Wondering if anyone can help with some info. Back in the early 1950s my dad had an IH pull type picker. I can just barely remember it. It had an elevator that came out the side and a wagon hitch that could swing around for transport or field use. I've been told by some older neighbors that it was a 2 row.(can't remember myself) Talked with a man at the S.C.R.A.P show in Gibsonburg, OH last weekend and he said it must have been a 1-P. He claims that they did not make a 2 row that had the side elevator. My question is did they make a 2-P or was this something else? Dad went from this picker to a 2ME or 2MH on a 450. Spent a lot of time riding on the laqdder with him and leveling wagons for him. Went to Rantoul and sure enjoyed seeing all the pickers there. I personally thought that was the best part of the show. Thanks for being there to all you guys who displayed and demonstrated you really made my day.
There was a 2-P picker, but I don't know how its elevator was positioned. I have seen a picture of a McCormick-Deering 200 picker, which was made in the 30s, and it did have a side elevator. The 2-P replaced it around 1938.
Thanks for the reply, Tim. I did purchase an owners manual for the 1-P. It was published in 1947 which would be about the correct date but it shows a picture of the picker on steel wheels. I'm sure that dad's was on rubber. Some of our older neighbors seem to think that it was galvanized steel rather than painted or at least parts of it were galvanized which led one to believe it was a New Idea but the family is pretty sure that it was a McCormick. Dad is gone now and I really regret not asking him more questions about things like this.
Just found some info on the 2P. In the book titled "International Harvester Farm Equipment Product History 1831 -1985" by Ralph Baumheckel & Kent Borghoff it states, ..." For 1938, the McCormic-Deering No.1P and N0. 2P, 1-and 2-row pull-type corn pickers were introduced. The No.1P had a 6-roll husking bed and the No.2-P had a 10-roll husking bed; both machines had side delivery elevators. Each machine came standard with an adjustable hitch for pulling a wagon to the side of the picker and under the elevator discharge. The two pull-type picker models became the McCormic-Deering No. 1PR and No. 2-PR in 1951 and 1953, respectively."...
As near as I can tell it would have been about 1955 or 1956 that I can remember Dad & Uncle using the 2-P. They bought a 450 in 1957 and used a 2ME or 2MH till 1971 or 1972 when they bought a 330 N.I. Picked with that til Andersons quit buying ear corn. We were one of the last to pick corn here in Northwest Ohio. Still kinda miss it at times. My wife found & ordered a manual on the 2-P on Amazon.com from Binder Books. Can't wait to get my paws on it.
Oldtimer---Sure enjoyed the post on the 2PR manual. Thanks for posting those old manuals.
Chris2640---What model is your side elevator picker? Got any Pics?
Would love to find and restore a 2-P some day. I'll bet there's one out there just waiting for me. Currently restoring Dad's '46 M that he used to pull the 2-P with.
You mentioned your dad and uncle sold ear corn to The Anderson's back in the 1970's. I remember reading in a farm magazine in the late 1970's - early 1980's about another farmer in Ohio who put up a lot of ear corn and sold it to The Anderson's also. What did they do with all of this ear corn? and why did they quit?
jdtom The Andersons had a cob processing plant in Maumee, OH. They processed the cobs to be made into various products from pharmacutical products and facial powder to oil dry and all kinds of things inbetween that I can't recall right now. They paid a .50/Bu premium for ear corn. Dad always said that premium paid for the trucking to Maumee and then we got the better price of a major terminal as compared to the local price plus the free drying that ol' mother nature provided. I don't know for sure, but was told that most of that cob business went to the seed corn processing plants in Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana. As I understand it they produce thousands of tons of cobs every year. Andersons closed their cob plant and Dad sold the dairy cows. Others on here may know a lot more than I do about the cob processing.
P.S. Sorry I refered to you as "oldtimer" in the thankyou for manuals you posted--saw that on your avatar and thought that was your user name.
Currently restoring Dad's '46 M that he used to pull the 2-P with.
