hi there everyone happy new year i am new to the board and would like to get to know some people in my aera live in south central mn also would like to know what u guys run for pickers and other equipment thanks josh
Happy New Year and Welcome to the Corn Picker Forum!!
I live and teach in Cannon Falls but my toys are on my dad's farm outside of Wykoff, which is south of Rochester. My dad had an Farmall M with a mounted 2-MH picker. When that wore out in the late 1980's, he bought a Farmall 400 with a mounted New Idea 319 corn picker. A couple of years later we traded the 400 in on a Farmall 656. My dad retired from farming in the mid 1990s. We still have the tractor and picker today. We mounted in the picker two years ago and picked some corn with it all because of my fascination with knowing, more like remembering, how to mount it and my discovery of the corn picker forum.
About four year ago, I was at an auction sale west of New Prague buying trees, when I had some time to kill so I went over to watch what a couple of pull type corn pickers were going to sell for. I was the only person there and I bought a one row New Idea corn picker for $75. I took that back to the farm after some guy was running after me with his checkbook as I was trying to leave the auction lot.
After last fall's running of the picker, this fall a local old machinery guy, came over to the farm with his JD tractor and mounted picker for a mini corn picking day. I picked with the NI pull type. We picked enough corn to shell 300 bushel of corn into the two gravity boxes that I now own along with the Minneapolis Moline D corn sheller I bought the past fall for $100. Then I went ahead and bought another corn picker, IH 234. Now, I am looking for an IH 706 to mount it on.
All of this because of this forum. There are alot of great people, great stories, great ideas, and great passion for corn pickers on this forum.
How about yourself? What is your story and picker connection?
hey thanks ka 656 it would be cool to meet guys like u me and my dad love to pick corn but this mar would mark 2 years of his passing he was 52 it sucks when im out there and just knowin he not there but just think of all the good days we had we have a new idea 2 row wide i think it is a 323 but i dont remmeber and used to have aone row 323and a old 319 mounted on the old m but dad sold the picker still have the m tho it goin to be sad this year is the frist year of not picking last year we picked 25 acres of the 42 but this year we goin to do all beans cuz we dont have steers anymore and goin to have to switch to 30 inche rows with corn next year and dont have a 30inch row picker so probly have to combine it that sucks it hade combing corn. all becuase some big time farmer needs mor e land and money no problem for them , it hurts to think that no one wants a small farmer anymore now days if u dont have 1000 plus acres of land u ant nothing. it funny around here kids my age that farm u ask them what a corn picker is they look at u like what is that . and then ask them hows about helpin me shell a few corn cribs out what no that work i cant do that . i hope to hear from more of u guys and ka656 u should send me a email with yr number so we can get together i dont live to far from cannon falls . i live like 8 miles from fraibo in morristown and talk picking and any one esle that wants to thanks again
