A corn picker that also chops corn and grass?

dutchman85

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Older couple in our area has recently torn down a barn and had removed an implement that I am hoping somebody recognizes. I didn't find any serial tag on it (don't really know were to look) but it has J. I. Case on the side of the ear corn elevator. Let me give a description first:

At first glance this looks like a single row corn picker, tractor pulled, and it has a picking head with snapping rolls mounted currently. Behind this is the elevator for the ear corn. I'm not sure if there were husking rolls in it or not. Mounted on the same frame, on the left side, there is a silage blower and spout. Sitting next to the machine there is a silage head, same size as the picking head, single row, with gathering chains and knives in it. Sitting next to that was a grass head with a cutterbar, gathering paddles (like a haybine) , and a small agri-type tire in the center of the head, evidently to help material into the feeder house. The picker/chopper has pneumatic tires but a considerable amount of wooden components so I would place it sometime in the late 40's or early 50's.

The paint is pretty fair, very restorable piece in its current shape. The older couple said it has been in the barn as long as they can remember. They are hoping a collector will get it and restore it rather than scrap the thing.

I've never seen another one like it. Right away the silage spout and ear corn elevator coming out of the same machine caught my eye. I'm looking for any information on this machine. Are these rare? Is there any value to it?
 
I have some 1930s JD films, one corn chopper has an elevator, instead of a blower. Elevates to the side, into a wagon pulled by horses. Model D powered the one-row chopper. I have seen pix of a hay pickup head with a tire mounted on it to help hay feed into the machine.
 
Case made a BW-2 corn harvester in the early 50s that had a single row snapping head in front of a chopper, with an elevator out the rear for the ears and blower pipe out the side, the idea being you could pick ear corn and chop the corn fodder and blow it into a wagon or truck at the same time. I do not know if you could put heads on it to do regular silage or not. It might all go together or it could be a BW-2 with heads off a JI Case forage harvester sitting next to it. Either way it's a rare machine and since it's not rusted away should be restored.
 
I did some more digging and BW-2 isn't the number for the attachment. I was reading some sort of grading number for the old ad. HOWEVER, they did make one and it fit the C2 forage harvester. Apparently the snapper and the elevator went on and off like any other head, so the other heads you found do go with it. I wouldn't think there's another set like this one around anywhere. I'd probably tackle it if it was close to me but this stuff is almost always hundreds of miles or more away from New Jersey.
 
Apparently it fit the model 200 forage harvester as well. Item# 361354511113 on eBay is a parts manual for the attachment and shows a good picture of what it looks like but I can't link to it from here.
 
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/36135451111...op=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_nkw=361354511113&_rdc=1
 

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