[Farmall] RE: Mike's mounted picker Was [AT] Back

Thu Nov 18 07:29:24 PST 2004

Mike, 

The pictures remind me that in the fall of 1970 while waiting to go into 
the service I helped a farmer pick his corn.  I think he had a Super M and 
this type of corn picker.  My "help" largerly consisted of getting the 
wagon empty and the corn into the corn crib.  He had an elevator with a 
gas engine on it, and then a hoist arrangement to lift the front of the 
wagon so the corn could come out the gate in the back.  Not elegant but it 
worked and lot easier than scooping off the entire load.   Not much ear 
corn was picked even then around here.  The fellow was a bachelor and 
anxious to get his corn picked so he could spend the rest of the winter in 
Florida.   Don't remember what he paid me but I was glad to have the job.

Larry Hardesty
Kearney, Nebraska 68849-2240

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Al,

Tractor is still at my boss's house, but I did snap some pictures the 
other 
day.  Not the best ones as my good camera is broken(anybody know of a 
repair 
shop, its a Nikon coolpix 2100) and I had to borrow one.

http://images8.fotki.com/v127/photos/1/140465/566553/S3010005-vi.jpg
http://images7.fotki.com/v126/photos/1/140465/566553/S3010006-vi.jpg
http://images7.fotki.com/v126/photos/1/140465/566553/S3010007-vi.jpg
http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/1/140465/566553/S3010008-vi.jpg

Mike

>From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
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>Subject: Mike's mounted picker Was  [AT] Back
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:08:44 -0500
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>Mike,
>
>Let us know how you fare getting the picker home, will be looking
>forward to pictures!  The 234 was the "Cadillac" of mounted pickers,
>hope the MTA does ok with it!
>
>Al
>
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>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Michael
>Miller
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>Farmer,
>
>THANK YOU
>
>I have some tractor type stuff going on. Hopefully tomorow I am bringing
>
>home my new 234 mounted corn picker. I am really excited.  First I need
>to
>get the MTA ready, though, slide the wheels the rest of the way out, fix
>the
>lights so I can pick at night when its frozen, mount up my super snoot,
>change the oil again and the hytran also, drop the drawbar, and mount
>the
>brackets.
>I can't wait to get another camera and get some pictures of this picker.
>It
>is a little dinged up, but has picked around 500 acres total, and never
>been
>left outside.  All the bearings I could get to seemed to be good.
>The subframe and lift that he had was the rockshaft style which uses the
>
>Fast Hitch to raise and lower it.  I was looking at getting a fast hitch
>and
>putting on the SMTA, because my uncle has some implements that I could
>have
>used on it too.  A look at the going price for them in my area($450+ for
>a
>good tight one, $400 for a used one) had me looking to regroup.  The
>seller
>knew of someone with a picker they were parting out, and it just
>happened to
>have the other type of lift.
>He originally wanted $500 for the picker, but his grandson is using the
>barn
>its stored in for a shop for his lawncare business and he wants it
>moved.
>He talked the owner into selling it for $200 if he could find someone
>local
>who'd use it and not scrap it. Considering it weighs over 2 tons
>according
>to the book, that is what it'd bring as scrap.  That subframe cost me,
>better than half the price of the picker.  It has 2- 2 1/2"x8" hydraulic
>
>cylinders, tho, so as long as those are good I got a good deal.  I
>haven't
>seen that yet, hopefully it's ok.  I have 3 hydraulic implements and
>only
>one cylinder, so I figure I can take those cylinders off the frame when
>its
>stored for offseason and then I wont have to fool with switching one
>cylinder from plow to disk to planter and back again.
>I know of a friend with another 234 that he doesn't use, he got a good
>deal
>on aNI mounted picker and a SMTA that he leaves the frame on all the
>time.
>He said the 234 was too heavy to use on the SMTA, and it took a day to
>get
>the 706 ready to mount the picker.  He told me that he'd give me his if
>I
>wanted it, but I haven't yet decided if I am going to take it.  I don't
>really have a place to store it.
>I know of another real nice picker with 4010 brackets, along with a
>sheller.
>   If I were to hit the lottery tomorow, I'd buy a nice 826 Hydro and a
>4010
>or maybe move up to a 4020 powershift and restore both, along with a
>picker/husking bed for one and a picker/sheller for the other.  I think
>that
>would be a BIG hit at shows.  I think I am going to show the picker I am
>
>buying in its "as found" state at our local show,  regardless.  Need to
>build a tractor pulling hitch that can stay in place with the subframe
>mounted tho.......Just drop the picker off in 20 minutes and hook onto
>the
>sled:-)
>The only problem I can see with wanting to show a picker is the fact
>that
>its tall(have to take the elevator off to trailer it) and HEAVY.
>Between
>the tractor and the picker, the SMTA rig will tip the scales at better
>than
>5 ton.  That isn't something to haul behind a 1/2 ton pickup with a V-6.
>I
>Don't think I can legally haul it behind my heavy 3/4 ton even.  I would
>
>really like to show it at the RP show that is coming up in Mansfield I
>think
>in '05, which is about an hour from my house.
>
>On another note, I sold my dad my '51 Farmall M and a feed grinder.
>Hopefully I'll get my Farmall A tore the rest of the way apart so I can
>get
>the machine work done, then put it back together.  That would be a nice
>project to get done.  Its been apart about a year.
>
>
>Thats enough rambling for now.  If anyone has any stories about picking
>corn
>with ANY picker, I'd love to hear them.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
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