Ear Corn Picking in SE MN 2014

Kirk Affeldt · Oct 31, 2014

Here are a couple of photos of ear corn picking last Saturday in southeastern Minnesota. My friend and I picked a few loads and shelled them with a MM D sheller. Joe owns a JD 60 with a JD 227 picker and I have an IH 706 with a IH 234 picker. The moisture was in the low 20s.

fixerupper · Oct 31, 2014

Back in the 60's my neighbor had a 227 on a 60. We had a pull type MM picker and the neighbor with the 227 would open fields for us. Later we put a 227 on a 630. The Neighbor graduated to a 237 on his 60. The 60 burned up in a corn crib fire in the summer of 74 so he bought a 620 to put the picker on.

paul · Oct 31, 2014

Neat.

Paul

tim(in) · Oct 31, 2014

How was your yields in the wide row corn?

JMS/.MN · Oct 31, 2014

I like the contrasts in technology......the massive grain bin and leg in the background of one picture, and the radio/cell? tower in another. I"ll bet the yields made the pickers snort!

Hayrack · Oct 31, 2014

Nice pics Kirk!!! Would have loved to have been there!

Dick2 · Nov 1, 2014

Were there any wild critters in that field? Sometimes deer are reluctant to leave and will stay until the last rows are picked.

Case Nutty 1660 · Nov 1, 2014

Great Pics! hope to see that done first hand some day, being from wheat country I have never seen it other than pics,, thanks for sharing
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DeltaRed · Nov 1, 2014

Always wanted to pick some corn but never got the chance.I have an old IH PR-1 picker.Maybe I should fix it and try it?

gtractorfan · Nov 1, 2014

This is from the Case forum. The ad says "mounts in minutes". If that's true looks like that would be a big advantage if they worked as well as others. I've never seen a picker working with double wagon elevators.

sd pete · Nov 1, 2014

I like that 234! I always picked some corn for cattle feed. I used a 2MH on a 560 and 806.

casecollectorsc · Nov 1, 2014

I have a Case model IM like the pic. Had to clean the radiator on the DC 2 years ago. Does indeed dis-mount and mount in less than 5 minutes. At State Fair displays Case reps would dis-mount and mount the picker every hour.

BradyW · Nov 1, 2014

Nice, we combined last Saturday, over on the other side of the Big River... What a great day..

oleclint · Nov 1, 2014

Nice pictures that bring back memories. Some good memories and some bad ones. Looks like the conditions were very good for you guys that day.
thanks, clint

paul · Nov 2, 2014

Never saw one of those!

Paul

NEKS · Nov 2, 2014

Pictures are great, love them. The last corn picking I done was back in the early 60's with a 2MH on a 400 Farmall for dad. Lots of greasing on that thing.

55 50 Ron · Nov 2, 2014

Kirk,

Did you add more wagons to your collection from those shown in the August 2013 Farm Collector magazine article? Those in your pictures here look a little different.

Nice photos. Thanks

Ron

Kirk Affeldt · Nov 2, 2014

Ron, Yes I added a couple of Heider wagons to the collection. The one I am pulling I bought the 12x6 box and hoist since I had the IH 100 gear and the one my friend Joe is pulling I just bought the 12x7 Heider wagon, hoist and gear from a local farm auction for $600--couldn't pass it up. I always wanted to have a Heider barge wagon and now I have two!! The updated wagon total is 3 Minnesota barge wagons, 2 Heider barges, and 1 Minnesota Flare wagon. I am still trying to find the Minnesota 1262, 12x6 barge box.

Dick2, I didn't find any critters. We only picked 4 loads that day which didn't put a dent in the field. I am thinking it was in the 180-200 bushel per acre yield.

Hayrack, send me your email and I will make sure to invite you to come next year!!

JMS/MN, the plant population was high so once I had the picker adjusted I was only traveling in low range, 2nd gear with TA ahead. The tractor ran well, a good work out!! If the weather and time holds out, I want to swap out the husking bed for the sheller and run a couple of gravity boxes worth yet this fall before the renters combine the rest.

DeltaRed, Go for it!! With the 1 row picker you don't have to worry about having 38" rows like I do. I am VERY happy that our renter bought a new 8 row, 38" Kinze planter 2 years ago. They are dairy farmers who believe in the 38" give them a overall better yield for silage.

Tim(nj) · Nov 2, 2014

I saw one of the 2-row pickers like that years ago on an SC at an estate auction. Only one I've ever seen. I did not know they made a 1-row mounted.

tim(in) · Nov 2, 2014

How does your yield in wide rows compare to the nieghbors in 30" rows"180-200 sounds pretty damn good to me!The places i''ve farmed I think the best was 160BPA in 30" rows.Now i got even more incentive to get my old wd445 with a dearborn mounted picker going.! I want to fix my wagons up with a hand cranked false endgate like a neighbor used on his.

J I Case Man · Nov 3, 2014

Do you know where a tractor mounted Case 420,425,426 model corn picker is?

casecollectorsc · Nov 3, 2014

I have the IM and a 425 picker. Don't know of any
others. Would like to find a 420 also.

J I Case Man · Nov 3, 2014

Thank you anyways

tim(in) · Nov 3, 2014

There had been one foor years in southern indiana in the jackson brown county area but i think the farm building isnt there anymore. I used to go riding down through the are but cant afford it anymore. It was the newwer case pickier mounted on a tractor.

burnt-smta · Nov 4, 2014

Kirk nice pictures, my Dad has run a 234 on a 560 for many years in north east Ia, he to was a dairy farmer and belived in wide rows.

tim(in) · Nov 15, 2014

Why did your dad believe wide rows are better?I've wondered about it for years especially reading in old farm magazines about some of the record yields guys got in 36-40 " rows.I've heard ventilation so less molds,etc . How was his yields? I've wanted to try using a mounted picker i got and some old 2 row equipment on my small 30 acres farm so i dont have to open up by hand or run over the outside rows picking corn since i'm a little disabled anymore.Plus i just like to try the old picker at least once. lolIve seen good yields occasionaly from wide rows. But wondered how guys are doing now with the narrow rows going over 200 BPA . Thanks in advance. When i get her fixed up i'll put some pics on here.

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