Hey guys i got a new idea 324 picker with a 329 supesheller. Right know i do 36 inch rows an im thinking of going to 30 inch row corn. I was wandering if anyone has used a wide row picker on 30 inch corn. If so how hard is it to pick the corn with the head being set for wide rows.
We do it with a 327 on the back. I don't know if the 329 would bring different challenges. We raised the snoots about a foot off the ground with a fixed rod in place of the lift cylinder. It takes close attention to stay on row, but the stalks bend pretty easily around the middle snoot. We have no problem losing ears, and they come out clean of stalks and shucks. We pull with a SerIV D17 (fluid in the rear tires). 10 acres a year or so on hillside fields with no remarkable problems. We combine the rest. 325s (narrow row pickers) are not common in our area and so are about 10 times the cost of 324s. Our ear corn needs are unpredictable, and a small percentage of total acreage. These issues make a wide row picker on narrow row corn our best option.
Ok good. Well now i know it can be done i may try it next year. I really wanna goto narrow row corn but my picker is really good and in my area it seems like the 325 can get expensive. I gonna try out soybeans next year for first time and didnt wanna sell picker to buy a 325 then a yr or 2 later sell it for a combine.
