Re: Re: Re: Who had the best one row picker, IH or JD?
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Posted by JR on November 10, 1998 at 06:20:45:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Who had the best one row picker, IH or JD? posted by King Cotton on November 06, 1998 at 16:36:21:
: 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. King Cotton, you're right, the old IH pickers did gravity flow the water. I was just using that as a kind of comparison on the later ones. My point was that it took IH an awful lot of gizmo machinery to do the same job John Deere was doing with just a simple direct hookup. That water pump chain and the way it went around the world to pump water was just one example. I agree with you about the picking of the cotton though. The IH is hard to beat, and I don't really know why that is because they are almost identical in so many ways. Around here even, the IH just has the reputation of picking better off the stalk. If, however, you run up on somebody who can't set the thing, then the John Deere would beat it. I think tit for tat though, the IH picks off the stalk cleaner. As you know also, a tremendous amount depends on the setting of all the components and adjustments as to what kind of job of picking it will do. Then I've seen so much difference in the fields and cotton. When you run up on those tight locks nothing short of a stripper can get them very well. The old Allis-Chalmers which we sold, truly only picked one side of the row as it had spindles only on one side, unlike the IH or John Deere. The Allis-Chalmers just ran the spindle all the way through by crowding the cotton into the spindles. Lord, the stories that come to mind with those things! They'd pick clean cotton, what they picked. In remembering about the one rows though, wasn't theirs something? I remember one of our drivers pulling up to the trailer one day to dump and when he did the basket and all went in the trailer! That's the kind of stuff we had to try to live with. The gins around here hated to se Allis-Chalmers cotton coming because of the likelihood of fire due to spindles in the cotton. It was one thing after another. Spending hours straightening the things, and on the old two row pickers trying to keep the basket man awake to prevent choke ups. I do chuckle thought when I see how the new IH and John Deere pickers unload, for it is much like the old Allis-Chalmers two row back in the late 40's. Just some thoughts. Have a good day sir. John
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