Well, my order got screwed up, I gotta do this over...

The top 4 pictures are of my prototype 2M-HD, the second one built pre-production (makes a guy wonder where number one is...) From picture 4 it looks a lot like a 234 (or any other mounted picker, for that matter, LOL) but as you can see in 1, 2, 3, 12, and 13 they aren't even related... The cross auger (pictures 1 and 2) pushes ears from the husking bed (Pictures 1, 2, 12) into the elevator hopper, so the husking bed is part of the picker itself when mounted.

Picture 11 was SUPPOSED to be Picture 1, but it is the sticker on the inside of the picker. I almost hate using it with such a thing still in tact. Obviously, it has never spent any time outside until I owned it. I feel bad, but I have no room. Picture 10 is where on the picker it is located. Pictures 5-9 show where it is on my farm, behind the shed, across the yard from the 2-PR. My running SM is in the tobacco shed, if you can see it... Might be able to see some Uni's in the background, but maybe not. Beside and behind the 234 is the 703, behind the 703 is the 708 and beside the 708 is the 705.

Pictures 14 and 15 are of the SM (SN 51XXX) which I hope to put the 2M-HD on eventually. Doesn't run at the moment, I believe it is just locked up from sitting. It has antifreeze in it, so I don't think it cracked anything. But that is the waiting project. I think picture 16 was a hint that I should drop a hay bale into the yard, I couldn't believe her reaching under the fence like that. I watched her drop to her knees and crawl and everything.

Then the picture of me this morning with my two jakes... God honest, I intended to just shoot the one on the right, but both dropped. Keeping it a secret, yeh, but I'm not going to throw one in the ditch and waste it. It'll taste good, anyway!!

And then a repeat just because I love it so much!!!!

I'll get some pictures of the huskers and shellers soon, they are still on the tri-axle. I'll get pictures of all the other 234's I've been offered, too, that I'm supposed to collect when I get the cash.

Thanks for the HACK JOB comments, Tony. You know, I really oughta kick your @$$. You're lucky there is a heck of a pond between us or you would have a size twelve bruise on your behind.

You have no idea what it was like for me to do that. I have shot pets to put them out of their misery, I remember being 8 years old when my pet pig was being butchered... but I sure was not born to be a 234 destroyer, especially a picker that was parked simply because it was replaced by another 234 with nicer sheller, so it stood where it had last been dismounted but the new 234 just parked in front of it all the time. It was always his spare, he told me... I was absolutely sick, but that was the price of getting them free on an incredible deadline. Every 234 picker I ever move will be complete, there is no effective way to balance them on a loader and not wreck them... after we wrecked them being gentle, I didn't care anymore. I'd of rather be rough with them and wreck them than be gentle with them and wreck them. But, they were parts before, they are still parts just in more compacted form. Heck, I was even sick about rubbing paint and bending a couple things on the good picker. So, once the serial number gets written down, it can be completely parted out (maybe stored as whole for parts) and retired. I have 234 snappers and huskers up my wa-zoo, but I wanted to save that one really great one and the shellers (especially the grinder-sheller). Everything is really easy to move with a skid steer, but the motor blew on that this week and that is a completely different story.