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11/04/12, 06:07 PM
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A deal for some small acerage corn farmer
My mind wanders a lot. Some posts I read here caused me to do some googling and I came across this
Farmall M and 2MH International Corn Picker | eBay
If it wasnt so bleeping far away, Id be bidding on it.
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11/04/12, 07:11 PM
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11/04/12, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jwal10
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If I could count on rainfall more here and could plant a few acres of corn, I really think Id find one that was pull behind to save all that bolting on and off.
But I kinda have a kids dream ( at 56 ) of getting a couple more antique tractors and some equipment to go with them whether I have a real use for them of not.
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11/04/12, 07:35 PM
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We had a 2mh mounted picker on an international f-20.We left it on all year and kept it in the shed.Dad used to pick headlands for neighbors who only had pull pickers.I don't miss all that ear corn shelling.
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11/04/12, 07:59 PM
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Dad started out with a 1` row Woods Bros pull type picker. We thought we was in 7th heaven with no more hand picking anywhere from 10 to 15 acres of corn. We had no idea what Heaven was like till dad got rid of it for a #24 2 row IHC moounted picker. I dont know the age of the picker, the H was a 48. I have one now of the same age. I have a 1 row pull type IHC picker
Dad had a steel wheel old time grain wagon. Not one like in the pic. He had irons made for flare boards. He had a old time construction helmet that was ribbed on the crown, but otherwise looked like a WW 1 helmet. He would make us boys ride in the wagon getting out stalks that came up with the corn OR shucking ears that got up unhusked. Wed trade off, with all the winter coats and extra pants and gloves, one would wear the helmet rush up front and grab a ear that had a stalk and throw it back to the rear for the other to shuck out. It hurt then as a kid to get corn repeatably hitting you on the shoulders/back/ect.
Dad had found it a pain to take the loaded wagon unhitched from the WB, then pull the WB far enough forward that he could unhook from it and then hook up to the wagon. And it had PTO also to unhook from. Take it to the crib, un scoop it, take it back out, unhook from the wagon, hook up to the WB, back it up to the wagon, hook the wagon onto the WB and heading out agan. When he got the Mounted 2 row he knew he couldnt use the H at all to haul the wagon to the crib, as the crib had a shed built onto the front of it where the corn was unloaded. So, He bought a 38 A JD, and we boys were plowing next spring. Dad liked bro more than me, and I was left most often to help mom in the garden.
Around this time my uncle bought a JD hay elevator and gave dad his Kelly Ryan grain elevator, and we didnt have to scoop corn no more. This was in the LATE 50s, EARLY 60s. Ive got the elevator now.
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11/04/12, 08:04 PM
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Ive had 4 or more F-20s, 2 F-30s, my grandads 34 CC Case, 48 H and 50 Cub Farmall Demonstrator, the 3 of which I have running now. Am fixing up a 39 A JD now also.
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11/04/12, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill
Ive had 4 or more F-20s, 2 F-30s, my grandads 34 CC Case, 48 H and 50 Cub Farmall Demonstrator, the 3 of which I have running now. Am fixing up a 39 A JD now also.
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You have your own antique tractor and equipment show there dont you?
I sure wish your auction was on a weekend so I could get up there for it.
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11/04/12, 08:58 PM
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What auction are you talking bout. The one I got to the first weekend of the month? That was lat SAT. It is on the weekend, JUST THE FIRST SAT OF IT. OF THE MONTH.
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11/04/12, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill
What auction are you talking bout. The one I got to the first weekend of the month? That was lat SAT. It is on the weekend, JUST THE FIRST SAT OF IT. OF THE MONTH.
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For some reason I thought you said it was on Wednesdays. I can line up a trip for a Saturday.
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11/04/12, 09:31 PM
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Wow...that is sweet!!!
How far apart would you have to plant your rows to use both sides of it?
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11/04/12, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by clovis
Wow...that is sweet!!!
How far apart would you have to plant your rows to use both sides of it?
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38-40 inches
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11/04/12, 09:51 PM
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There is an entire machinery auction here that IS on the FIRST WED of the month. I used to never miss it, But when they moved from having it on Sat to Wed, I was still Working, and got out of the habit of going. Also, by then I had everything nearly I needed
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11/04/12, 11:24 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wwubben
We had a 2mh mounted picker on an international f-20.We left it on all year and kept it in the shed.Dad used to pick headlands for neighbors who only had pull pickers.I don't miss all that ear corn shelling.
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Dad & uncle co-owned an F-20 hand crank with a mounted 2-ME picker on it. They would pick about 40 acres for my uncle, and about the same for dad every fall. Corn yielded only 80-100 bu an acre back then, but us kids hooked and unhooked a lot of barge boxes of ear corn every fall.  Dad would park the picker on a hill, so he cold coast it to start it as much as possible.
Dad drove the picker 95% of the time, uncle used his little IHC loader tractor to haul barge boxes, he had a 3pt hoist on it to lift the wagons for unloading.
I got to drive the picker a time or 2 before we got rid of it. Uncle got a NI pull type picker, and we also did, a 6A for a couple of years, then a NI 300, now I got a 324 (I think - wide row still).
Man that F-20 was overloaded with the weight of the picker on it, and a 100bu barge box behind it! We have wet clay soils and hills around here, worked that thing hard. I never saw the tractor bare, we left the picker mounted on it all the time.
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11/05/12, 08:47 AM
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When Oliver cashed out in St Joe Mo, they had a sale of everything. There was a 20 setting there with a mounted picker on it. We hadnt got ours yet, and didnt have a picker of any kind. I silently prayed dad would buy it. He didnt. It went for $100. This was around 60
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11/05/12, 09:53 AM
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Did Ford make one? I've seen one on the side of the road in a yard, you can still see some of the blue paint thru the rust... took me a bit to figure out what it was....
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11/05/12, 10:10 AM
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All the major players made 2 row mounted pickers. ONLY MM Made a uni model that was self propelled. I think you could EITHER pick OR shell with it. Dont know.
AC had a picker head for there later pull type combines model 66 I imagine. 2 row.
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11/05/12, 10:21 AM
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Odd, I'll have to look at this one again, I've never been able to actually stop and check it out. It looked to be a one row but perhaps it's been broken? It may just have been painted blue at one point, I just figured blue= Ford.
Sorry for the drift... back to the regular scheduled programming
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11/05/12, 12:08 PM
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They all likely made one row mounteds for tractors. I never could understand the concept of one row mounteds. Neighbor had one. Yes, they were cheaper than 2 row mounteds, BUT you still had to hand pick the openings for a 1 row, and haveing it on the tractor limited it about as much as a 2 row, OTHER than one could still use the pulley wheel for sawing wood on the buzz saw or grinding feed or ensilage with a one row mounted that one couldnt do with a 2 row.
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11/05/12, 12:08 PM
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The one your looking at, COULD BE a 1 row pull type with the wheels gone.
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11/05/12, 01:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nc_mtn
Did Ford make one? I've seen one on the side of the road in a yard, you can still see some of the blue paint thru the rust... took me a bit to figure out what it was....
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Dearborn, which was sorta Ford, made a one row that strapped onto the back/side of a Ford N series. It had a small wheel or 2 supporting it on the back/side, but was a mounted 1 row picker. Ford later made a 2 row mounted for the 900/901 series tractors. They were all made before blue became the Ford color, but a lot of Ford stuff got repainted blue....
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