picking corn

Never did unmount the picker, but that old tractor sure got a workout.

Took them 5-6 days to pick the crib full with the 2 guys, one wife, & one or 2 of us kids hooking wagons.

Now I fill the crib by myself with the 2 row pulltype NI, can do it in 4 days. But my legs are a little tired..... ;)

--->Paul

We have been picking corn with a NI uni since '69. The Uni shown is a '74. We used to crib 10,000 bu. but now are down to 3000 since it is just the wife and me, only take on as much work as your wife can get done. The stripper plates work fine for keeping the corn going through but you get much more trash into the picker and the husking rolls work overtime to get the corn clean. It all depends on the variety of corn if you want clean picked corn. Most of the corn now-a-days is bred for combining that means the ear is tighter to the shank with more trash going in to cushion the kernels while going through the cylinder. The Uni does shell, but it mostly goes into the wagon unlike the a snapping roll picker which leaves it on the ground.

We quit picking when corn started making over x bpa and hired it combined. We used the same rig,SM and 2MH picker.

steveormary