I am thinking about buying a (Pull Type) New Idea Corn picker with sheller. We have narrow rows so was thinking a single row might provide the best flexibility regarding adjustment to various row widths. Thoughts/Comments?
I was also wondering what would be the best model to purchase. Can one still get parts for these units?
New Idea never made a sheller for a 1-row picker. Now I'm sure somewhere out there someone has "blacksmithed" one together, but I have never seen one or heard of one.
Thanks for the input above. A 325 narrow row may be the answer. Not sure I am ready to spring for one this year.
Let me ask, will the 325 series handle corn in wet (raining pre and post frost conditions)? The reason I ask, I notice that when wet raining conditions exist, the new combines come to a halt. I noticed this when back in Iowa a few weeks ago. I am not sure what is driving this. I know when I ran our IH 403 combine back in the 60's with 4 row head, basically nothing stopped us, that is rain, frost, snow. Only when the ground became impassable did we call it quits. This is the main reason I am thinking about buying an older pull-type picker-sheller unit. If it is anything like our old 403, would hope to keep going when everyone else has pulled into the pits.
That's because as soon as moisture is introduced into the insides of a combine, it turns the corn dust, silk, etc. into a slime that coats and and eventually plugs the sieves. And if it is freezing weather, the slime freezes onto the sieves. I would think the same thing would happen to the insides of the sheller unit, it just may take more time for it to happen. I remember picking ear corn in snowy conditions but a husking bed is more immune to these conditions (no sieves to plug up).
