I have a 323 I believe NI one row picker. It does no take all the husk off my corn, maybe half still have husk. So I have a few questions:
Will the corn be ok in my corn crib with husk still on half of it? I took a couble cobs to Co/Op to be tested its @ 16.2%
I do not have fingers on the picker. It has rubber paddles. They looked horrible so I replace all of them. This seemed to help a little but I still have quite a bit of husk on cobs. Any addvise?
The husking bed rollers are steel. I see alot of these pickers have rubber rollers. Has anyone ever tried spraying rubber bed liner on the rollers to give them some tack for pulling husk????? This is what I was going to try next?? but if the corn will be fine in the crib with husk it really doesn't bother me???
It should be ok. THat is real dry. The old steel rolls had these "pegs" that went into the wooden plugs on the husking bed rolls. The rubber rolls get wore and need to be replaced on the newer pickers. To be perfectly honest i think i like the old all metals rolls better.The thing i think helped in husking the most was the fan blowing the husks open so they would catch and the husking rolls could grab them and pull them off.That spraying the rolls with the tacky bedliner is a good idea. If you try it . let us know how it works.
Thank you very much for response. I did not try the rubber on the rolls because I was told that the husk would be fine and wanted to get the field picked beacuse it was beutiful weather! I got everything but 8 rows. I may try it on the last 8 rows. Not very impressed with my yeild I have a major deer proplem but I have just the fix for that! I will attatch some pics soon.
I will attatch some pics soon.
