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Farmboy 81

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We're possibly looking at expanding our sweet corn growth from a garden size scale to a bigger scale size. We've always have just pulled it by hand when it was ready to harvest but was wandering is there anything mechanically and economical that would do the job satisfactory ? Would a 1 or 2 row pull type corn snapper work for this ? Talking about 10 acres or less. Was looking a way to possibly cut back on some of the labor bill and do as much as possible myself. Never had any experience with anything other than a regular combine so didn't know the options out there.
 
You talking about a reguler corn or a sweet corn picker 2 very different things my best friend has a sweet corn picker for sale i will get you a link give me 5 mins okay
 
The 1 row sweet corn picker my best friend has his price is high but he completely goes every piece of equipment he has and i have known him 30+ years a honest man

https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sale/201560339/fmc-12
 
Difference between a sweet corn picker than a regular picker is that a sweet corn picker has no husking bed, just a snap chute. I have seen them in a MF 2 row mounted picker on tractor. MF also made a 4 and 6 row using the combine corn head on a combine frame and instead of threshing, it just had a elevator. I have picture of one in a sale brochure but I don't know to post it.
 
I dug into my collection and here is picture of MF Sweet corn Harvester
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Thank y'all. This is territory that I've never had a need to explore till now. The old snapper that grandaddy used to use was retired to the woods before my time so I've never had any experience on what might would work for this scenario.
 
I further searched it at Yahoo and they use a stalk ejector. Most ear corn picker have the stalk ejector also. Most any picker should work if husker was disabled and rolls covered with a steel plate
 
Pickers are really hard on the butt of the ear and need to have no husker for sweet corn.

A true sweet corn harvester envelopes the ears in tough canvas and carefully pulls them off the stalk. I think Pix-All would be a brand for you to look up, and be sitting down when you see the asking prices. They are a specialized machine.

Paul
 
I had an Oliver 73H pull picker and decided to sell it. A guy and his boy bought it and told me they were going to use it in their sweet corn patch. My guess...they had a run on cream corn cause that thing would have chewed it up.
I quietly took his money and watched it leave. A few months later it reappeared for sale. Less money than he paid for it.
 
X2. JD pull type 300 or mounted 234 IH with stripper bars. Canning companies used them before the UNI systems(stripper plate head) and now Byron corn harvesters. Plates are set up to cut everything off when it gets to far up the head. Lots of trash but good cobs. Used to be a lot of sweet corn in our area.
 
About 50 years ago a neighbor across the fence grew sweet corn for a local canning plant. The pickers were International and the corn stubble afterward was chewed up like a stripper head had done the job. That is all I know about it. I was never close to one of the pickers to see how it actually worked.
 
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