Anybody still running uni systems? Are they better than the pull type picker for shelling! Im getting alot of shelling on my snapping rolls! And cant seem to get it to stop it i was told its cause of todays corn varietys! I think a uni with a head with stripper plates would be better instead of snapping rolls! Maybe im wrong!
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formenwhogrow
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Look for a John Deere 300 picker. You run one of those and you'll never want to look at a new idea again.
gtractorfan
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Here's one I saw at a farm show a couple years ago that looks like it gets used. I'd like to see it run, I wonder how it does on getting husks. This is in w.c. Ohio.
garret geisler
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Best use of a uni that I have seen is the local drainage guy has a Brown Bear dirt auger on it and fills tile ditches with it. Clumsy looking rig but when he is done, one extra pass in the spring with a fcult and you are ready to go.
Are you trying to pick ear corn or shell corn? I had a 701 and a 702. Had a 727 (I think that's what it was) husking bed. A 325 pull type will pick circles around it for how much I can pick in a day. They pull so much trash in to the husking bed with that stripper head that it makes for slow going. If memory serves me right,that was only a 12 roll bed.
Not saying a newer one might not be better,but that's my experience with them.
If you're talking about running a 729a sheller on one then ya,better than a Super sheller on a 325 hands down going away.
Not saying a newer one might not be better,but that's my experience with them.
If you're talking about running a 729a sheller on one then ya,better than a Super sheller on a 325 hands down going away.
I will have to agree and disagree with Randy on the uni"s.Run them from 1970 till got rid of last one 2 yrs,ago.The stripper heads won't shell as bad but will put more trash into husking bed.On ear corn picking,we run 2&4 row W NI heads and later 4W &4N & 6N JD heads which were worse for trash then NI heads.Speed and capacity was never a problem.BUT PARTS are now a problem to get unless you are in a area that has Uni's.Buy a JD 300 if you can.
We had one with a naturally aspirated Perkins and a older combine in the early 80s.
One very handy thing about the owners manual is the parts book is also included. YOU NEED IT.
Keep 1 inch bearings in one pocket and #60 roller chain in the other.
Ours was worn out (the engine was the only redeeming factor) but I spent almost every weekend I had off school working on it.
Was a good idea poorly executed. Look elsewhere.
jt
One very handy thing about the owners manual is the parts book is also included. YOU NEED IT.
Keep 1 inch bearings in one pocket and #60 roller chain in the other.
Ours was worn out (the engine was the only redeeming factor) but I spent almost every weekend I had off school working on it.
Was a good idea poorly executed. Look elsewhere.
jt
tomstractorsandtoys
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Anything that does everything does nothing right.LOL That being said a picker was one of the things the Uni was best at.Get an adapter and put a Deere cornhead or even a New Idea head with the deck plates to help stop shelling.It will still husk well but you will end up with more stalks and trash in the corn.That was our experience with a 4 row.We were told a 3 row worked much better.
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