[AT] 2 row corn picker

[Mike M]

Greg, is it as dry in your neck of the woods as it is here, Howell, MI? 
Farmers were able to get in the fields early and the the corn and beans 
came up nice, but I just noticed today that the corn that is about 12" 
is just starting to twist, we need rain really bad. Every storm seems to 
go just north or south of us.

Mike M



On 6/25/2016 12:31 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> In our area, the thumb of Michigan, it is just the opposite. We have a
> lot of bigger tractors but Cubs and 140's and such are quite scarce. The
> reason I am told is that this was basically cattle country and more
> power was needed for haying and chopping silage. As for the 10 acres, I
> love the idea. There is a guy about 8 miles from me that does just that.
> He has between 10 and 15 acres and likes 2 cylinder John Deeres.
> Depending on the year, I have seen him raise corn, oats, hay, and
> soybeans. He has quite a system; he has an old one row corn picker and
> puts the corn in a corn crib he made that has a wood floor about 18
> inches off the ground. He fills it with a single chain aluminum
> elevator. He bought (and I didn't know they made them) an old New
> Holland belt driven corn sheller. In July or August he sets up the
> sheller and the corn goes from the sheller into an old screening mill
> which cleans the corn and then elevates it into a gravity box. He then
> uses the corn in his corn burner to heat his house. The other crops he
> sells. For money, he and another guy own a business that wires trailers,
> does electric brakes, puts trailer hitches on trucks and cars among
> other things.
>          Greg Hass
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