I have posted a few pictures of my 4010 with a 237 picker. Last year I had a 237 on a 720 gas that I posted. Like everybody in this hobby you Just can't have one. So last summer first part of July I traveled 30 minutes west of Davenport IA to bring this picker back to Avilla IN. The biggest difference between this one and the other one that I used last year was this one has the stalk ejectors. With the way the harvest was this year. I did not get any pictures of it in action but I did get a few shots of it yesterday before I took it off the tractor.
Thanks for posting the pictures. 4010 diesel? if I'm seeing right that should make a sweet picker tractor, smooth running six cylinder engine and good hydraulics.
Hope to see you at a picker day with that rig. Ron
I add some pictures of a 237 I seen in Iowa back this summer.
-- Edited by RFP on Friday 1st of January 2010 04:18:49 PM
I ran a 4010 for a neighbor and thought it was the greatest tractor but did it not having a hi/lo on it ever prove to be a problem for picking corn. That was the only thing i wished for on that tractor besides a cab and heating/ac sometimes .lol
Earl, that looks good there in front of the old Behlen crib. I went and looked at a late 227 picker to put on my 3010 here a while back, but did not get it bought. I see you have a NI spreader in the background there of one picture. I am going to say a 201 or 19? I have both, gd spreaders. Tell me about that flat roof open sided shed in the background? How do you like it? Storage is always something a guy thinks about, or lack there of, as these types of toys take up a lot of room.
My dad bought a grain truck (green 72 Chevy C-30 1 ton with Omaha bed w/ hoist) at a farm sale when I was a boy, about 1988, east of Muncie, Indiana. The passed owner had 2 mtd pickers in the barn at that sale, both up on blocks and both nice. One Oliver that had been on a 77 (#4?) only had picked 200 acres - $25. The other was a 237 with a multi-luber, had been on a 3020, - $30. I know the 237 went to a farm about 15 miles south where a farmer already had one 237. He still has it. No demand for pickers on that warm April sale day. I hope the Ollie bypassed the torch, I do not know what became of it.
Very nice picker and tractor. I also looked up your pictures of the 720 and picker and it also looks good. It brings back memories from when I was little, im 21 now, watching my uncle picking with a 237 mounted on a John Deere 620.
I see you have a NI spreader in the background there of one picture. I am going to say a 201 or 19? I have both, gd spreaders. Tell me about that flat roof open sided shed in the background? How do you like it? Storage is always something a guy thinks about, or lack there of, as these types of toys take up a lot of room.
The building in the background I believe I am going to cover three sides. It has 15' clearance in the front and slopes down to 13' in the back. I had to be close to that height to get my JD 95 combine in. Things just get to wet in my opinion when it rains or snows. With the stuff in need to find a place for inside i need to be able to pack it out to the edges to get everything in and still leave a little room to be able to back a couple loads of hay into if need in the summer. Like everybody else they are never big enough but its more than I had.
Also you are correct the spreader in the background is a #19 New Idea. It has been a great spreader. We bought that off of my wife's grandfather witch he bought new.
I want to thank all the people that post anything on the site. You get to see things that you would not ordinarily see. I have grown up around New Idea and John Deere pickers. So its good to see how some of the other makes did things.
Earl T. You still out there? I wold like to talk to you about your 237 picker sometime. You can contact me outside of the forum if you want to at mjhamric@yahoo.com.
