Corn picker

Jim in Ok · Dec 21, 2014

Can anyone tell what model corn picker this is and what time frame it was made thanks

tim s · Dec 21, 2014

It's a silage chopper...

Tx Jim · Dec 21, 2014

]

Ditto what Tim stated it's a silage/green chopper AKA forage harvester not a corn picker possibly model 8.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2014

IT AIN'T a corn picker, unless you want the cob, kernals, and stalks all mixed together.

coonie minnie · Dec 21, 2014

Well, I have two just like that I dragged home a few years ago. It's either the 62/64 or 72/74. The 70 series is just a little newer... and I'm guessing that's what this one is. The 62/64 seemed to have had the spoked wheels that one would see on a 12a combine, 44 plow etc.

For whatever reason, if you ordered the machine with a hay pickup, it was a 62. If it came with the corn head, it was a 64. The attachments were interchangable, so it seems odd to have two number for the same base.

I have a manual for the 62 and 64.

The sad part is there is no tag on those machines to identify a model.

coonie minnie · Dec 21, 2014

As for a time frame very early 50s. If it had the spoked wheels, 40s.

Right behind my computer is a framed poster from a Deer dealer showing that chopper... and in both views it is pulled by a late styled A. That or a G, 60 or 70 would be the right vintage horse to put on the front.

ndfarmer · Dec 21, 2014

Dad had a #8 forage harvester with the direct cut sickle bar and corn head too. He bought this #8 chopper and I believe a # 50 blower at about the same time a he ordered a 1955 John Deere 60. The belt drive was on the back of the chopper though. Years later we converted the flat belt to a large v-belt from an adapter kit. He would do custom chopping and silo filling in our local region in southern Wis. He would take our 50 John Deere to run the blower.

Jim in Ok · Dec 21, 2014

Thanks for all the info guys

old popper · Dec 21, 2014

Back in the late 50s our neighbor had a chopper like that. The ground speed in the G was to fast to chop heavy corn, and the other neighbors 44 Massey Harris just couldn't quite run the belt driven blower, but when they swapped those two tractors they had the perfect combination.

Aussie Ken · Dec 22, 2014

Definitely a 72/74 chopper - the 62/64 had a different spout that hinged and could be folded ahead. the spout could also be mounted to side load a truck. The 72/74 model, John Deere gave them a one piece spout with a hinged deflector - the mounting plate had a slot so that the spout could be loosened and spun to the side or rear without removing -I had 2 - 74 machines and 3 -62/64's that I had gathered up at auctions in the 90's, 2- #8's, 1- #6 and 2- #12's - #2, 50, 55 and 60 blowers and a 112 chuckwagon -and a 900 silo unloader - all have been sold to other collectors in Ontario Canada except the silo unloader which I still have.

Corn picker

Jim in Ok

Member

tim s

Well-known Member

Tx Jim

Well-known Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

coonie minnie

Well-known Member

coonie minnie

Well-known Member

ndfarmer

Member

Jim in Ok

Member

old popper

Well-known Member

Aussie Ken

Member

Similar threads