[AT] Rock Falls, IL

Al Jones farmallsupera1 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 09:57:36 PST 2016


 Yeah NI made some narrow row pickers.  My picker is an IH 2MH, fully
mounted.  Nothing about it is narrow row!

Al

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:21 PM, John Slavin <chaunceyjb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Sort of off topic for this, but my brother-in-law has a new idea pull type 2 row NARROW corn picker.  Nearly all of our corn is shelled, but he usually leaves 5 acres or so to pick in the ear.  We still have a grinder-mixer and run the ear corn through it.  I’m still of the belief that corn ground on the cob makes the best feed with the roughage in it in the form of the cob, particularly for cattle that aren't destined for the feedlot. Even for cattle that will eventually go to the feedlot, it makes good feed for when they’re first weaned and getting used to corn going through their digestive system.  2 row NARROW pickers must be kinda rare.  I’ve not seen many of them.  That would work nice behind the M!
>
> John Slavin
>
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>> From: John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Rock Falls, IL
>> Date: December 19, 2016 at 4:07:56 PM CST
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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>>   30"??? you got troubles! Can the picker and M be narrowed up? If not you better start hunting a planter NOW before spring price surges take effect. It took me 3 years to find a 4 row--wound up with an IH 800. If you just want to play, you could do it with a 1 row planter.
>> Seriously,  do you realize how much modern corn you can pick off 5-10 acres?  Trust me when I say it will be a lot if you get rain--way more than the old timers used to. I don't know about down your way but there is considerable market for "deer corn".  There are some guys that are really serious about it, moving a lot of volume.
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>> John
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>> On 12/18/2016 11:54 PM, Al Jones wrote:
>>> Yeah the great irony is all our corn is on 30" rows.  I would like to
>>> find 5-10 acres close by I could "play" on!
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:54 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> Sounds to me like you need to get a corn planter ready first! I'm
>>>> predicting we'll be seeing pics from eastern NC this fall of an M with a
>>>> 2 row picker hard at it in a corn field! Have a safe trip!
>>>>
>>>> John Hall
>>>>
>>>> On 12/18/2016 12:45 PM, Al Jones wrote:
>>>>>   Any members near Rock Falls, IL?  I lost my mind and bought a nice M
>>>>> Farmall from a collector up there.  A friend of mine with a gooseneck
>>>>> and I are thinking about going up maybe this week to pick it up.  I
>>>>> have been watching the weather forecast and it looks like it's going
>>>>> to be dry this week but COLD. Since they got snow over the weekend was
>>>>> wondering what the main roads/interstates are like, us NC guys don't
>>>>> navigate well in snow/ice!  I really don't want to have to let it sit
>>>>> there till spring......
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Al
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