There are posts here occasionally labeled as corn picking. Its usually the guys with modern farms using a combine. When I hear the term "corn picking" I think of the old pickers harvesting the ears to put in a crib. Anybody else think that way. I guess it shows how old I am as growing up it was all picked as ears around my area.
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steve_in_mo
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Agree. Combining is combining no matter what the crop is.
Still, a combine uses something that looks somewhat like
a corn picker to take the ears off the stalks.
A year or so back, someone wrote in with some questions about a corn puller.....
Still, a combine uses something that looks somewhat like
a corn picker to take the ears off the stalks.
A year or so back, someone wrote in with some questions about a corn puller.....
leroy in ne
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Just to keep it interesting, does anyone remember (early 60's) picker shellers which were basically a mounted corn picker with a sheller unit mounted where the elevator was on a regular picker. I remember seeing 1 or 2 in southeast Nebraska. also self propelled corn picker, Massey Harris?
Rich'sToys
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I also usually think of ear picking, because that's what I grew up with. I realize things are different now, but old habits are hard to break.
As for beans and small grain, I think we usually just referred to those as combining them.
I know where there is a CASE model S 2 row corn picker/sheller. It has the elevated round tank. It's already spoken for when the time comes to pull it out of the trees and brush.
I grew up in small grain country of North Dakota so never heard of "corn picking" until living in Minnesota. All small grain was swathed then and combined with various kinds of "pickup" headers on the combines.
I grew up in small grain country of North Dakota so never heard of "corn picking" until living in Minnesota. All small grain was swathed then and combined with various kinds of "pickup" headers on the combines.
I ran a JD 50 sheller on the back of a 237 cornpicker. Had it mounted on a JD 630 tractor. Worked good but it sure gave the tractor all it wanted in 125+ bushel corn. Tractor was LP so had a few more horses than a gas tractor and I did have 14.9 tires instead of 13.6 because that sheller was heavy. Excellent grain quality with no fines and broken kernels.
Corn picking is on the ear, shelling is either with a combine or picker with sheller attatchment. That I have only see a couple of those at shows, never a working unit. Cut corn is with a corn binder and silage corn is chopping. And we combine wheat and beans. No cutting ahead of combine on wheat, never saw a pickup head work. Few old ones in junk from when it was thought you had to cut swath and dry red clover before combining it but I proved them false. Dad thought it had to be that way but I was seeing how much seed we lost, I got him convinced to try direct cut and never went back. Neighboe one year thought he was going to be smart and swathed his wheat to get double crop beans in sooner, did not make it for that as rains came as soon as the wheat was swathed and spoiled all his wheat in the swath. Never tried by anyone elce since. Wheat or oats with a grain binder was bind the crop as it was all tied up in bundles with twine that was half as thick as baler twine. Then after binding the crop you went to field and shocked the crop for a few months before the tresher came. Load hay was with a loose hay loader on the wagon, haul hay was with the buckrake from field to barn for the hay fork to put the loose hay in overhead mow. Dad got first combine when I was 2 years old and picker when I was 3 years old. Now 76.
Destroked 450
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I saw that post and was disappointed to find a combine shelling corn instead of someone actually picking corn.
This is my corn picker I found in a barn a few years ago, it just like the one dad bought new in 64, still have it for parts.
KJohnson92
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We call picking picking, and combining combining. But I do know plenty of people that call combining picking. Those same people call it "picking beans" too, to them it's just a general term for harvesting I guess.
Picking corn to me brings back memories of walking behind a mule draw wagon pulling the ears and throwing them in the wagon. Seems I always ended up with the down row [the row that the wagon straddled and laid the corn over] so you had to bend down to pull the corn. We call those the good old days.
Keith Molden
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Now, cutting corn says to me that they are going to shock the corn and let it stand in the shock for a few weeks then shuck the ears and put them in the crib. Use the fodder for bedding during the winter. That's the way it was done when I was a boy, I loved going with Grandpa and watching him use the husking peg, then riding on the sled load of fodder or corn in to the barn.
That probably was a semi mount picker instead of the mounted 1 row that did not come out untill about 53 and was 1/2 of the 227 2 row fully mounted. And I liked the husking better with that 227 than I did with our Oliver picker. I don't remember the model number of the first mounted unit but it was what they called a push picker as the tractor actually did not carry the picker.
Destroked 450
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The red Ford pickers were earlier models built up to 62, Ford switched to blue tractors and implements in 63.
Our blue pickers had a little wider elevator than the neighbors older red model.
The picker in the photo doesn't have the husking rolls, just a cross conveyor, We grind all of the corn we raise for cattle feed so the husk doesn't matter, just more filler.
We do have another picker with the husking bed but the bottom of the elevator is rusted out allowing the loose kernels to drop to the ground, another repair project on the list.
Didn't know any other mfg built a fully mounted one row picker other than Ford.
Anyone have pics of one.
You need to think if fully mounted is it for a wide front utility tractor like the Fords or the Fergusons? Or is it for a narrow front like a row crop John Deere, that the 1 row was just the left side of the 2 row mounted picker. I know that years ago IHC had a fully mounted picker that fit either a F-12 or F-14 Farmal as I saw one. Don't know if they had more models. But neighbor put a MF fully mounted on his Ferguson TO-35 tractor. I think it was way to heavy for that tractor but it did work.
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