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Nick167

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Is there any way to pick a mounted corn picker up with chains and a forklift with out damaging the picker I bought one and were trying to figure out how to move it I can't put it on a
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Nick167- I have never owned one but have seen many. Not mounted on the tractor while trying to move would seem kinda risky. Lots of weak areas.

Maybe hire a towing company that has a roll-back and use it.
 
JS suggested an axle and a pair of steel wheels. Short of that,if you have a good sized shaft or a piece of pipe that will slide through the pipe hole in either side of that,it will hold it steady. I winched one on to a tilt bed once.
If you can get a pipe or something through there though and lift it up and back under it,you'll get it if you're careful.
 
I have moved loaded and handled many New Idea mounted pickers and hauled them three hundred to five hundred miles . If this is what your looking at then to move it first ya need to wedge in a 4x4 between the two gear boxes to keep it from squashing together . Ya need a loader with a boom pole about six to seven feet long to keep it away from the loader and you use a chain to down around the frame work next to the gear boxes that run the gathering chains. . Then ya load the husking bed with the elevator facing the ft. of the gathering unit and chain it down the best ya can by hooking to the solid parts . Or ya buy a tractor and put it on the tractor mount the picker and remove the elevator and drive it on the trailer being vary carefull not to drive off the side of the trailer . Once on then ya stuff the elevator up under and throw a couple straps across it . So you don't want that tractor then ya dismount the picker and sell the TRANSPROT tractor and put the picker on what you want. Did that twice to get a picker out of a sale.
 
Thanks for all the info I just talked to the buyer he said it will unbolt into 2 pieces? It's an Oliver #4
 
Ya,after I posted I thought about that too. Take off the center snout and unbolt the two halves. There's a cross member in there too,then you can lay the halves right on their sides. You have to take the wheel guard off one side to lay one on top of the other.
 
Nick,
I moved my 234 by unbolting the front divider from the gathering units and was able to put them onto trailers to move. I am not sure about the width of the the Oliver picker, but one trick I have learned from some old-timers who have moved them is to stick a pipe through the stands that rest on the ground. By using one pipe, the picker doesn't want to flex in or flex out. Make sure your pipe is the largest diameter as compared to the stands and at least 12" longer than the length between them. If I were to do it again, I would use the pipe through the stands and 4x4 between the upper parts of the gathering units with ratchet straps and loaded onto a trailer. If the picker is too wide for your trailer, I would unbolt the front divider, and still run the pipe through the stands, push the gathering units together bind them together with ratchet straps and load them. Good luck and let us know how it went!! Maybe take some pictures!!
 
I have hauled a few ford 2 rows and we always separate the heads and lay them on their sides and then stick the nose between them and then load the husking bed from the rear with the elevator lying flat on the trailer between the heads and nose. Then we tie them down from the strongest points and throw a few straps over just for extra security
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Thanks everyone I think I will try unbolting it rrlund just to make sure I take everything I need what all tools will I need?
 
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