I have a new idea picker and am thinking about replaceing the rubber fingers on the husking bed with rubber paddles. Do the rubber paddles do as good a job as getting the husk off as the fingers do ?
They are only ear forwarders to keep everything moving. I've not noticed much difference in husking ability between a 313 8-roll bed with the paddles and the 326 8-roll bed with the fingers, but the ears do go through faster in the newer beds with the fingers.
Size of ears doesn't seem to make any difference on cleanliness of ears on my picker. I installed a couple of rebuilt rollers a few years ago--made all the difference. Dry weather and wild critter damage this past year increased the number of "nubs", which jammed the corn saver more often though.
Thanks for the info. I replaced the stripper plates on the corn head snapping rolls lst year and it picked alot cleaner but shelled alot more. I found it really picks clean if the moisture is around 25%, put Ihave to watch the air temps if to warm the gets moldy in the cribs.
Picking ear corn really works best when corn moisture is in the low to mid-twenties. But to make sure it dries properly you have to either put it in a skinny crib (8' wide or less) or if its a round one, it better be set somewhere that the wind can blow thru it no matter what direction its from!
Last year I switched my 326 form fingers to paddles. I think the paddles work better. With the fingers it plugged several times in 2.5 acres. With the paddles it did not plug at all in 5.5 acres.
