Re: Picking corn like the old timers.

Posted by Leroy on October 25, 2022 at 09:18:51 from (98.30.20.69):

In Reply to: Picking corn like the old timers. posted by Tgrasher on October 24, 2022 at 19:12:02:

That opening on elevator that you are wanting to make a door for is there for a reason and you DO NOT want to closeit up. The top end of the elevator will flip anear every once in a while back down the bottom side of the elevator and the ears will lay down there untill there gets enough to plug up the elevator tha it might break up something. I do not know how the elevator is drivin on a NI but on the Oliver No. 5 theelevator is belt driven and that will male the belt slide and possibly before you catch the elevator is not working you burn up the belt.. I knowe it looks like a lot of wasted corn but that is the way ALL pickers were made to get around that elevator plugging.It will look like you are loosing a lot more corn than you actually are. If you are worried about the corn dropped out of that area take a 5 gallon bucket and just walk down between every 2 rows and pickkup the ears.. You will not find as many as you think you will. Big think would be the next year if following with a different speciaity crop you do not want any voulenterr corn in. And those grease fittings is why Dad when he bought a new picker back in mid 50's he whent with an Oliver No. 5 Picker over the new Idea that was built about 45 miles from home. Our first Picker was a GI (general Implement) Dad bought new in 1945 and traded off on the Oliverbecause the GI was made with no splines to drive the gears just a pin that after a couple of years of wear you could not keep pins in. The next year 1947 they fixed that problem.It did not have a huskin bed and a couple of years later a Husking bed was avaible to convert the snapper to a picker and Dad put it on. Over the years I had a second Oliver No. 5, a Wood brothers, a John Deere 226 mounted picker, a John Deere 227 2 row mounted picker and an Oliver73 2 row pull type picker for after we got the first corn head for the combine. and we did not need a mounted picker for opening the fields as shucking the 2 rows by hand to open fields was just way to much work. You would shuck the 2 rows and make a lile of ears every few feet and the you would come back with the wagon and pickup those piles before taking picker out so you did not drive over thse piles of corn and ruin them. Dad thought and did what you are thinking about doing blocking the elever drop out hole before he figured out what was going on. That GI picker was only designed for 60 bushel per acre of ear corn. The Oliver easily handled over twice that amount.

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• Re: Picking corn like the old timers. Tgrasher 12:16:14 10/25/22 (0)

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