New Idea husking bed again

Well,this morning I couldn't get that corn with the tough husks through the husking bed on my 325 for anything. So,I brought it home,backed it up to the shop and started drilling holes straight down into where the fingers were broken off. I had a whole bunch of old broken rod tines here off of a Gehl wheel rake. I drilled the holes just a fraction smaller than the rods. Then I heated the tips of the rods up red hot and started shoving them in the holes. WOW,the smoke and flames shot out around them,the first one startled me and I let go of it. There was so much pressure it blew it out of the hole and right over the top of the picker. I started holding them in til they cooled enough for the pressure to equalize. The molten rubber oozed up around them and sealed them in pretty good. I torched them off so they were only about 2 inches long. Enough to grip,but not enough to get leverage that would tear them up. I picked all day with it and so far so good. It made SOME difference in how it's husking that tough stuff too. I'm probably getting 20% of it clean now instead of 10%. The husks that are left aren't as complete,for lack of a better way to put it. Those steel rods are kinda punching them open so the rolls have more to get ahold of. I can load those Killbros 350 boxes in about 10 minutes. I guess I'd call that success.

I guess I am confused, how many row head does it take to pick about a bushel every two seconds. I have picked alot of corn with a 2 row NI picker and never seen one fill a 350 bushel wagon that quick. Not even a 250 bushel.

How do you fill a 250 or 350 wagon with a NI 2 row pull type? I gotta take the fronts off my 220bu Parker wagons and turn them into 180bu wagons, and then it won't fill the back of the wagon so I'm lucky to be hauling 150 bu.....

I guess you guys have an elevator extention????

--->Paul

(quoted from post at 22:33:54 11/06/09) How do you fill a 250 or 350 wagon with a NI 2 row pull type? I gotta take the fronts off my 220bu Parker wagons and turn them into 180bu wagons, and then it won't fill the back of the wagon so I'm lucky to be hauling 150 bu.....

I guess you guys have an elevator extention????

--->Paul

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Elevator extension and high speed elevator drive. I pick into 225 bu. wagons, one Huskee, one M&W with extensions, can fill them both heaping full, starting back to front, with the top elevator corn deflector flap clear up. Pick 20-25 loads in a good picking, ten hour day, no problems or break downs, and a short haul to the pile. Far short of 350 bu. in ten minutes. My picker has been shedded since new, and the corn forwarding fingers over the twelve roll bed are all still there, and in good shape. Funny thing to me is, in my experience, the tougher the trash, the cleaner the corn picks, most ears snap right off with no husk at all. Nice weather and dry conditions is when the corn picks dirty, with lots of husks. Tough trash, and clean picking, makes for more shelled corn in the picker, and the wagon though. Corn breeders working for easier shelling corn works against the guy wanting to pick the corn in the ear. rrlund, do you have any of the steel pegs pushed into the steel rolls in your husking bed? Doesn't take many of those to make the husking rolls quite a little more aggressive. Helps clean up tough husking corn, but will also cause alot more shelling, especially in easy shelling corn varieties. Just my experiences, and two cents.

Sounds pretty wild. 20-24 loads in ten hrs takes that long to change wagons

A killbros model 350 holds only about 215 bu of shelled corn with no extensions. Maybe thats what he is filling.

A 350 bu wagon will only hold about 175 bu of ear corn.

Gary

(quoted from post at 07:34:03 11/07/09) Sounds pretty wild. 20-24 loads in ten hrs takes that long to change wagons

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Well if two men, one running the picker, the other hauling and unloading wagons, can't pick 2-2.5 loads per hour, with a good two row picker, they'd probably better rethink their harvesting method, no? :wink: