This fall is going about as well as the spring planting, wet and wetter. We're still waiting on sun for more bean harvest, at least the corn won't gain five points for being rained on and still cloudy. Watch those rice tires dig!
I cant believe you got through that. I was talking the video stop stop unhook from the wagon . Well done , sucks when your out in the field alone if you get stuck.
Alone is one thing, not having a chain is another. I didn't have a chain to pull the wagon backwards or from better ground once I freed the tractor. Therefore, I had one option, and I made it happen. When I watched the video, I thought I wouldn't make it either.
We picked a lot of corn with a Ford one row. We used flat bottom wagons, 6X14 with skinny 16" tires to go through the mud. With skinny tires on the tractor, you would follow the rows and just cut ruts :)!
Hey if you want a trick i did with my gopro and the rattle when i have it in my case, if you take one sheet of a paper towel and fold it the size of the camera. put it between the back of the camera and the door when you close it, it eliminates about 95% of the rattle, any ways keep up the great videos 👍🏻
New idea pull type #10. It would eat that stuff for lunch. Your snapping rolls are about shot. Some guys weld a bead on them to help em grab the stalks. GEEEZus be careful picking that stuff out. Lots of old guys in my area missing hands and fingers from what you were doing. Nice videos. Be careful.
Neat little picker I have a similar Deere that mounts on other side. My picker has the same feed rolls I took a nickel welding rod a scratch welded up and down the length of them the burrs it leaves behind give them grip on the stalks.
I have seen many welding jobs on pickers rolls. But you must watch your placement. The old new idea picker had some friction welding done, and eventually the interference broke as roller. I have thought about it for the Ford picker.
Boehm Farm I should have phrased that better most of what I did was on the spirals themselves not as much on the middle I could upload a video of what they look like if you were interested
Sorry I just caught the interference part yes it will break rolls our machine has a adjuster on the outboard side and you can adjust the gap between them closer or farther apart to prevent that
Amazing machine ! Are you going to grind the ears? Around here we use a combine with a cornhead and grind the wet kernels with a bit of the cob for hogfeed or cowfeed; or a chopper with a cornhead which grinds the whole ear for cowfeed. In both cases it is stored sealed from the air in a clamp or a agbag .
Your upper roller is missing a lot of the quartz material. It would work a lot better if it was all there. Ford made kit to re coat them but it’s not available. I’ve thought about using an epoxy and stone material to revisit them. A buddy of mine has a couple NOS quartz rollers he would sell. The Ford picker was the champion corn picker for several years in the 60s
I love your picker videos! I did buy an industrial amount of JB Weld and some chicken grit to redo the rollers. But I thought it went well enough last year. Yep, I have read about the Ford pickers being the best. That's why I got one. If you wouldn't mind messaging us a way to contact your friend, I am sure a fresh roller would help!
Thanks. We’ve definitely got a picker addiction. Planning on having 4 2 rows and 2 1 rows in the field in a couple weeks. Funny you said you thought about using chicken grit that’s exactly what I was thinking. We raise commercial turkeys and always have it on hand. Give me your email address and I’ll send you that guys info about the roll.
There’s some 2 rows out there just a matter of finding them. Finding one with mounts for a 4200 is harder and for a 5200 is harder yet. As far as a narrow front the 4200 uses the same pedestal as a 901 so they are common if you would find a wide front 4200 you can just switch the axle for the pedestal. A 5200 uses the same pedestal but used an adapter to bolt it to the tractor. The adapters are around but sometimes pricey.
Ok you are on the right track. We used this same type of picker for years mounted on a Massey Ferguson 50. The rollers no longer could pull the stalks through when they got polished and when there was snow it was even worse. This is what we did. We used epoxy mixed with clean granite. We mixed the two on a clean flat surface then lathered it on with a putty knife. We put it on both rollers starting about half way up. With the rollers still in the machine. Doing this when the temperature was warm. It surprised us how well it worked. We never had to replenish it. We picked about 20 acres a year using this picker for 30+ years. Sold it in 98 and switched to high moisture corn. And yes mounting that picker every year was a bugger. It was amazing how much wet ground you could go through. But I was never a fan of this picker my Dad thought it was great but of course before he got this he was shucking corn by hand with a horse and a wagon. I don't post much but I just had to jump in here before something bad happened with you reaching into the head like you were.
Wow - you did a great job getting through the mud! Impressive! I thought you were stuck for sure at about the 8 minute mark of the video. Are those rice tires? As the wagon fills it will definitely drag you down. Prior to buying a self-propelled combine last year, I used a New Idea 2-row sheller. A wagon of shelled corn really is hard to pull through the mud. So, I feel your pain with the weather the way it is.
Even I thought I wouldn't make it when I watched the video. Yep, rice tires, I wouldn't have it any other way on these little fords. Oh boy, I know how heavy the shelled corn is, did you fill the wagons very full?
