Just remembered this pickin forum, and thought I would through a couple pics up!
Got to use my 33 mounted Allis picker for the first time, last fall. Tractor is a WD. I could only pick one row at a time, because the row width was too narrow for the picker. Grandpa plants corn on 30" rows.
Had a riot!!!
Hope you red, green, yellow guys like the pictures, I know I sure liked operating it! I do have videos too if ya all like the pictures....
You even found an orange wagon! Sharp looking outfit. Please post the video if you can figure it out. That's a tidy-looking corn ring. Nice job all around.
Probably 50-70% of the picker, is original paint. My dad and I bought the picker, before we had the tractor. Its a WD.
I tried to find a nice original WD, that had not been painted before I found this one. They are SCARCE! So I settle for this WD and after many months of rebuilding the tractor, we then mounted the picker. Its permanent now, as long as I own it!
Sure would love to join you fellers at a pickin day, but a little far for me to trailer anything from michigan. I am 27 and can't seem to find enough shed to put my orange iron under right now! We have alot of fun, my grandpa has a small hobby farm and we get the old equipment out and play a little. My idea of fun!!
Here are the videos, and grandpa with his 2 row new idea...
Thank you for sharing the pictures and videos of your AC corn picking operation!! Great looking pickers and tractors!! It is good to hear you are having fun with your "toys"!! Hope you continue to take pictures and videos and share them. Even us "red and green guys" can appreciate a good ear corn picker and the guys who enjoys them!!
I like the video of the AC 175 pulling the 2-row New Ideal picker. I pick corn with a 1-row New Ideal 309 using similar size tractor, a MF 275 tractor. I think they have the same size Perkins 248 engines in them. Wish at times I had a 2-row picker like that.
Thanks for the videos! We pull NI 324/327 units with an AC D17 Ser IV. The 324/327s pick clean, and the D17s give us no real trouble on our SW IA hillsides. Glad to see some more orange out there.
