IH no. 20 mtd picker pictures

farmallboy15 · Oct 31, 2010

well i decided to buy it. $100 for the whole load. came with two extra picker heads and the drawbar mount piece. i think everything is there. what do you think? anybody have a manual?

soybeanjoe · Oct 31, 2010

When you get it mounted post some pics. IIRC, it took two guys a good half day or more to mount ours on the H.

farmallboy15 · Oct 31, 2010

will do! i think i need another H because i don't really want to mount it to my '39. know anybody who wants to get rid of a cheap H? lol

soybeanjoe · Oct 31, 2010

Here's a pic of an H & # 24 picker I downloaded from the IH archives. It's the same settup as what we ran except our wagon had 3' wooden extensions . IIRC, it held around 125bu of ear corn. We had 3 other wagons set up similiarly that weren't IH. One was a David bradely & held around 100 bu & I don't remember the brand name of the other two but they were bigger & held about 150 bu ea. To dump the wagons we had a "Stan Hoist" single acting cylinder hoist that mounted on the back of anothe H that hook to the front of the wagon via a chain & hooks & raised the wagon bed up. We used a '54 Stage II SM to pull the wagons from the field to the cribs and a Kewanee hiker with an 8 hp Wisconsin engine to fill the cribs. My main job was pulling the wagons to & from the field. Sometimes I helped dump the wagons & once in awhile when I got older I ran the picker but that job was usually done by my uncle.

farmallboy15 · Oct 31, 2010

cool stuff. is your picker a no. 24 or 20?

soybeanjoe · Oct 31, 2010

Ours was a #24. It was in very good condition, almost looked like new, as it was always shedded. Very seldom sit outside even during harvest. Unfortunately I traded it off years ago, not even sure on what. Maybe a 615 combine i bought new in 1971.

Get it all restored & mounted & it should be the talk of many shows. I've been an IH man all my life but when you've seen so many Hs& Ms retored they get to be old hat to look at. Now a #20 picker all spruced up & looking like the day it came out of the factory is worth taking a 2nd look at IMO. I've seen a couple at tractor shows but neither had been restored. Looked petty much like your's sitting on the trailer, if not in poorer condition.

Nebraska Kirk · Oct 31, 2010

That sure looks like the #24 picker to me, but I don't know why it has the #20 decal on it. The #20 pickers I have seen before were made in the 1930s. I have a couple of extra manuals for the #24 picker if you want one. [email protected]

This is a 1937 F30 with the #20 corn picker.

farmallboy15 · Nov 1, 2010

thanks but i have a manual for a no. 24. and wow that looks nothing like my picker. maybe the conveyor with the no. 20 decal was part of a no. 20 picker and the rest was part of a no. 24?

gene bender · Nov 1, 2010

What mounts did you get with it. We used a 24 on the M then traded for a 20 later as it had some upgrades from the 24. Wasnt a bad picker as we ground lots of the ear corn for fat cattle feed and when we shelled the huskd made great bedding. If we shelled couple 1000 at a time we would bale the husks.We liked the Minneasota rolld that were available did husk better. Also used the inserts in the snapping rolls to cut down field shelling. Wasnt a big deal on field losses as we always had couple hundred 100 lb or bigger hogs to clean the fields also 50-. or more yearling steers That was back in the days when everyone had hog-tight fences.

farmallboy15 · Nov 1, 2010

are you talking about the mounts that go underneath the belly pump for the hydraulic lift? ill get a picture of it later.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 1, 2010

I just look at the IH archives they have a list dated 1979 that has every model of farm equimnet IH made and it lists the 20 being built from "31 thur "36 and the 34-hm-20 from "54 thur "56 the decal must only say 20 on it

farmallboy15 · Nov 1, 2010

thanks. does it say anything about the no. 24

Larry B 1486 · Nov 2, 2010

That brings back memories. We had a mounted IH, I almost sure # 24, looked just identical to that one. Had it mounted on a H at first but then put it on the M that handle it better if the ground was a little muddy. It was almost a two man job to put it on and take it off. I had the best job picking corn, rode the wagon shoveling corn to the back. Think you could get a teenager today to do that all day long? Before the # 24 we had a one row picker pull type #12. The selfpropel was a great invention.

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