Re: Re: Who had the best one row picker, IH or JD?
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Posted by King Cotton on November 06, 1998 at 16:36:21:
In Reply to: Re: Who had the best one row picker, IH or JD? posted by JR on November 04, 1998 at 20:55:13:
JR, I watched my Grandpa use a IH one row picker which was powered by H farmall up till 1980. He bought the picker new in the middle 50's. Since then we have bought a number of cotton pickers on our farm, none of them where as breakdown free as that one row. Now granted, there is much more technology to break down in todays pickers. I don't know about back then, but in present time, a case IH picker does a far, far better job picking cotton that those John Deere's, which around here, John Deere's are nicknamed slapshots, because they only pick one side of the row, where as Case IH picks both sides. Some of those JD pickers look like a log chain was pulled though the field. Most people I talk to agree that IH also had the best one row picker. One obvious advantage was the the cab of IH pickers was perfectly centered with the row that was being picked. On JD, you looked to your right to see the row being picked. I understand it is a matter of opinion to some, I am just giving mine. By the way, as far as I know, IH one rows didn't even have a water pump, the water flowed by gravity from a tank behind the cab.
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