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ALLIS 33 PICKER

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JDBILL

08-17-2007 07:04:37




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My brother is asking me if he should pick up an Allis 33 picker this weekend that has been shedded the last 30+ years, and is supposedly only missing a piece of sheet metal.

I just hate to see good equipment get scrapped if someone can use it, but I have no idea on the collectibility of something like this. Any ideas?

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tim[in]

08-17-2007 17:22:56




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to JDBILL, 08-17-2007 07:04:37  
I was told that the trouble ,especially in higher yielding corn than it was designed for was getting the corn thru the husking bed and the tractor moved too fast and built up the stalks on the snapping rolls. Unless you rode the hand clutch constantly.I had always wanted one too but was unable to pick it up and someone else got it. I bought a wd45 with a ford mounted picker that i am going to try next year.I always wondered if you could play around with the gear box on the picker and maybe make a new one with gears and chains.Someone also said you could swap the tractors rear end with a wd45 diesel which turned the wheels slower.Someone also said they used smaller tires and/or kept an extra set for picking time. One guy said they used an old set of road grader wheels and tires during harvest.

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J.C. IN AZ.

08-17-2007 21:12:11




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to tim[in], 08-17-2007 17:22:56  
By coincidence I traded my Oliver Picker for a Ford Mounted and had it mounted on my D17 and now that was a Picker. It was far superior to anything I had used up to that time. I was totally satisfied with the Ford Picker. This was about 1970.



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tim[in]

08-18-2007 06:55:19




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to J.C. IN AZ., 08-17-2007 21:12:11  
I have always dreamed of trying a mounted on my first tractor a straight wd but I think the d 17 or the ford selectomatic or jd with the powershift would be great tractors especially with power steering. As much as i enjoyed ear corn and got satisfaction out of it,was always suprised more guys didnt and improve the technology with it.I've heard of guys making hydraulic tractor powered auger sweep to empty the big wire cribs and such.Looking forward to my first corn crop in years again next year on my new farm.=)

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Maark

08-17-2007 17:14:10




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to JDBILL, 08-17-2007 07:04:37  
I'm sure it's worth something as a collectable item to an AC collector.You Should post this on the Allis board.



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J.C. IN AZ.

08-17-2007 07:39:34




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to JDBILL, 08-17-2007 07:04:37  
My Opinion and Advise!!! I once many years ago bought one of those Pickers ,against much advise I must stress,because it was "Cute". I always liked the looks of a WDorWD45 equipped with one of these Pickers as it was going across the field . Well I got it home and mounted on my WD45 and one trip across the field convinced me it was a Corn Picker designed with the Tenant Farmer who was allowed by the land Lord to run Cattle and Hogs in Stalks after Harvest in mind. That thing shelled so much Corn and threw it back on the Ground it looked like you had Broadcast the Corn. Well we fooled with it for about a week and found you could not adjust it any better than it was,with dew on, the strippers wrapped with grass[this was in the days before Herbicides] and leaves or the trash piled up on the Snout like a bull dozer. We did do the head lands with it and opened up the Field so to speak but when done with that we got our old trusty "Oliver" pull type out,scrabble welded some Hard Surface on the Snapping rolls and went and picked our Crop. Advice! It is a good show and collectors machine when mounted but do not expect to use to harvest with unless you want to only collect half your crop. I am sure you will use your own judgement if to use it but remember you were warned.JC

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tim[in]

08-17-2007 17:31:04




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 Re: ALLIS 33 PICKER in reply to J.C. IN AZ., 08-17-2007 07:39:34  
I had heard that the design with the combine snapping rolls and the plates above them reduced shelling losses which is supposedly why the combines all went to that design. At least that's what i heard. I remember my old n.i.#7 shelled about 14bpa no matter how it was adjusted or the condition of the corn and weather. The only way i got less shelling loss was going to a newer super picker with the higher angled snapping rolls. which got it down to 3-7 bpa if i remember correctly. The newer picker paid for itself in 2-3 years i remember in shelled corn savings.Which was too bad because i wanted my "old outdated picker " to beat all the newer fancier stuff! lol

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