Heres a few shots of our series 3 and 190 picker. This is the first time we have had it mounted in about five years. As you can see by the corn samples that it does not husk the greatest. AC pickers were known for not loosing much shelled corn but were never a good husking machine. The metal flare boards on the flare box are actual A-Cs that were an option for the corn harvesters and later 33 pickers.
This is me getting ready to go.
Here it is in action. We had the M&W super snoot on it this year. We also do have the A-C version also.
Heres my Dad running it. As you can see the cleaning fan in the elevator blows alot of chaff in the air. This has to be the dirtiest picker ever made! lol
You never feel the wind if its coming from your side!
You took some really good pictures. That a nice looking mounted picker, I have never seen one like it around here. What's the orange thing by the crib?
How did you get along with your #35? An AC pull type picker was my very first picker, and it had some difficulty in good corn. It couldn't get the ears cleared out of the head, had only one header chain and the ears wouldn't pass through the "paddle". I wore the hand clutch out on a WD and a D-14 trying to feather that thing along. Its responsible for me going to a New Idea.
I will say one thing about the AC, it never shelled a grain. The roller setup was fantastic and wasn't the problem. It operated like a modern combine head with sheilded knife rollers and snapping plates.
That would be my guess on the "orange thing by the crib" also. And the elevator he's filling the crib with is a Kewanee 500 Series with a heavy-duty truck under it.
The 190 Picker has 4 husking rolls on each side. All 4 are rubber and from the photo in the brochure, they look pretty smooth so I'm guessing they weren't the best idea for clean husking. I'll scan and post that brochure here too sometime this winter.
Yes if allis had just added the hi/lo range tothe wds and did some modifications on the picker they would still be around instead of being closed down now. i hear they are phasing out the orange paint in favor of the mf and fendt. But i think they will drop MF eventually too. These big companies cant wait to get it down to one large corp. They they can help the Govt, get farming down to one huge farmer.M uch easier to control and manipulate and there will be some fool who will want to be that so called farmer.Then what will they do for their so called Efficency? lmao .I need to go work on my ac s now. So nice seeing them working.. Ive used big white 2 155s which are ok but really love working with the smaller tractors. you actually feel like a farmer and part of nature even if in a small heat houser or home made cab. I amd reaming of being able to rum my wd 45 next year with the mounted picker.
Yeah the thing by the crib is a 110 front unload manure spreader. After looking 15 years I got one this last fall. The elevator is a Kewanee.
As far as production they only made 1000 190 pickers.
This particular picker is a one row pull type. They later added a beater in the throat for better feeding, these were known as a model 35 corn harvester. They built a total of 6500 of these. If you have tall corn you really have to ride the hand clutch. Another problem is if the snapping roll springs are broke they will not feed for nothing.
yeh the 33 a and the one before it were know for plugging and guys not shutting it off when unplugging. One neighbor lost both hands in one. Still always wanted to run one.
There were #14&17's for the D-14, D-15 &D-17's , after the #33. We had a # 17 on a D-17 diesel . In 1961 they were replaced by #150 for D-15s and #170 for D-17s. With the introduction of the D-19 , they made an upgraded model 190 , that would fit a WD to D-19, it was the last AC corn picker. In 1963 Arlyn Zee of Albany ,Wisconsin won the National Corn Picking Contest, with his #170, in some of the driest conditions ever at a national contest. AC originated the single gathering chain, stripper plates,and that were adjustable on the go, by use of a lever and chopper snapping rolls on the Sweet Corn harvester. Good pictures Jim . Don
