[AT] 2 row corn picker

[Greg Hass]

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