h/ corn picker/706?????

MIKE W (NY) · Dec 19, 2008

... would an h run a 1 row corn picker??? or would i have to use my 706?? or is that too much over kill???

Anonymous-0 · Dec 19, 2008

Of course it will. Now depending on your population and soil condition the picker and ground speed just mite not work very well. Remember when the H was used the corn was planted in 40in rows and either three or four stalks in a hill. Weeds can spoil the whole thing.

MIKE W (NY) · Dec 19, 2008

.....thanks i am working on buying an old ih 1 row picker i just want to fix it paint it and pick a little corn not make a livibg just work the h a little

Randy in NE · Dec 19, 2008

We had a two row mounted picker on our H. Dad picked a lot of corn with it in moderatey hilly ground. Pulled an old wagon with side boards on it. I don't remember power being a problem.

rustyfarmall · Dec 19, 2008

50 years ago we had a 2 row mounted picker on an H, and it worked good. BUT, 50 years ago the best yield you could hope for was maybe 50 bushels per acre. Today, the average yield for corn is closer to 200 bushels per acre, and there is no way an H will handle even a 1 row picker. If you want to plant your corn thin, and don't expect to get yields over 50 to 60 bpa, the H will work. Otherwise, use your 706.

Dellbertt · Dec 19, 2008

The H will work terrific. I pulled a one row trailer type and never had a problem except when the weeds were thick but thats a problem with all of them older ones.
The H has a really low first gear so population yield will not effect it.

MIKE W (NY) · Dec 19, 2008

....ok thanks.... it will be on flat ground kinda dry so it should work then?

Kippster · Dec 19, 2008

I have run a 1 row new idea picker with my H many times, even in the modern, high population fields planted by my cousins. It does just fine as long as the ground is not EXTREMELY hilly. Rolling ground makes it work, but does not work the snot out of it. You should not have any trouble as long as you stay the heck out of the mud!!

steveormary · Dec 19, 2008

I would think so. We pulled our 1 row picker
with the F12 sometimes.

steveormary

john d · Dec 19, 2008

From about 1947 until 1952, Dad pulled a TWO row JD picker and wagon with a Farmall H. Corn yield sometime approached 100 bushels per acre, and it was strictly a LOW gear job. This was on very flat terrain, and the ground had to be dry or frozen.

riverbend · Dec 19, 2008

I pulled an IH 1-PR corn picker this fall with my H. The problem was not power, it was plugging up. Counter-intuitively, running faster in 2nd gear worked better.

The corn was planted where the tomatoes were the year before and not fertilized. It ran about 80 bushels per acre. I think rebuilding the snapping rolls will help with it plugging up.

One caution: these pickers removed the fingers, hands, and arms of a generation of farmers who were in too much of a hurry.

Greg

John B. · Dec 19, 2008

There are older IH tractors than the Farmall H's that pulled one and two row corn pickers. My dad had an IH one row picker he used for years with his H and always got his crop in. It was more flat ground than hilly.

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