John Deere 237 corn picker

Found a few pics from last fall of the 2510 and 237 corn picker. Also some of the 50 sheller. The post about the Oliver mounted picker down in the Tractor Memorabilia section got me thinking about these. Tom

50 sheller.

Someday I am going to have one of those pickers. Not looking like this year though.

nice pictures! my grandpa had a 227 on a Deere 60.
I've always likes the looks of them , but dad always said it was a bear mounting the picker
every fall!

Nice pictures, Tom.

How big of a load could you get on the chuck wagons, and did you unload them into a crib then?

I guess they held a little less than 100 bu per load. My other picker has an elevator extension and you could get a big load on then but you could not use a roof wagon. I made metal fillers for the unload hole so it did not spill so much corn when unloading. I have filled the crib with them but last fall we just filled the 2 Chuckwagons, 2 gravity boxes and 2 barge boxes. Growing up in the Midatlantic area it was common to see people pick into silage wagons. Tom

We picked several years with a 237 mounted on an Oliver 1650 diesel. It usually took dad about 3 days to mount and about the same to remove, working between milking cows.

Around 60 years ago neighbor tried picking into Gehl chopper wagons and way too much shelling for me. Later I had a 227 picker on a late A Hardest job mounting was moving rear wheels. A number series should have been to do that on due to different way wheels were made.

We had a 227 on a 60 and then a 237 on a 730 diesel that we left on year round. I think they are both still sitting in the trees back in SD...

Dad had a JD No. 26 (I think that's the number) push type corn picker and then later we had a JD 227 corn picker mounted on a 1946 JD A with pressed steel rear wheels. We just switched the wheels side to side at the end of the axle. Dad made adjustable stands to set the axle housings on after jacking the tractor wheels just off the ground with a steam engine jack. We loosened the 3 bolts holding the collar and using a heavy hammer hit a short shaft to loosen the collar. We switched the wheels twice a year and never had a problem moving the wheels. We would put plenty of oil on the axle and slid the wheels in and out a couple times before switching the wheels Then snugged up the collar evenly and then tightened it evenly. We never had a wheel come loose. I don't understand why it took so long to mount a 227 or 237 picker. When I was older, I changed the wheels one night, put the mounts and radiator screen on the second night, and mounted the picker and elevator the third night. Each night was 1 1/2 hours between getting off the school bus and doing chores. It might have been harder doing the No. 26 since the angle between the wheels had to be taken off to drive the tractor into the picker and then replaced and the steering pole to the narrow front end and the steerable wheels under the picker.

The pics are of the older push type corn picker were taken at The Half Century of Progress of display corn pickers.

No chance to switch wheels side to side, had cast wheels with tires filled with fluid, Had to shide them on the axle and moving that hub was the hard job from narrow for plowing and cultivating and wide for picker Never had the radiator screens. I did have a 226 picker before the 227 mounted on a 49 B. The push picker was the no. 25. One row push was a No. 15 and the single row version of the 227 was a 127 that an Uncle had on a 70D

As always super special pics for sharing. Thanks for sharing, I was too late to the party, Dad already had wore out one JD 60 transmission, and by 1983, it was mostly scrapped in our fence row,the 227 picker was cut up and hauled to KC in 84'
I was so intrigued by the rollers and such, as the parts were coming off. There was no way that thing split out corn cobs , I thought to my self, 10 at the time. Never got to see it work. Congrats for keeping machines going like these, GG