This is a picture of my cousin Bob, picking corn with his Dad's 237 and 1964 JD 3020 Diesel, with one of their JD varnished wood boxes on a JD running gear.
The article was entitled "Nebraska, The Good Life"
I always wondered if anyone ever thought of rigging up s few fans to blow away dust or making a homeade cab for their mounteds?I never seen pic of one but just made sense to my way of thinking.
I'm not sure about the IH cabs on their tractors, but I remember seeing a brochure years ago for a short-line cab manufacturer that made a narrow enough of a cab to be used with a mounted picker. It had either a sliding door or an inward-folding phone-booth type of door on it.
I always loved the smell and dust and sounds of old equipment. too.But some years the dust can mess with your sinuses and maybe cause some problems from what ive heard. but for the extreme conditions like this year that might cause you probs with al the molds,etc.
I've seen cabs on 06-26 and 56 series tractors with pickers on them. There's a video on YouTube of I believe a 856 with a cab picking corn. Its thise small cabs IH had where you almost had to hang your arms out the windows to fit.
Check the picking pictures of the last Half Century, 2015, think it was Bob SMOKER had an 826 IH with Ice Cream Box Cab just picking and shelling up a storm. THE iCB cab was the only cab that fit inside a 234 picker. The compressor for AC sat outside the front right side of the engine, picker and AC not compatible, but you had pressurizer and heater. And plenty of HP for shelling or grinding. Be a lot safer operating a picker from inside a cab.
Thanks for the info, we took pictures of the IH with cab at Half Century and hope to use them in the book.
I was just wondering if any other companies made cabs for tractors with 2 row mounted pickers.
One company that made them was Lundeen. I ran across a couple on a salvage yard's online inventory last year. One was off an IH 756, the other off an Oliver 1650. I would have liked to have seen it on the Oliver with a #74 picker mounted.
I just remember seeing the brochure I spoke of earlier but I don't have one in my collection. It was many, many years ago when I had that brochure so it probably got discarded at the time because it wasn't "interesting enough"....
We are working on "attachments for corn pickers" chapter to be included in the book and I was wondering if you
ever ran across the brochure showing cabs for 2 row mounted corn pickers.
The Corn Picker Book will be ready for sale at the Half Century of Progress.
We will post details later as how much the book will cost and how to order if you can't make it
to Half Century. CornPickerBob and Phyllis Johnson
HCOP is less than two weeks away, and we are waiting on the ordering information.
Ha-Ha, My Sister talked to Mr. CORNPICKER a couple years ago at a threshing show in I think Rochelle, Il. I know I'm buying his book but not sure if I should buy Her a copy too. If I could get a signed copy I would for sure.
