A new week, another brochure - this time featuring the Oliver Model 6 Single-Row Semi-Mounted Corn Picker. I don't know how many of these are still out there or even if it was a good picker. If you know something about this one (or any other ones I have posted in the past), please feel free to make your comments!
-- Edited by jdtom on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 09:45:22 PM
Tom, thanks for posting all the brochures for us. This one and all the others have been great to look at. I even find myself going back and looking at them several times. Thanks again
Some of the borchures are so well done, they still make me want to go down to the local dealer and sign the papers for a new one . . . if only we still could.
My first picker was a #6. Unfortunately, all I had to mount it on was a D-14 AC with a shackly 3 point hitch conversion kit. The picker worked well, not too fast because it only had a 4 roll husking bed, but the side draft was awful, and it was worse in mud. If it had been on a rigid 3-pt, I think it would have been different. If I hadn't bought a Wood Bros. my dad was going to put a tongue and another wheel on the #6 to make it like a # 5. It got left in the woods at my parents' old farm when we left. When i first put it to work, I did one round and came back to the house with about 250 lbs of Morning Glory in the header. That's when dad taught me about vine knives and I found that someone had taken the ones off the #6. Oh, to be a dumb 16 year-old again!
I paid $100.00 for mine in 1979. We had to use bush-axes to get it out to load it. I've never seen another one in person. I don't think they made too many. Those semi-mounts didn't last too long, just in the mid '50's it seems.
