Hey guys I was wandering whats you highest yield you have gotten using your corn picker. I use a New Idea 324 with a 329 super sheller. This is gonna be my third farming and doing corn. My highest yield so far has been 110bu/ac. I been putting down lime and after this yr going to be changing my planter to a 30'' row and gonna get a 325 picker and put the sheller on that and then hopefully i can start getting 150 to 160 bu/ac.
in a muck field this year during the drought i picked real close to 200 bushel corn and let me tell ya! the wagons fill up quik and the tractor and picker really get to workin
that great my goal is to hit 200 bushel corn. I just hope the picker and sheller will handle it good. I run a ih 1066 on the picker. It works great on it.
i never been around a picker sheller i had our farmall 1206 on our picker in the hilly stuff and i use 200bushel parker wagons and i can pick in low third in high torque all day long
Oh really. I pick in low second TA forward. I tried 3 rd but i got small fields . I not sure if it a big difference with the sheller compared to the husking bed but i dont want to go to fast that the sheller gets over loaded and it does a bad job shelling the corn
We pick about 10 of our corn acres with a NI324/327 in ear form each year to grind for cattle feed. We combine the rest. Our farm average is usually about 175 bpa on a southwest Iowa hillside farm, with individual patches well over 200 bpa. We run the picker with a Series IV D17 and pull small box wagons behind it. Power isn't a problem to run the picker, but sometimes a full wagon will push the tractor just a touch if the ground is wet. (No problem with wet ground last year, of course.) I wouldn't mind buying a D19 for just a little more oomph and weight, but there weren't too many sold in this region.
Yeah, ours eats the high-yield stuff well, and cleans it well, at least with a husking bed. Very few shucks or stalks in our cribs. We break an elevator chain or a roller chain once in a while, which is to be expected. We don't picker-shell anything, though. We have a picker attachment for our old NI mounted unit, but we haven't run that machine for several years. Anyway, we combine all our shell corn. Sorry I don't have any current experience with a picker attachment.
You don.t got to be sorry. I new to using a picker. This is my third doing corn and using the picker with the sheller. I just learning. I will say the new idea picker and the super sheller is a great machine and they do an awesome job.
Highest yeild I ever picked was 165 bu/ac - with a JD 120 snapper. Pulled by a JD 50. The whole rig borrowed from my Great Uncle.
My Allis #35 could not handle it. In fact, the little Allis couldn't even handle 100 bu/ac corn. If I have that Allis picker to thank for anything, it was making me a New Idea picker-man. The 165 bu/ac crop was in '92 - haven't done that since - until maybe this year?
