CornPickerBob
New User
This message is a reply to an archived post by Larry NEIL on July 09, 2012 at 09:35:09.
The original subject was "OLIVER? 5 picker".
Hi Larry NEIL, Saw your posted photos from 2012 of the Oliver Model 5/Calhoun corn picker while doing research for our book, "Corn Pickers: And the Inventors Who Dreamed Them Up." We hope will be able to complete the book in the next couple of weeks.
We would love to be able to include your pictures, with your permission, in the book. Did you ever pick with the corn picker? And if so, how did it do?
What we've found out about the Model 5 picker (Oliver's Corn Master) so far is that it was introduced in 1947 as Oliver's "new and improved" picker. It was built in Battle Creek, Michigan, until 1962, when the tooling was moved to Shelbyville, Illinois. It was built in both Oliver and Cockshutt colors until 1969. About that time, the tooling was purchased by Mr. Evan Alexander Calhoun, of Cedar Falls, Iowa. In the early 1940s, he patented a "Quick-Hitch Tractor Device" to save time during corn-picking time, and other items that he and his family produced in their factory there. His three sons worked with the company as draftsman, comptroller and engineer. In 1968, they were able to expand the factory by moving to Bethany, Missouri. The town made an attractive lease offer to locate them in its brand new industrial park. The Calhouns offered all their employees the chance to relocate with the company. Evan and his wife retired in March 1970 after selling the Calhoun Company to United Farm Tools, Inc., or UFT, which since then has gone out of business. (Artsway Mfg. of Armstrong, Iowa, bought UFT's shredders and some parts, and W. A. Mfg. in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, got some of the others.)
If you have additional pictures of this Calhoun picker, especially of the serial tag, we'd love to put them in the book, along with your experiences with the picker.
Any collectors with family pictures of and stories about corn pickers are invited to send them to us at [email protected]
If you'd like more information about the book, visit http://www.cornpickerbook.com/
CornPickerBob
The original subject was "OLIVER? 5 picker".
Hi Larry NEIL, Saw your posted photos from 2012 of the Oliver Model 5/Calhoun corn picker while doing research for our book, "Corn Pickers: And the Inventors Who Dreamed Them Up." We hope will be able to complete the book in the next couple of weeks.
We would love to be able to include your pictures, with your permission, in the book. Did you ever pick with the corn picker? And if so, how did it do?
What we've found out about the Model 5 picker (Oliver's Corn Master) so far is that it was introduced in 1947 as Oliver's "new and improved" picker. It was built in Battle Creek, Michigan, until 1962, when the tooling was moved to Shelbyville, Illinois. It was built in both Oliver and Cockshutt colors until 1969. About that time, the tooling was purchased by Mr. Evan Alexander Calhoun, of Cedar Falls, Iowa. In the early 1940s, he patented a "Quick-Hitch Tractor Device" to save time during corn-picking time, and other items that he and his family produced in their factory there. His three sons worked with the company as draftsman, comptroller and engineer. In 1968, they were able to expand the factory by moving to Bethany, Missouri. The town made an attractive lease offer to locate them in its brand new industrial park. The Calhouns offered all their employees the chance to relocate with the company. Evan and his wife retired in March 1970 after selling the Calhoun Company to United Farm Tools, Inc., or UFT, which since then has gone out of business. (Artsway Mfg. of Armstrong, Iowa, bought UFT's shredders and some parts, and W. A. Mfg. in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, got some of the others.)
If you have additional pictures of this Calhoun picker, especially of the serial tag, we'd love to put them in the book, along with your experiences with the picker.
Any collectors with family pictures of and stories about corn pickers are invited to send them to us at [email protected]
If you'd like more information about the book, visit http://www.cornpickerbook.com/
CornPickerBob