[AT] 2 row corn picker

[Al Jones]

Hard to imagine snow like that.  Looks like the corn would be better
under the shed but I guess it was cold enough the snow could be
blown/shoveled off?

There were not a lot of two row pickers in SE NC either.  My dad
mentioned a neighbor with a JD A and two row.  BIG outfit for the
time.  There were quite a few of the semi-mount JD pickers--100,101,
120?  My great-uncle next door ran one on a D-15 Allis, and I have a
cousin who owns his Dad's B JD with one on it.

Sometimes I look at my rig and think "this won't be so bad!" Sometimes
I think "this thing is like a giant erector set."

Al

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am sure that 'Farmer was very happy'.  A foot of snow covering 13 wagon
> loads of corn can be addressed in short order; a foot of snow on that much
> unshucked corn is much greater problem. Our area was slow in acceptance of
> of tractor mounted pickers, so I have little knowledge of such situation.
> Dad only had approx 100 acres of corn, and could not justify a picker.
> I do know that many farmers were injured by pickers; working at night
> certainly increased the chances of such accident. Herb(GA)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Dotson
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 9:52 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] 2 row corn picker
>
>     in 1951 my dad bought a new Farmall M and 2 me picker. That was big time
> at this time in farming. Dad did a lot of custom work with this pair.
> Remember one New Years eve when  a neighbor had some corn to finish up and
> was a hard snow storm forecast for the next day. Farmer could not get any
> more wagons unloaded that night and told dad he would have to quit when he
> had them all full. Dad told him to check with neighbors and see how many
> wagons he could borrow. Dad finished about 2:00am, just as the snow was
> starting. Next day there were 13 wagon loads of corn sitting in the field
> covered with a foot of snow. Farmer was very happy.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Jones
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 9:24 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: [AT] 2 row corn picker
>
> The internet and Facebook in particular is a dangerous thing.  Last
> winter someone posted an ad for an IH 2MH corn picker--a two row,
> mounted picker for a Farmall M or similar.  I've always wanted one and
> I just couldn't help myself so last week I took off to Union Grove, WI
> to take in the national Red Power Roundup, and then took off that
> afternoon to Manawa, WI to get my picker.  After taking the center
> snoot off it fit like a glove on my trailer.  I got up early the next
> morning and was home by 10PM--an uneventful LONG drive I don't intend
> to do anytime soon!
>
> The picker looks good.  A little weathered from setting out for a year
> but it's pretty much all there.  Now I have to find a good M or Super
> M to put it on.....
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