IH Mounted picker models

Skip7879 · Getting There

IH Mounted picker models

jdtom · Too Much Time On Their Hands

Yes, they did for the 234 Picker. It was called a Multi-Purpose Grinder and Sheller. It had grinding burrs in it that could be adjusted to make ground ear corn feed, cracked shelled corn or straight shelled corn. Have not ever seen one of thes - I'm guessing there aren't many around anymore.

I posted the brochure for this outfit awhile back - here is the link to it if you want to see some info about it.

http://cornpickers.activeboard.com/t32800831/ih-234-picker-brochure/

KA656 · Old Timer

They did make a grinder/sheller for the picker. I was told it took a tractor with lots of hp to run. I know where this is one, if you are interested.

Skip7879 · Getting There

Wow I wasn't dreaming. My grandfather had a 234 with the picker and the sheller attachment to bad it was sold when I was probably 15 or 16

d282 · Wasn't Born Yesterday

I just sent you a PM. I may be interested in the grinder/sheller. Thanks

Tim in NJ · Old Timer

New Idea had one for the pull-type two rows and one for the mounted two-rows, but I think they just ground the corn, couldn't be set to shell. Deere also offered a grinder unit for the 227 and 237 mounted pickers. Dairy farmer near here ran a Deere unit on a 237 back in the early '80s, and blew the corn-cob mix into a tile silo. Then he switched to narrow rows for the last 8 years he milked (quit in 1994), and he picked with a JD 300 2-row narrow and ground it at the silo with a grinder-blower.

Skip7879 · Getting There

what were the model numbers on NI

Skip7879 · Getting There

The neighbor and I were just shooting the bull solving the worlds problems and what not. He has an old super sheller could you make that basically grind the cob to. Maybe do a retrofit. He farms alittle to much ground to be messing around with two rows at a time.

jdtom · Too Much Time On Their Hands

I've never seen the grinder attachment for the JD 227/237 Pickers - anyone out there have any pictures or info?

To answer another question above - the New Idea model numbers for their grinder attachments were:

No. 317 Grinder for the mounted picker

No. 318 Grinder for the 2-row pull pickers

I have both of these in my collection if anyone needs info or close-up photos of either one.

Skip7879 · Getting There

I just searched it and it looks like that was an attachment not really a whole unit. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me

Art From De Leon · Old Timer

Tim in NJ wrote:
New Idea had one for the pull-type two rows and one for the mounted two-rows, but I think they just ground the corn, couldn't be set to shell. Deere also offered a grinder unit for the 227 and 237 mounted pickers. Dairy farmer near here ran a Deere unit on a 237 back in the early '80s, and blew the corn-cob mix into a tile silo. Then he switched to narrow rows for the last 8 years he milked (quit in 1994), and he picked with a JD 300 2-row narrow and ground it at the silo with a grinder-blower.

That is a new one on me, as none of the JD literature I have makes any mention of a grinder attachment for the 227 or 237 picker. JD kept the Model 50 sheller attachment right up to the end of the mounted pickers, so I am wondering if the dairy man didn't adjust the cylinder clearance to grind up the cobs. The Model 300 HUSKER was never marketed with a sheller attachment, only the 244 wide row 2 row head, and the 334(?) 3 row narrow head.

JD did mention being able to make a corn cob/shelled corn mix with their SP combines, starting with the late (Squareback) 45-105 Corn Specials

TW · Old Timer

Many years ago I saw a picture of a JD 227 picker with a grinder attachment. There was a sort of strangeness about that machine that made me think it wasn't purely a John Deere product. I distinctly remember that the wagon auger came vertically out of the grinder and turned 90 degrees horizontal back to the wagon [similar to the auger on the old Case hammermills if you're familiar with those].

Tim in NJ · Old Timer

I asked his son, it was a burr mill attachment mounted on a 237, and it did have a vertical pipe. They bought it in the early 70s at a Deere dealer liquidation sale, it had never been used. I found a picture of one on page 328 of Volume I -John Deere Tractors and Equipment by MacMillan and Jones, but there is no model number stated. Looks like it shares some components with the 50 sheller. Their 300 husker had a 243 2-row narrow corn head on it.

KA656 · Old Timer

I have the picture of the 227 with the sheller attachment. I found it a few years ago while I was researching the Heider auger wagon. I can't figure out how to post it since it is on a Word document-not saved as a jpeg. I will share it but don't know how to. Any ideas? I tried copy-paste, that doesn't work.

-- Edited by KA656 on Tuesday 8th of November 2011 06:45:36 PM

jdtom · Too Much Time On Their Hands

I do remember that picture in Don MacMillian's book now that you mention it.....

Art From De Leon · Old Timer

I wonder if it existed a a prototype only?

I have a copy of The Furrow magazine from about the time of the introduction of the New Generation tractors, and it shows a picture of a LETZ grinder mixer, something I would have loved to have to go with my 50X and 225X grinders, but despite advertising off and on for several years, no one has ever been able to produce one. (You should have seen some of the machines others consider a grinder-mixer)

Even the ex-JD dealer at Onawa, IA thought he remembered selling one, but that turned out to be another dead end.

Tim in NJ · Old Timer

I just saw a Knoedler PTO burr mill that has an auger that looks a lot like the one in that Deere picture . . . . I wonder if what our neighbors had a was a Knoedler attachment, or is the son remembering the 50 cornsheller as something different? I remember 300 picker and the grinder-blower from their later years, but I never saw the mounted picker in operation . . . .