Case Corn Harvester...

casecollectorsc

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E central SD.
I put this picture of my Case Corn Harvester from 1954 up on FB...seemed to be some interest.
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Our Case club was wondering if you would be interested in bringing your unit to central Iowa to demonstrate it picking this summer. We are hoping to plant some short season corn to demonstrate corn picking and your unit would be a real treat to see go.
 
Dad had what I remember as a model "C". Other than the flat belt drive and the older spoke wheels, was there any difference?
 
Not really. This one and a couple others I have do have six knives instead of 4. Some have a extra gathering chain that was known as the short corn attachment. Dad and a neighbor owned a model C that was pulled with Dad's 44 DC. Filled silos around the neighborhood. As a kid helping I remember them talking about a short corn attachment in 1959...a drought year. The extra gathering chain made feeding short corn much easier and not plug as often.
 
Here is the address of the show grounds:

2373 Jessup Avenue
Marshalltown, IA 50158

It is almost in the very middle of Iowa.

Our club is hoping to do something a little different this year with antique combining of rye and oats and corn picking with Case corn pickers. We are also going to try and do an eagle hitch plowing event like was done at Albert City.
 
Any idea why this design didn't take off? My 100 year old uncle told me last week that almost every farmer who did custom silo filling in his neighborhood had a Case chopper and that they were top-of-the line in the early 50's. For some reason his local Case dealer talked him into a new Gehl chopper instead. Don
 
Funny you should mention that, Dad and his partner bought a new single row Gehl after the Case was about wore out. Case didn't have a two row machine and the Gehl could have a single row head or a two row head when they got more horsepower on the machine. Dad bought a 40 Cockshutt diesel which gave him diesel, live power and a better selection of gears. And they added a 2 row head.
 

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