types, and I want IH 234's. LOL Dad has his NI 325, and I have my IH 234. Need to find a sheller for my 234. There was a NI #7 on ebay awhile back, like a month or so ago.
I know exactly what you are talking about, but have never seen them in person. I know where some New Idea husking beds are, I suppose you could make them trailing, they are essentially the same design. But as to the original, I have seen ONE picture of such an item... I thought it was pretty darn cool, but it looked like quite a train across the field, especially for a one row picker. Great post, I'd like to find someone who has one or knows where one is, that would be a picker collector item for sure!!!!
what i was talkin about was the 1950s two row mounted picker.T he husking or sheller trailed behind instead of being mounted on the gathering part of the picker.There was a couple of U shaped pieces that the front of the husking bed sat down into on the sub frame of the gathering unit , then you just attatched the pto shaft to power it.
Its just a short blip on it, it's actually an advertisement for it back in the olden days. Couldnt tell you the month off hand, its somehwere around here, along with Red Power, Antique Power, and Tractor Shop.
What is th emonth on the farm collecter? I checked the one at tsc and i couldnt find anything on them . Thanks in advance!
In the November issue, sorry it took so long to get back with ya. Also a story in there about a guy's recollections on running a farmall M and 301 Superpicker.
I found it!! So so story but the ad was great. Always wish they would include more details and lest trying to make a 'pretty
' picture of the scenery,etc. I can always look at pretty pics but the guys who ran these pickers and did this kind of work and their knowledge are disapearing all too fast.Still anything is better than nothing.
The trouble is the amount of pickers left for collectors is dwindling , especially the older mounteds like the n.i. 301 and older. Plus the guys who understood them are dead or dying except for a few of us fossils who loved them. The younger generation gets their thrills from bigger and shinier. For a kid today to not feel put upon or deprived it has to have at least 12 rows.If we had to move ahead to horse farming because of the fuel situation,we would starve because the younger generation has had the idea pounded into them that hard honest work is no way to make a living.!
You sure are right about the experienced older gentlemen being gone or disinterested in these pickers- in our active group of volunteers, I only found one guy that had ever run one of these. I kept an eye open for years hoping to find a picker and when I did -grabbed it right up. Surprised as heck when I got it field ready and out to pick -that had no one to suggest set-up or how to commence. Just figured these have to be kept for future generations to have something to compare to the giants in the fields nowadays. When I had it at the fair in August,-early July I had pulled from the roots some stalks and let them dry down..........at the display I then set them in the snouts upright then set back and listened to the comments from a distance. Don't believe the city folks knew these ever existed!
I dont think most of the guys running 6-12 row combines knew they existed! lmao. Funny thing is i remember talking to a kid from a big farm and he couldnt imagine running a 1 row #7 new idea as i did for many years. lolSometimes i wished i had stayed with my first equipment and not bothered to expand to 4 rows.But i got to run my 2 row mounted ford picker at least once. If i had to do it over again the first thing i would buy is a good trailor for moving equipment..i think we'd been better off sticking to small farms and not trying to swallow up our neighbors so fast.
I started out with a one row Dearborn picker, I thought I was in heaven. Picked 20 acres like that, and then I got the Uni, which was bass ackwards in many ways. Ain't that sad? I got the 2M-HD for collector reasons, but I have only a handul of people to go to with experience with them. I have been picking my corn with the Uni if it ran but the 2-PR the last few times. I have the 234's now, just would like something bigger than my Super M to run them (side note, by best bud bought a 450 and we are probably going to swap narrow/wides with one of my three Super M's) and put his 450 on a 234. Once I pick up an 826 or something I'll be running 234 exclusively for ear corn, I feel I really went backwards with the Uni. Save the new Uni for chopping, combining, and shelling, and stick with the 234 for the serious stuff.
Stepped up to the 80's with my 709, but the Dearborn still has a very warm and very important spot in my heart. I highly doubt I would have the understanding of farming I do today if I didn't truly appreciate picking with the dearborn and my Super M...
I'm 22... and I feel I am two generations behind. I'm hoping to grab on to as much as I can.
True, many young family members have seen there dreams of farming go down the drain when the small family farm were sold to the highest bidder. One reason why I cling to the older ways of doing the operatons and owning the equipment it takes.
I started out using my uncles wood bros. /dearborn but it was in bad shape and ended up hand picking because it wasnt possible for me to think like i do now to get the crop in and was trying to do everything the "right" way which is an insane strait jacket.Did you have trouble with the dearborn shelling. ? Did the rotating snappiing bar help any? My main problem with any picker has been the shelled corn saver,husk removing chain. I think jd finallyy got it right on their one picker where it had an auger to do that. but those pickers i've only seen twice in my life.
No, I really didn't have any shelling problem at all with it. I always thought the rotating snapping bar kept things moving along into the real meat of the strippers at the end, but it would nearly leave the stalks standing, not a real aggressive picker, so we had a water pipe hung by a chain behind the picker otherwise the next round you would end up picking a row you already picked!!! Picker has always been problem free, just slow. Needs new husking rolls, but all things considered, I could pull it in 2nd gear with the SM. Could do 3rd as well, but then the elevator won't keep up. That was the biggest downside to that picker, that little elevator. I've thought about speeding it up, but I think it will just be restored now.
I found it!! So so story but the ad was great. Always wish they would include more details and lest trying to make a 'pretty
' picture of the scenery,etc. I can always look at pretty pics but the guys who ran these pickers and did this kind of work and their knowledge are disapearing all too fast.Still anything is better than nothing.
Just found this forum from the Red Power website. I'm the author of the November 2007 Farm Collector story about running a Farmall M and No. 20 New Idea picker. I wrote that piece initially as an assignment for a college Composition class. Part of the assignment was to incorporate the kind of descriptions used in the story. I did receive nice comments about it after it was published. I'm contemplating a book about my corn harvesting memories from the '50s and '60s. It will be very equipment focused but will also have some vivid descriptions and emotional memories incorporated as well. Hopefully it will still be much better than nothing.
welcome to the forum, I'm the administrator on here, though i dont think ive ever had to exercise my "powers" Hope you like pickers, cuz this is the place
I found it!! So so story but the ad was great. Always wish they would include more details and lest trying to make a 'pretty
' picture of the scenery,etc. I can always look at pretty pics but the guys who ran these pickers and did this kind of work and their knowledge are disapearing all too fast.Still anything is better than nothing.
Just found this forum from the Red Power website. I'm the author of the November 2007 Farm Collector story about running a Farmall M and No. 20 New Idea picker. I wrote that piece initially as an assignment for a college Composition class. Part of the assignment was to incorporate the kind of descriptions used in the story. I did receive nice comments about it after it was published. I'm contemplating a book about my corn harvesting memories from the '50s and '60s. It will be very equipment focused but will also have some vivid descriptions and emotional memories incorporated as well. Hopefully it will still be much better than nothing.
Good deal!!! Welcome!!! I'm the other moderator here but Tony does most of the work, he's number 1 in charge. I am definitely looking forward from hearing from you, and if you ever do write that book make sure you tell us here so we can buy it!!!
Hope you like pickers, cuz this is the place