Third gear is the best pulling gear to move a big load and for getting unstuck. It has just enough speed but not too much for when they grip in that the engine won't bog down.
I think the hybrid corn just don’t have the good hardy stalks that make good corn for picking. Seems like the corn stalks deteriorate as soon as it’s ready for harvest. Good luck with your harvest, weather is not cooperating.
The picker provides weight for the right tire. I wish I had one of those weights they put on county mowing tractors for the left side. The differential lock is not your friend when the picker is on, you're better off working the breaks because of the imbalance.
Other than the deer, it's free storage in the field. It drives me nuts how everyone has to be done first. Sure your finished and rushed the grain to the elevator when the price is lowest all year, or paid for drying and all that rat race stuff. I'd like to finish sooner than later.
Wonder if a guy could weld some short pieces of rebar between the spirals on the front of that roller... time them so they come together to "pinch" the stalks and pull them down, in a spiral pattern back down the length of the rollers... maybe try at the back and work your way forward til you get the stalks pulling down like you want them to. Yeah those old pickers were designed for much smaller stalks and lower yields, and FAR lower population... hard for them to keep up and harder still to handle these modern rock-hard stalks that are twice as tall as corn used to be back when that thing was made. Seems like you were going pretty fast, what gear were you in?? Noticed you were riding the clutch a few times, and of course the video was sped up. Just curious! Later! OL J R :)
Or weld them in a pattern so they "intermesh" like gears so when one pushes the stalk over, the other one grabs it and kinks it and pulls it down, like a regular corn head snapping roller... OL J R : )
Real nice setup. I have a 602 mounted on a Super M Farmall. It's terribly worn out though, my grandpa ran it for years. Is that one mounted, or on three point?
Some cattle guys think the cob corn is better. We don't grind much ear corn because we don't have much storage. I try to sell as much as I can in the fall.
I realize this video was posted a while back but i am trying to do some research on a picker i found in a barn on some property i just bought. Does anyone know what it might be worth if i were to try to sell it?
I bought this one ready to use minus a couple adjustments for $200. I have seen the ford pickers advertised for 5 and 600. They are great machines, but everyone wants the convenience of dropping one pin on a pull type.
Dam whats that machine all about ?? Corn Picker, hmmm though that was just used for fresh sweet corn u would sell at the market. whats wrong with the combine this week? u sure got interest machines out your way.now i have to figure out why ur picking whole cobs and not threshing them.....happy muddin
Field corn pickers were around well before the machines for sweet corn. The combine is fine, I just like to pick ear corn and sell it for a a bit more than shelled corn. Plus it stores better than shelled corn. The cobs allow for airflow through the pile and no fan needed.
Hey Jacob sorry u got mud we do to ur corn looks great ur corn picker doing good job I’ll say one thing u can handle a tractor great job hopefully it will dry out for u weather here tomorrow looks wet be safe great video pet Shilo for me
Thank you. I wish I had more camera angles on working the tractor in the mud to show those guys with the big tractors how it's done. The videos on people always needing pulled out when they get stuck drives me nuts!
I don’t know how you only use gravity wagons for that. We have 2 gravity wagons and 2 dump trailers and the dumps beat the gravity for unloading 100%. Hate having to shake the gravity for 5 minutes to get the corn down. Also why does yours get clogged so much on good standing corn? It kinda looks like it could be because you’re not center row and it’s pushing it over so far but I find it an interesting question
I don't pick that much ear corn and the dumping flair box wagons just aren't around here. The plugs are mostly the tops of the stalk breaking off from being dry. The best picking is when the stalks are still alive and the corn is almost 23 percent. I sorta blame population density and a little bit on roller design.
Yah that's what I was thinking was because of them breaking off and by how that ford feeds it doesn't help the fact that the dry stalks break off. Over here in east pa our stalks are really fragile this year as well and im not sure why. My Grandfather said it was probably lack of pot ash because it was first year corn off an alfalfa field and I could see that being a possibility. Gotta blame those damn jams on something so why not the population haha. Also I don't think this video would be OSHA approved with the way you unjam it.
I havn't been sliced by a dry stalk unjamming the husker yet. Also because ours is a pull behind we just shut the tractor off all together to make sure nothing runs away or the husker wouldn't kick on as when you have your hands that close to the rollers it can be ify. Also something new happened today with our husker. We had 4 more rows of corn left to do and our rollers decided that they wanted to grind up against each other. So we had to kick it in high gear to make sure the rolls always stayed apart. The ol New Idea took it all in nice still and didn't get jammed once. I was impressed.
Todd Remmers I knew some one-handed farmers. They were clearing jams with the picker still running, stalk got wrapped around their hand. Only takes a moment. Also only takes a moment to shut the PTO off.
a visit from the safety police. From videos on everything from cordless drills to farming it just wouldn't the same without you. Stay safe on the couch with our helmets on and wrapped in bubble wrap to wait for our heart attacks
