Identify this Picker/Sheller

Traveled to Sioux Falls the other day taking a different route, and saw this. Was running late and so on the way last night I stopped and got a couple of photos.
hope to stop and talk to the owner one of these times, but I think he may be starting a restore on it as one of the tires/wheels are off of it.
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Oldest brother had a Case picker/sheller like that. He seemed to go awful slow with it; don't know if it was him or the picker/sheller. Imagine that it went to the scrap when the kids cleaned up the place after he passed away.
 
That?s a Case 2-Row Corn Picker - Sheller Model ?IS?. I have an original 8 page Sales Brochure with several pictures and the specs. The brochure has a form number A66452K, and if I understand this means year 1952. I remember my Dad back on the farm in Illinois renting one of those to finish corn harvest one year after all cribs were full of ear corn, so he finished shelling the rest pulling it with his 1949 M-M UTU. The local Minneapolis Moline dealer that Dad dealt with a lot had one of those traded in on something else, so let my Dad use it. As it shows in one of the pictures in the brochure the round bin could be removed and the elevator was lowered to fill into a pulled along side wagon as corn was shelled. Also, this is the way my Dad used it and pulled his wagons along by the side. The next year Dad bought a Minneapolis Moline Uni-System with Combine, Picker, Picker-Sheller, and for a short time also had the Uni Windrower. After using all that for a time traded for an IH 403 with Bean Head and 4 Row Corn Head. OH, The Memories! John in AZ
 
Hey yeah I've seen that picker sitting there too the last couple months or so. Was curious about it as well. I live about 20 minutes or so north of there.
 
Is t it something, where we are at with corn yields? Have an excellent year here in my neighborhood, about 9 rows fill my combine hopper. Kinda hard to work out with a 6 row head! But I shouldn't complain I guess!

Wonder how long it would take my dad and uncle to harvest both their farms with the mounted 2me picker on the F20 and the 100bu barge boxes, ear corn you got about 50bu in a wagon......

Nice picture, neat the old contraptions the various companies came up with back in the day, a lot of innovation on that machine for the times!

Paul
 

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